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The Poetics of Phantasia

Author : Anne Sheppard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472510593
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Phantasia written by Anne Sheppard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory. The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the world around us or of a transcendent ideal world, rather than in terms of originality and creativity. Study of the way phantasia is used in ancient writing about literature and art reveals important features of the ancient approach to the arts and in doing so will also shed light on modern concepts of imagination and the literary and artistic differences between realism and allegory. Covering a range of literary and philosophical material from the beginnings of Greek literature down to the Neoplatonist philosophers of late antiquity, The Poetics of Phantasia discusses three discrete senses of imagination in ancient thought. Firstly, phantasia as visualization is explored: when a writer 'brings before his eyes' what he is describing and enables his audience or reader to visualise it likewise. The second theory of phantasia is that which is capable not only of conveying images from sense-perception but also of receiving images from intellectual and supra-intellectual faculties in the soul, and thus helping people grasp mathematical, metaphysical or even mystical concepts. Finally, phantasia is seen as a creative power which can conjure up an image that points beyond itself and to express ideas outside our everyday experience.

The Poetics of Phantasia

Author : Anne D. R. Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472555830
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Phantasia written by Anne D. R. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory. The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the world around us or of a transcendent ideal world, rather than in terms of originality and creativity. Study of the way phantasia is used in ancient writing about literature and art reveals important features of the an.

The Poetics of Description

Author : Janice Hewlett Koelb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060188X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Description written by Janice Hewlett Koelb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics

Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119009774
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics written by Pierre Destrée and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society

Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus

Author : Eirene Visvardi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285571
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus written by Eirene Visvardi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion in Action offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by focusing on the performance of collective emotion. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydides.

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424740
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium written by Roland Betancourt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context

Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000053482
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context written by Pierre Destrée and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy. In the past, contextualization has most commonly been used by scholars in order to try to solve the meaning of difficult concepts in the Poetics (such as catharsis, mimesis, or tragic pleasure). In this volume, rather than looking to explain a specific concept, the contributors observe the concatenation of Aristotelian ideas in various treatises in order to explore some aesthetic, moral and political implications of the philosopher’s views of tragedy, comedy and related genres. Questions addressed include: Does Aristotle see his interest in drama as part of his larger research on human natures? What are the implications of tragic plots dealing with close family members for the polis? What should be the role of drama and music in the education of citizens? How does dramatic poetry relate to other arts and what are the ethical ramifications of the connections? How specific are certain emotions to literary genres and how do those connect to Aristotle’s extended account of pathe? Finally, how do internal elements of composition and language in poetry relate to other domains of Aristotelian thought? The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context offers a fascinating new insight to the Poetics, and will be of use to anyone working on the Poetics, or Aristotelian philosophy more broadly.

Imagination

Author : John Cocking
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113493209X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Imagination written by John Cocking and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First Published in 1991, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."

The World of the Imagination

Author : Eva T. H. Brann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144227364X
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis The World of the Imagination by : Eva T. H. Brann

Download or read book The World of the Imagination written by Eva T. H. Brann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy

Author : Kumiko Tanabe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882429
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy by : Kumiko Tanabe

Download or read book Gerard Manley Hopkins and His Poetics of Fancy written by Kumiko Tanabe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the poetics of “fancy” in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination in well-known Romantic poetics. It sheds new light on this concept, which is described positively in Hopkins’s poetics and later becomes the essence of his idiosyncratic concept of “inscape”, as shown here. Chapter One discusses the influence of Coleridge and Ruskin on Hopkins’s poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s experiments in the language of inspiration produced by fancy before his conversion to Catholicism, his idea of inscape as revealed by fancy, and the relation between his fancy and the aesthetics of Romantic poets such as Keats and Wordsworth. Chapter Two focuses on the concept of fancy in Hopkins’s predecessors, William Shakespeare and Alfred Lord Tennyson, who, along with Coleridge and Ruskin, had a major influence on the writer, leading him to pen the play “Floris in Italy” and the sonnet series “The Beginning of the End” in order to experiment with the language of inspiration which he argued only fancy could produce. This chapter also discusses Hopkins’s interest in J. E. Millais and the impact of the Pre-Raphaelites in the development of his poetics of fancy, Hopkins’s fancy as metalanguage, the contrast between his fancy and the impressionism of Walter Pater, and the role of fancy in Hopkins’s sonnets. Chapter Three treats Hopkins’s conversion to Catholicism and his views on Catholic art, including his interest in William Butterfield and the Gothic Revival, as well as the abrupt parallelism between Christ and fancy in “The Wreck of the Deutschland”. Hopkins’s poetic diction is a condensed evocation of art and nature with fancy as the source of his inspiration. His metaphors are not ordinary figures expressing the attributes of things, but are autonomous and have their nature within themselves. Hopkins’s poetic idiosyncrasy is generated by the parallelism between distinctive and autonomous images which repeat the surprise and ecstasy of the poet contemplating art and nature. He endeavoured to achieve the poetry of inspiration with his emphasis on fancy as the basis of his poetic diction so as to reinstate it as the source of a “new Realism”. Hopkins’s fancy foregrounds the discontinuous nature of a new poetic diction, which demonstrates unfettered combinations between autonomous images and signs in metalanguage in advance of semiotic literary theories.

