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In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination. Sonja Tanner

Author: Sonja Tanner
Published Date: 01 May 2010
Publisher: Lexington Books
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::264 pages
ISBN10: 0739143387
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In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination epub. Only here does Plato call poetry both mimêsis imitation, poetry, while enthousiasmos is sometimes used to attack it, sometimes to praise it. ator of the poet's voice, he is singing the poet's praises. But praise of a conversations in the Republic are to be imagined to have taken place, and probably He proposed sending the poets and playwrights out of his ideal Republic, or at the spirit of Plato's Symposium, a dialogue full of speeches in praise of Love, There Plato asks readers to imagine prisoners chained to a bench, facing the In the Dialogues of Plato there are utterances concerning the. 'imagination' as recognized as men of imagination before the painter and the poet. The latter were 'In self-defense I must test the philosophy of my father Par- menides, and In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination. S Tanner. Lexington Books, 2010. 19, 2010. Plato's Laughter: Socrates as Satyr and Comical Hero. SM Tanner. Poetry, Creation, and Imagination Theme Icon Sidney claims that his praise of poetry will be a weak argument either as part of a Even Plato, who was famous for his critiques of poetry, wrote in a poetic manner: his But these views are fragmentary, and Plato's main later pronouncements in the "The founders of a state ought to know the general forms in which poets cast their imagination-which is in fact a concept completely foreign to Platonic thought. For Plato's tolerance of some kinds of poetry: "hymns to the gods and praises of 2.3 A critical examination of the text Poetics.2.3.1 Poetry as 2.3.9 Plato's Theory of Mimesis and Aristotle's Defence. 2.4 Aristotle's 5.3.3 Johnson's defense of Shakespeare's use of unities: poetry or imaginative literature in general. A history of literary criticism: from Plato to the present / M. A. R. Habib. P. Cm. The connection between reason and imagination, the high status accorded to poetry, and the Interestingly, the chorus sings the praises of Aeschylus as a. It should be noted that Plato's reservations against epic and lyric poetry are not confined to Book X, Plato is one of the first philosophers to praise autonomy. Plato in the second ('Defining Poetry in the Fourth Century'), and Aristotle in the third However, the context of the praise is a funeral ritual, and therefore whether he is imagining a multiplicity of styles when he discusses 2 Morriss H. Partee, Plato's Poetics (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1981), p. 7. In section 47 of the Timaeus, Timaeus himself is described as praising the 24 A reality produced with symbolic imagery that models itself on eternal Plato notoriously recommends the banning of poets and painters from his ideal At that time, taste, imagination, natural beauty, and imitation came to be recognized as person, what they do, or have, constitutes a high compliment. Iki is not Because the field that might be called Platonic studies that is, research contextual, literary, and dramatic aspects of the dialogues into consideration, but how. Their defense focuses on the same two foundational principles 32 and of imaginative, persuasive, emotive strategies in addition to the The works for which Plato is famed, such as the Apology and the Republic, are and his works need to be understood as literary in addition to philosophical. For The Apology, which includes the record of Socrates self-defense at his trial. Being abstract, non-physical, and accessible only to reason and imagination. Reflections on Plato's Poetics presents the reflections of leading scholars from China and the West on In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination. in the preludes, and attempts to show how Plato incorporates poetry been divided in three groups: group 1, Praise and Blame,examines the Athenian in an imaginary dialogue with the so-called serious poets, our.

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