Poetics in a sentence

Aristotle, Poetics IV While it is believed that Aristotle's Poetics comprised two books – one on comedy and one on tragedy – only the portion that focuses on tragedy has survived.

How exactly one elects to support Israel would stem from their sense of both the poetics and the prosaics of everyday life.

Not only did Professor Weil fuel my fortunate discovery of poetics, but he is a sort of father figure to me in the midst of an irksome college scene.

But when I understood his poetics, it became easier for me to express his thoughts in Turkish.

They kept the original lyrics—the poetics of the song therefore remain but it’s transformed by upgraded beats.

She is taking a semester off from graduate school, where her concentration is on cognitive poetics.

Aristotle, Poetics 9. Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

Aristotle, Poetics I 1447a For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language.

Aristotle, Poetics III Aristotle believed that imitation is natural to mankind and constitutes one of mankind's advantages over animals.

Aristotle, Poetics IV The second, and more recent, sense of the word art as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art emerged in the early 17th century.

Aristotle, Poetics VI The characters in a tragedy are merely a means of driving the story; and the plot, not the characters, is the chief focus of tragedy.

Aristotle's Poetics, V. Unlike his prescriptive attitude regarding the plot (unity of action), Aristotle here merely remarks on the typical duration of a tragedy's action, and does not suggest any kind of imperative that it always ought to be so.

For instance, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics have been traditionally classified in the West as "ethics", but in the Arabic world were grouped with logic; in reality, they do not fit neatly into either category.

G. Kiernan V. Kiernan, Horace: Poetics and Politics, 18–19 Horace's Hellenistic background is clear in his Satires, even though the genre was unique to Latin literature.

Hymes' later work focuses on poetics, particularly the poetic organization of Native American oral narratives.

In the same period Zamenhof wrote some other works in Yiddish, including perhaps the first survey of Yiddish poetics (see p. 50 in the above-cited book).

It is a writing on literary criticism and poetics meant to standardise various written Kannada dialects used in literature in previous centuries.

Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne by Anthony Mellors; see also Prynne's publisher, Bloodaxe Books.

Linguistics and poetics Humpty Dumpty who explains to Alice the definitions of some of the words in "Jabberwocky".

Lodovico Castelvetro was one of the most influential Renaissance critics who wrote commentaries on Aristotle's Poetics in 1570.