The Poetics of Philosophical Language
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Zacharoula Petraki
About this book
A close analysis of the Republic’s diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato’s remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic’s prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato’s distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.
Author / Editor information
Zacharoula A. Petraki, University of the Peloponnese and University of Crete, Greece.
Reviews
"The idea that the language of the Republic constitutes a highly complex mosaic in which images predominate and in which different modes of linguistic configuration converge is at any rate interesting."
Patrizia Marzillo in: BMCR 2012.08.59
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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1. Introduction
1 - Section One: The Theory
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1. Aims and perspectives
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2. Poetics
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3. Mythos and eikõn
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4. Imagistic discourse
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5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language
78 - Section Two: The Republic
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1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5
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2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5
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3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6
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4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic
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5. Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index
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