Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 19
... Greek visual art seems to have been moving rapidly in the direction of natural- ism and illusionism . Art historians of the formalist school like to tell us that even the Great Period of Greek sculpture ( that of the pediments of the ...
... Greek visual art seems to have been moving rapidly in the direction of natural- ism and illusionism . Art historians of the formalist school like to tell us that even the Great Period of Greek sculpture ( that of the pediments of the ...
Page 39
... Greek tragedy may be epito- mized in a difference about the term hamartia . Etymologically , this means the missing of a mark with bow and arrow , an unskillful but not morally culpable act . And according to one school of thought ...
... Greek tragedy may be epito- mized in a difference about the term hamartia . Etymologically , this means the missing of a mark with bow and arrow , an unskillful but not morally culpable act . And according to one school of thought ...
Page 55
... Greek tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of possibility , " What a pity it was this way when it might have been ...
... Greek tragedy is the tragedy of necessity : i.e. , the feeling aroused in the spectator is " What a pity it had to be this way " ; Christian tragedy is the trag- edy of possibility , " What a pity it was this way when it might have been ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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