CRITICAL POETICS

Critical Poetics is an interdisciplinary research group that seeks to stimulate debate, collaboration and innovation among scholars and practitioners whose work is concerned with creative and critical theory and practice. It explores possibilities for the text that are engendered by unconventional, unexpected and cross-disciplinary approaches... From the Greek ‘poeisis' meaning ‘to make', we understand ‘poetics' as ‘the creative principles informing any literary, social or cultural construction, or the theoretical study of these; a theory of form' (Oxford English Dictionary). And we understand ‘critical' as ‘occupied with or skilful in criticism', and ‘criticism' as ‘the art of estimating the qualities and character of literary or artistic work' (OED). But we do not wish only to critique artistic works, or the process of creating these works; rather, we also want to explore the ways in which we can engage with these works, how we can interact and play with them, and how, in that..

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