Poetics (disambiguation)

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Poetics is the theory of literary discourse.

Poetics may also refer to:

• Poetics (album), a 2009 pop punk album
• Poetics (Aristotle), the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory
• Cognitive poetics, a school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science to the interpretation of literary texts
• Descriptive poetics, a form of literary criticism
• Historical poetics, a scholarly approach to film studies outlined in a book by David Bordwell
• Poetics, an academic journal published by Elsevier
• Structuralist Poetics, a book of critical literary theory by Jonathan Culler
• The Poetics of Space, a book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard