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What is a poetics?

What is a poetics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) The theory of poetry, or of literature in general
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A history of twentieth-century American poetry is a history of women making and remaking poetics as a gendered space.
With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo.
Aristotle separated rhetoric from poetics, treating rhetoric as the art of persuasion and poetics as the art of imitation or representation.
They cover logic, ethics, metaphysics, physics, zoology, politics, rhetoric, and poetics.
As early as July 1958, however, she attempted to enact the new poetics presented in the final stanza of the original and Cry Ararat!
With his new works, the artist further reveals himself to be an expert in the poetics of systems theory.

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