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po·et·ics (pō etiks)

noun

  1. a famous treatise on poetic drama by Aristotle
    1. the theory or structure of poetry
    2. a treatise on this
  2. the poetic theory or practice of a specific poet
Poetics Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • performance: I investigate the poetics of this performance in conjunction with the poetics of fifth century Athenian tragedy.
  • credibility: The pressure of what Donne had previously circulated inspired a poetics of credibility consistent with his earlier self-representations.
  • culture: It is against this development that we might come to terms with a " poetics of culture.
  • life: A blend of text and moving image, a slant on the prose poetics of life, the twisted dialog of suburbia.
  • passion: The nature of the scholar's scientific fanaticism is allied to the archaic poetics of knightly passion.
  • engagement: And he is quite inevitable if one must understand the transitions within African modernity and its poetics of social engagement.

Converse of object

  • develop: Understanding the dynamics of the performance is also integral to developing poetics culturally relevant to ancient Israelite traditions.
  • include: Topics to be explored include revolutionary poetics, satire, the cult of sensibility, travel writing and the early novel.
  • support: She is also the project co-ordinator for poetrix: a new MOO core & community designed to support digital poetics.
  • advocate: Like Benjamin before him, Sebald advocates a poetics of remembering that disrupts the continuity of historical tradition.
  • create: We will read both works as responses to defeated political aspirations, and attempts to create republican poetics.

Adjective modifier

  • historiographic: Historiographic poetics is never about something, it is something.
  • digital: Strickland has written extensively about her practice of digital poetics.
  • contemporary: A.E. : Contemporary Canadian poetics of the traditional classical type seem to hug the narrative style.
  • Protestant: The decision to use an archaic diction might thus be thought a central part of Spenser's particularly Protestant poetics.
  • visual: Not that the phrase ' visual poetics ' in itself provides answers, since it is ambiguous.
  • English: Rather than excise these disjunctions, we should investigate what they tell us about Old English poetics.

Noun used with modifier

  • century: Professor J Labbe: Romantic and 19th century poetics; culture and gender; 19th century children's literature.

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