Facing Poetry
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature
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What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses a methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, narratology, and ethics.
Keywords
Literary theory; aesthetics; rhetoric; EnlightenmentDOI
10.1515/9783110624519Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2020Series
PARADIGMS, 12Classification
Literary theory
Literary studies: general
General studies and General knowledge
Science: general issues