Aristotelian criticism

a critical theory, doctrine, or approach based upon the method used by Aristotle in the Poetics, implying a formal, logical approach to literary analysis that is centered on the work itself. Cf. Platonic criticism.

See also: Criticism

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Here, as elsewhere, it would have been helpful to have provided more background information on the contemporary Italian literary scene (especially on the growing interest in Aristotelian criticism) for the less specialized reader.

'Eufimia': An Italian Renaissance Tragedy

Platonic models of literary criticism tend to emphasize the moral aspects of a text, in contrast to Aristotelian criticism, which more often stresses logical and formal approaches.

Plato

The author interprets Plotinus's notion of immediate "begetting" as an answer to the Aristotelian criticism of Forms as causes.

Form and Transformation: A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

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