![]() ![]() Based on Richard Janko’s philological reconstruction of the epitome, a summary first recovered in 1839 and hotly contested thereafter, Watson mounts a compelling philosophical argument that places the statements of this summary of the Aristotelian text in their true context. Here, Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics. But he does not actually address any of those ideas. Aristotle writes also that he will address catharsis and an analysis of what is funny. In the Poetics, Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy-but there is no further mention of comedy. Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics-ancient, medieval, or modern-the most important is indisputably Aristotle’s Poetics, the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. ![]()
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