Aspects of Reference in Literary Theory

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
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• Table of Contents
• 0. The Reference and the Study of Literature
• 1. Poetics
• 1.1. The acceptations of the term and the object of the discipline
• 1.2. Poetics in antiquity
• 1.2.1. Plato and the objection to poetry
• 1.2.2. Aristotle, the father of poetics
• 1.2.3. The poetics of the Latin space. Epistle to the Pisos
• 1.2.4. The poetics of the Latin world. The treatise On the Sublime
• 1.3. The survival of poetics during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• 1.4. Between mimesis and poiesis. The 18th century
• 1.5. Poetics in the age of Romanticism
• 1.5.1. Wordsworth and Coleridge, the precursors of the poetics of Modernity
• 1.6. Modern Poetics
• 1.6.1. Russian Formalism
• 1.6.2. New Criticism
• 1.6.3. The Prague Linguistic Circle (1926–1948)
• 1.6.4. Roman Jakobson
• 1.6.5. Structuralism
• 1.6.6. Semiotics
• 1.6.7. The mathematical poetics
• 1.7. Conclusions
• 2. Rhetoric
• 2.1 The glory and oblivion of a millenary discipline
• 2.2 Rhetoric in Antiquity
• 2.2.1. Greek rhetoric
• 2.2.2. Latin rhetoric
• 2.2.3. Asianism
• 2.3. Another type of rhetoric: sacred rhetoric
• 2.3.1. Sacred rhetoric in Romanian culture
• 2.4. Rhetoric in the centuries which were not favorable to it
• 2.5. The rhetorical system and some essential matters related to rhetoric
• 2.6. The specificity of rhetoric and its reference
• 2.7. Modern rhetoric and its two directions
• 2.7.1. The philosophic neorhetoric
• 2.7.2. Linguistic neorhetoric
• 2.8. Conclusions
• 3. Literary History
• 3.1. The identity of the literary history and its relations to criticism and literary theory
• 3.2. The beginnings of the discipline; the 19th century
• 3.3. The conception of literary history in the 20th century
• 3.4. Extrinsic and intrinsic
• 3.5. Classification – the privileged method of classical literary history
• 3.6. Literary history: a discipline of continuity?
• 3.7. Diachronic and synchronic
• 3.8. Reasoning – between relativism and absolutism
• 3.9 The narrative literary history
• 3.10. Revisions of the subject of literary history
• 3.11. Conclusions
• 4. The Variable Reference
• Bibliography
• Series Index