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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
Jiang interprets poetry and truth as a mirror: Achilles and Odysseus are in the reader, the reader is in them, and observing them objectively helps the reader understand himself.
"...with creativity all right the tragedies of athenian poets are as mirrors in which a spectator beholds himself under a thin disguise of circumstance..."
A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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