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Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers - Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature (Hardcover)
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Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers - Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature (Hardcover)
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Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the
foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and
Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first
book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the
surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural
contexts, applying intertextual and intratextual analyses in order
to reconstruct the significance and impact they conveyed for
ancient audiences and readers. Building on insights from literary
theory and the philosophy of literature, the book sheds new light
on these authors' philosophical projects and enriches our
appreciation of their works as literary artefacts. It also expands
our knowledge of the genres in which they wrote, of the literary
culture of the Western Greek world, and of the development of Greek
poetics from the Archaic to the Classical periods, exposing the
influence of these thinkers on more famous Sophistic and Platonic
ideas about literature.
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