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1 online resource (ix, 424 pages) |
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"A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover. |
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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. |
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9781400825301 (electronic bk.) |
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140082530X (electronic bk.) |
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0691048827 (alk. paper) |
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0691092583 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780691048826 |
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9780691092584 |
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