caa a22 4500 475843053 CHVBK 20180406123906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1007217521720 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1007217521720 Hajdu Péter Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ménesi út 11-13, H-1118, Budapest, Hungary aut On the Authority of Aristotle's Poetics [Elektronische Daten] [Péter Hajdu] Aristotle's Poetics has a special prestige. Its statements are rarely rejected, but usually reinterpreted to harmonize with recent views. It is, however, not at all insignificant how just or justifiable the strategies are one uses in one's argumentation. After discussing shortly Frye's concepts of dianoia, melos, and opsis as an example rather easy to catch of manipulating with Aristotle's authority, I will analyse Ricoeur's comments on metaphor and Genette's critique of the theory of literary genres. Both of them base their criticism of rival theories on the criticism of their reading of Aristotle, as if disproving the reading meant also disproving the theory behind it by showing that the theory has no continuous existence from the very beginning. They do not, however, simply refute the argument of authority, but attempt to take over the supreme authority. Ricoeur operates with the implications against Aristotle's explicit definitions, which seems to be a strange method of analysis, especially when its aim is not the critique of the conception, but its apology. Genette's method is based on the argumentatio e silentio. Elements of the explicit definitions which play no role in the following analysis he regards as being retrospectively excluded from the conception. It is hard to admit that argumentatio e silentio, which is a dubious argumentative method in general, can be applied to the modification of an inclusive system based on rigorous logical principles. Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000 Neohelicon Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(2000-12-01), 49-61 0324-4652 27:2<49 2000 27 11059 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007217521720 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007217521720 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hajdu Péter Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ménesi út 11-13, H-1118, Budapest, Hungary aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(2000-12-01), 49-61 0324-4652 27:2<49 2000 27 11059 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer