Facing Poetry Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Theory of Literature
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ArticleSeries: Publication details: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (238 p.)Content type: - text
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- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary theory
- Literary studies: general
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- Interdisciplinary studies
- General studies and General knowledge
- Mathematics and Science
- Science: general issues
- Enlightenment
- Literary theory
- aesthetics
- rhetoric
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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.
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