Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry

The Resource Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry

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Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry

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interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry

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Grace M. Ledbetter

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eng

Summary

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. Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagoras, and Apology introduce a distinctively Socratic theory of poetry that responds polemically to trad

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N$T

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881/.0109

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index present

LC call number

PA3092

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.L43 2003eb

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non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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