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INSPIRATION AND TECHNIQUE KARTONIERT (TB)

While Plato extols inspired poetry (as opposed to poetry produced by means of technique) 
Aristotle conceives of poetry only in terms of technê. Underlying the opposition between
inspiration and technique are two different approaches to 'form': inspiration is concerned with
the impression of ideas or forms within the poet's psyche (the author's forma mentis)  whereas
technique deals with the transposition of the artist's idea into the material form of the work
(the forma operis). This dual view of form  and of its complex relation to matter  may be said
to lie at the basis of a dual approach to aesthetic issues - a psychological and a textual one.
Taking their cue from this opposition  the essays gathered here explore some of the most
momentous phases in the history of aesthetics  from Graeco-Roman philosophy and oratory to
Renaissance poetry and literary criticism  from neoclassical poetics to Romantic and Victorian
views on inspired visions  to recent issues in neuroaesthetics  philosophy of art and literary
linguistics. In so doing  they collectively point to the irremediable and continuing dualism of
a critical tradition that has alternately emphasized the ideal elements of beauty and the
material constituents of art.

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