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Between Ecstasy and Truth : Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus

by Stephen Halliwell

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0199570566
ISBN-13 9780199570560
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 1st, 2012
Print length 432 Pages
Weight 668 grams
Dimensions 14.60 x 21.70 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification: Literary theory Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Classical history / classical civilisation
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This volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. Halliwell offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the most defining authors, such as Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics.
As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell''s volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes'' Frogs, Plato''s Republic, Aristotle''s Poetics, Gorgias''s Helen, Isocrates'' treatises, Philodemus'' On Poems, and Longinus'' On the Sublime.The volume''s fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book''s organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of ''ecstasy'') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences'' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.

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