TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 3: Republic by plato book X

The contents of this chapter include all of the following: Plato’s argument against poetry, the argument, theory of form, poets & dramatists, philosophers & forms, art is thrice removed from reality, illusionary nature of visual arts,. | REPUBLIC BY PLATO BOOK X PLATO’S ARGUMENT AGAINST POETRY Earlier in “Republic” Socrates mentioned that certain kinds of music and poetry should be banned from the curriculum of study for the future rulers of the state. Because some art is not morally uplifting,hence perhaps bad for children,here Socrates considerably broadened his attack on visual & dramatic arts THE ARGUMENT He starts out by trying to come at a definition. He says that “Artists are said to create are therefore known as creative artists. EXAMPLE Lets take an example of something an artist produces e-g a bed. When a painter paints a picture of a bed,we agree that it is not a real bed. The artist has probably seen a bed built by a carpenter and copied his picture. THEORY OF FORM The bed which was built by the craftsman and on which we sit and rest is not the “real bed” either. The true real bed is the form of the bed. Only the forms are real;the bed is the copy of the form and the paiting is the copy of that

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Literary Theory
• Literary criticism
• Lecture Literary criticism
• Literary work criticism
• The art of judging
• Plato’s argument against poetry
• Wordsworth’s theory of poetry
• Theory of poetic diction
• Theory of Poetry
• Purposes of literaly criticism
• Peloponessian war
• Aristotle’s poetics
• Quantitative elements of tragedy
• Samuel johnshon
• Paradise lost
• Epic poetry
• Paradise regained
• Samuel Johnson
• Classical criticism
• The lyrical ballade
• Biographia literaria