The Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics

by Anne Sheppard

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474257593
• ISBN13: 9781474257596
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"