LEADER 03829nam 2200613Ia 450 001 996203168803316 005 20230802012600.0 010 $a0-19-870701-0 010 $a1-283-42661-7 010 $a9786613426611 010 $a0-19-161241-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000079333 035 $a(EBL)834720 035 $a(OCoLC)772845023 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11428866 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610142 035 $a(PQKB)10818746 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000062035 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC834720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7037654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7037654 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000079333 100 $a20111103d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBetween ecstasy and truth$b[electronic resource] $einterpretations of Greek poetics from Homer to Longinus /$fby Stephen Halliwell 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-173875-1 311 $a0-19-957056-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Note to the Reader; 1 Setting the Scene: Questions of Poetic Value in Greek Culture; 2 Is there a Poetics in Homer?; Contexts, Effects, and Desires in Homeric Images of Song; The Muses' Divine Perspective: Transmuting Suffering into Beauty; Odysseus' Tears and the Paradoxical Need for Song; 3 Aristophanes' Frogs and the Failure of Criticism; A Comic Lesson in Tragic Poetics?; Euripides, 'Close Reading', and the Audience of Frogs; Analysis, Evaluation, and Incommensurability; Dionysus as Lover-cum-Critic: Embodying the Problem of Poetics 327 $a4 To Banish or Not to Banish? Plato's Unanswered Question about PoetryInterrogating Poetry's Meaning: the Apology and Ion; The Philosophical (Ex-)Lover of Poetry; 5 Aristotle and the Experience of Tragic Emotion; Emotional Understanding in the Poetics; The Aesthetic and Moral Psychology of Catharsis; Appendix: Is the Catharsis Clause in the Poetics an Interpolation?; 6 Poetry in the Light of Prose: Gorgias, Isocrates, Philodemus; Gorgias and the Seductive Power of Logos; Isocrates and the Narrowed Vision of a Pragmatist; Philodemus and the Enigmas of Poetic Value 327 $a7 The Mind's Infinity: Longinus and the Psychology of the SublimeThunderbolts and Echoes: The Ecstasy of the Sublime; Metaphysics, Realism, Imagination: The Complex Truth of the Sublime; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Greek Terms; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z 330 $aAs well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' OnPoems, and Longinus On the Sublime.The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of tha 606 $aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aPoetics 615 0$aGreek poetry$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aPoetics. 676 $a940 700 $aHalliwell$b Stephen$0170027 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996203168803316 996 $aBetween ecstasy and truth$9239875 997 $aUNISA