The Poetics Of Phantasia

Author : Anne Sheppard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472510593
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Phantasia written by Anne Sheppard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory. The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the world around us or of a transcendent ideal world, rather than in terms of originality and creativity. Study of the way phantasia is used in ancient writing about literature and art reveals important features of the ancient approach to the arts and in doing so will also shed light on modern concepts of imagination and the literary and artistic differences between realism and allegory. Covering a range of literary and philosophical material from the beginnings of Greek literature down to the Neoplatonist philosophers of late antiquity, The Poetics of Phantasia discusses three discrete senses of imagination in ancient thought. Firstly, phantasia as visualization is explored: when a writer 'brings before his eyes' what he is describing and enables his audience or reader to visualise it likewise. The second theory of phantasia is that which is capable not only of conveying images from sense-perception but also of receiving images from intellectual and supra-intellectual faculties in the soul, and thus helping people grasp mathematical, metaphysical or even mystical concepts. Finally, phantasia is seen as a creative power which can conjure up an image that points beyond itself and to express ideas outside our everyday experience.

Author : Anne D. R. Sheppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472555830
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Phantasia written by Anne D. R. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a thorough examination of ancient views of literary and artistic realism, allegory and symbolism, The Poetics of Phantasia brings together a study of the ways in which the concept of imagination (phantasia in Greek) was used in ancient aesthetics and literary theory. The Greeks and Romans tended to think of the production of works of art in terms of imitation, either of the world around us or of a transcendent ideal world, rather than in terms of originality and creativity. Study of the way phantasia is used in ancient writing about literature and art reveals important features of the an.

Author : Mrs. James Hall (writer of poetry.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantasia written by Mrs. James Hall (writer of poetry.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janice Hewlett Koelb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023060188X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Description written by Janice Hewlett Koelb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation.

Author : E. a. Bucchianeri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789899684461
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Phantasia written by E. a. Bucchianeri and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Opera Ghost really existed," Gaston Leroux declared, introducing the world to his most famous literary character, the Phantom of the Opera. The legendary Opera Ghost continues to live in the hearts of Phans dedicated to Leroux's tale of mystery, passion and unrequited love. "Phantom Phantasia" by E.A. Bucchianeri is a poetical celebration of the enigmatic masked genius haunting the depths of the Paris Opera house. A collection of twenty poems varying in style from the serious to the comic, each poem is richly illustrated with vintage images in addition to artwork, photographs and original colour plates designed by the author evoking the elegant Belle Epoque days of Paris."

Author : Melodie Stenger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Aristotle's Imagination and the Birth of Nameless Things written by Melodie Stenger and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's investigation of the soul in the De Anima challenges his understanding of nature and the natural, complicating his distinctions between naturalistic and logical methodologies, between perceptible and intelligible, and between physics and metaphysics. At the heart of each of these distinctions is his understanding of phantasia. By attending in the De Anima to what Aristotle says about the imagination, but also to how he uses imagination, this project aspires to sketch out a naturalistic account of phantasia. It takes seriously Aristotle's suggestion that phantasia is some sort of motion and discloses a unified image of Aristotelian phantasia as the kinēsis by which the intelligible comes to be. Phantasia is the motion by which the entelecheiae of the extended magnitudes of the perceptible realm come to be the analogical 'perceptible things,' the phantasmata, of the intelligible realm. This understanding not only attempts to account for phantasia's seemingly contradictory appearances within the De Anima, but, by means of a metaphoric extension, also considers phantasia's roles in the Rhetoric, the Poetics, and the De Memoria. Here, the "metaphoric phantasia" of DA III.3 428a is found to be the motion by which the intelligible is "brought before the eyes" and made clear and distinct. It is the motion by which the intelligible becomes perceptible, and is thus the motion by which metaphors themselves come to be. And insofar as such "bringing before the eyes" relies on one's ability to present the entelecheia of a given thought, metaphoric phantasia can also be uncovered as the motion by which apophantical naming itself occurs. "Metaphoric phantasia" thus makes room for a creative, poetic imagination within Aristotle's thought, and its link to phantasia per se means that a physics of phantasia is also a physics of language, is an account of how a thing gets to be said as what it is. Phantasia, metaphoric and otherwise, can thus be seen to account for the birth of nameless things.

Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858321
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition written by Kathy Eden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its culmination in the literary theory of the Renaissance. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Phantasia, and other poems. By Mrs. James Hall written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119009782
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics written by Pierre Destrée and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135010129X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period written by Maria Gerolemou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.