Method and Metaphor in Aristotle’s Science of Nature
Coughlin, Sean
Item type: Dissertation
Institution: University of Western Ontario
Publication year: 2013
Why does Aristotle in Posterior Analytics suggest that metaphors are inimical to science and yet uses them in his natural science? He argues that Aristotle uses metaphor in these works as a form of heuristic reasoning to express conditions an explanation in natural science must meet if it is to explain regular, ordered change. His use of certain endoxa is similar to his use of metaphor; he borrows from conventional understandings of the role of inquiry in the arts in developing his views on the method of inquiry suitable natural science.
Prose versus Poetry in Early Greek Theories of Style
[link: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.303]
Graff, Richard J.
Item type: Journal article
Publication year: 2005
Journal: Rhetorica
Volume: 23
Pages: 303–335
Discussion of the opposition to an overly poetic style of prose in all three authors; argues that Aristotle intervenes in the dispute between Isocrates, whom he only quotes approvingly in Rhetoric 3, against Alcidamas, heavily criticised in the account of frigidity. But all three ‘contributed to an emerging theory that focused on the critical evaluation of style’; This ‘developed out of reflection on the style of poetry and on prose’s relationship to the older verbal art’, but ‘the very basic division between poetry and prose in early style theory is a troubled one’.
Literary Quotation and Allusion in the Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
Hinman, Willis Stuart
Item type: Dissertation
Institution: Columbia University
Publication year: 1935
Lists most quotations, misquotations, allusions and possible allusions but lacks any attempt to analyse why these passages are chosen or how Aristotle accessed them.
Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation
Trott, Adriel M.
Item type: Monograph
Publication year: 2019
Place of publication: Edinburgh
ISBN: 9781474476874
Chapter 'Craft and Other Metaphors' (pp. 212–235): Her focus is on analogies from craft, building, earth and sun, rennet and householding in a selection of passages from the biological works, especially Generation of Animals. She argues that these analogies explain specific aporiai rather than forming a systematic set of comparands that interact.
