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January 1, 2019
This paper argues that the psychology of mimesis presupposed by Poetics 4 is immediately relevant to Aristotle's psychology of tragic mimesis. at 1448b16 involve a cognitive mode characteristic of Aristotelian induction that joins particulars with universa ...
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2016
I seek to motivate the indiscriminate abuse ("ignoble disgraces, mere bellies") to which the Muses at Hesiod's Dichterweihe subject all "field-dwelling shepherds" with reference to the pastoral politics of the Greek
mainland in the archaic and classical pe ...
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2015
This article compares two examples (Greek and Hebrew) of what I call the "metapoetics of reception." These are instances in which the composition of a traditional work over the longue durée (here, the Iliad and the Hebrew scriptures) reflects the interacti ...
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2015
An introduction to the phenomenon of diachronic awareness in the synchronic experience of culture, its institutions, and its artifacts. A historical survey of the scholarship on the subject (especially in the domain of linguistics) is followed by theoretic ...
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