The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems

by Stephen Halliwell

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691092583
• ISBN13: 9780691092584
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"