The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems

by Stephen Halliwell

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691092583

ISBN13:9780691092584

Release Date:August 2002

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:440 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Philosophy

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