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Author Halliwell, Stephen, author.
Title The aesthetics of mimesis : ancient texts and modern problems / Stephen Halliwell.
Publication Info Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.



Descript 1 online resource (ix, 424 pages)
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Contents Introduction : 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 -- The 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.
ISBN 9781400825301 (electronic bk.)
140082530X (electronic bk.)
0691048827 (alk. paper)
0691092583 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691048826
9780691092584
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Author Halliwell, Stephen, author.
Subject Aesthetics -- History.
Mimesis in art.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 424 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note "A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover.
Contents Introduction : 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 -- The 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.
ISBN 9781400825301 (electronic bk.)
140082530X (electronic bk.)
0691048827 (alk. paper)
0691092583 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691048826
9780691092584
Author Halliwell, Stephen, author.
Subject Aesthetics -- History.
Mimesis in art.

Subject Aesthetics -- History.
Mimesis in art.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 424 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note "A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover.
Contents Introduction : 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 -- The 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.
ISBN 9781400825301 (electronic bk.)
140082530X (electronic bk.)
0691048827 (alk. paper)
0691092583 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691048826
9780691092584

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