Felea A.S. Aspects of Reference in Literary Theory Poetics, Rhetoric and Literary History

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. — 172 p. — (Literary and Cultural Theory, vol. 50). — ISBN: 978-3-631-72940-3.The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse by either highlighting the extra literary generative forces or by focusing on the intrinsic study of literary works. Rhetoric chiefly places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses whereas literary history predominantly examines the temporal succession of the literary systems or of the literary institution. The author focuses on the three sections: poetics, rhetoric, and literary history and provides an introductory study on the subject of reference.The Reference and the Study of Literature
Poetics
The acceptations of the term and the object of the discipline
Poetics in antiquity
Plato and the objection to poetry
Aristotle, the father of poetics
The poetics of the Latin space. Epistle to the Pisos
The poetics of the Latin world. The treatise On the Sublime
The survival of poetics during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Between mimesis and poiesis. The 18th century
Poetics in the age of Romanticism
Wordsworth and Coleridge, the precursors of the poetics of Modernity
Modern Poetics
Russian Formalism
New Criticism
The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926–1948)
Roman Jakobson
Structuralism
Semiotics
The mathematical poetics
ConclusionsRhetoric
The glory and oblivion of a millenary discipline
Rhetoric in Antiquity
Greek rhetoric
Latin rhetoric
Asianism
Another type of rhetoric: sacred rhetoric
Sacred rhetoric in Romanian culture
Rhetoric in the centuries which were not favorable to it
The rhetorical system and some essential matters related to rhetoric
The specificity of rhetoric and its reference
Modern rhetoric and its two directions
The philosophic neorhetoric
Linguistic neorhetoric
ConclusionsLiterary History
The identity of the literary history and its relations to criticism and literary theory
The beginnings of the discipline; the 19th century
The conception of literary history in the 20th century
Extrinsic and intrinsic
Classification – the privileged method of classical literary history
Literary history: a discipline of continuity?
Diachronic and synchronic
Reasoning – between relativism and absolutism
The narrative literary history
Revisions of the subject of literary history
ConclusionsThe Variable Reference
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