Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 45
... kind of poetry that would deal with men as worse than they are ( II ) or at least as uglier than they are . Plato in the Philebus ( 48-50 ) had thought the comic response a kind of malicious joy or emo- tion of self - enhancement at the ...
... kind of poetry that would deal with men as worse than they are ( II ) or at least as uglier than they are . Plato in the Philebus ( 48-50 ) had thought the comic response a kind of malicious joy or emo- tion of self - enhancement at the ...
Page 127
... kind of tabloid and laconic , even casual , codification of the principles with which we are familiar in the earlier centuries of neo - Platonism . Beautiful things , he says , are those which are apprehended with pleasure - quae visa ...
... kind of tabloid and laconic , even casual , codification of the principles with which we are familiar in the earlier centuries of neo - Platonism . Beautiful things , he says , are those which are apprehended with pleasure - quae visa ...
Page 129
... kind of reposeful contem- plation ( pulchrum . . . cuius ipsa apprehensio placet ) 1 and in that sense is different from the good ( bonum ) , which is the object of appetite . The conception is much better known to modern aestheticians ...
... kind of reposeful contem- plation ( pulchrum . . . cuius ipsa apprehensio placet ) 1 and in that sense is different from the good ( bonum ) , which is the object of appetite . The conception is much better known to modern aestheticians ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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