![]() ![]() The codex Parisinus Graecus 1741 ( A), of about the middle or second part of the tenth century (its primacy was first recognized in 1867).The now established convention accepts four primary witnesses to the text (texts that do not depend on any other extant source): In the extant text there is no account of comedy. The general, but not universal, view is that there were originally two books to Poetics, one on tragedy and a second on comedy. ![]() All action is therefore imitation of action it is poetic." (Benardete & Davis 2002:xvii) Intentions are nothing more than imagined actions, internalizings of the external. It is the distinctive feature of human action, that whenever we choose what to do, we imagine an action for ourselves as though we were inspecting it from the outside. The Poetics is about two things: " poiêsis understood as poetry, or imitation of action, and poiêsis understood as action, which is also imitation of action. ![]()
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