Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers
Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature
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- Author: Tom Mackenzie, University College London
- Date Published: April 2021
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108843935
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Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural contexts, applying intertextual and intratextual analyses in order to reconstruct the significance and impact they conveyed for ancient audiences and readers. Building on insights from literary theory and the philosophy of literature, the book sheds new light on these authors' philosophical projects and enriches our appreciation of their works as literary artefacts. It also expands our knowledge of the genres in which they wrote, of the literary culture of the Western Greek world, and of the development of Greek poetics from the Archaic to the Classical periods, exposing the influence of these thinkers on more famous Sophistic and Platonic ideas about literature.
Read more- · Enriches our appreciation of these texts as cultural artefacts through the application of the methods of literary criticism · Builds on insights from literary criticism and the philosophy of literature to provide a theoretical basis on which to consider these texts as literature · Reassesses the significance of these authors for our understanding of the history of Greek poetics
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'Mackenzie's book will convince future researchers to pay more attention to the poetry of these three Presocratics.' David Sider, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108843935
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Philosophy and Poetry, Truth and Symbolism
1. Xenophanes
2. Parmenides
3. Empedocles
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Legacy of Presocratic Poetics.
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