Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle's Poetics

Christine Mauduit is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the École normale supérieure (Paris). Her research focuses mainly on Greek Theater, with a specific interest in staging and dramaturgy. She is currently preparing a new French translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Poetics.Guillaume Navaud (Ph.D./H.D.R. in Comparative Literature) has published two monographs on the relationship between theater and philosophy: Persona: Le théâtre comme métaphore théorique de Socrate à Shakespeare (2011) and Voir le théâtre: Théories aristotéliciennes et pratiques du spectacle (2022). Olivier Renaut is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Paris-Nanterre University. His research includes works on the history of philosophy of emotions in archaic and classical Greece, notably Platon: La médiation des émotions (2014) and La Rhétorique des passions: Aristote, Rhétorique II.2-11 (2022). Contributors are: Christine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud, Olivier Renaut, Elsa Bouchard, Bénédicte Delignon, Christian Förstel, Frédérique Woerther, Costantino Marmo, Virginie Leroux, Teresa Chevrolet, François Thomas, Enrica Zanin, Dana L. Munteanu, Giulia Fiore, Terence Cave, Camille Rambourg, Michael Silk, Emmanuelle Hénin, Florence d’Artois, Daniele Guastini, Flore Kimmel-Clauzet, Stephen Halliwell, and Antonino Sorci.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Editors and ContributorsIntroductionChristine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud and Olivier RenautPart 1: Receptions Areas1 A Handbook for (Serious) Readers: Applying the Poetics in Ancient ScholarshipElsa Bouchard2 Aristotle’s Poetics in Horace’s Epistle to the Pisones: Transmission, Cultural Transfer, and Auctorial RereadingBénédicte Delignon3 The Medieval Manuscripts of Aristotle’s Poetics: What Does the Direct Tradition Teach Us?Christian Förstel4 The Arabic Philosophical Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics: Translation, Transmission, and Interpretations. Al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and AverroesFrédérique Woerther5 On the Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Middle Ages – and a Case Study of The Name of the RoseCostantino Marmo6 Definitions and Applications of the Aristotelian “Method” in Neo-Latin PoeticsVirginie Leroux7 Casus Belli: Aristotle’s Poetics and Italian Renaissance Literary Theory and CriticismTeresa Chevrolet8 The Poetics in German Philosophy, 1750–1900François ThomasPart 2: The Poem, Its Parts and EffectsSection 1: Story, Mythos9 “What Could Happen”: Early Modern Receptions of VerisimilitudeEnrica Zanin10 Falsifying Aristotle: Early Modern Theory of the Tragic Ending (Italy, France, Spain)Enrica Zanin11 Hamartia through Agnoia: An Embodiment of a Poetic Concept in Greco-Roman AntiquityDana L. Munteanu12 How to Make a Tragic Hero: Early Modern Theories of HamartiaGiulia Fiore13 Thinking with the Poetics in the Twenty-First Century: Anagnorisis as Cognitive EventTerence CaveSection 2: Poetic Language, Lexis14 Aristotle’s Poetics 21–22 and Augustan Concepts of Style (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Caecilius of Calacte, Pseudo-Longinus)Camille Rambourg15 “But Not Ordinary”: The Afterlife of Aristotle’s Prescription for Poetic LexisMichael SilkSection 3: Visual and Performing Arts16 Is There an Art of Performance according to Aristotle?Guillaume Navaud17 Aristotle’s Poetics for the Use of Painters (1550–1750)Emmanuelle Hénin18 Signification, Imitation, Expression: The Idea of a Mimetic Dance and Its Appropriations in Seventeenth-Century Spain and FranceFlorence d’ArtoisSection 4: Catharsis19 Che cosa è questo purgare? Aristotle’s Tragic Catharsis in Italian Renaissance Literary Theory and CriticismTeresa ChevroletPart 3: Literary Theory: Generic Perspectives20 From phaulos to “Jesters of God”: Aristotle and Comedy into PerspectiveDaniele Guastini21 Is It Necessary to (Re)read Aristotle’s Poetics to Define the Epic Genre?Flore Kimmel-Clauzet22 “Something Aristotle Never Thought Of”: Paradoxical Reflections on the Poetics and the NovelStephen Halliwell23 Aristotelian Mimesis and Narrative Theory: A State of the ArtAntonino SorciEpilogue: The Poetics as Object of FictionGuillaume Navaud