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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halliwell, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Notas:"A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 424 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-417) and index.
ISBN:9781400825301
140082530X