...Constance Jordan Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Household and the State: Transformations in the Representation of an Analogy from Aristotle to James I Constance Jordan 0f the many forms of analogy that characterized the culture of early...

...Philip A. Wadsworth Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 A FORMULA OF LITERARY CRITICISM, FROM ARISTOTLE TO LA BRUYBRE By PHILIPA. WADSWORTH In recent years La BruyCre has received singularly little attention from scholars...

... the entire book. Wiggins’s method is laudably philological. Indeed, the entire first half of the book is organized by Aristotle’s terse definition: “Recognition, just as the name itself signifies, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, into either friendship or enmity, among those bound for good or bad...

... reviews the role of magic in similar episodes to show the enormity of Spenser’s seemingly conservative storytelling. It also defends Spenser’s hero from charges of intemperance and immaturity. The question of intemperance stems from misunderstanding Aristotle. That of immaturity is more complicated...

... appropriation of Aristotle’s Poetics that often char- acterized it, enabled and justified modern versions of the ancient genres when models for them were lacking. I wish to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for generously supporting the writing of this essay and the book that will eventually...

..., small sec- tions of it have been harrowed by many scholars. Now Mr. Herrick breaks ground in an area hitherto untouched, and does it very well. Everyone who knows anything of the history of literary criticism is aware of the importance of Aristotle and Horace in its development...

... with authorita- tive psychological doctrine, for Spenser shared with Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas the belief in the dual function of the memory. Spenser mentions Anamnestes briefly in the description of his master, Eumnestes, among his books. Amidst them all he in a chaire was set...

... on Aristotle, an all-out attack on the “enemies of truth,” the dull masters who had wasted so many years of his life. The university establishment reacted swiftly. Led by Rector Pierre Galland, the university moved against the intruder on several fronts in a campaign designed to silence him...

....” Though the essays on King Lear and Mncbeth are indeed independent, they use differing approaches to arrive at the same conclusion. The first starts with the play; the second starts with Aristotle; both end with the audience- response which constitutes tragedy. The following paragraph, appearing...

... allusions, and fourteen with reference to the exile of poets from the Republic. Two additional references to Socrates, both taken from Plato’s dialogues, make the total twenty-two, or more than twice the ten citations of Aristotle. Yet the Defense seems to rely chiefly, if not altogether...

... members of the Royal Society twenty years after he wrote Pseudo d o x ia . The second article, “Sir Thomas Browne and Aristotle,” by Yost, exam- ines the range of Browne’s reading of Aristotle, the use he makes of his 35 1 352...

... a curious variety of sources-Homer, Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Valerius Maximus, Aulus Ge1lius.l Strangest of all, however, is the continued absence of Plutarch from the list: strangest because a passage in his Lycurgus is of such obvious resemblance to Milton’s lines...

..., which is frequently said to be the definition, is the familiar : Poesie therefore is an arte of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfetting, or figuring foorth : to speake metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end...

... the readiest answer may be had if we begin, not with Butler himself, but with Aristotle as an interpreter of him, after the fashion set by Oxford dons, in Arnold’s undergraduate days, of “converting Butler into Aristotle and Aristotle into Butler,”8 and making them mean the same thing...

..., that is science as then understood, or perhaps of learning in general. Grammar schools did not provide a direct acquaintance with Aris- totelianism, the one great system that dominated the universities. Shakespeare’s references to Aristotle are correspondingly rare and vague. One...

... Aristotle’s Poetics, a mimesis whose highest dream of goodness might lend (or seem to lend) an independent substantiation both to the poet and to the voice of God? Deconstruction has not applied to the postmodern Milton its own deconstruction of metaphysics, a deconstruction that suggests...

... well. Everyone who knows anything of the history of literary criticism is aware of the importance of Aristotle and Horace in its development. Aristotelian and Horatian theory are so closely interlocked in Renais- sance and Neo-Classic criticism that it is often difficult to distinguish one...

..., 1960), p. 3; I. A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism, 5th ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934), pp. 245-46; Prosser Hall Frye, Romance and Tragedy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961), p. 130; S. H. Butcher, trans., Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, 4th ed. (New York...

.... That the dual purpose of tragedy is to teach and to delight is a con- cept that appears frequently in the criticism of other periods, but never so often and with such insistence as in the criticism of the Restoration and early eighteenth century. Neoclassic critics took Aristotle’s concept that tragedy...

... Aristotle identified three chief methods of per- suasion: “The first kind depends on the personal character ethos[ ] of the speaker; the second [pathos] on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third [logos] on the proof, or apparent proof, pro- vided by the words of the speech itself...