Bibliography
Sources on Plato and mimesis
http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/PHL/Class/Aesth/platoBib.html This website contains a bibliography on Platonic aesthetics. Not quite fresh but contains interesting items.
Annas, Julia:
Annas, Julia: “Plato on the Triviality of Literature”, in Moravszcik and Tempko
Belfiore, Elisabeth: “A theory of Imitation in Plato’s Republic”, Transactions of the Philological Association 114 (1984), pp 121-146
Blondlell, Ruby: The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Burnyeat, M.F: “Culture and Society in Plato’s Republic”, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 20, University of Utah Press – Salt Lake City, 2000 pp. 217-324 (http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/Burnyeat99.pdf)
Halliwell, Stephen: The Aesthetics of Mimesis, Princeton University Press, 2002
Janaway, Christopher: Images of Excellence – Plato's critique of the Arts, Oxford University Press, 1998
Maguire, J. P. The Differentiation of Art in Plato's Aesthetics - FullText@UBO
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1964 – JSTOR
Moravcsik, Julius and Temko, Philip (eds.): Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts. (Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, New Jersey, 1982), x + 150 pp.
Murdoch, Irish: The Fire and the Sun – Why Plato banished the artists, Oxford University Press, 1978
Nehamas, Alexander: Virtues of Authenticity – Essays on Plato and Socrates, Princeton University Press 1999.
Plass Paul: “Philosophic Anonymity and Irony in the Platonic Dialogues”, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 85, No. 3, 1947, 254 – 278