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Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers : Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles As Literature
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Fragment Numbers -- Introduction: Philosophy and Poetry, Truth and Symbolism -- 1 Aims, Methods and Assumptions -- 2 Truth, Symbolism and Sublime Perspectives in...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2021
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| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Fragment Numbers -- Introduction: Philosophy and Poetry, Truth and Symbolism -- 1 Aims, Methods and Assumptions -- 2 Truth, Symbolism and Sublime Perspectives in Early Greek Song -- 3 Poetics -- Chapter 1 Xenophanes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Xenophanes and the Hexameter Genre -- a Epistemology and the Immersive World of the Text -- b Xenophanes' Theology and the Language of Hexameter Poetry -- c The Attacks on Homer and Hesiod -- 3 Xenophanes' Elegies -- a Xenophanes as a 'Wandering Poet' -- b D61=B2 -- c D59=B1 -- 4 Xenophanean Elegies and Xenophanean Hexameters -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Parmenides -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Poetry and Parmenides' Philosophy -- 3 Poetry and Deception -- a Deception and the Doxa -- b The Sirens -- c Deception and the Proem -- 4 Profound Visions and Sublime Emotions -- a Seeing the Unseeable -- b The Vision -- c Perspective and Character -- d The Emotional Trajectory of the Poem -- e Parmenides and the Sublime -- f Mystic Initiation -- g The Reception of Parmenides' Poem -- h The Emotions and Parmenides' Philosophy -- 5 Poetry and Symbolism -- a Intratextuality -- b Intertextuality -- c Allegory and Subtext -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Empedocles -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Religion and Philosophy, One Poem or Two -- 3 Empedoclean Poetics -- a Empedocles and His Predecessors on Poetry -- b Love and Poetry in Empedocles' Cosmology -- c Love's Craft and Empedocles' Poetry -- d Conclusion to Section 3 -- 4 Empedocles' Narratives -- a The Narrative of the Daimon -- b Initiation, D257=B110 and the Education of the Singular Addressee -- c The Two Narratives Combined -- 5 The Effects of Empedocles' Narratives -- a Empedocles and Myth -- b Emotions and Aesthetics -- c Textual Visions. d Interpreting the Text, Understanding the World -- 6 Conclusions: Empedocles in the History of Greek Poetry and Poetics -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Legacy of Presocratic Poetics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Anaxagoras, Allegory and Ainigmata -- 3 Gorgias -- 4 Democritus on Literature -- 5 Democritus and the Sophists on Language -- 6 Plato and Mimesis -- Bibliography -- Index. Full literary-critical study of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles, reassessing their importance for the history of Greek poetics |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108922876 |
