Aristotle's Poetics: The Aim of Tragedy

In Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 612–627 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: What Is Tragedy? Mimesis6 Understanding Katharsis17 Five Questions for Interpreters A Short History of Katharsis Interpretation The Nature of Our Question Notes Bibliography.

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Pity and Fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics.Alexander Nehamas - 2015 - In David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays. Princeton University Press. pp. 257-282.
Tragedy anbd Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity.Martha Nussbaum - 1992 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 10:107-159.
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Purging the Poetics.Gregory Scott - 2003 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 25:233-63.
Essai sur la Poétique d'Aristote.Pierre Somville - 1976 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 166 (2):232-234.

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