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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ron Ben-Tovim [email protected] Nil Santianez , The Literature of Absolute War: Transnationalism and World War II . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 274 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022 Nil Santianez's book-length...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 269–294.
Published: 01 June 2016
...-Leninism or so-called dialectical materialism but rather in a neutralization of the inevitable contradictions of the “actually achieved” spatial utopia by projecting them onto the temporal axis. The essence of Soviet ideology thus lies in the absolute and enduring future projection of present...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 September 2015
... statements and propositions. The fact that narrative operation often implies a poetics of truth telling makes literary narratives—and complex novels, above all—a privileged genre for conveying insights about life and the world, especially at a time when we no longer believe in one absolute truth universally...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 613–636.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the immediacy of intuitions with the lawfulness of concepts—is a hopelessly riven “I-think.” Reading Kant was a traumatic event for contemporaries, especially for philosophers, who attempted to make the world whole again by formulating new versions of absolute unity. It was Wilhelm von Humboldt who theorized...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 125–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... in two silent Formalist logics of making strange: one absolute and universalist, the other more relativized to history, both originating in Shklovsky's own ambivalence, or thoughtlessness, and still going strong. The reversions include the underground pushing of the idea to some extremein (Post...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 105–129.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to apply a “flickering” reading practice. This kind of practice rejects the oedipal role of the author as a father, in the Lacanian sense, who is the absolute subject responsible for constructing meaning and forming the law of the text. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 June 2016
... offer and how useful they are in
helping us, human beings, respond to the challenges facing us, regardless of
the extent to which those challenges can be said to have been of our own
making up to now.
Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism: Absolute Contingency
The question motivating Meillassoux...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 623–644.
Published: 01 December 2021
... economies significantly distinct from one another. First, on a deep philosophical plane, the Chinese are traditionally characterized by a constant tendency to pursue the absolute truth (Shen and Zhou 2006 : 142). The Chinese conceptualization of the absolute truth, in contrast to that in the West...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 603–609.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... But by asserting the pragmatic position and power of literature within
and above the political arena, so runs the argument, Céline in the 1930s
came to define writing as an act of absolute authority, indeed of terror. He
rejected not only the avant-garde writer figure removed from the world,
but also...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 409–433.
Published: 01 September 2023
... be the deconstructive event itself that comes from the absolute outside. If David can be read as an allegorical representation of Jesus, then this analysis cannot be separated from his sense of the possible manifestation of non sense within the ordinary. David's epistemology is radically different because...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 March 2021
...- nar/seminary as sites of seed-sowing, reproduction, and cultivation, one finds the se´minaire to be on the side of living speech. And yet, short of testi- fying to an absolute division between speech and writing, speech as seminar is here conceived of as a form of writing or trace...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 609–625.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., propositional statements—
and statements of absolute value, which cannot, by definition, be transformed into proposi-
tional statements: ‘‘Although all judgments of relative value can be shown to be mere state-
ments of facts, no statement of fact can ever be, or imply, a judgment of absolute value...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2007
...
of our well-being in the same manner as geometrical figures. Euclidean
geometry is, after all, the domain of strict necessity and absolute certainty.
Triangles are eternally and everywhere the same. Their properties, such as
the sum of their interior angles equaling 180 degrees, are deducible...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., that is, as an instance of mediation between society and
nature. Rather, they use the affective bond to move within the spatiotem-
poral framework as their argument requires. We will see much the same
strategy when we analyze the other historians.
My second example from McKeon is taken from part 2. Absolutism pro...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 91–122.
Published: 01 March 2002
... argue, develops an unstable but imagina-
tively attractive response: a relation of absolute and illicit passion. I exam-
ine in some detail, drawing on Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier’s
model of conceptual integration networks, how the semantic domains of
love and politics are brought together...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 561–593.
Published: 01 December 2020
... visible. That is the historical lesson to be drawn from de Man s much-discussed reading of Baudelaire. And in this sense, it really is imperative to historicize the theory of lyric and to ascribe, as does for example Jackson, an absolutely central role to the nine- teenth century in the history...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 275–281.
Published: 01 June 2024
... much for machine authorship. But now the question comes: aren't humans, especially when using language, more like LLMs than we like to think? Isn't this absolute difference between intention and non-intention, responsibility and non-responsibility, exactly what the work of the humanities aimed...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 221–249.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., ordinary-life irony seems to be no ‘‘natural kind in Sperber and
Wilson’s words. I suggest that real-life irony is a concept that stretches beyond
one core principle.
238 Poetics Today 23:2
2.1.6. ‘‘Unlocated’’ or ‘‘Absolute’’ Incongruities Why call some incon-
gruities ‘‘absolute What...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 665–675.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of demonstrating the inherent flatness of the painting medium. But despite their vast differences, both phases of modernism were united in their purism. They both strove toward the establishment of one unifying principle, one all-encompassing and absolute order to put an end to the dialectic flux of history...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (2): 317–352.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of my thoughts and the absolute chastity of my
life” (Ford 1995 [1915]: 15; all further references to the novel will be to the
1995 edition). Because Dowell’s avowal applies to “the whole of [his] days”
and also to “[his] life,” it is clearly marked as a claim of stable identity.
And because...
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