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| poetic truth and historical truth: Between Ecstasy and Truth Stephen Halliwell, 2012-03-01 As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' Frogs, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Gorgias's Helen, Isocrates' treatises, Philodemus' On Poems, and Longinus' On the Sublime. The volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience-including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge-in the life of their culture. Readership: Scholars and students of Greek literature, Greek poetics, and literary theory and criticism. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Schiller's Works: Aesthetical letters and essays. Aesthetical letters and essays. The ghost-seer. The sport of destiny Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Works of Frederick Schiller Friedrich Schiller, 2023-11-16 The Works of Friedrich Schiller is a collection of some of the most influential works by the renowned German playwright and philosopher. Known for his strong sense of ethics and his ability to delve into the human psyche, Schiller's writings often explore themes of freedom, justice, and personal responsibility. His literary style is marked by a deep understanding of human nature and a poetic sensibility that resonates with readers to this day. The collection includes plays such as 'William Tell' and 'Don Carlos', which showcase Schiller's ability to blend historical events with philosophical reflections. Readers can expect to be captivated by Schiller's eloquent prose and thought-provoking themes. Friedrich Schiller's works continue to be studied and admired for their timeless relevance and artistic merit. His unique perspective on the human experience offers readers a window into the complexities of human emotions and motivations. I highly recommend The Works of Friedrich Schiller to anyone interested in exploring the depths of the human soul through masterful storytelling and philosophical reflection. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Works of Friedrich Schiller: The Piccolomini. The Death of Wallenstein. Wallenstein's Camp. Don Carlos. Mary Stuart. Tr. by S.T. Coleridge, R.D. Boylan and J. Mellish Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
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| poetic truth and historical truth: Aesthetical and philosophical essays; The Ghost-Seer and The sport of destiny Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
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| poetic truth and historical truth: Basics of Literary Criticism Dr. Vilas Salunke, 2010-07-01 Introduction to the theory literary Criticism |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Aesthetical, philosophical essays Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Poetry and Truth Jerry Schuchalter, 2009 German Life and Civilization provides contributions to a critical understanding of Central European cultural history from medieval times to the present. Culture is here defined in the broadest sense, comprising expressions of high culture in such areas as literature, music, pictorial arts, and intellectual trends as well as political and sociohistorical developments and the texture of everyday life. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Essays aesthetical and philosophical Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, 1884 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Complete Works of Friedrich Von Schiller Friedrich Schiller, 1902 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Friedrich Schiller, 2023-06-01 Reproduction of the original. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Legacy of Vico in Modern Cultural History Joseph Mali, 2012-09-06 In this highly original study Joseph Mali explores how four attentive and inventive readers of Giambattista Vico's New Science (1744) - the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941), the German literary scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and the English philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909–97) - came to find in Vico's work the inspiration for their own modern theories (or, in the case of Joyce, stories) of human life and history. Mali's reconstruction of the specific biographical and historical occasions in which these influential men of letters encountered Vico reveals how their initial impressions and interpretations of his theory of history were decisive both for their intellectual development and their major achievements in literature and thought. This new interpretation of the legacy of Vico's New Science is essential reading for all those engaged in the history of ideas and modern cultural history. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Possibility of Satan Alan McGill, 2021-05-04 Can we know that Satan exists as a particular, disembodied spirit? Current Catholic teaching insists that Satan exists as a person, a fallen angel who has instigated the Fall of humanity, continues to influence humans today, and constitutes a singular nemesis to God. How, one might ask, could human beings know such a thing with certainty? In response, this book seeks to rescue the mythical language in which the doctrine of Satan is rooted so that it is freed from the unreasonable expectation that it affirms the existence of a particular creature, and can instead express theological truth that is of relevance to all free-willed creatures. In doing so, it addresses thorny questions concerning the interpretation of Scripture, the relationship between God and evil, between doctrine and truth, between the Church and modernity, and between the condemnatory impulses apparent in Christian thought and the doctrine of an omnipresent God of infinite mercy. The book detects in the doctrine of Satan the expression of fundamental truths concerning the Creator-creature relationship—truths that are too easily obfuscated in current formulations that invite either fundamentalism or incredulity. