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Poetry (literature) itself calls attention to its own dangers and limits and can do so ironically and satirically as in any other manner. 4 Virginia Woolf ’s To the Lighthouse is another literary text that contributes to the debate on mimesis, that is the relation between word and world. Indeed, Bernard Harrison takes up the relation of that novel to the work of Plato, Wittgenstein and others. Plato’s Cratylus is a crucial work in this context, which expresses key linguistic doctrines: the existence of a language that is logically perspicacious.
Fyfe (Loeb. 8). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 1–3). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. ), 1452b-1453a (XIII. 3–4). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 5–10). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 11–14). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 1–2). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 3–5). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. 18–19, see 6–17). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. ), 1454a-1455b (XV1, 1–12). Aristotle, Poetics, ed. Fyfe (Loeb. ), 1454a (XV1–7). Halliwell, 137.
21 This point of view calls into question the very value of mimesis, which is a copy of reality and is not itself real. The poet falls short of the philosopher, who makes the real the object of his study. It is also important to place Plato’s representation of the poet and of mimesis in a wider context in Plato beyond this famous part of his oeuvre. The Athenian, in Book 7 of the Laws, as he imagines the organizers of the new ideal polis would respond to the tragic poets who ask for access to their city, says that the organizers are tragic poets whose state is a mimesis of the best life, which is the most true of tragedies (817b).