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The Aesthetics of Mimesis : Ancient Texts and Modern Problems.
Başlık:
The Aesthetics of Mimesis : Ancient Texts and Modern Problems.
Yazar:
Halliwell, Stephen.
ISBN:
9781400825301
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1 online resource (440 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Özet:
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. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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