dianoia

And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

And the key to its success is that Trilling takes what Aristotle called dianoia “thought,” which he defined as a lesser element of tragedy, and makes it indistinguishable from ethos, character.

The Middle of the Journey 2009

Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

As for the "epiphenomena" - at least the ones Frye postulates, since mythos, ethos and dianoia are Aristotelian terms, as far as I'm aware (and also somewhat more abstract and complex than their modern counterparts "plot", "character" and "idea") - Frye himself tack them on as names of categories containing the low-level features you probably have in mind and admits that they often interpenetrate.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

I might end up in a similarly systemic view, but I tend to view things like mythos, ethos and dianoia, or Tragedy and Comedy, or mythic, romantic, mimetic and ironic modes as ... epiphenomena.

Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009

Intelligence in fiction, then, is usually conceived as a variety of Aristotelian dianoia:Under Thought dianoia is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions being: proof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger, and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite.

Plot and thought 2010

The novelist who is most often recognized in philosophy as presenting philosophical ideas is Austen (thanks to Gilbert Ryle, Alasdair MacIntyre, and some others); and while there is plenty of dianoia in Austen, it really is the plot that makes Mansfield Park, for instance, a thorough rethinking of eighteenth century appproaches to virtue (Shaftesbury, Hume, etc.)

Plot and thought 2010

Intelligence in fiction, then, is usually conceived as a variety of Aristotelian dianoia:Under Thought dianoia is included every effect which has to be produced by speech, the subdivisions being: proof and refutation; the excitation of the feelings, such as pity, fear, anger, and the like; the suggestion of importance or its opposite.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

Making dianoia the vehicle of ideas makes more sense in the context of Greek tragedies, which Aristotle would, of course, have had in mind, than it does in the context of novels; in a Greek tragedy it's not uncommon for the major action to happen off stage, and everything is commented on by the omnipresent Chorus.

Plot and thought 2010

(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009