Literary exposition (8)

I believe the answer is:

treatise

(Other definitions for treatise that I've seen before include "Disquisition" , "Iterates in essay" , "Academic composition" , "Systematically-written formal piece" , "Learned paper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Star Tribune.

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