| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 424 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey |
| Analysis |
JSTOR-DDA |
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Aesthetics History |
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Mimesis in art |
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Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-417) and index |
| Notes |
"A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Aristoteles v384-v322 gnd |
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Plato v427-v347 gnd |
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Plotinus 205-270 gnd |
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Aesthetics -- History.
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Mimesis in art.
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mimesis.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics.
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Mimesis in art.
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Mimesis
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Antike
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Ästhetik
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Mimesis.
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Griechenland Altertum
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400825301 |
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140082530X |
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