{"product_id":"between-ecstasy-and-truth-stephen-halliwell-9780199570560","title":"Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus","description":"As well as producing one of the finest of all poetic traditions, ancient Greek culture produced a major tradition of poetic theory and criticism. Halliwell's volume offers a series of detailed and challenging interpretations of some of the most defining authors and texts in the history of ancient Greek poetics: the Homeric epics, Aristophanes' \u003cem\u003eFrogs\u003c\/em\u003e, Plato's \u003cem\u003eRepublic\u003c\/em\u003e, Aristotle's \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Gorgias's \u003cem\u003eHelen\u003c\/em\u003e, Isocrates' \u003cem\u003eTreatises\u003c\/em\u003e, Philodemus' \u003cem\u003eOn Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, and Longinus' \u003cem\u003eOn the Sublime\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume's fundamental concern is with how the Greeks conceptualized the experience of poetry and debated the values of that experience. The book's organizing theme is a recurrent Greek dialectic between ideas of poetry as, on the one hand, a powerfully enthralling experience in its own right (a kind of 'ecstasy') and, on the other, a medium for the expression of truths which can exercise lasting influence on its audiences' views of the world. Citing a wide range of modern scholarship, and making frequent connections with later periods of literary theory and aesthetics, Halliwell questions the many orthodoxies and received opinions about the texts analysed. The resulting perspective casts new light on ways in which the Greeks attempted to make sense of the psychology of poetic experience - including the roles of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge - in the life of their culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Halliwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199570566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199570560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012","brand":"Stephen Halliwell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583702495487,"sku":"9780199570560","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25ac2120-1808-4dea-a730-7ff49a76d333.jpg?v=1701883089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-ecstasy-and-truth-stephen-halliwell-9780199570560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}