An old term that to the best of my knowledge is only very recent in common academic usage. It entered the jargon with a lot of other words ending in -ic, sometime in the 80s, as folks in the humanities began to feel insecure. Insecurity has always engendered increased use of words from latin and greek. Comforting as an old pipe and slippers.
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>From: Michael Heller <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 21, 2013 10:42 PM
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>I don't know if Peter is pulling someone's leg, but there's a detailed
>discussion of the topic in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
>Poetics, and then there is this on Poetry Mag's website:
>http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19939. But it is not in the
>shorter OED, which is all I have in my western summer getaway.
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>Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson: This Art Burning and other poetry, Benjamin (a music-theater work based on the life of Walter Benjamin), go to: http://www.efjcomposer.com/efjcomposer/Welcome.html and for excerpts visit Ellen’s Youtube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/efjcomposer
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