This volume brings together Aristotle's interrelated views of poetry, speech-making and inference. Through analytic summaries, it aims to show Aristotle's poetics as responsive to the expressiveness of Greek tragedy. In addition, the book brings Aristotle's rhetoric into closer relation with the logic of inference, which, it argues, is made necessary by the persistence of sophistic reasoning in philosophy, literary criticism and the discourse of the public sphere.
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This volume brings together Aristotle's interrelated views of poetry, speech-making and inference. Through analytic summaries, it aims to show Aristotle's poetics as responsive to the expressiveness of Greek tragedy. In addition, the book brings Aristotle's rhetoric into closer relation with the logic of inference, which, it argues, is made necessary by the persistence of sophistic reasoning in philosophy, literary criticism and the discourse of the public sphere.
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