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The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems

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 | #1507072 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2002-08-01 |  2002-07-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x1.00 x6.14l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 440 pages

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||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| There's nothing like it|By K. Kehler|This is a careful, thorough, dense and exceptionally rewarding book. The book is a contribution to our understanding of the key notion of mimesis, and related concepts like mimeticism and the "imitation of nature", particularly with respect to tragedy and music. Halliwell tackles this notion (mimesis) via history and philosophy, ranging fr| |"Stephen Halliwell's formidable book . . . is scholarly, lucid, wide-ranging, discriminating. . . . An outstanding example of taking ideas seriously, and one that deserves a wide and intelligent readership."--Michael Silk, Times Literary Supplement

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 an...

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