Ancient Philosophical Poetics
ISBN: 9780521168687 | 0521168686
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/7/2013
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What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers ancient philosophers gave to these questions.
Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.
Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.
| Poetry: the roots of a problem | |
| A radical solution: Plato's Republic | |
| The natural history of poetry: Aristotle | |
| Ways to find truth in falsehood | |
| The marriage of Homer and Plato | |
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