1. The History and Theory of Anglo-American Literature
In the description of fictional characters the writer may not suggest visual images at all for example. ... Some questions naturally spring from this broad theory of art, for example: what exactly is being imitated by the poet or artist? ... Many stories, Plato is saying, are not imitations of any reality but are outright falsities, on the grounds that since gods and heroes are by definition better than men, they cannot perform such atrocious acts as shown for example in Homer and Aeschylus (the examples inĀ RepublicĀ 26-29). ...
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