...Ekkehard Eggs The aim of this article is to show that doxa is the point of reference and evaluation from which all of Aristotle's central poetic concepts— mímesis, mythos, peripeteia, praxis téleia,éleos, phóbos , and so forth—can be properly grasped. I first show the endoxical and opinion...

... in antiquity, from the earliest allegorizing readings of Homer to the full-blown “running commentary” in the Platonic tradition (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Running commentaries are mostly on authoritative thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Yet they are never mere scholarly enterprises but, rather...

... and presuppositions underlying the ascription to literature of an ethically exemplary role. Accepting the methodological and conceptual challenges presented by some of the major philosophical and theoretical positions informing literature's perception as ethically exemplary (from Aristotle to Jakobson and Derrida...

...Marcel Danesi Views on the role of metaphor in language have varied ever since Aristotle discovered it and described its features. Traditional accounts of metaphor have seen it as a form of comparison or substitution for literal language, or else a “deviant” form of semantics. This situation...

... as Twofold Reason-Giving 2. Reality, Artifice, and Motivation: Doctrinal Biases, Variable Products, Universal Modes; 2.1 Aristotle’s Mimesis of Nature by Art; or, Why Plot above Character?; 2.2 Viktor Shklovsky and Mimesis Fallen below Art 3. How the Extremes Compare: Toward an Alternative Theory 4...

...Jan Alber; Marco Caracciolo; Irina Marchesini Among literary-theoretical concepts, mimesis has one of the longest histories, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In the twentieth century, discussion of mimesis resulted in a number of highly influential contributions, including Eric Auerbach’s...

... on his institutional position; for Ducrot or Maingueneau, drawing on Aristotle, the image of the orator is built by the discourse itself. Analyzing political as well as literary texts, this essay takes into account the institutional position of the speaker; his “prior ethos” (the image his audience has...

... of the period, this amounted to the substitution of Echo, the compassionate nymph,for Narcissus, the self-centered deity. This analysis is informed by the fate of these cultural figures as well as by theoretical discussions of sympathy/compassion in antiquity (Plato and Aristotle) and in the seventeenth...

...(Aristotle's topoï koinoï ) are distinguished from pragmatical topoi in Oswald Ducrot's sense and from commonplaces in the positive sense of the term; the notions of idée reçue ,of cliché, and of stereotype are described and reinterpreted in an argumentative perspective stressing their fundamental role...

... capacities by means of their form; far from seducing with the promise of instantaneous transformation, they recognize, with Aristotle, that change is a matter of sustained and patient practice. This essay is for the most part excerpted from the introduction to my How to Do Things with Fictions (Landy...

... scholars, can enrich Ricoeur's concept of mimesis. While Ricoeur follows Aristotle, who ties mimesis to plot, Plato, in Republic 2 and 3, considers mimesis an act of impersonation and thereby paves the way to the level of character, on which cognitive narratologists tend to focus. This article first offers...

...Hervé Picherit; Jason C. Thompson Abstract This article proposes that the main trope of Georges Perec's novel, La disparition (1969), is anagnorisis, or a scene of literary recognition. Though Perec borrows a classical trope described by Aristotle, his novel stands out in that it is not a character...

...Stephen Halliwell An Aristotelian Theory of Communication Stephen Halliwell University of St. Andrews Gabriel Zoran, Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2014. xv1256 pp. The central aim of this book, an earlier version...

...., translated by Kenelm Foster (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode). Aristotle 1960a Posterior Analytics, in Aristotle in 23 Volumes , translated by Hugh Tredennick (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). 1960b Prior Analytics, in Aristotle in 23 Volumes , translated by Hugh Tredennick (Cambridge, MA...

... cognitive rhetori- Poetics Today (Spring Copyright © by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. 10 Poetics Today 23:1 cians—to give a single name to a loose affiliation of modern thinkers—have also developed lines of research quite unavailable to classical rhetoric. If Aristotle were...

... then be respected with more or less free- dom by the authors, performed by the actors, and recognized as such by the public; it would, in other words, be permanently reiterated. This code would have a theoretical great grandfather, Aristotle; a series of fathers, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Hippolyte...

... `` Narrative and Chaos ,'' New Literary History 23 : 659 – 73 . Aristotle 1909 On the Art of Poetry: A Revised Text with Critical Introduction , translated by Bywater Ingram . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press ). 1954 Rhetoric , translated by Roberts W. Rhys . ( New York : Modern...

... 2007 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2007 Aristotle 1984 The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation , edited by Jonathan Barnes, 2 vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Bacon, Francis 1960 The New Organon and Related Writings , edited...

... of norms, and the world of“praise,” the realm of values. © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000 Aristotle 1968 The Poetics ,translated and edited by L. J. Potts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Auerbach, Erich 1957 Mimesis: The Representation of Reality...

... L'Argumentation dans la langue (Brussels:Mardaga). Aristotle 1941 “Rhetoric,” in The Basic Works of Aristotle , edited by Richard McKeon(New York: Random House). 1990 Organon V: Les Topiques ,translated and annotated by J. Tricot (Paris: Vrin). Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words...