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WISDOM OF THE FOOL: THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ALCIBIADES IN PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM
Dr.Cardinal Ihejirika
Plato's Symposium is a forum Plato symbolically uses to point to the philosophicalness of fictional narratives thereby underscoring the philosophical interwoveness between philosophy (representing wisdom) and Literature (representing the folly of fiction). Its title, Symposium derives from the Greek word " Symposion " which literally means " drinking together ". The Symposium is one of his two greatest dialogues either the one greater than the Republic or next to it. It discusses proceedings in a drinking banquet hosted by a young poet, Agathon who celebrates his first victory with his tragic poem. Discussants on this occasion are philosophers, who aim at eulogizing the god, 'Eros' or love with the sole intent of discovering his nature. This work is therefore an attempt to interpret and examine the philosophical imports of one of the discussants namely; Alcibiades, through whose instrumentality, Plato confounds the seemingly knowledgeable by the wisdom of a drunk. The drunk Alcibiades not only becomes the king maker but also the umpire, who crowns the wisest among the sober hence, the words wisdom and foolishness which are natural antonyms are ironically used together in our title to draw the needed lessons. Alcibiades' role in the Symposium is therefore another forum Plato symbolically uses to point to the philosophicalness of fictional narratives thereby perpetuating the traditional philosophical interwoveness between philosophy (representing wisdom) and literature (representing the folly of fictions). Plato's Symposium (translated with introduction and notes, by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, (Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1989) forms the basic text for our interpretative assignment. We adopted textual analysis method in our research.
Studies in the Novel
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
2016 •
Francesca Arnavas
The Lewis Carroll Review: The Reviewing Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society
The Lewis Carroll Review (Issue 58)
2021 •
Franziska Kohlt
Classics Ireland Vol. 18 (2011)
Alcibiades Epiphanes: On Two Remarks in Plato's Symposium (pre-publication version)
Paul O'Mahoney
This article seeks to explain two of the stranger remarks in Plato’s Symposium. Beginning from the commonly observed Dionysian characteristics of the intruding Alcibiades, it argues that this resemblance between the general and the god is key to understanding both dramatic and philosophical aspects of the dialogue. Alcibiades resembles not just any image of Dionysus, but specifically that of the angered god in Euripides’ Bacchae. Of the two remarks examined, the first occurs in the course of Diotima’s description of the conception of Eros, and alerts us to the absence of Dionysus. The second, more comprehensible after recognising the import of the first, is the last remark of Socrates’ reported by Apollodorus, that the best poet should be an accomplished exponent of both tragedy and comedy. Again, many critics have suspected this remark of providing some clue as to Plato’s intention and the character of the dialogue. It is argued that recourse to the play that furnishes the Dionysian image of Alcibiades illuminates the statement: in its content, Symposium is predominantly comedic, while its form, circ*mscribing the speeches, mimics that of a tragedy—specifically, Euripides’ Bacchae.
Alice in Wonderland: from nonsense to nonsensical
Leon Coward, Imogen Coward, Taliesin Coward
It has taken Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland a little over a century from being regarded as nonsense, to become nonsensical, as is so vividly highlighted by the book’s songs/poems. Kenneth Rothwell, in his History of Shakespeare on Screen, lists seven kinds of derivatives a film may take when a literary work is adapted for the screen, none of which presupposes ‘accuracy’ with the original text. While the Disney adaptation may take credit for much of the confusion in the modern mind (even to the point where David Crystal accredits the Mad Hatter with the concept of a Happy Unbirthday), we need to look further afield to understand the failure of present-day audience’s to connect with the aesthetic of Carroll’s book. Adaptation for subsequent generations of a book Carroll wrote for an audience who were well-versed in the songs he was parodying, and who were informed about the people and events to whom references were being made, demands interpretation. While visually, iconic images from Alice may still be employed to satirise people and events, the power of the songs/poems has been lost in transmission, such that they now bemuse rather than amuse. The paper draws upon resources outlining the reception of Carroll’s book in his time, and attempts to examine the failure of the songs to resonate with today’s ‘audiences’, while other works written at the same time, notably those of Gilbert and Sullivan, have continued to be relevant.
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Francesca Arnavas
The Lewis Carroll Review: The Reviewing Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society
Lewis Carroll Review (Issue 60)
2022 •
Franziska Kohlt
Wonderland Lost and Found? Nonsensical Enchantment and Imaginative Reluctance in Revisionings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales
Anna Kérchy
Dickens Studies Annual
“They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care”: Lewis Carroll Studies, 2004–2017
2018 •
Edward Guiliano
Recorded in this essay is the sweep of Lewis Carroll scholarship covering 2004–2017. New Primary Works; Critical, Annotated or Notable Editions; Reference Works; Biographies; Journals and Websites; Book-length Studies; Collections of Essays; and Selected Journal Essays and Book Chapters are covered. During the period discussed, diverse interest in Lewis Carroll and his works increased steadily and was extensive, more in evidence than for many if not most Victorian writers. The topics of interest related to this multitalented man—literature, photography, biography, mathematics and logic, Victorian cultural studies and more, and seen from many critical and thematic perspectives—have become increasingly broad and accepted as worthy of study of a major figure, and his Alice books established as major texts of world literature.
