The poetics of Phantasia: imagination in ancient aesthetics

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014)
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Introduction: Aristotle's phantasia and the ancient concept of imagination -- Visualization, vividness (enargeia) and realism -- Mathematical projection, copying and analogy -- Prophecy, inspiration and allegory -- Conclusion: ancient and modern imagination.

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Anne Deborah Raphael Sheppard
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