Poetics¶
Aristotle, & Halliwell, S. (1995). Poetics. Harvard University Press.
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- Anagnorisis
- Aristotle in the Poetics pairs anagnorisis with peripeteia (reversal of fortune) and argues that the best tragic plots combine them so that the reversal is caused by the recognition
This sourceAristotle in the Poetics pairs anagnorisis with peripeteia (reversal of fortune) and judges a recognition most beautiful when it falls together with a reversal, as it does in Oedipus. Aristotle classifies recognitions by their triggering mechanism (by signs, by memory, by inference, and by the poet's contrivance) and holds the recognition arising from the incidents themselves to be the best of all. Tragedy's canonical cases, from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus to Euripides' Iphigenia, where recognition falling together with peripeteia is the mark of the finest plot. Identifies Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus as the Poetics' own example of a recognition that coincides with a reversal.
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“a recognition is most beautiful when. it.comes to. be at the same time as a reversal, for example as it is.in the oedipus”
- Aristotle in the Poetics pairs anagnorisis with peripeteia (reversal of fortune) and argues that the best tragic plots combine them so that the reversal is caused by the recognition
- Classical Unities
- The complete action–time–place package therefore belongs to later dramatic theory, not verbatim to Aristotle.
This sourceAncient primary text; not a three-unities manifesto.
- The complete action–time–place package therefore belongs to later dramatic theory, not verbatim to Aristotle.
- Mimesis
- Aristotle's claim that poetry is "more philosophical than history" because it represents the kinds of things that could happen rather than just what did is the canonical formulation
This sourceAristotle's Poetics 1451b states that poetry is more philosophic and speaks of general and possible things where history speaks of particular things. The Poetics' use of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus as the paradigm of the best tragic plot, in which recognition coincides with reversal.
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“Therefore poiésis is more philosophic and of.”
- Aristotle's claim that poetry is "more philosophical than history" because it represents the kinds of things that could happen rather than just what did is the canonical formulation
- Narrative criticism
- Plot
- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is the model plot Aristotle himself analyzes in the Poetics, and it displays all four commitments in sharp form
This sourceThe Poetics identifying Oedipus Tyrannus as Aristotle's model plot, the best tragedy combining reversal and recognition.
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“Aristotle’s example is from Oedipus Tyrannus.”
- Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is the model plot Aristotle himself analyzes in the Poetics, and it displays all four commitments in sharp form
- Audience Reveal
- Setup and Payoff
- Chekhov's Gun is not another species; it is the norm that audits the ledger in both directions and labels conspicuous orphan setups or unprepared payoffs as craft failures
This sourceThe deus ex machina prohibition and the requirement that incidents follow by necessity or probability give the ancient form of one half of the audit - an unprepared resolution is a fault; the orphan-setup half is Chekhov's, not Aristotle's. Poetics chapter 9 supplies the twin criterion - events that come by surprise yet follow as cause and effect; the notion of tuning a setup's salience to trade legibility against surprise is not Aristotle's.
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- Chekhov's Gun is not another species; it is the norm that audits the ledger in both directions and labels conspicuous orphan setups or unprepared payoffs as craft failures
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