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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 752–754.
Published: 01 December 2019
... University DOI 10.1215/03335372-7739183 Beth Lau, ed., Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind. London: Routledge, 2018. viii1 237 pp. Jane Austen is a writer favored by cognitive literary scholars for her fine- grained observation and nuanced representation of the emotional and cog- nitive workings...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (4): 651–678.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Jeanne M. Britton Characters in Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) frequently, eagerly, and usually mistakenly impute thoughts to others. This essay explores cognitive science’s claims about thought-attribution—people guessing other people’s thoughts—in order to reinvigorate long-standing formal concerns...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 March 2002
... lead to a fundamentally new reading of Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion (1818). Austen's was a period when a dominant constructionist psychology—associationism—vied with emergent brain-based,organicist, and nativist theories of mind. Austen pointedly contrasts a heroine seemingly formed...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2015
... this, the argument compares three novels that share the generic conventions of romantic fiction: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Helen Fielding's modern adaptations of Austen, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999). Each novel depicts potential lovers who are initially...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 429–454.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the historical and ideological dimensions of the time-space relations, we extend our experiment to three other English-language novels that span two centuries: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017). Although the authors...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 749–752.
Published: 01 December 2019
... University Press. Katherine Thorsteinson Cornell University DOI 10.1215/03335372-7739183 Beth Lau, ed., Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind. London: Routledge, 2018. viii1 237 pp. Jane Austen is a writer favored by cognitive literary scholars for her fine- grained observation and nuanced representation...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2021
... .” Language and Literature 25 , no. 3 : 254 – 78 . Austen Jane . (1818) 2003 . Northanger Abbey , edited by Butler Marilyn . London : Penguin . Basically Britt . 2019a . “ Super Successful Reading Day .” YouTube, July 7 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsNUTalknQ&list...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 477–481.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne. In “Screened Writers,” Kamille Elliot investigates the adaptations of literary works in film and television, from the silent cinema to the present. Adaptations acknowledge authors by various means, like films’ titles (e.g., Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein [1994 showing...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 481–483.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to prominent authors in adaptation studies — Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne. In “Screened Writers,” Kamille Elliot investigates the adaptations of literary works in film and television, from the silent cinema to the present. Adaptations acknowledge authors by various means, like films...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 484–486.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne. In “Screened Writers,” Kamille Elliot investigates the adaptations of literary works in film and television, from the silent cinema to the present. Adaptations acknowledge authors by various means, like films’ titles (e.g., Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein [1994 showing...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 486–489.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to prominent authors in adaptation studies — Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne. In “Screened Writers,” Kamille Elliot investigates the adaptations of literary works in film and television, from the silent cinema to the present. Adaptations acknowledge authors by various means, like films...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 489–491.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne. In “Screened Writers,” Kamille Elliot investigates the adaptations of literary works in film and television, from the silent cinema to the present. Adaptations acknowledge authors by various means, like films’ titles (e.g., Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein [1994 showing...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 221–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and Enumerative Bibliography, and American Literature. His work in progress includes forthcoming book chap- ters on Jane Austen and a book-length study of narrative order. Nicholas Paige teaches in the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the history...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 683–794.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Generation,'” Poetics Today 27 : 711 -22. Amis, Martin 2001 The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (New York: Vintage Books). Austen, Jane 1974 Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sandition (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin). Ayer, A. J. 1971 [1936] Language, Truth and Logic...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... agendas, debates, and audiences. Ani- mus, after all, can inspire a fervid and concentrated attention, an excep- tionally diligent focus on the object that is being critiqued. Edward Said’s (1994) reading of Mansfield Park as an allegory of imperialism, for example, made the work of Jane Austen...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 547–548.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Keats, and Jane Austen and contends that their knowledge of advances in brain-science theory was to have an indelible effect on how they regarded questions of per- ception, epistemology, and mind-body interaction.This new knowledge, he notes, gave new dimensions to such terms as sensibility, nervous...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Keats, and Jane Austen and contends that their knowledge of advances in brain-science theory was to have an indelible effect on how they regarded questions of per- ception, epistemology, and mind-body interaction.This new knowledge, he notes, gave new dimensions to such terms as sensibility, nervous...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 550–552.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Keats, and Jane Austen and contends that their knowledge of advances in brain-science theory was to have an indelible effect on how they regarded questions of per- ception, epistemology, and mind-body interaction.This new knowledge, he notes, gave new dimensions to such terms as sensibility, nervous...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 553–554.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Keats, and Jane Austen and contends that their knowledge of advances in brain-science theory was to have an indelible effect on how they regarded questions of per- ception, epistemology, and mind-body interaction.This new knowledge, he notes, gave new dimensions to such terms as sensibility, nervous...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., the Jane Austen novel that Clarissa and Richard Dalloway read out to Rachel Vinrace, believing it will persuade our young innocent heroine that Austen is the greatest female writer we possess (Woolf [1915] 1992: 53) and, simultaneously, that the marriage plot is the plot for her. Though Rachel initially...