U10 CLASICAL ORIGINS OF LITERARY AESTHETICS:POETICS Flashcards
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Plato’s transition from myth to logos
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Plato will initiate the transition from myth to logos: Abandoning tradition of the oral passed myth, and jumping into “logos” which would be reason. Trying to reach an understanding with other communities through thoughts and worlds. He defends in his republic his aversion to poets, since they were not based in true events and could corrupt the readers.
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Principles of poetry according to Aristotle
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- Mimesis
- Mode : narration, on a stage, through instruments…
- object
- Plot
- Reversal of the situation
- Anagnorisis: Reconocimiento del personaje
- Catharsis
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Middle AGES
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Averroes and ST. Thomas
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Reinassance
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- Dante: lyricism
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What book published during the Baroque unified Literary Theory?
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Agudeza y Arte de Ingenio by Balthasar Gracián.
Unified poetics and rethorics, as if poetry were some sort of of beautificarion of rethorics
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Barroque
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Against Aristotle
* Góngora/Quevedo: focused of Ingenuim
