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Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry
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ISBN: 0691096090 9786612087646 1282087649 1400825288 9781400825288 9780691096094 Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition. Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagoras, and Apology introduce a distinctively Socratic theory of poetry that responds polemically to traditional poets as rival theorists. Ledbetter tracks the sources of this Socratic response by introducing separate readings of the poetics implicit in the poetry of Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar. Examining these poets' theories from a new angle that uncovers their literary, rhetorical, and political aims, she demonstrates their decisive influence on Socratic thinking about poetry. The Socratic poetics Ledbetter elucidates focuses not on censorship, but on the interpretation of poetry as a source of moral wisdom. This philosophical approach to interpreting poetry stands at odds with the poets' own theories--and with the Sophists' treatment of poetry. Unlike the Republic's focus on exposing and banishing poetry's irrational and unavoidably corrupting influence, Socrates' theory includes poetry as subject matter for philosophical inquiry within an examined life. Reaching back into what has too long been considered literary theory's prehistory, Ledbetter advances arguments that will redefine how classicists, philosophers, and literary theorists think about Plato's poetics.

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Aesthetics, Ancient --- Authority in literature --- Greek poetry --- -Poetics --- -Poetry --- Greek literature --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- History --- -Technique --- Authority in literature. --- Aesthetics, Ancient. --- Poetics --- Theory, etc. --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Greek poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Poetics - History - To 1500. --- A Preface to Paradise Lost. --- Against the Sophists. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- Archilochus. --- Biographical criticism. --- Concept. --- Counterexample. --- Criticism. --- Crito. --- Demodocus (Odyssey character). --- Didacticism. --- Dogma. --- Eloquence. --- Epic poetry. --- Euthyphro (prophet). --- Explanation. --- Falsity. --- Fiction. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- G. (novel). --- Generosity. --- Genre. --- Hermeneutics. --- Hesiod. --- Hippias Major. --- Hippias. --- Homer. --- Homeric scholarship. --- Iliad. --- Imagery. --- Inference. --- Iris Murdoch. --- Irony. --- Knowledge. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary fiction. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Metaphor. --- Mimesis. --- Moral authority. --- Morality. --- Muse. --- Narrative. --- New Criticism. --- Notion (ancient city). --- Odes (Horace). --- Odysseus' scar (Auerbach). --- Odysseus. --- Oracle. --- Peleus. --- Phemius. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy and literature. --- Philosophy. --- Pindar. --- Plato. --- Platonism. --- Poet. --- Poetic tradition. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetics. --- Poetry. --- Political poetry. --- Post-structuralism. --- Principle of charity. --- Prodicus. --- Protagoras. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Rhapsode. --- Rhetoric. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Satire. --- Skepticism. --- Socrate. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic. --- Sophist. --- Storytelling. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supplication. --- Swarthmore College. --- Symptom. --- Telemachus. --- The Death of the Author. --- Theogony. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Trojan War. --- Uncertainty. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Verisimilitude. --- William Shakespeare. --- Works and Days. --- Xenophanes.


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Poetic and legal fiction in the Aristotelian tradition
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ISBN: 0691066973 1322006245 0691610339 1400858321 0691638462 9781400858323 9780691066974 9780691610337 Year: 1986 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its culmination in the literary theory of the Renaissance.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Law and literature. --- Literature --- Philosophy. --- Aristotle. --- 875 ARISTOTELES --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES --- Law and literature --- Literature and law --- 1 <38> ARISTOTELES Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse filosofie--ARISTOTELES --- 875 ARISTOTELES Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Griekse literatuur--ARISTOTELES --- Aristoteles. --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Aristotle --- Aristotile --- Contributions in philosophy of literature. --- Ἀριστοτέλης. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Philosophy --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- Aeschylus. --- Against the Sophists. --- Allegory. --- An Apology for Poetry. --- Anagnorisis. --- Apology (Plato). --- Arbitration. --- Aristotelian ethics. --- Aristotelianism. --- Averroes. --- Averroism. --- Carneades. --- Catharsis. --- Common law. --- Conflation. --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- David Daube. --- De Motu (Berkeley's essay). --- Determinatio. --- Dialectic. --- Dianoia. --- Endoxa. --- English poetry. --- Epideictic. --- Erudition. --- Ethics. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Euripides. --- Exemplum. --- Fiction. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Hamartia. --- Hippias Minor. --- Inference. --- Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe). --- Iphigenia in Tauris. --- Kakia (mythology). --- Lactantius. --- Legal fiction. --- Legal science. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Magna Moralia. --- Memoria. --- Metaphor. --- Metaxy. --- Mimesis. --- Neoplatonism. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Parmenides. --- Peripeteia. --- Perjury. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of law. --- Phronesis. --- Pity. --- Plotinus. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Praetor. --- Precedent. --- Presumption (canon law). --- Probability. --- Prohairesis. --- Psychology. --- Quintilian. --- Rex Warner. --- Rhetoric (Aristotle). --- Rhetoric. --- Rhetorica ad Herennium. --- Rule of law. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sextus Empiricus. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Sine qua non. --- Soliloquy. --- Sophocles. --- Stoicism. --- Superiority (short story). --- Syllogism. --- Term logic. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thomism. --- Timaeus (dialogue). --- Traditional story. --- Verisimilitude. --- Wickedness. --- Writing.

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