Poetics

Aristotle, & Halliwell, S. (1995). Poetics. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1995

Link

no authoritative link yet

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Domain-specific

• Narrative criticism
  • The entry records a descriptive analytical identity; practical use requires the governing domain's evidence, standards, and safety obligations.
• Audience Reveal
  • A scene can perform both, but neither entails the other.
• 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.

Verification

This reference passed the adversarial substantiation pipeline: it was checked to exist and to support the claim it is attached to. See how references were verified.

Registry ID ref:c615e1d7f2cb · see in the full table