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Between Ecstasy and Truth - Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (Hardcover)
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Between Ecstasy and Truth - Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (Hardcover)
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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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