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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 435–462.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and mutative agency of immaterial relations responsible for epigenesis, or the molecular signals that alter genetic expression. To examine the agency of blankness as it applies across literary theory and epigenesis, this essay borrows from science studies, new materialisms, biosemiotics, new formalisms...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 2020
... shadowed by a logical unconscious, from the New Criticism and (post)structuralism to recent debates about historicism and formalism. It further considers how the subfield of logic and literature, in its constitutive attention to form, is neatly positioned to cut across these debates, and it sketches ways...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Harris Friedberg Foremost theorist of the New Criticism, W. K. Wimsatt, inherits from the Romantics the desire to differentiate poetry from prose on essentialist rather than formal grounds. In I. A. Richards, a new antithesis between the symbolic or referential use of language and its emotive use...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... influential illustration of this linear model. 18. See also Caracciolo ( 2019 ; 2021 ) on the significance of New Formalism to the discussion of contemporary fiction's engagement with the climate crisis. 17. For an analysis of Here that is broadly consistent with my theoretical framework...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 539–559.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to an intolerable mode of existence, which is indiscernibly both personal and collective. ADeleuzian reading thus explores both the symptoms of pathological social present and new possibilities of life as they receive formal expressions in the literary work and the author s style. Such practice essentially operates...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 611–634.
Published: 01 December 2009
... it appeals. Recapping a brief history of constrained contemporary writing, this introduction argues for a conception of constrained writing that emphasizes intelligent freedom, the potentials opened by new forms of media, and the effects of an extended community based on formal approaches to both...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 83–100.
Published: 01 March 2020
... long time to make. So if, as I will argue, the turn to formal logic pushes philosophy back toward a new kind of conversation with literature, the literature toward which it is pushed has undergone its own sea change. So how might the renewed interest in logic, followed through, lead phi- losophy down...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of meaning production typically found in literary forms. In particular, anecdotal materials are the fragmented“stuff” of historical narratization: they facilitate the shaping of historical events into stories and more or less formalized“facts.” This essay examines how the New Historicist anecdote remodels...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 183–199.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Virginia Pignagnoli As we enter a new literary period succeeding postmodernism, the models and methods of our theories are called into question vis-à-vis their ability to effectively frame the formal features describing contemporary literary narratives. The article surveys current discussions...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 117–142.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of the world, whose imperfection and sometimes roughness accurately revealed a new relation to historical events. The new aesthetic that emerged after 1572 is one of violence. In the current study, I intend to demonstrate this last point through works that are emblematic of the baroque. These include Agrippa...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” as a new lens for conceiving of narrative space that distinguishes it from setting. Narrative environments are the formal narrative expression of space: the combined social contextualization and historicization and environmental imaginings that have historically produced that space and are called forth...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 689–730.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., and to what extent it allows an insight into counterhegemonic or subversive thought. The essay accordingly tries to marry the formal analysis of narratology with the New Historicist focus on the dialectics of discourse and power. Collective Minds in Fact and Fiction:
Intermental Thought and Group...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 1–49.
Published: 01 June 2014
... during and after World War II. They represented a new
genre of public speech, one that “retained the logical structure and advance
planning of formal public monologue speech, but mixed it with informal,
private conversation — in a planned and deliberate way, and in order to
develop a new form...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and computational narratology, diachronic narratology and novelistic history, political criticism and new technologies. These topics provide a frame for ongoing debates which the essays in this special issue seek to engage with and intervene in. Copyright © 2018 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2018...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 35–66.
Published: 01 March 2006
... 1965 [1955] Russian Formalism: History—Doctrine (London: Mouton). Gorbachev, G. 1930 “My eshe ne nachinali drat'sia,” Zvezda no. 5. Grigoriev, A. 1957 “Investigative Methods of the Secret Police,” in The Soviet Secret Police , edited by Simon Wolin and Robert M. Slusser, 180 -239 (New...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the volume collectively, they do more than reflect the role of new formalism within aging studies and broader social discourses on aging. They attest to the possibility of an old formalism, where age figures centrally as a principle of organization and formal inquiry rather than a marginalized category...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 659–688.
Published: 01 December 2014
... interest in form, New Historicist work often bracketed the formal
commitments of texts. Stephen Greenblatt’s (1982: 2) own introduction to a
special issue of Genre, “The Forms of Power and the Power of Forms in the
Renaissance,” defined new historicism as “set apart from both the dominant
historical...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Caroline 2015 Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Levinson Marjorie 2007 “What Is New Formalism?” PMLA 122 , no. 2 : 558 – 69 . Maslov Boris 2008 “Comparative Literature and Revolution; or, The Many Arts...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 59–81.
Published: 01 March 2020
... taught to undergraduates. As recently as 2007,Marjorie Levinson writes that, even amid New Formalism, form remained stable as a term: There are no efforts to retheorize art, culture, knowledge, value, or even and this is a surprise form (561). Rather, she argues, the New Formalism of the first decade...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 March 2010
... from ’pataphysics. The unpublished
manuscript of the “Encyclopedia of Inexact Sciences” is currently housed
in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rasmussen, Mark David, ed.
2002 Renaissance Literature and Its Formal Engagements (New York: Palgrave).
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