poetics

See also: poètics

English

Etymology

From the Poetics of Aristotle.

Noun

poetics (plural poetics)

1. (philosophy, literature) The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.
   • 1988 October 21, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bird Watching”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Both significantly build on the poetics of death and dissolution that Black and Tan broached so powerfully […] .

Derived terms

• cognitive poetics

Translations

the theory of poetry

• Bulgarian: поетика f (poetika)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 詩學／诗学 (si¹ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 詩學／诗学 (zh) (shīxué)

• Finnish: poetiikka (fi), runousoppi (fi)
• French: poétique (fr) f
• German: Poetik (de) f, Dichtkunstlehre f
• Hungarian: poétika (hu), költészettan (hu)
• Kazakh: поэтика (poétika)
• Polish: poetyka f
• Russian: поэтика (ru) f (poetika)
• Swedish: poetik (sv) c
• Turkish: poetik

See also

• poetics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• copiest, septoic