Beyond Comparative Poetics: An Evaluation of The Nucleo-genre Paradigm

The dominance of Western theories in an age globalization and swift technological advances, which brought to collective consciousness manifestations literary artistic genres distant geographical places that were once viewed as primitive or exotic, necessitates raising the question comparative poetics anew. During second half twentieth century, scholars such James J.Y. Liu, Earl Miner, Stephen Owen, Wai-lim Yip engaged comparing Eastern poetics. However, their work fell short reaching a unifying approach study world This is gap Alaa Abd al-Hadi, thinker, poet postcolonial critic, came fill out. al-Hadi’s Nucleo-genre Paradigm universally oriented. Based on qualitative logic Lutfi Zadeh's fuzzy sets, it posits there are essential elements common various cultural single genre across time space. It these elements, help decide whether certain manifestation belongs genre, allow for cross communication understanding while respecting specificities, manifested by infinite number aesthetic elements. Unlike other approaches field poetics, distinguishes between two levels poetic level production reception, gives primacy often disregarded theories. In this paper, attempt made evaluate contribution beyond