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Metapoetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Geoffrey Bles
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Metapoetics—the name given by Aristotle's editors to his works on Publishing (either because they came after, or because they went beyond, and transcended, his Poetics)—deals with literary activity not qua itself but qua its product (ἔργον), the Book (ὥσπερ γὰρ τῆς οἰκοδομικῆς τέχνης ἐστὶν ἔργον ὁ οἶκος, ὁμοίως τῆς ποιητικῆς τὸ βιβλίον), and considers how this product is brought to the notice of the reader–or, rather, readers (μία γὰρ χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ).

Type
Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , June 1955 , pp. 71
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1955

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