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"Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ancient Aesthetics, Authority in literature, Greek poetry, History, History and criticism, Poetics, Theory, Poésie grecque, Griekse oudheid, PHILOSOPHY, Poesia, LITERARY CRITICISM, Literatuurtheorie, Ancient & Classical, Esthétique ancienne, History & Surveys, Literatura grega clássica (história e crítica), Histoire et critique, Théorie, Poétique, Autorité dans la littérature, Greek poetry, history and criticismTimes
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Poetics before Plato: interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry
2003, Princeton University Press
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Poetics before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry
October 21, 2002, Princeton University Press
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"ric poetry to a lack of mediation between the reader and the events of the poems. The poem's formulaic structure, based on repetition, fixes an unchanging objective background that compels the listener "to accept it as reality.""
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