Aristotle DRAMATICS: also known as POETICS

Author:   Gregory L Scott
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Pages:   130
Publication Date:   01 June 2020
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"This is the first translation and commentary of Aristotle's work that assumes the Northern Greek from Stagira employs the sense of poiēsis given by Diotima in Plato's Symposium, mousikē kai metra (""music-dance and verse""), rather than the sense coined by the sophist Gorgias around 415 BCE, ""language in meter."" Perennial problems--like why the treatise has not one poem and why the Stagirite never even mentions the purely literary genres in a work long known as the Poetics--therefore simply dissolve. Aristotle's theory, which focusses on musical drama and which has music and dance in the definition of tragedy, concentrates on only three art forms: tragedy, comedy and epic (which is noted in its definition to be ""dramatic"" and which was performed by rhapsodes typically singing, with gestures that count as ""ordered body movement"" or dance for the Greeks). Against a long-standing condemnation of Aristotle's exclusively literary and textual bias, Scott's interpretation reveals the Northern Greek to be much more sensitive to music, dance and other issues of performance of contemporary concern in the study of drama. The translation is an emendation of one of the most renowned versions of the 20th century, by Ingram Bywater (1920), and corrects the seven core Greek terms, along with the 10 chapters (of 26), that have been misunderstood for generations. It takes advantage of the acclaimed Greek text by L. Tarán and D. Gutas (Editio Maior, 2012) that itself has no translation. The rigorous arguments for Scott's revolutionary approach are given in his previous publications by Cambridge and Oxford University presses (1999 and 2003 respectively) and especially in Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition: The Real Role of Literature, Catharsis, Music and Dance in the POETICS (""ADMC, "" 2016; 2nd ed., 2018)."

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Author:   Gregory L Scott
Publisher:   Existenceps Press
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ISBN:  

9781952627002


ISBN 10:   1952627001
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   01 June 2020
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"Scholarship Grounding Scott's Translation: ""Scott's book is, I think, more important than Else's (whose problems he [Scott] answers much more neatly), which was perhaps the magnum opus of the last century... Everyone claiming to be interested in what Aristotle was really up to in that book [the Poetics] needs to read this one of Scott's."" --Gene Fendt, Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney (Ancient Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2019). Note: Else's book is Gerald Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. ""Scott is the first to thoroughly counter more than 2000 years of Aristotelian hermeneutics. He does this by re-analysing, step by step and comprehensively, a vast literature and gallery of authors hitherto considered indisputable points of reference, thus...affirming the entirely new interpretation (p. 29)... [U]nderstanding tragedy not as a type of literature but rather as musical drama shifts the centre of gravity of the Poetics towards realised theatre, which comprises acting, music and dance. This implies that the current idea of the Poetics as repressing enacted theatre vanishes like snow in the sun (p. 31)... [A]lthough Scott's reading is supported by a growing number of affirmations worldwide, most of the specialists, with Stephen Halliwell in the lead, insist on repeating the old, misleading interpretations (p. 33).""--Antonio Attisani, ""Rifare il principio: Il sentiero neodrammatico"", in Il Pensiero: rivista di filosofia, Volume LVIII, 2019/1; transl. George Ulrich. Further Testimonials Some other specialists in ancient Greek philosophy write the following about the two articles that form the core of Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition --""The Poetics of Performance"" (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and ""Purging the Poetics"" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2003)--or about work based on the articles. ""My favourite articles in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy this year are two in volume XXV: one by Gregory Scott, who cuts one Gordian knot of Aristotelian scholarship by athetizing the clause that introduces katharsis into Aristotle's definition in the Poetics..."" --GEORGE BOYS-STONES, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Durham University (U.K.) [and now of the University of Toronto], ""Subject Reviews,"" Greece & Rome, Vol. 52, No. 1, The Classical Association: www.classicalassociation.org, 2005. ""There is no room for katharsis in the definition of tragedy as it occurs in chapter 6 of Aristotle's Poetics. The passage is corrupt. At least three scholars, Petrusevski, Freire, and Scott, have shown that intervention in the text is justified and necessary.""--CLAUDIO WILLIAM VELOSO, ""Aristotle's Poetics without Katharsis, Fear, or Pity,"" Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2007. In discussing Veloso and Scott, Marwan Rashed writes: ""Aristote ne peut avoir écrit le texte que nous avons sous les yeux.""--MARWAN RASHED, Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Université Paris-Sorbonne ""Katharsis versus mimèsis: simulation des émotions et définition aristotélicienne de la tragédie,"" Littérature, No. 182, 2016."


Scholarship Grounding Scott's Translation: Scott's book is, I think, more important than Else's (whose problems he [Scott] answers much more neatly), which was perhaps the magnum opus of the last century... Everyone claiming to be interested in what Aristotle was really up to in that book [the Poetics] needs to read this one of Scott's. --Gene Fendt, Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney (Ancient Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2019). Note: Else's book is Gerald Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Scott is the first to thoroughly counter more than 2000 years of Aristotelian hermeneutics. He does this by re-analysing, step by step and comprehensively, a vast literature and gallery of authors hitherto considered indisputable points of reference, thus...affirming the entirely new interpretation (p. 29)... [U]nderstanding tragedy not as a type of literature but rather as musical drama shifts the centre of gravity of the Poetics towards realised theatre, which comprises acting, music and dance. This implies that the current idea of the Poetics as repressing enacted theatre vanishes like snow in the sun (p. 31)... [A]lthough Scott's reading is supported by a growing number of affirmations worldwide, most of the specialists, with Stephen Halliwell in the lead, insist on repeating the old, misleading interpretations (p. 33). --Antonio Attisani, Rifare il principio: Il sentiero neodrammatico , in Il Pensiero: rivista di filosofia, Volume LVIII, 2019/1; transl. George Ulrich. Further Testimonials Some other specialists in ancient Greek philosophy write the following about the two articles that form the core of Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition -- The Poetics of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Purging the Poetics (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2003)--or about work based on the articles. My favourite articles in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy this year are two in volume XXV: one by Gregory Scott, who cuts one Gordian knot of Aristotelian scholarship by athetizing the clause that introduces katharsis into Aristotle's definition in the Poetics... --GEORGE BOYS-STONES, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Durham University (U.K.) [and now of the University of Toronto], Subject Reviews, Greece & Rome, Vol. 52, No. 1, The Classical Association www.classicalassociation.org, 2005. There is no room for katharsis in the definition of tragedy as it occurs in chapter 6 of Aristotle's Poetics. The passage is corrupt. At least three scholars, Petrusevski, Freire, and Scott, have shown that intervention in the text is justified and necessary. --CLAUDIO WILLIAM VELOSO, Aristotle's Poetics without Katharsis, Fear, or Pity, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2007. In discussing Veloso and Scott, Marwan Rashed writes: Aristote ne peut avoir ecrit le texte que nous avons sous les yeux. --MARWAN RASHED, Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Universite Paris-Sorbonne Katharsis versus mimesis simulation des emotions et definition aristotelicienne de la tragedie, Litterature, No. 182, 2016.


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