The Book X seems a gratuitous, clumsy excrescence that makes the Republic seem unfinished, that takes up the criticisms addressed to poets in books II and III (the poet is a simple imitator, poetry ...as imitation does not purify, rather it contaminates). ...we arrive to a strange paradox of poetry: we are satisfied and happy to complain. D'altra parte, un attento e preciso esame del libro X ci permette di distinguere quattro principali sviluppi separati da brevi passaggi di transito e seguiti da conclusioni. Sono consigli pratici piu che teoria filosofica, e considerano le fasi dell'educazione ateniese: lettura e recitazione, quindi poeti (ed il riferimento e alla Repubblica, 606e - grammatiste), musica - cithariste - (le poesie di Omero accompagnate alla chitarra / lira si dividono in canzoni) e ginnastica (pédotribě), in questo caso i combattimenti (pale), da cui la "palestra", per non parlare del salto in lungo o dei lanci (disco, lancia). La musica e la ginnastica sono sorelle, la paideia ateniese su di esse getta le basi (Repubblica, 404b), il programma pedagogico di Platone comprende l'educazione dei poeti, la musica (armonia e ritmo), ho accennato alla ginnastica, attraverso tutto ció che Platone vuole la purificazione della citta da mania e katokokhe - forme di delirio e di poesia.
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 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.
Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of ...historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. "'History' is not only an object we can study," writes White, "it is also and even primarily a certain kind of relationship to 'the past' mediated by a distinctive kind of written discourse. It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography."
This thesis offers an exploration of narrative community in the Jacob tôledôt, In response to recent source critical arguments that espouse discontinuity by focusing on the concept of plot, a more ...nuanced understanding of these properties is developed and applied to Gen 37:2-50:26. Paul Ricoeur's philosophical work, Time and Narrative, serves as a foundation for the derivation of an interpretive model that appeals to mimesis as the inherent predicate of plot. Drawing in turn on Aristotelian muthos, a threefold rubic is affirmed that gives head to a narrative's hermeneutical consciousness while also acknowledging the intended communicative effect. The result is a greater affirmation of narrative continuity in the Jacob tôledôt that challenges recent sources critical conclusions imply. By pursuing a more developed understanding of the relationship between plot and narrative continuity, this thesis offers and interpretation of the Jacob tôledôt that challenges recent source critical conclusions. Certainly, further research might allow for a better apprehension of mimesis as it pertains tot he Pentateuchal text. However, the application of Ricoeur's theory of narrative proves to elucidate greater lines of continuity than diachronic reading strategies have allowed. A continuous plot-structure for the Jacob tôledôt is affirmed, wherein every episode makes a necessary contribution to the whole: a story that perpetuates the anticipation of a royal deliverer and beckons the reader to participate in this hope.
