Poetics before Plato: interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry
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1. Verfasser: Ledbetter, Grace M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index
Introduction : poetry, knowledge, and interpretation -- Supernatural knowledge in Homeric poetics -- Hesiod's naturalism -- Pindar : the poet as interpreter -- Socratic poetics -- Toward a model of Socratic interpretation
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 trad
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 128 pages)
ISBN:0691096090
1400825288
9780691096094
9781400825288

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