‘Poetics’ has two different—if related—meanings for anthropologists: first the long-established meaning of the study of patterns in literary texts, traditionally carried out in the context of literary analysis; and second the...

Poetics refers generally to the theory of literary discourse and specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory"...

BOOKMARKS A poetic, if tardy, calling By GEETA SHARMA-JENSEN of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, February 1, 2004 Marilyn Taylor did everything late in life. She got married late, gave birth to her son when she was older, and...

The following essay originally appeared in New Literary History, volume X, no. 1 (Autumn 1978). THE REASON A POEM TENDS TO BE OPAQUE and even seems to turn its back on a reader, especially in his first readings, is not that the...

Becoming big in Hollywood has never been Sarah Polley's agenda. It shows in her acting choices, almost exclusively small, intimate tales made far outside the American studio system.And it shows in the actress' directing debut with "Away From Her," a mature, thoughtful but downbeat drama...

Roberto Benigni was reciting a page from Dante's poem on love and the afterlife when he thought hell had come to Earth.Shots rang out Tuesday night as the Oscar-winning actor-director was performing in a piazza in the southern Italian city of Cosenza, police said.Upon hearing...

In the following essay, Halliwell examines Aristotle's conceptualization of "mimetic arts" and argues that the pleasure which results from experiencing a work of mimetic art is "a response to the intelligible structure imposed on his material by the artist's rational capacity."