Poetics before Plato

By Grace M. Ledbetter

Subjects: Literatuurtheorie, Greek poetry, history and criticism, Literatura grega clássica (história e crítica), History & Surveys, Esthétique ancienne, Griekse oudheid, Autorité dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Poésie grecque, PHILOSOPHY, Ancient & Classical, Greek poetry, Authority in literature, Théorie, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Poetics, Ancient Aesthetics, History, Poesia, Poétique, Theory

Description: "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.