The aesthetics of mimesis ancient texts and modern problems
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 philos...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[2002]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION: Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics
- PART I
- CHAPTER ONE: Representation and Reality: Plato and Mimesis
- CHAPTER TWO: Romantic Puritanism: Plato and the Psychology of Mimesis
- CHAPTER THREE: Mimesis and the Best Life: Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic
- CHAPTER FOUR: More Than Meets the Eye: Looking into Plato's Mirror
- PART II
- CHAPTER FIVE: Inside and Outside the Work of Art: Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated
- CHAPTER SIX: The Rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Tragic Pity: Aristotle and Beyond
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Music and the Limits of Mimesis: Aristotle versus Philodemus
- PART III
- CHAPTER NINE: Truth or Delusion? The Mimeticist Legacy in Hellenistic Philosophy
- CHAPTER TEN: Images of Life: Mimesis and Literary Criticism after Aristotle
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Renewal and Transformation: Neoplatonism and Mimesis
- CHAPTER TWELVE: An Inheritance Contested: Renaissance to Modernity
