Between Ecstasy and Truth Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus 1st Edition by Stephen Halliwell 0198707010 9780198707011

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ISBN 10: 0198707010 

ISBN 13: 9780198707011

Author: Stephen Halliwell

As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell’s volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes’ Frogs, Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Poetics, Gorgias’s Helen, Isocrates’ treatises, Philodemus’ On Poems, and Longinus’ On the Sublime. The volume’s fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book’s organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of ‘ecstasy’) and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences’ views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience-including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge-in the life of their culture. Readership: Scholars and students of Greek literature, Greek poetics, and literary theory and criticism.

Table of contents:

1 Setting the Scene: Questions of Poetic Value in Greek Culture

2 Is there a Poetics in Homer?

3 Aristophanes’ Frogs and the Failure of Criticism

4 To Banish or Not to Banish? Plato’s Unanswered Question about Poetry

5 Aristotle and the Experience of Tragic Emotion

6 Poetry in the Light of Prose: Gorgias, Isocrates, Philodemus

7 The Mind’s Infinity: Longinus and the Psychology of the Sublime

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