poetic the is the study of literary forms and more particularly of the Stylistique, of the Narratologie, the stylistic devices. It is " the study of the literary art as a verbale" creation;

Tzvetan Todorov distinguishes, for example, three big families of theories of poetry in the Western tradition: the first current develops a design rhetoric which regards poetry as a ornament of the speech, a pleasure added to the ordinary language; a second current shows that opposite poetry the rational properties of the language by communicating what under no circumstances would it translate; the third stresses the play of the poetic language which draws the attention to itself, more than on the direction which it carries.

This last theory of the autonomy of the poetic language was exposed by Roman Jakobson at the beginning of the 20th century, in a chapter of its Essais of general linguistics . Studying the communication functions , Jakobson shows that the poetic function , contrary to the others, is centered on the sign itself, and more precisely on meaning. This linguistic approach has the merit to propose a definition which avoids confusion between poetry like art of the language and poetry like esthetic category . This juxtaposition of the two values of the term appeared a long time in the literary dictionaries and treaties. The 19th century, for example, in a work entitled Poetic does ( complete Course of literature to the use of the seminars and colleges written according to the best old and modern critics ), the Piron abbot answers the question “In what consist the poetry of the towards? ”: “To give a precise definition of the poetry of the worms, we will say that worms is poetic or truly towards when its expression has a rise, a force, a approval in the words and the turns, that one does not find in the same kind treated in prose; in a word, when it shows the language ennobli, enriched, avoided , raised above what it is when it is only of prose. ”

See also: poetic Art

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