Title:
Exiling the poets : the production of censorship in Plato's Republic / Ramona A. Naddaff.
Author:
Naddaff, Ramona.
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Call Number:
PA3009 .N33 2002
Abstract:
"The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato's fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation."--Jacket.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2002008021.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2002008021.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/2002008021.html
ISBN:
9780226567273
Physical Description:
xv, 189 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The other side of censorship: literature on trial -- "Miserable inventions" of poets -- New songs are best -- Making of the poet's image -- Death of poetry, the poetry of death -- A myth to end all myths.
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