Between ecstasy and truth : interpretations of Greek poetics from Homer to Longinus

Between ecstasy and truth : interpretations of Greek poetics from Homer to Longinus / Stephen Halliwell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Halliwell, Stephen
Format:	Book
Language:	English Ancient Greek
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Subjects:	Greek poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Poetics. Greek literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Setting the scene: questions of poetic value in Greek culture
Is there a poetics in Homer?
Aristophanes' Frogs and the failure of criticism
To banish or not to banish? Plato's unanswered question about poetry
Aristotle and the experience of tragic emotion
Poetry in the light of prose: Gorgias, Isocrates, Philodemus
The mind's infinity: Longinus and the psychology of the sublime.