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word "poiwéō" (ποιέω) which translates, simply, as "to make." In the
Western world, the development and evolution of poetics featured three artistic movements concerned with poetical composition: (i) the
51:, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly. Poetics is distinguished from
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364:. Twentieth-century poetics returned to the Aristotelian paradigm, followed by trends toward meta-criticality, and the establishment of a contemporary theory of poetics. Eastern poetics developed
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is one of the first extant philosophical treatise to attempt a rigorous taxonomy of literature. The work was lost to the
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to be anything other than deceptive and, therefore, dangerous. Only capable of producing these ineffectual copies of copies, poets had no place in his utopic city.
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combines poetics and hermeneutics in a single analysis; however, one or the other may predominate given the text and the aims of the one doing the reading.
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264:(1360), the literate elite gained a rich understanding of
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898:. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.
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919:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
342:Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico
234:Modern poetics developed in
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261:Genealogia Deorum Gentilium
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340:wrote extensively in his
324:appeared, culminating in
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863:A Poet's Guide to Poetry
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