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May 13, 2022 · Although Aristotle focuses primarily on tragedies such as Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex presented on the Athenian stage, his insights into storytelling are applicable to all kinds of modern literature, drama, and film. But the Poetics suffers from being even less polished than most of Aristotle’s writings.
Aristotle on Crime Fiction, according to Dorothy L Sayers. I came across this brilliant essay by Dorothy L Sayers (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, one of the best detectives of all time, imho), in a collection of critical essays on detective fiction edited by Robin Winks and published in 1980.
Despite suggesting that Aristotle’s choice of a good detective story was somewhat limited, as he had ‘no better mysteries for his study than the sordid compli-cations of the Agamemnon family, no more scientific murder-methods than the poisoned arrow of Philoctetes’ (p. 184), she illustrates how Aristotle’s Poetics identifies the key elements of ...
- Esme Miskimmin
- 2013
the light of recognition which Aristotle declared the strongest effect of tragedy."4 Dorothy Sayers, in a more lighthearted vein, argues that although Aristotle in the Poetics directs his attention to Greek drama and epic verse, "what, in his heart of hearts, he desired was a good detective story; and it was not his fault, poor man, that he ...
Dorothy L. Sayers’s address, ‘Aristotle on Detective Fiction’, given at Oxford in 1935 and later published in her volume of critical essays, Unpopular Opinions (1946) is a clever, light-hearted argument for Aristotle’s appreciation of a good murder-mystery and his apparent anticipation of an entire genre.
- Esme Miskimmin
- 2013
“the aristotle Detective series by Margaret Doody is historically correct without being pedantic, learned but not tedious, equally ironic and attentive to details.”
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This chapter examines Aristotle’s precepts on a range of key narratological features, ranging from actants and audiences, katharsis and character, ethics and episodes—and, above all, his identification of the primacy of plot or muthos as the organizing principle that configures the stuff of story into narrative discourse.
