Download or read book Aspects of Reference in Literary Theory written by Alina Silvana Felea and published by Literary and Cultural Theory. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse. Rhetoric places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses and literary history examines the temporal succession of the literary systems.