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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 787–790.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Eyal Segal Boyd Brian , On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 . xiii + 540 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance
Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 225–301.
Published: 01 September 2014
... “In zikh (1930–1940): Yiddish Modernism in Search of Jewish Self-Consciousness.” PhD diss. , Jewish Theological Seminary . Call It Jewspeak:
On the Evolution of Speech in Modern Yiddish Writing
David G. Roskies
Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract This essay...
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Published: 01 September 2022
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 137–154.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the highly dialogic Russian novels appear already at the beginning of the nineteenth century? The first problem is explained by some psychological features of readers' perceptions of dialogues. The second problem is answered by the theory of evolution. The third problem is solved by a brief analysis...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 227–244.
Published: 01 June 2008
... (the evolution of the horse). The perils of our weakness for narrative templates in trying to understand emergent behavior arise when understanding the internal nature of the process of emergence is critical to our choice-making behavior. This is especially the case when our health and well-being depend...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (2): 257–286.
Published: 01 June 2009
... attributing to it certain generic characteristics, it is difficult to speak of an evolution of the manifesto. Second, this article seeks to show the relationship between scholarly work on manifesto and the position of the researcher in the academic field. The researcher's position in the field of literary...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 543–567.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Christopher D. Kilgore; Dan Irving This article tracks the evolution of the concept “event” through several iterations in narrative theory, from the compact, nugget-like verbal object favored in structuralist accounts, through the expanded multipart schema adapted from cognitive studies, to a more...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
... meliorism and his belief that individual altruism might yet alleviate the painful drama of human existence. The essay details Hardy's employment of aesthetic Einfühlung to represent inanimate objects, to feel with the dead, and, paradoxically, to imagine the evolution of consciousness on the part...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 February 2018
... examination of the literary archive and its evolution. Based on a systematic sample of French novels over twenty-three decades, this study concludes that narrative forms such as the memoir novel and the epistolary novel behave as successful artifacts. As they spread, they achieve a recognizable form...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 479–532.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Figures 27a–b Example of @itscarus's evolution of minimizing font and language to mirror typical Instapoetry styles, taken July–December 2018, screenshot February 1, 2019. ...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
Published: 01 December 2023
... studies and cultural evolution. The task is to solve the puzzle raised by the popularity of extraordinary imaginary animals, and to explain some cross-cultural regularities that such animals present—traits like hybridity or dangerousness. The standard approach to this question was to first investigate how...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 301–328.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Alastair Renfrew Iurii Tynianov’s characterization of the relationship between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol as parodic, which he later develops into a broader concern with the mechanics of literary evolution, also provokes a concern with the specifically dialectical nature of the change...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2000
... to perpetual emergence. Theories of the avant-garde that figure institutionalization as a necessary and final fall from grace,while perhaps schematically accurate, cannot do justice to the struggle over identity and value that marks every stage in the process of literary evolution. Reading Olson's performance...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 237–295.
Published: 01 June 2003
... to the point of self-
destruction Boas, Harris argues, was reacting to the evolutionism bequeathed to anthro-
pology by the great nineteenth-century anthropologists: Herbert Spencer, Edward Tyler, and
Lewis Henry Morgan.White...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 713–763.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Mark J. Bruhn This study positions Percy Bysshe Shelley as an important though ultimately unwilling contributor to the development of mixed-style mimesis and thus to the evolution of Western drama from neoclassicism to realism. To capture the historical dimensions and final irony of this thesis, I...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 December 2016
...William Flesch In Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection , Angus Fletcher rightly argues against the idea, enthusiastically embraced by literary Darwinism, that evolution explains how exquisitely the individual mind and perhaps the progressive...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 195–220.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to literature, this commentary addresses a number of issues related to, but also exceeding, the field of cognitive literary studies. These issues include the interrelation of the terms cognitive and literary and of human history versus evolution; the rhetoric and dynamics of paradigm change; the history...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 807–816.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Ellen Spolsky Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, eds., The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 336 pp. Abbott, H. Porter, ed. 2001 “On the Origin...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2011
...: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex,'' Human Nature 16 : 323 – 59 . Beebe Beatrice 1986 `` Mother-Infant Mutual Influence and Precursors of Self- and Object Representations, '' in Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories , vol. 2 , edited by Masling Janet , 27 – 48...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 790–793.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Eyal Segal Herman David , Basic Elements of Narrative . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009 . xvi + 249 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance
Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Cambridge...
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