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Author(s): Stephen Halliwell
ISBN(s): 9780199570560, 0199570566
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199570566 
ISBN 13: 9780199570560
Author: Stephen Halliwell

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. Readership: Scholars and students of Greek literature, Greek poetics, and literary theory and criticism.

Between Ecstasy and Truth Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus 1st Table of contents:

1 Setting the Scene: Questions of Poetic Value in Greek Culture
2 Is there a Poetics in Homer?
Contexts, Effects, and Desires in Homeric Images of Song
The Muses’ Divine Perspective: Transmuting Suffering into Beauty
Odysseus’ Tears and the Paradoxical Need for Song
3 Aristophanes’ Frogs and the Failure of Criticism
A Comic Lesson in Tragic Poetics?
Euripides, ‘Close Reading’, and the Audience of Frogs
Analysis, Evaluation, and Incommensurability
Dionysus as Lover-cum-Critic: Embodying the Problem of Poetics
4 To Banish or Not to Banish? Plato’s Unanswered Question about Poetry
Interrogating Poetry’s Meaning: the Apology and Ion
The Philosophical (Ex-)Lover of Poetry
5 Aristotle and the Experience of Tragic Emotion
Emotional Understanding in the Poetics
The Aesthetic and Moral Psychology of Catharsis
Appendix: Is the Catharsis Clause in the Poetics an Interpolation?
6 Poetry in the Light of Prose: Gorgias, Isocrates, Philodemus
Gorgias and the Seductive Power of Logos
Isocrates and the Narrowed Vision of a Pragmatist
Philodemus and the Enigmas of Poetic Value
7 The Mind’s Infinity: Longinus and the Psychology of the Sublime
Thunderbolts and Echoes: The Ecstasy of the Sublime
Metaphysics, Realism, Imagination: The Complex Truth of the Sublime

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