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3 - Aesthetics

from Part I - introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2025

M. S. Silk
Foreword by
Tim Whitmarsh
M. S. Silk
Affiliation:
King's College London
Tim Whitmarsh
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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What is the aesthetic status of these interactions? I am tempted to answer: that is it, aesthetic. The answer to a further question, ’whose aesthetic?’, is implicit in my opening argument. The aesthetic must be dynamic, representing ’not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming’, as Matthew Arnold phrased the human ideal. It must accord with newly recognised possibilities of literature – of any literature – and equally with those long recognised. Above all, if it hopes to illuminate the particular literature in hand, it must be supported by that literature, must not supplant it.

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Interaction in Poetic Imagery
With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry
 , pp. 57 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Aesthetics
  • M. S. Silk, King's College London
  • Foreword by Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Interaction in Poetic Imagery
  • Online publication: 31 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469623.006
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  • Aesthetics
  • M. S. Silk, King's College London
  • Foreword by Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Interaction in Poetic Imagery
  • Online publication: 31 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469623.006
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  • Aesthetics
  • M. S. Silk, King's College London
  • Foreword by Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Interaction in Poetic Imagery
  • Online publication: 31 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009469623.006
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