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Ancient philosophical poetics /

"What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heath, Malcolm
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Poetics > History > To 1500.
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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