Masaracchio [e-book] <http://bachecaebookgratis.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/aristotele-etica-nicomachea-ebook.html>‚ accessed 23 October 2012. * Brown‚ Robert D. (1987)‚ Lucretius on Love and Sex (Leiden: E.J. Brill). * Elicker‚ Bradley (2008)‚ ‘Mimesis‚ Catharsis‚ and pleasure : an investigation into Aristotle’s tragic pleasure’ [dissertation published online] <http://organizations.oneonta.edu/philosc/papers08/elicker.pdf>‚ accessed 23 October 2012. * Gillespie‚ Stuart and Hardie‚ Philip (2007)
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existed for as long as literature. In the 4th century BC Aristotle wrote the Poetics‚ a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works of art. Poetics developed for the first time the concepts of mimesis and catharsis‚ which are still crucial in literary study. Plato’s attacks on poetry as imitative‚ secondary‚ and false were formative as well. Around the same time‚ Bharata Muni‚ in his Natya Shastra‚ wrote literary criticism on ancient Indian literature
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Justice‚ according to Thrasymachus‚ "is nothing but the interest of the stronger" (in other words‚ "Might is right!"). (a) Why does Plato reject this? (b) What is Plato’s alternative definition of justice for the state (in other words‚ what is his explanation of political justice)? (c) Give two reasons why you agree or disagree with his definition. “Might is Right” by Thrasymachus Thrasymachus recommends that we regard justice as the advantage of the stronger; those in positions of power simply
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or not. Aristotle‚ the second theorist in the history of human beings as a response to Plato’s theory of the "Ideal World"; came up with another approach to the mimetic theory. Mimetic theory is to deal with copies or what is also known as mimesis. His approach was to contradict those ideas of Plato’s because most probably he thought that Plato did not do literature (or any form of art) justice by eliminating it away from the ideal and basically calling it in a way or another "an ideal wreckage"
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I‚ no. 1 (June 1995) Sacred Ambivalence: Mimetology in Aristotle‚ Horace‚ and Longinus Matthew Schneider Department of English Chapman University Orange CA 92666 schneide@nexus.chapman.edu Almost from its very beginnings mimetology has looked to ancient Greece for its proof texts. For both René Girard’s hypotheses surrounding the ethical and ethnological implications of mimetic desire and Eric Gans’s identification of the part played by mimetic resentment in cultural evolution‚ the texts of
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reason. Through Virgil‚ Dante demonstrates how the arts‚ especially poetry‚ are effective in cleansing the soul of emotion by experiencing or contemplating it. Much like the Socratic Method in Meno‚ Dante must become "numb" to false knowledge via catharsis and begin with a clean slate. He accomplishes this by observing the damned in the inferno. When he passes through aporia‚ only then will he become enlightened and obtain truth. The shadows are a reference to Augustine’s "visio corporals‚" the cave
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1. Literature and Literary Theory * Today with the impact of literary theory to the study of literature‚ the latter is seen as an are in a state of flux. * Literature as a body of writing together with it’s moral and aesthetic qualities‚ can be seen as a site of struggle where meanings are contested rather than regarded something possessing timeless and universals values and truths. * Theories aim to explain or demystify some of the assumptions or beliefs implicit in literature and literary
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its only object. Plato further says that poetry is based on falsehood and so is harmful in its effect on people. Thus‚ Plato condemns poetry and praises reason or philosophy. Plato’s theory of art and poetry is based on his concept of imitation or mimesis. Plato says that the earthly things like beauty of goodness are only the copies of the idea beauty and goodness existing in heaven. So the imitation of the worldly objects which are imitation of ideal objects is nothing
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Aristotle’s Poetics December 19‚ 2010 1. The Concept of Imitation In The Poetics‚ Aristotle asserts that literature is a function of human nature’s instinct to imitate. This implies that as humans‚ we are constantly driven to imitate‚ to create. By labeling this creative impulse an “instinct‚” one is to believe that this desire for imitation is a matter of survival‚ of necessity. The question then arises‚ of what does one feel compelled to imitate and in what way does it aid in our survival
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Women Vs. Men * Ismene is for the submissive role of women‚ quote on page 4 * On page 13 Creon talks about taming Antigone. Antigone needs to be tamed because women are supposed to be submissive and Creon’s ability to rule is in his ability to have everyone‚ especially women submissive. * On page 14‚ Creon’s comment about snakes suggests that women are snake like in nature‚ with a manipulative duplicity to their nature. He suggests that women hide their evil qualities behind attractive
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