Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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Page 293
... mind in learning , as well as our use of the will in approving , a moral pattern of actions and sanctions , a pat- tern of " poetic justice . " 2 But the aesthetic justification of tragedy was on the whole more difficult than the moral ...
... mind in learning , as well as our use of the will in approving , a moral pattern of actions and sanctions , a pat- tern of " poetic justice . " 2 But the aesthetic justification of tragedy was on the whole more difficult than the moral ...
Page 299
... mind by the intervention of the senses " ( III , xii ) . “ Beauty , " he said , " acts by relaxing the solids of the whole system ” ( IV , xix ) . And the external symptoms of this re- laxation were to be described with considerable ...
... mind by the intervention of the senses " ( III , xii ) . “ Beauty , " he said , " acts by relaxing the solids of the whole system ” ( IV , xix ) . And the external symptoms of this re- laxation were to be described with considerable ...
Page 309
... Mind upon the Perusal of a noble Work . Thus although in Poetry it be abso- lutely necessary that the Unities of Time , Place and Action , with other Points of the same Nature , should be thoroughly explained and understood ; there is ...
... Mind upon the Perusal of a noble Work . Thus although in Poetry it be abso- lutely necessary that the Unities of Time , Place and Action , with other Points of the same Nature , should be thoroughly explained and understood ; there is ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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