Between ecstasy and truth [[electronic resource] ] : interpretations of Greek poetics from Homer to Longinus / / by Stephen Halliwell

• Autore: Halliwell Stephen
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 940
• Soggetto topico: Greek poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Poetics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 ; 4 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 ; 7 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
• Sommario/riassunto: As 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Between ecstasy and truth
• ISBN: 0-19-870701-0; 1-283-42661-7; 9786613426611; 0-19-161241-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996203168803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno