Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle's Poetics - (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This Companion provides a global map of the reception of Aristotle's Poetics from Antiquity to the present day, combining inputs from philology, philosophy, literary theory, art theory, comparative literature, reception studies and performance studies.

Book Synopsis

It is hardly possible to read Aristotle's Poetics today without acknowledging the influence of its reception history: our understanding of Aristotle's poetical theory has been reshaped in past decades thanks to a reappraisal of long-held prejudices, whose history may be no less fascinating to explore than the text of the Poetics itself. To grasp what the Poetics has to say therefore involves questioning what its many readers have been looking after: What was the Poetics used for? And what are we using it for now? Into which bodies of texts has it been incorporated and put into perspective? How have these uses and contexts influenced past readings of the Poetics, and how do they still inform the way we read it?

About the Author

Christine Mauduit is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the École normale supérieure (Paris). Her research focuses mainly on Greek Theater, with a specific interest in staging and dramaturgy. She is currently preparing a new French translation and commentary of Aristotle's Poetics.

Guillaume Navaud (Ph.D./H.D.R. in Comparative Literature) has published two monographs on the relationship between theater and philosophy: Persona: Le théâtre comme métaphore théorique de Socrate à Shakespeare (2011) and Voir le théâtre: Théories aristotéliciennes et pratiques du spectacle (2022).

Olivier Renaut is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Paris-Nanterre University. His research includes works on the history of philosophy of emotions in archaic and classical Greece, notably Platon: La médiation des émotions (2014) and La Rhétorique des passions: Aristote, Rhétorique II.2-11 (2022).

Contributors are: Christine Mauduit, Guillaume Navaud, Olivier Renaut, Elsa Bouchard, Bénédicte Delignon, Christian Förstel, Frédérique Woerther, Costantino Marmo, Virginie Leroux, Teresa Chevrolet, François Thomas, Enrica Zanin, Dana L. Munteanu, Giulia Fiore, Terence Cave, Camille Rambourg, Michael Silk, Emmanuelle Hénin, Florence d'Artois, Daniele Guastini, Flore Kimmel-Clauzet, Stephen Halliwell, and Antonino Sorci.