Poetics

Poetics is the study or theory of poetry. More specifically, the term "poetics" encompasses the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry,^[1] though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.^[2]^[3] Poetics is distinguished from hermeneutics by its focus on the synthesis of non-semantic elements in a text rather than its semantic interpretation.^[4] Most literary criticism 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.

^ The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. 1993. p. 930. ISBN 0691021236.
^ Gérard Genette (2005), Essays In Aesthetics, Volume 4, p.14:
My program then was named "Theory of Literary Forms" — a title that I supposed to be less ambiguous for minds a little distant from this specialty, if it is one, than its (for me) synonym Poetics.
^ "poetics". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.
^ Culler, Jonathan (1997). Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.:

[1] The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. 1993. p. 930. ISBN 0691021236.

[2] Gérard Genette (2005), Essays In Aesthetics, Volume 4, p.14:
My program then was named "Theory of Literary Forms" — a title that I supposed to be less ambiguous for minds a little distant from this specialty, if it is one, than its (for me) synonym Poetics.

[3] "poetics". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.

[4] Culler, Jonathan (1997). Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.:

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