Poetics before Plato : interpretation and authority in early Greek theories of poetry / Grace M. Ledbetter.

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Ledbetter, Grace M, 1965-

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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 128 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400825288
1400825288

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetics before Plato.DDC classification:

881/.0109 22

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PA3092 .L43 2003eb

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Contents:

Introduction : poetry, knowledge, and interpretation -- Supernatural knowledge in Homeric poetics -- Hesiod's naturalism -- Pindar : the poet as interpreter -- Socratic poetics -- Toward a model of Socratic interpretation.

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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index.

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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