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Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.
Classical literature --- Aesthetics --- Mimesis in art. --- History. --- 111.85 --- 82.01 --- Metafysica: schoonheid; metafysische esthetica --- Esthetica --- 82.01 Esthetica --- 111.85 Metafysica: schoonheid; metafysische esthetica --- Mimesis in art --- Mimesis in de kunst --- Mimésis dans l'art --- Mimesis in literature --- Literature --- Poetics --- Esthétique --- Mimêsis --- Mimésis dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Poétique --- Histoire --- Imitation in art --- History --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics - History.
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The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to expose individuals and groups to shame and even violence. Caught between ideas of pleasure and pain, friendship and enmity, laughter became a theme of recurrent interest in various contexts. Employing a sophisticated model of cultural history, Stephen Halliwell traces elaborations of the theme in a series of important texts: ranging far beyond modern accounts of 'humour', he shows how perceptions of laughter helped to shape Greek conceptions of the body, the mind and the meaning of life.
Laughter --- History --- Emotions. --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Laughing --- Emotions --- Nonverbal communication --- Wit and humor --- Arts and Humanities
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Greek poetry --- Poetics. --- Greek literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Poetics --- Poetry --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Technique
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875 ARISTOTELES --- 875 ARISTOTELES Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Poetry --- Aristotle
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Classical Greek literature --- Literature --- Littérature --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Littérature
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Political science --- Utopias --- Science politique --- Utopies --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Utopias. --- Plato.
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