Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 11
... concept of “ imita- tion ” ( mimēsis ) —which , with a certain modification , becomes in later passages the center of Plato's poetics . Certain poems , he observes in Book III , simply tell what happened ; others actually imitate what ...
... concept of “ imita- tion ” ( mimēsis ) —which , with a certain modification , becomes in later passages the center of Plato's poetics . Certain poems , he observes in Book III , simply tell what happened ; others actually imitate what ...
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... concept of beauty as measure and proportion ( metriotēs kai summetria ) and the distinction ( 51c ) between the beautiful in itself and the rela- tively beautiful . In the Memorabilia of Xenophon ( III , 8 ; IV , 6 ) Socrates produces ...
... concept of beauty as measure and proportion ( metriotēs kai summetria ) and the distinction ( 51c ) between the beautiful in itself and the rela- tively beautiful . In the Memorabilia of Xenophon ( III , 8 ; IV , 6 ) Socrates produces ...
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... concept of general " aes- thetics , " the general philosophy of the higher arts . Poetry , as we have seen , had been discussed in antiquity at times under the rubric of the fine or the beautiful ( to kalon ) , but more readily , along ...
... concept of general " aes- thetics , " the general philosophy of the higher arts . Poetry , as we have seen , had been discussed in antiquity at times under the rubric of the fine or the beautiful ( to kalon ) , but more readily , along ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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