Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Cultural Poetics

Persian (Farsi) translation:

شعر شناسی فرهنگی

Added to glossary by Saifollah Mollaei
Jan 22, 2014 13:34
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English term

Cultural Poetics

English to Persian (Farsi) Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
. In 1988, Greenblatt expands these ideas in his text Shakespearean Negotiations, in which he refers to his reading practice as "Cultural Poetics" rather than New Historicism and for all practical purposes renames this site of literary theory. Cultural Poetics, he states, is a term that coalesces the concerns of this developing theoretical site better than does the term New Historicism.
Change log

Jan 23, 2014 18:03: Mina Ahmadi changed "Term asked" from "Cultural Poetics\"" to "Cultural Poetics"

Jan 27, 2014 11:20: Saifollah Mollaei Created KOG entry

Discussion

Ehsan Alipour Jan 23, 2014:
Wow! 25 years in Arabia? I would have added English<>Arabic to my working languages if I had lived there even for 2.5 years.
Edward Plaisance Jr Jan 22, 2014:
Thanks...after spending almost 25 years in Saudi Arabia, I can hear the Arabs pronouncing Aristotle's work as "Boetics" :)
Ehsan Alipour Jan 22, 2014:
It is butighA.
Edward Plaisance Jr Jan 22, 2014:
by the way...how it pronounced? is is butighA or botighA?
Ehsan Alipour Jan 22, 2014:
Well, I'm happy to hear that. :)
Edward Plaisance Jr Jan 22, 2014:
OK, great...I can sleep easy tonight :)
Ehsan Alipour Jan 22, 2014:
I understand your concern. But بوطیقا is now widely used to convey the meaning of "poetics" with a small "p". And there used to be a journal named بوطیقای نو about literature in general.
http://cketab.com/wp-content/uploads/Boutiqay-e_Now02_Page_0...

The journal can be downloaded here. It has many interesting articles.
http://cketab.com/بوطیقای-نو-شماره-دو/
Edward Plaisance Jr Jan 22, 2014:
http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/فن_شعر_(ارسطو)
If the reader in Iran understands that this usage refers to "literature" and not just to "poetry" (actually, Aristotle was focused on drama) there should be no problem.

However, I am afraid that since the reference in Persian is specifically to Aristotle's work "Poetics", there might be a problem in conveying Greenblatt's meaning...that is, "poetics" with a small "p"...this "poetics" is much more general, which is why I made my suggestion as I did.

It was very interesting researching this topic.
Ehsan Alipour Jan 22, 2014:
او عمل خوانش خود را «بوطیقای فرهنگی» (Cultural Poetics) می نامد.

http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/تاریخ‌گرایی_نوین

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English term (edited): cultural poetics"
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شعر شناسی فرهنگی

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English term (edited): cultural poetics"

بوطیقای فرهنگی

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Peer comment(s):

agree Fateme Asnaashari : exactly!
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agree Saifollah Mollaei
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agree Mehdi Mikhchi
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neutral Edward Plaisance Jr : بوطیقا is the Arabicized Greek name of Aristotle's work on drama called Poetics..."poetics" (with a small "p") used here refers to all types of literature. Aristotle's work was translated into Arabic by Averoes ابن رشد
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بوطیقا is also a technical term used in literary studies with the same meaning of "poetics". Please see here: http://www.magiran.com/magtoc.asp?mgID=6713
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ادبیات سناسی فرهنگی

http://www.westga.edu/~mmcfar/cultural_poetics.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle)

"poetics" here refers to more than poetry...it covers all literature...it derives from Aristotle's work called "Poetics", which was mainly theory about drama.

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