Critique of Poetics (In 2 Volumes)
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8126903775
Length
xii+276p.; viii+277-579p., Figures; Notes; Index; 23cm
Subjects
Poetry and poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their common mode of treatment has been to excite in the mind the emotions appropriate to the subject-matter. But science and art are not identical. The former uses the "discursive" mode; and the latter the "presentational" mode. While science is "truth," the art is adjectively ...