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression Alexandra Effe, 2017-08-16 This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers. This study analyzes Coetzee’s novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author’s relation with character, reader, and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of Foe, Slow Man, and Coetzee’s Nobel lecture, 'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character Elizabeth Costello, or the figuration Elizabeth Curren, serve to elaborate the relation of author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime, Diary of a Bad Year, and Dusklands as Coetzee’s engagement with autobiographical writing, analyzing the relation of author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions: Section V. Religions of India and Iran. Section VI. Religions of the Greeks and Romans. Section VII. Religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs. Section VIII. The Christian religion. Section IX. Method and scope of the history of religions Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson, 1908 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence Andrew Kahn, 2008-07-24 Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry in the language; a remarkable novelist in verse, and a pioneer of Russian prose fiction; an innovator in psychological and historical drama; and an amateur historian of serious purpose. Like Byron, whose writing and personality were an inspiration to him, Pushkin had a sensational life, the stuff of Romantic legend. His writing treats all the most important themes that great literature can addresss-the nature of identity, love and betrayal, independence and creativity, nature, the meaning of life, death and the afterlife-in an elegant style and highly personal voice. Lyric intelligence refers to Pushkin's capacity to transform philosophical and aesthetic ideas into poetry. Arguing that Pushkin's poetry has often been misunderstood as transparently simple, this first major study of this substantial body of work traces the interrelation between his writing and the influences of English and European literature and cultural movements on his understanding of the creative process and the aims of art. Andrew Kahn approaches Pushkin's poetic texts through the history of ideas, and argues that in his poetry the clashes that matter are not about stylistic innovation and genre, as has often been suggested. Instead the poems are shown to articulate a range of positions on key topics of the period, including the meaning of originality, the imagination, the status of the poet, the role of commercial success, the definition of genius, represenation of nature, the definition of the hero, and the immortality of the soul. Drawing on an extensive knowledge of Pushkin's library and his intellectual context, Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence addresses how theories of inspiration informed Pushkin's thinking about classicism and Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s. The story of the unfolding of the imagination as a vital poetic power and concept for Pushkin is a consistent theme of the entire book. It is this movement towards a fuller apprehension and application of the imagination as the key poetic power that guided Pushkin's transitions through different phases of his creative development. The book looks at the intersection of Pushkin's knowledge of important ideas and artistic trends with poems about the creative imagination, psychology, sex and the body, heroism and the ethical life, and death. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Between History and Fiction Tracy Crowe Morey, 2010 This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes's La Numancia, Lope de Vega's El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, Calderón de la Barca's El sitio de Bredá, and Vélez de Guevara's El Hércules de Ocaña are key texts examined here. Taking the distinction between history and fiction in Neo-Aristotelian literary theory as a point of departure, this book considers the intellectual and historical conditions that affect the ways in which early modern dramatists interpret historical events according to their own literary and ideological purposes. The interplay of history and fiction demonstrates uses and discontents of legitimizing fiction in the early modern period. Parallel themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour, provide alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish stage. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Writing History in Late Imperial Russia Frances Nethercott, 2019-12-26 It is commonly held that a strict divide between literature and history emerged in the 19th century, with the latter evolving into a more serious disciple of rigorous science. Yet, in turning to works of historical writing during late Imperial Russia, Frances Nethercott reveals how this was not so; rather, she argues, fiction, lyric poetry, and sometimes even the lives of artists, consistently and significantly shaped historical enquiry. Grounding its analysis in the works of historians Timofei Granovskii, Vasilii Klyuchevskii, and Ivan Grevs, Writing History in Late Imperial Russia explores how Russian thinkers--being sensitive to the social, cultural, and psychological resonances of creative writing--drew on the literary canon as a valuable resource for understanding the past. The result is a novel and nuanced discussion of the influences of literature on the development of Russian historiography, which shines new light on late Imperial attitudes to historical investigation and considers the legacy of such historical practice on Russia today. