Dictionary

poetics en · NOUN

Etymology

From the Poetics of Aristotle.

Meanings

1. The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.
   • Both significantly build on the poetics of death and dissolution that Black and Tan broached so powerfully[…]. 1988 October 21, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bird Watching”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Deriveds

ecopoetics · biopoetics · cognitive poetics · theopoetics · ethnopoetics

Translations (19)

fr poétique (the theory of poetry) · fi runousoppi (the theory of poetry) · de Dichtkunstlehre (the theory of poetry) · bg поетика (the theory of poetry) · fi poetiikka (the theory of poetry) · hu költészettan (the theory of poetry) · sh poetika (the theory of poetry) · hu poétika (the theory of poetry) · de Poetik (the theory of poetry) · cmn 詩學 /诗学 (the theory of poetry) · rsk поетика (the theory of poetry) · mk поетика (the theory of poetry) · ru поэтика (the theory of poetry) · yue 詩學 /诗学 (the theory of poetry) · sv poetik (the theory of poetry) · fo skaldskaparfrøði (the theory of poetry) · kk поэтика (the theory of poetry) · tr poetik (the theory of poetry) · pl poetyka (the theory of poetry)