Poetics, or x = a < A. Lectures on the Theory of Literature

“POETICS, or x = a < A (Lectures on the Theory of Literature)” is a book by our compatriot, a famous linguist, folklorist, literary critic, founder of the scientific study of the Ukrainian language, Oleksandr Potebny. It highlights a whole complex of phenomena that make up the philosophy of language. The author explores the creative process as an endless series of transformations in the human consciousness of objective information on the way from the original image, often folklore, to its interpretation in a poetic work, in particular in a fable. This scientific linguodidactic work by Oleksandr Potebny will interest everyone who is interested in revealing the interrelationships of the word, image, and national traditions.