Poetry as mimesis in Aristotle’s Poetics
Keywords:
ancient aesthetics, poetics, mimesis, Aristotle, PlatoAbstract
In the opening of the Poetics, Aristotle suggests that mimēsis, rather than verse, is the defining feature of poetry. This article aims to show both the vagueness and the implausibility of this basic claim of Aristotle’s account of poetry.References
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