Plato and Aristotle on poetry
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Plato and Aristotle on poetry
University of North Carolina Press, c1986
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book is a guide to the poetics of the two Greek fountainheads of Western literary theory. Part I traces the development of Plato's great themes of inspiration and imitation but makes no attempt to reduce his disparate statements to a system. Part II demonstrates that Aristotle's Poetics embodies a powerful theory of literature that answers Plato's objections to poetry as an emotionally powerful, and therefore dangerous, communication of false opinion.
Originally published in 1987.
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