Poetics before Plato
Subtitle: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780691096094
Subjects: Literary theory; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; To 1500; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Philosophy; Ancient Greece; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; Classics; Philosophy / Ancient; Greek poetry; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Authority in literature; History and criticism; Poetics; Theory, etc
First sentence: ric poetry to a lack of mediation between the reader and the events of the poems. The poem's formulaic structure, based on repetition, fixes an unchanging objective background that compels the listener "to accept it as reality."