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Essays and letters Friedrich Schiller, 1901 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: African Identity Today in the Writings of John Maxwell Coetzee and Ben Silver Okri Heba Mohamed Abdelaziz, 2025-03-04 African Identity Today in the Writings of John Maxwell Coetzee and Ben Silver Okri is a comparative study of the writings of the South African author John Maxwell Coetzee and the Nigerian author Ben Silver Okri. It charts the thematic and technical presentation of cultural identity in the literary output of both authors, with special reference to their respective trilogies, namely: Coetzee’s Scenes from Provincial Life and Okri’s The Famished Road. Through examining these texts, the book explores the dilemmas faced by many contemporary authors while discussing issues related to the construction of cultural identity in a postcolonial world. Studying Coetzee’s and Okri’s texts from a postcolonial perspective reveals how their very different writings share a range of commonalities. Both authors seek to find a middle ground between colonised and colonising cultures as they attempt to deconstruct the stereotypical images of the Other, creating a world purified of racial influences. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Michel de Montaigne Ann Hartle, 2003-03-27 Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a philosophical original. This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right, taking as its point of departure Montaigne's description of himself as 'an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher'. Whereas previous commentators have treated Montaigne's Essays as embodying a scepticism harking back to classical sources, Ann Hartle offers an account that reveals Montaigne's thought to be dialectical, transforming sceptical doubt into wonder at the most familiar aspects of life. This major reassessment of a much admired but also much underestimated thinker will interest a wide range of historians of philosophy as well as scholars in comparative literature, French studies and the history of ideas. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Essential Sangharakshita Sangharakshita, 2024-11-26 The Essential Sangharakshita was first published by Wisdom Publications in 2009. It is an anthology, arranged according to the pattern of a mandala, drawn from Sangharakshita’s writings. It expresses the author’s deep knowledge and love of the Buddhist tradition and of Western culture. Communicated clearly and warmly, there is something here to give any reader an entrance to the world of the Dharma. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: The Aesthetic Letters, Essays, and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller: Tr Friedrich Schiller, 1845 |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Philosophers on Shakespeare Paul A. Kottman, 2009 This volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Mythistory Joseph Mali, 2003-05 Ever since Herodotus declared in Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who denounced myth as unscientific and banished it from historiography. In Mythistory, Joseph Mali revives this oldest controversy in historiography. Contesting the conventional opposition between myth and history, Mali advocates instead for a historiography that reconciles the two and recognizes the crucial role that myth plays in the construction of personal and communal identities. The task of historiography, he argues, is to illuminate, not eliminate, these fictions by showing how they have passed into and shaped historical reality. Drawing on the works of modern theorists and artists of myth such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, Joyce and Eliot, Mali redefines modern historiography and relates it to the older notion and tradition of mythistory. Tracing the origins and transformations of this historiographical tradition from the ancient world to the modern, Mali shows how Livy and Machiavelli sought to recover true history from uncertain myth-and how Vico and Michelet then reversed this pattern of inquiry, seeking instead to recover a deeper and truer myth from uncertain history. In the heart of Mythistory, Mali turns his attention to four thinkers who rediscovered myth in and for modern cultural history: Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Walter Benjamin. His elaboration of the different biographical and historiographical routes by which all four sought to account for the persistence and significance of myth in Western civilization opens up new perspectives for an alternative intellectual history of modernity-one that may better explain the proliferation of mythic imageries of redemption in our secular, all too secular, times. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Zhu Guangqian’s Life and Philosophy Mario Sabattini, 2021-03-15 Zhu Guangqian’s Life and Philosophy: An Introduction is Mario Sabattini’s last uncompleted work dedicated to the work of Zhu Guangqian, one of the most representative figures of contemporary Chinese aesthetics. Since the '30s, Zhu Guangqian had an active role in China both on the literary and philosophical scenes, and, through his writings, he exerted an important influence in the moulding of numerous generations of intellectuals. Some of his works have been widely read, and they still provoke considerable interest in China, on the mainland as well as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich, 2001-10-16 One of the greatest books ever written on the subject, Dynamics of Faithis a primer in the philosophy of religion. Paul Tillich, a leading theologian of the twentieth century, explores the idea of faith in all its dimensions, while defining the concept in the process. This graceful and accessible volume contains a new introduction by Marion Pauck, Tillich's biographer. