Aesthetics of Mimesis - Ancient Texts & Modern Problems

Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Note to the Reader xiii Introduction: Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics 1(36) PART I Representation and Reality: Plato and Mimesis 37(35) Romantic Puritanism: Plato and the Psychology of Mimesis 72(26) Mimesis and the Best Life: Plato's Repudiation of the Tragic 98(20) More Than Meets the Eye: Looking into Plato's Mirror 118(33) PART II Inside and Outside the Work of Art: Aristotelian Mimesis Reevaluated 151(26) The Rewards of Mimesis: Pleasure, Understanding, and Emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics 177(30) Tragic Pity: Aristotle and Beyond 207(27) Music and the Limits of Mimesis: Aristotle versus Philodemus 234(29) PART III Truth or Delusion? The Mimeticist Legacy in Hellenistic Philosophy 263(24) Images of Life: Mimesis and Literary Criticism after Aristotle 287(26) Renewal and Transformation: Neoplatonism and Mimesis 313(31) An Inheritance Contested: Renaissance to Modernity 344(39) Bibliography 383(36) Index 419