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Author:

Mackenzie, Tom (Classicist), author.

Title:

Poetry and poetics in the Presocratic philosophers : reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as literature / Tom Mackenzie.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Xenophanes,--approximately 570 B.C.-approximately 478 B.C.
Parmenides.
Empedocles.
Empedocles.
Parmenides.
Xenophanes,--approximately 570 B.C.-approximately 478 B.C.
Didactic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
Greek poetry--History and criticism.
Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Didactic poetry, Greek.
Greek poetry.
Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : philosophy and poetry, truth and symbolism -- Xenophanes -- Parmenides -- Empedocles -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : the legacy of Presocratic poetics.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1108925847
9781108925846
110884393X
9781108843935

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1204139907

LCCN:

2021000634

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)