Aristotle on Comedy : Towards a Reconstruction of "Poetics II" Paperback / softback
by Richard Janko
Paperback / softback
Description
In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript.
Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the systematic study of comedy, but it was soon condemned as an ignorant compilation verging on forgery, and thus matters stood until the first publication of "Aristotle on Comedy" in 1984.
Richard Janko's edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary.
This edition contains a new preface and additional bibliography.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:294 pages, 3 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:20/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780715631690
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:294 pages, 3 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:20/06/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780715631690