![]() 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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