Introduction to Poetics

Tzvetan Todorov represents one of the rallying points of many different trends in humanities and literary criticism. The methods of Russian Formalists such as Sklovsky and Tinyanov, Roman Jakobson and the Prague Linguistic Circle, and structuralist and poststructuralist critics such as Roland Barthes and Gerard Genette reach a synthesis in Todorov's works.
Rather than dealing with individual works, poetics investigates the conditions and elements that make these works "literary". The aim of Todorov and structuralist literary studies is to criticize and transcend a reading style that can be described as "athamotic". Every text, spoken or written, differs from other texts - whether faintly or clearly. Achieving "literariness", which is the main subject of poetics, depends on the reader's ability to visualize this matrix in one way or another, in other words, to "manage" these differentiations within his own reading: Todorov's Introduction to Poetics states that every good reader is partly conscious and partly unconscious. It presents a first breakdown of these transactions.



Number of Pages: 120

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2001

Number of Pages: 120

Language Turkish