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120 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
breaks down the symmetry thus established between interpretation and science in the field of literary studies. In contradistinction to the interpretation of particular works, it does not seek to name meaning, but aims at a knowledge of the general laws that preside over the birth of each work. But in contradistinction to such sciences as psychology, sociology, etc., it seeks these laws within literature itself. Poetics is therefore an approach to literature at once “‘abstract”’ and “‘internal.” It is not the literary work itself that is the object of poetics: what poetics questions are the properties of that particular discourse that is literary discourse. (6)There follows many very specific axes of analysis, all quick and lucid.