The aesthetics of mimesis : ancient texts and modern problems / Stephen Halliwell.
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 philos...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.