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" The aesthetics of mimesis : "
Stephen Halliwell.
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BL
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632231
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Halliwell, Stephen.
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The aesthetics of mimesis : : ancient texts and modern problems /\ Stephen Halliwell.
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, c2002.
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ix, 424 p. ;; 25 cm.
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0691048827 (alk. paper)
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: 9780691048826 (alk. paper)
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: 0691092583 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780691092584 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-417) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics -- Representation and Reality: Plato and Mimesis -- Romantic Puritanism: Plato and the Psychology of Mimesis -- Mimesis and the Best Life: Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic -- More Than Meets the Eye: Looking into Plato's Mirror -- Inside and Outside the Work of Art: Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated -- The Rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics -- Tragic Pity: Aristotle and Beyond -- Music and the Limits of Mimesis: Aristotle versus Philodemus -- Truth or Delusion? The Mimeticist Legacy in Hellenistic Philosophy -- Images of Life: Mimesis and Literary Criticism after Aristotle -- Renewal and Transformation: Neoplatonism and Mimesis -- An Inheritance Contested: Renaissance to Modernity.
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Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new treatment of its long history at the centre 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.
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Aesthetics-- History.
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Mimesis in art.
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BH81.H35 2002
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