Poetics
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Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature,[1] and, in particular, within poetry.[2]
History
The term poetics derives from the
subject. Twentieth-century poetics returned to the Aristotelian paradigm, followed by trends toward meta-criticality, and the establishment of a contemporary theory of poetics.[6] Eastern poetics developed lyric poetry, rather than the representational mimetic poetry of the Western world.[4]
In literary criticism
Poetics is distinguished from hermeneutics by its focus not on the meaning of a text, but rather its understanding of how a text's different elements come together and produce certain effects on the reader.[7] Most literary criticism combines poetics and hermeneutics in a single analysis; however, one or the other may predominate given the text and the aims of the one doing the reading.
See also
- List of basic poetry topics
- Cognitive poetics
- Descriptive poetics
- Historical poetics
- Figure of speech
- Poetry analysis
- Stylistic device
- Rhetorical device
- Meter (poetry)
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Imagery
- Musical form
- Symbolist poetry
- Sound poetry
- Refrain
- Literary theory
- History of poetry
- Poetics and Linguistics Association
- Theopoetics
Notes and references
- ^ Gérard Genette (2005), Essays In Aesthetics, Volume 4, p.14:
My program then was named "Theory of Literary Forms" — a title that I supposed to be less ambiguous for minds a little distant from this specialty, if it is one, than its (for me) synonym Poetics.
- ^ "poetics". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.
- ^ "poetic". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-691-03672-4.
- ^ Benassi, A., "Lo scherzevole inganno. Figure ingegnose e argutezza nel Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro", Studi secenteschi 47 (2006) 9–55.
- ISBN 978-1-349-15617-7.
- ^ Culler, Jonathan (1997). Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.:
Further reading
- Olson, Charles (1950). Projective Verse. New York, NY: Poetry New York.
- Ciardi, John (1959). How Does a Poem Mean?. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press.
- Drew, Elizabeth (1933). Discovering Poetry. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
- Harmon, William (2003). Classic Writings on Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Hashmi, Alamgir (2011). "Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic". Dublin Quarterly, 15.
- Hobsbaum, Philip (1996). Metre, Rhythm, and Verse Form. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12267-8.
- Kinzie, Mary (1999). A Poet's Guide to Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-43739-6.
- Norman, Charles (1962). Poets on Poetry. New York: Collier Books. Original texts from 8 English poets before the 20th Century and from 8 20th Century Americans.
- Oliver, Mary (1994). A Poetry Handbook. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. ISBN 0-15-672400-6.
- Oliver, Mary (1998). Rules for the Dance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-85086-X.
- Pinsky, Robert (1999). The Sounds of Poetry. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-52617-6.
- Quinn, Arthur (1993). Figures of Speech. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 1-880393-02-6.
- Iturat, Isidro (2010). Poetics. Brazil: Indrisos.com.
