You might also like

More about Aristotle on Comedy

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 107 loyalty points

Book synopsis

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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Aristotle on Comedy
• Subtitle: Towards a Reconstruction of "Poetics II"
• Author: Richard Janko
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294
• EAN: 9780715631690
• ISBN: 0715631691
• ID: 04647108
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 394 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. June 2002

Trending among others

---

---

---