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Problems of Plato's Poetics

Description:

Plato's readers struggle to reconcile his combination of conceptual argument and mimetic fiction. In this dissertation, I suggest we can understand this discomfiting combination if we understand the dialogues as "the mimesis of people in speech." Because speech is both referential and performative, speech is a hybrid of thought and...

Keyword:

Bakhtin, tragedy, poetics, Aristotle, and Platonic dialogue

Subject:

Philosophy, Classical studies, and Literature

Creator:

Curry, Ruth Martin

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_640197 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14536