From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics
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From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics

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Descrizione dell’editore

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light. This definition has always been considered an unsolvable problem. Starting with a detailed analysis of the Greek text, and of the various attempts to emend the text in order to make sense of it, the book provides an analytical description of the critical literature, showing that the solutions proposed up to now need to be revised.
The possible solution is found in viewing the XX chapter of the Poetics not as a classification of parts of speech, as it was usually supposed, but by considering the biological definitions of arthron in Aristotle's corpus. This leads to the conclusion that, in linguistics as well as in biology, arthron is a "joint". In this light, the book offers a new textual conjecture for the first example of arthron in the Poetics.

GENERE
Narrativa e letteratura
PUBBLICATO
2018
3 aprile
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
105
EDITORE
Springer International Publishing
DIMENSIONE
2,1
MB

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