On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination

Author : Donald A. Russell
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161524196
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination written by Donald A. Russell and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.

Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self

Author : Yasmin Syed
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472039164
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self by : Yasmin Syed

Download or read book Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self written by Yasmin Syed and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Aeneid as the central text of Roman literary education, Yasmin Syed investigates the poem's power to shape Roman notions of self and cultural identity

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

Author : Hassan Melehy
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754664451
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (644 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England by : Hassan Melehy

Download or read book The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England written by Hassan Melehy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining both familiar and underappreciated early modern texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that four writers - Joachim Du Bellay, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, and William Shakespeare - conceived with both their classical and modern predecessors. Melehy sheds new light on pertinent issues in early modern studies, including translation, the relationship between classicism and writing in the vernacular, attitudes toward colonial expansion and the New World, and definitions of modernity and the past.

Ethics for Rational Animals

Author : Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198886861
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Ethics for Rational Animals written by Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensive study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It argues that practical wisdom is a persuasive rational excellence, that virtue is a listening excellence, and that the ignorance involved in akrasia is in fact a failure of persuasion. Aristotle's moral psychology emerges from this reconstruction as a qualified intellectualism. The view is intellectualistic because it describes practical wisdom as the sort of knowledge that can govern desire and action and akrasia as involving a form of ignorance. However, Aristotle's intellectualism is qualified because practical wisdom goes beyond grasping the truth about the human good, for it must also be able to convey the truth persuasively to non-rational cognition and desires. Through a study of Aristotle's works on ethics, psychology, and biology, Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi shows that there are unexplored ways in which rational and non-rational cognition and desire cooperate and influence one another. These include attention, the capacity of the rational part of the soul to manipulate the non-rational part of the soul, and the capacity to exercise phantasia for speculation, creativity, and research. She argues that, despite being integrated with non-rational cognition and desire, rational cognition of value struggles to control human behaviour and motivation. More specifically, she defends the key thesis that grasping the truth about the human good is not sufficient for humans to regulate action and desire. Therefore, practical wisdom does not merely grasp the truth about the human good, but it controls action and desire because it conveys the truth effectively to the non-rational part of the soul. Conversely, akrasia does not merely involve a lack of epistemic access to the truth about the human good, but a failure to persuade the non-rational part of the soul about it. This study of practical wisdom and akrasia also sheds light on character virtue, which emerges as a practical excellence whose task is to listen to reason.

Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Author : Keith Moser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436359
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory written by Keith Moser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.

Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind

Author : Pavel Gregoric
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000382966
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind written by Pavel Gregoric and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays engages with several topics in Aristotle’s philosophy of mind, some well-known and hotly debated, some new and yet to be explored. The contributors analyze Aristotle’s arguments and present their cases in ways that invite contemporary philosophers of mind to consider the potentials—and pitfalls—of an Aristotelian philosophy of mind. The volume brings together an international group of renowned Aristotelian scholars as well as rising stars to cover five main themes: method in the philosophy of mind, sense perception, mental representation, intellect, and the metaphysics of mind. The papers collected in this volume, with their choice of topics and quality of exposition, show why Aristotle is a philosopher of mind to be studied and reckoned with in contemporary discussions. Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of ancient philosophy and philosophy of mind.

Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern

Author : Ian Repath
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9492444976
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern written by Ian Repath and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in honour of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral researchers who have worked with and been influenced by him during his 40 years in Swansea, up to and beyond his retirement in 2015. It is designed to reflect the esteem and affection in which the honorand is held, as teacher, supervisor, colleague, and friend. All the contributions reflect John Morgan's interests, with a particular focus on narrative, which has always been at the forefront of his teaching and research: he has elucidated the forms, structures, strategies, and functions of numerous ancient narratives, especially fictional, in a voluminous body of scholarship. The contributors consider a wide range of narratives, extending from those which show the influence of older stories on the beginnings of ancient Greek civilisation, through various narrative genres in different periods of antiquity, and up to later eras when the impact of Greek and Roman learning, stories, and ideas has been felt. The core of this volume contains discussions of narratives from the Roman imperial period, since this is the area to which the majority of John Morgan's work has been devoted and where his research has seen him become a world-leader in the study of the ancient Greek novel. Several of the contributions, at various stages of development, were delivered and discussed at gatherings organised under the aegis of KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World, which was established at Swansea in 2004 at John Morgan's initiative.