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Aristotle on Comedy
Abstract
This paper presents what might be more likely than not the Aristotelian concept of comic action and its catharsis. I show that the tragic qualities of an action and their catharsis rest on ethical presuppositions that can serve the comic qualities of an action and their catharsis. My contention is that a pitiable and fearful action and a ridiculous and shameful action can have a capacity to function in a manner surprisingly and profoundly similar.
KEYWORDS: Aristotle, Comedy, Tragedy, Emotion, Catharsis
El objetivo del presente artículo es explorar cómo las normas dictadas por el conocido como Código Hays delimitan y guían los mecanismos narrativos y el modo de representación de Some Like It Hot (1959). Así mismo, se plantea un estudio de la utilización de la comedia y de sus recursos propios como método empleado por Billy Wilder en dicho filme para, siendo fiel tanto al espíritu inicial de la obra como a la narrativa de la misma, imponer su voz autoral de cara a superar las prohibiciones impuestas por la censura. Y es que el guion de la obra se adapta constantemente para sortear el famoso código en lo respecto a tres temas con importante presencia en la película: el travestismo de los personajes masculinos, la sensualidad del personaje interpretado por Marilyn Monroe y el erotismo latente de algunas escenas, y la violencia presente de otras secuencias.
In this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics available in English, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Halliwell goes further than any previous author in setting Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is a fresh appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama, in which Halliwell contends that at the heart of the Poetics lies a philosophical urge to instill a secularized understanding of Greek tragedy. "Essential reading not only for all serious students of the Poetics . . . but also for thoseâthe great majorityâwho have prudently fought shy of it altogether."âB. R. Rees, Classical Review "A splendid work of scholarship and analysis . . . a brilliant interpretation."âAlexander Nehamas, Times Literary Supplement
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