Five. Poets’ Play and Plato’s Poetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. One. Innovating Ourselves 1
6. Two. Narrative Memory 35
7. Three. The Dancing, Singing Daughters of Memory 67
8. Four. Visual Instruments of Memory 108
9. Five. Poets’ Play and Plato’s Poetics 142
10. Six. Writing for the Voice 180
11. Seven. Writing and the Reading Mind 219
12. Epilogue. Poetics and the Making of the Modern Self 257
13. Appendix. Three Horatian Texts 265
14. Notes 269
15. Bibliography 291
16. Index 315