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The Poetic as an Aesthetic CategoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1): 46-56. 2023.Poems are not the only things we sometimes call poetic. We experience as poetic also prose passages, as well as films, music, visual art, and even occurrences in daily life. But what is it exactly for something to be poetic in this wider sense? Discussion of the poetic in this sense is virtually nonexistent in the extant analytic literature. The aim of this article is to get a start on trying to come to grips with this phenomenon—the poetic as an aesthetic category that outruns poetry as an art …Read more
Alexandre Billon
Université de Lille
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Université de LilleAssociate Professor