1. The History and Theory of Anglo-American Literature
Literary work is not a simple object but rather a highly complex organization of a stratified character with multiple meanings and relationships. ... If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ... Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry...
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