The psychology of Aristotelian tragedy / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty Aristotle on history and poetry (Poetics, 9, 1451a36-b11) / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix Myth and tragedy / Jean-Pierre Vernant Acting : Drama as the Mimēsis of Praxis / Aryeh Kosman Aristotle on Mimēsis / Paul Woodruff One action / Rüdiger Bittner Plot imitates action : aesthetic evaluation and moral realism in Aristotle's Poetics / Cynthia A. Freeland Outside the drama : the limits of tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics / Deborah H. Roberts Ēthos and Dianoia reconsidered / Mary Whitlock Blundell Hamartia and virtue / Nancy Sherman Necessity, chance, and "what happens for the most part" in Aristotle's Poetics / Dorothea Frede Aristotle's favorite tragedies / Stephen W. White
Pleasure, understanding, and emotion in Aristotle's Poetics / Stephen Halliwell
Tragedy and self-sufficiency : Plato and Aristotle on fear and pity / Martha C. Nussbaum
Pity and fear in the Rhetoric and the Poetics / Alexander Nehamas
Katharsis / Jonathan Lear
From catharsis to the Aristotelian mean / Richard Janko
Aristotle and Iphigenia / Elizabeth Belfiore
Aristotle on the pleasure of comedy / Leon Golden
The Poetics for a practical critic / Wayne Booth
Epilogue : the Poetics and its interpreters / Stephen Halliwell.