The aesthetics of mimesis ancient texts and modern problems

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halliwell, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2002
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics
  • Representation and Reality: Plato and Mimesis
  • Romantic Puritanism: Plato and the Psychology of Mimesis
  • Mimesis and the Best Life: Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic
  • More Than Meets the Eye: Looking into Plato's Mirror
  • Inside and Outside the Work of Art: Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated
  • he Rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics
  • Tragic Pity: Aristotle and Beyond
  • Music and the Limits of Mimesis: Aristotle versus Philodemus
  • Truth or Delusion? The Mimeticist Legacy in Hellenistic Philosophy
  • Images of Life: Mimesis and Literary Criticism after Aristotle
  • Renewal and Transformation: Neoplatonism and Mimesis
  • An Inheritance Contested: Renaissance to Modernity