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Journal Article
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. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 abduction comics inference multimodality semantics...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 776–778.
Published: 01 December 2017
... characters from
their myths and turned them into mythical figures. One such early example is
Henri Jeanmaire’s insertion of the story of Persephone’s 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...
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 (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as she needs him. This is due to the fantastic aspects of the story. The end of the novel makes Tom's need for Polly explicit, when Laurel's curse and plan to sacrifice Tom is disclosed. Laurel is the ultimate intergenerational abuser in the novel, abducting and sacrificing young people to extend her own...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 575–595.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Kochbuch, das jeder braucht . Zürich : Arche Verlag . Rose Margaret A. 1993 . Parody: Ancient, Modern, and Post-modern . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Roubaud Jacques . (1987) 2000 . Hortense Is Abducted , translated by Dominic Di Bernardi. Normal, IL : Dalkey...
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
... the reader’s interpretative activity regarding the vari-
ous 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...
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
... conceptual-
izations but also the creation of scientific theories. Each scientific or math-
ematical theory is thus what Charles 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...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 639–661.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., 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 mother is recast as a modern...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... 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, people expect
liberation to be an exhausting but joyous release from suffering...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 March 2011
... movement from notions of action to
reactions.15 In the classic epics and Greek drama, one can 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...
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 (2022) 43 (4): 663–695.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... Abduction from an index does characteristically involve positing a substantive part-whole (or part-part) relation. Smoke is a kind of “part” of fire, for instance. A person's smile (the cheshire cat excepted) is a part of the friendly person it betokens. (104) If we conceive of a layered...
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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 (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...
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