His Poetics (the surviving fragment of which is limited to an analysis of tragedy and epic poetry) has sometimes been dismissed as a recipe book for the writing of potboilers. Certainly, Aristotle is primarily interested in the theoretical construction of tragedy, much as an architect might… Read More The exhibited body of work explores the concept of nostalgia through re-imagining and re-defining everyday objects. It developed in response to a set of handmade towels found at the artist’s ancestral family home, which has been handed down through generations, and subtly altered over time with lace trims, fabric patches and crocheted pieces. These additions not only prolonged the towels’ practical life but also recorded the owners’ touch, adding a delicate personal narrative to each object. Dangerous Crossroads. Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place. By George Lipsitz. London and New York: Verso, 1994. 192 pp. | Popular Music | Cambridge Core Places have been remarkably dependable sources of inspiration for poets. Poetic accounts of places imagined or real are to be found throughout the history of Western civilization – Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s poems about farms and farming, Dante’s Inferno, Wordsworth poems of the English Lake District and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. At least two recent books of poems are simply titled Place (one by Allen Fisher, and the other by Jorie Graham).

Kirk-Rudeen, Shelley, 2006 “Zumwalt Prairie” in Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place accessed at http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/poetryofplace.html Gutting, Gary (2017). "Bachelard, Gaston". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6. Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” is, in effect, a concise yet profound phenomenological disclosure of the character of place experience, beginning with description, imaginatively engaging with memories, and disclosing how experiences of a particular place can open into cosmopolitan understanding. Tags: Alice Oswald, Ecopoetics, Ecopoetry, Ecopoets, Jonathan Skinner, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Poetry, Skinner Ecopoetics Related Articleson a misunderstanding of Aristotle’s Poetics, in which the philosopher attempted to give a critical definition of the nature of tragedy. The new theory was first put into dramatic practice in Jean Mairet’s Sophonisbe (1634), a tragedy that enjoyed considerable success. Corneille, not directly involved in the call for regular… Read More

Romana Huk (University of Notre Dame): ' Footsteps Over Ground': Liturgical poetics and location in avant-garde poetics Danielewski, Mark Z. (2014). "Foreword". The Poetics of Space. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-310752-1. In his Poetics—still the most respected of all discussions of literature—Aristotle countered Plato’s indictment by stressing what is normal and useful about literary art. The tragic poet is not so much divinely inspired as he is motivated by a universal human need to imitate, and what he… Read More Joaquín Cruz Lamas: Indigenous Cosmology and Roman Catholicism in the Convent of San Gabriel Cholula

Reading Time: 3 minutes A celebration of how poets distill their experience of country and culture into their work. Amanda Ralph was described by the late poet and artist Adrian Henri as ‘The Poet of the Discarded’– a phrase which has been used extensively to describe her work in newspaper articles and magazines, including Art Review. She is an installation artist whose practice is concerned with finding ‘ready-made art’ within the everyday landscape. Her meticulously arranged assemblages suggest new readings of familiar objects, offering a respectful nod to the past, yet grounding the viewer in the present moment.

Wright, C.D. in Jeremy Richards, ”A shifting Sense of Place: four poets discuss where their work belongs in the world,” accessed at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69640/a-shifting-sense-of-place This quality is deepened because Wordsworth then contemplates how he owes to “these beauteous forms” memories of when he was last here, recollections that offer him “tranquil restoration” and lighten “the weary weight of all this unintelligible world.” And he then reflects on how his experiences of the world have changed as he has matured and makes the chastening imaginative association that has informed much of my own thinking about place and landscape:discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as an essential part of the plot of a tragedy, although anagnorisis occurs in comedy, epic, and, at a later date, the novel as well. Anagnorisis usually involves revelation of the true identity of persons previously unknown, as when a father recognizes a stranger… Read More the term casually in the Poetics in describing the tragic hero as a man of noble rank and nature whose misfortune is not brought about by villainy but by some “error of judgment” (hamartia). This imperfection later came to be interpreted as a moral flaw, such as Othello’s jealousy or… Read More