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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2019
... with basic concepts of abduction and defeasible reasoning help capture the fine-grained mechanics of meaning construction in comics as an approach to their basic semantics. References Asher Nicholas Lascarides Alex . 2003 . Logics of Conversation . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 776–778.
Published: 01 December 2017
... abduction into the
“category of the rite of passage” (64), but the most famous one is of course
Sigmund Freud’s use of Oedipus. In the hands of psychoanalysis, characters
in myths become archetypes — in other words, mythical. Calame emphasizes
that in this contemporary context, a myth is no longer...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 427–442.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and
order of their terms vary, some deriving from a practical reservoir of triv-
ial everyday acts (toknockatadoor, to arrange a rendezvous), and others from a
written corpus of novelistic models (the Abduction, the Declaration of Love...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 305–347.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., a founding member of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo
(Grandmothers of the May Square),17 whose own granddaughter had also
been abducted. As she recalls:
later appeared before the microphones on television in some European country, speaking ill
of Argentina These assertions could not have been further...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 December 2021
... . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Roubaud Jacques . (1987) 2000 . Hortense Is Abducted , translated by Dominic Di Bernardi. Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive . Roubaud Jacques . (1991) 2005 . “ The Oulipo and Combinatorial Art .” In Mathews and Brotchie 2005 : 37 – 44...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 June 2001
... are accused of being a gang of politi-
cal criminals, whose reign of intimidation, abduction, torture, and mur-
der eventually galvanized members of the community into setting fire to
the Mandela house. The liberation struggle appears, in the testimony, as a
game, the rules of which are determined...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 December 2006
... intertextual frames: Louis Mink’s concept of narrative configuration,
the Peircean concept of ‘‘abduction’’ as developed by Umberto Eco, and
Michael Riffaterre’s theory of intertextuality. Thus, Pier’s essay constitutes
an interesting attempt of bridging between abstract theoretical models and
a rich network...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 731–733.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of ‘‘abduction’’ as developed by Umberto Eco, and
Michael Riffaterre’s theory of intertextuality. Thus, Pier’s essay constitutes
an interesting attempt of bridging between abstract theoretical models and
a rich network of concrete textual details.
Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 723–726.
Published: 01 December 2006
... intertextual frames: Louis Mink’s concept of narrative configuration,
the Peircean concept of ‘‘abduction’’ as developed by Umberto Eco, and
Michael Riffaterre’s theory of intertextuality. Thus, Pier’s essay constitutes
an interesting attempt of bridging between abstract theoretical models and
a rich network...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 726–730.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of ‘‘abduction’’ as developed by Umberto Eco, and
Michael Riffaterre’s theory of intertextuality. Thus, Pier’s essay constitutes
an interesting attempt of bridging between abstract theoretical models and
a rich network of concrete textual details.
Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 15–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
... Peirce (1931, vol. 1: 188) called an
“abduction” or “informed hunch,” whereby some abstract topic is under-
stood by taking some previous form of knowledge (vehicle) and using it
conceptually.
A third implication was that sentences that have a literal meaning can be
said to not involve...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... bring narra-
tive expectations that undermine the survivor’s story. One pervasive non
sequitur is the hopefulness associated with liberation. Based to some extent
on early Holocaust books and movies, but to a larger extent on the applica-
tion of canonical narratives of abduction and imprisonment...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 639–661.
Published: 01 December 2022
... tyrannical behavior, and that consequently her mother became fearful and increasingly opposed to the relationship. Carson compares the situation of the wife to Persephone's abduction by Hades, the god of the dead, who, not coincidentally, is also known as “the unseen one” (Miles 1999 : 29), while the wife's...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the action of the series at diverse locations begin coming back to life moments after their deaths. This second group is powerfully drawn to the original risen from the graveyard and compelled to abduct and ultimately dispose of them. Eventually, several living characters close to the original risen...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 March 2011
... certainly observe
how most action is seen in the light of prior actions. The events of the Iliad
react largely to two framing events, namely, the abduction of Helen and
Agamemnon’s response to the plague. Likewise, each of the plays of the
Oresteia builds on an event prior to the staged plot...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 197–224.
Published: 01 March 2008
... deictics and
to understand the flawed nature of Allied internment policy. But it also
stresses Feuchtwanger’s heroic creativity (he completed five novels during
his exile period in Sanary-sur-Mer) and his daring escape from impris-
onment: he was abducted (entführt) by friends and brought...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 663–695.
Published: 01 December 2022
... theory of representation, nothing would be more erroneous than to imagine that the substance of a sign (the visible or audible sign “dog”) were part of any dog, or dogs in general. But with indexes it is not the same as with proper signs. Abduction from an index does characteristically involve positing...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... chances of suc-
cess in retaining his job is heightened throughout the novel, mainly by the
repeated interaction of elements already established. Bertrand’s promis-
cuity and self-interest13 throw Dixon and Christine together and lead to the
latter’s abduction at the May Ball, which in turn aggravates...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 387–436.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... The novels approach the subject
from many directions and express many different kinds of narrative trajec-
tories. We encounter here still more kinds of protagonists and focalizers:
the victim-avenger of The Levanter, who is robbed, abducted, and tortured
by terrorists but who escapes and eventually...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to come in this vein, and Devin Griffiths s Age of Analogy (2016) alsomarks a turn towardmore overt considerations of the logic of scientific inference. A related account of explanatory reasoning that Peirce termed abductive has informed the analysis of detective fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar...
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