
Literary Aesthetics and Poetics is the study of poetry, prose, dramatic works, and other genres of writing across languages to understand their structures, meanings, contexts, and reception over time. Scholarship in the department examines and critically interprets epic and lyric poetry, short story and the novel, theater and film, treatises, chronicles, essays, and journalism through historical periods using philological methods as well as literary and cultural theory.
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