Ifigenia w pierścieniu, czyli o zagadce „szczęśliwego zakończenia” tragedii w ujęciu Arystotelesa

• Authors: Maria Korusiewicz

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IPHIGENIA IN THE RING; THE PUZZLE OF THE “HAPPY ENDING” OF TRAGIC DRAMA FROM THE ARISTOTELIAN PERSPECTIVE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the possibility of solving the famous „puzzle“ of the XIV chapter of Aristotle’s Poetics: the idea of „happy ending“ plots as most apt to evoke tragic emotions and evaluated as „the best type,“ ranked higher than Oedipus Tyrannus. The subject of Author’s analysis is Iphigenia in Tauris, the only existing tragedy out of the three discussed by Aristotle. Multidimensional reflection on the play and its cultural, philosophical and literary contexts reveals the hidden structure of the texts: the old form of „ring composition“ found also in other works of Antiquity, i.e. in Homer. The possibility of placing the cathartic effect in the middle of the play, clearly presented by both Euripides and Aristotle, allows for the alternative interpretation of the Greek idea of the „tragic“, still permeated with delight in existence and far from so-called „tragic vision“ of the world, developed centuries later in contemporary existential philosophy.

Keywords

EN

IPHIGENIA; EURIPIDES; IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS; ARISTOTLE’S POETICS

• Publisher: Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej, Instytut Teologiczny im. Jana Kantego w Bielsku-Białej, Książnica Beskidzka
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1(20)
• Pages: 39-56

Dates

published

2013-06

Contributors

author

Maria Korusiewicz

• Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Białej, ul. Willowa 2, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała

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