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Writings on Religion / Religiöse Schriften Robert P. Scharlemann, 2020-03-23 No detailed description available for Writings on Religion / Religiöse Schriften. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Cultural Studies Lawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, 2005-08-08 First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller, 2019-11-20 See the profound world of aesthetics through the eyes of Friedrich Schiller in his remarkable collection of essays. Exploring the philosophy of art and the realm of the beautiful, Schiller challenges conventional notions and offers fresh perspectives on the nature of aesthetics. From the unity and variety of beauty to the interplay between physical, intellectual, and moral beauty, Schiller unveils the intricate connections that exist within the realm of art. Drawing upon historical development and the works of influential philosophers, Schiller presents a compelling argument for the scientific treatment of art and its deep significance in human existence. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Essays Aesthetical and Philosophical Friedrich Schiller, 2024-01-27 Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: By Authors Possessed Adam Weiner, 1998 By Authors Possessed examines the development of the demonic in key Russian novels from the last two centuries. Defining the demonic novel as one that takes as its theme an evil presence incarnated in the protagonists and attributed to the Judeo-Christian Devil, Adam Weiner investigates the way the content of such a book can compromise the moral integrity of its narration and its sense of authorship. Weiner contends that the theme of demonism increasingly infects the narrative point of view from Gogol's Dead Souls to Dostoevsky's The Devils and Bely's Petersburg, until Nabokov exorcised the demonic novel through his fiction and his criticism. Starting from the premise that artistic creation has always been enshrouded in a haze of moral dilemma and religious doubt, Weiner's study of the demonic novel is an attempt to illuminate the potential ethical perils and aesthetic gains of great art. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Guide to the Buddhist Path Sangharakshita, 2013-03-28 Buddhism, with its numerous schools and teachings, can feel daunting. How can one practise Buddhism in a systematic way? Profoundly experienced in Buddhist practice, intimately familiar with its main schools, and founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community, an international movement, Sangharakshita is the ideal guide. In this highly readable, reliable and far-reaching guide, he sorts out fact from myth and theory from practice to reveal the principal ideals and teachings of Buddhism. |
| poetic truth and historical truth: Mediterranean Modernisms Marinos Pourgouris, 2016-04-22 Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe. At the same time, Pourgouris puts forward a redefinition of European Modernism that makes the Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact zone and incorporates neglected elements such as national identity and geography. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism, Pourgouris's study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus; analyzes the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and Sigmund Freud on Elytis's theory of analogies; traces the symbol of the sun in Elytis's poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus and Plotinus; examines the influence of Le Corbusier on Elytis's theory of architectural poetics; and takes up the subject of Elytis's application of his theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic form in the context of works by Freud, C. G. Jung, and Michel Foucault. Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris's study makes a compelling contribution to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of Odysseus Elytis. |
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Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound …
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A great speech can be poetic. An orange-red sunset at the beach can also be poetic. The word poetic comes from the Greek poietikos for "pertaining to poetry." A poetic drama is one written …
POETIC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of POETIC is of, relating to, or characteristic of poets or poetry. How to use poetic in a sentence.
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POETIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
POETIC definition: 1. like or relating to poetry or poets: 2. very beautiful or expressing emotion: 3. like or…. Learn more.
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Poetic definition: possessing the qualities or charm of poetry.. See examples of POETIC used in a sentence.
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1. of the nature of or resembling poetry; possessing the qualities of poems. 2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a poet or poetry. 3. having or showing the sensibility of a poet. 4. …
What does POETIC mean? - Definitions.net
Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound …
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A great speech can be poetic. An orange-red sunset at the beach can also be poetic. The word poetic comes from the Greek poietikos for "pertaining to poetry." A poetic drama is one written …
