Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Between Ecstasy and Truth This volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. Halliwell offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the most defining authors, such as Homer, Plato, and Aristotle, and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 01 March 2012
- Format: Hardback 432 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780199570560 ISBN 10: 0199570566
- Sales rank: 686,762
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Full description for Between Ecstasy and Truth
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' On Poems, 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 that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.
