How Long to Read Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and Plato's Critique of Poetic Pleasure

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It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and Plato's Critique of Poetic Pleasure by Rana Saadi Liebert

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This dissertation sets out to explain the "hunger for tears" that Plato posits as the psychological source of poetic pleasure in his Republic . By unearthing a psychosomatic model of poetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically elaborated by Plato, I hope both to clarify the Republic's greatest indictment against poetry and to resolve what has proven to be an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the appeal of painful emotions. I argue that this model of poetic engagement offers a compelling account of aesthetic pleasure by locating its source in our subrational drives, among our physiological and emotional impulses. Plato suggests that aesthetic representations of painful objects are pleasurable not because the mimetic medium transforms the pain of the object into a source of pleasure (as many aesthetic theorists, starting with Aristotle, would have it), but because the pain itself, in art as in life, satisfies an unregulated appetite for affective intensity, the goal of which is to realize the subrational potential of human experience. In my conclusion, I relate Plato's concern with the private nature of the poetic imaginary and its resistance to psychological regulation to his civic project of eliminating the private sphere, and I suggest that Aristotle's defense of poetry is less evident in the Poetics (where many have sought it) than in the Politics, where both privacy and poetry are defended as essential components of a liberal and leisured life.

How long is Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and Plato's Critique of Poetic Pleasure?

Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and Plato's Critique of Poetic Pleasure by Rana Saadi Liebert is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Hunger for Tears: Archaic Poetics and Plato's Critique of Poetic Pleasure aloud.

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