LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Who called Aristotle “the very Alexander of criticism”?
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Saintsbury
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Murray
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Atkins
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Tyllard
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle is regarded as the father of Western literary criticism.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Plato’s theory of mimesis (imitation) the arts deal with illusion and they are imitation of an imitation. Thus, they are twice removed from reality. As a moralist, Plato disapproves of poetry because it is immoral, as a philosopher he disapproves of it because it is based in falsehood.
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