Abstract
It is a mystery whether there is a second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. According to some sources, a second book (or chapter) was never written, and Aristotle completed his analysis in the Poetics by concentrating only on tragedy and the epic. According to others, the text is incomplete because Aristotle promised to make a study on comedy and iambic compositions. Another debate focuses on what would be the fate of the second book (or chapter) if it was ever written. According to some studies, it was lost, according to some others, it was ignored because its content was worthless, and according to yet some others, it was not allowed to be copied because its content was considered too dangerous, and it was purposively destroyed. This lost book (or chapter), which is sometimes mentioned as the 'Legend of Atlantis,' was the subject of Umberto Eco’s novel 'The Name of the Rose.' There is a debate as to whether the manuscripts entitled Tractatus Coislinianus, discovered in the Paris National Library in 1839, by a classicist named John Anthony Cramer, are the missing parts of Aristotle’s discourse Poetics. The manuscripts in question have a very similar structure to that of the Poetics. Just as in the Poetics, Tractatus Coislinianus starts with general categories such as poiesis and mimesis, and then focuses on subgenres. Similar to the tragedy and epos analysis in the Poetics, the manuscripts’ focus is on the techniques of humor and comic. In this article, the goal to study the similarities between the Tractatus Coislinianus and Aristotle’s canon, especially his ideas in the Poetics, and to discuss the idea of humor in the whole text within this context.
Publisher
YEDI: Journal of Art, Design and Science
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