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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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Aristotle separated rhetoric from poetics, treating rhetoric as the art of persuasion and poetics as the art of imitation or representation.
He was one of the founders of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, which includes a college of poetry and poetics.
They cover logic, ethics, metaphysics, physics, zoology, politics, rhetoric, and poetics.
Such an explanation, of course, fails to take into account Byron's serious disagreements with Wordsworth's poetics and politics.
Marjorie Perloff and Robert von Hallberg take on contemporary studies in poetry and poetics.
A history of twentieth-century American poetry is a history of women making and remaking poetics as a gendered space.

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