Gutes Ex.; mit minimalen Lagerspuren; Umschlag geringfügig berieben. - Englisch. - ... In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding … from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its culmination in the literary theory of the Renaissance. Read with the Rhetoric and the Nicomachean Ethics, the Poetics provides a complex logical and psychological explanation for legal and poetic fiction. The De Anima, in contrast, formulates the indispensable role of images in judgment and action by adapting terms and procedures already familiar to Athenian law. While Aristotle himself does not directly refer his theory of fiction to his treatment of the image, philosophers, rhetoricians, and defenders of poetry after him do explore the relation between the psychological image and its fictional counterpart. To this end, they reaffirm and in some cases even refine the alliance between these images and the procedures of the law. In addition to discussing Aristotle and Sidney, Professor Eden considers the contributions of Cicero, Quintilian, Seneca, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. ... (Verlagstext) / INHALT : ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ----- INTRODUCTION ----- ONE. Legal Proof and Tragic Recognition: The ----- Aristotelian Grounds of Discovery Two. Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction ----- The Case for Poetry before Aristotle: Gorgias vs. Plato ----- The Logic of Fiction ----- The Psychology of Fiction ----- THREE. Rhetoric and Psychology: The Aristotelian Foundations of the Poetic Image ----- Image and Imitation in Plato ----- Image and Imitation in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric ----- The Psychological Image of the De Anima ----- The Image in the Later Rhetorical Tradition ----- The Image in Stoic Psychology and Literary Theory ----- FOUR. Image and Imitation: Aristotle's Contribution to a Christian Literary Theory ----- Contra Academicos and Soliloquia: Image and Imitation in Augustine's Early Works ----- Imago Dei and Imitatio Christi: Augustine's Later Works ----- From Scholastic Psychology to Neoclassical Literary Theory ----- The Logic and Psychology of Renaissance Fiction: Sidney's An Apology for Poetry ----- APPENDIX: Hamlet and the Reaches of Aristotelian Tragedy ----- INDEX ----- Names and Titles ----- Topics. ISBN 0691066973
