'eidos' in What is Literature? | Bookmarker

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meaning "form" "essence", "type" or "species" (developed in Plato's theory of forms?)

If the prose-writer is too eager to fondle his words, the eidos of 'prose' is shattered and we fall into highfalutin nonsense.

—p.26 What is Writing? (1) by Jean-Paul Sartre

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8 years, 10 months ago