Recensione a: Sara J. Newman, Aristotle and Style, Lewingston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005

Well fitting into the recent Aristotelian bibliography, as Alan G. Gross rightly points out in his preface to the book, Sara Newman’s work offers a very engaged commentary to the relationship between Aristotle’s theory and practice of metaphor and contemporary under-standings of it. As in a roundtrip, the author comes back at the end of her analysis to her open-ing question ‘Why Aristotle and Style?’ (p. 1) which she can now answer saying that “In spite of its limitations, Aristotle notion of style is more than ornamental and substitutive; it operates consistently in his texts to enhance, to facilitate, and to systematically guide certain concep-tual inquiries” (p. 263). Indeed the book has not only the merit to stress the role of Aristotle’s metaphor within the clarifying function of style and consequently its link with the logical process of persuasion, but it is also an important contribution to vindicate Aristotle’s rights in the development of the modern conceptual theory of metaphor.