Aristotle

Poetics

Übersetzer: Kenny, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780199608362
• ISBN-10: 0199608369
• Artikelnr.: 35936651

Autorenporträt

Sir Anthony Kenny is a distinguished philosopher whose books include The Aristotelian Ethics (1978), Aristotle's Theory of the Will (1979), and Aristotle on the Perfect Life (1992). His most recent book is A New History of Western Philosophy (2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Texts and Translation
Select Bibliography
Chronology of Aristotle
Outline of the Poetics
from Plato's Republic, Books II, III, and X
Aristotle's Poetics
from Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry
from P. B. Shelley's Defence of Poetry
from Dorothy L. Sayers's Aristotle on Detective Fiction
Explanatory Notes
Note on Metre
Glossary of Key Terms
Index