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Excerpt from The Religious Function of Comedy: A Phase of the Problem of Evil, Treated From the Point of View of Aristotle's Poetics and Metaphysics and of Spiritual Monism; An Essay Based on a Lecture Delivered Before the Philosophical Society of the University of Toronto, 1907
Oopsirspov) than history, but is also arrow-innit; and, in explanation, appeals not to tragedy but to comedy.' lnthiscase he'citesnot theold raucous political comedy or the lyrical burlesques oi Aristophanes, which dealt in invective and M attack, but the Middle Comedy, which aimed to represent generalised types of humanity - faults and foibles. To be sure, but still types. Students of the Poetics should constantly keepin mind.intheirreading. Thatwheneveraristotle disparagescomedy, ashedoesinthccaseoitheold iam pochera, he is criticising the manner and structure oi the art which is only a caricature of particularities; and that whenever he approves comedy. As he does in the case of Middle Comedy, he does so. Because it envisages the universal. Now, let us note that the Middle Comedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
