An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with the dialogue's central themes. Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of ...

Please note that audiobooks and ebooks purchased from this site must be accessed on the Princeton University Press app. After you make your purchase, you will receive ...

Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible world of appearance (the world as we see it), so he leant upon Parmenides’ unity for his conception of the ...

The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that it was right for the 'better' to rule over the 'inferior'. ...nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse ...

His book on the poetics of enigma contributes to the ongoing attempt to ... He has regularly taught the English department’s upper-level introduction to literary theory, from Plato and Aristotle to ...

Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the ...

Where might Plato have borrowed it from ... This step is necessary for getting a clear contemporary concept of narrative in political life. Aristotle’s Poetics helps us understand the role that ...

May include: epics by Homer and Virgil; tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; Plato’s Symposium; Dante’s Divine Comedy." Enrollment limited to 20. WI {L} What is a soul and what is it worth ...

May include: epics by Homer and Virgil; tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; Plato’s Symposium; Dante’s Divine Comedy." Enrollment limited to 20. WI {L} Offered as ENG 207 and HSC 207. An ...

When we read good literature, we should question what we read and why something is happening. We should seek to be stimulated by our reading to change and improve ourselves and everything. Is what we ...

The Centre for Poetry and Poetics and Creative Writing brings together those fascinated by contemporary writing in and out of Sheffield, including academics, writers, publishers, students, and readers ...