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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (4): 695–727.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Effect (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). 147 ‘‘Ocular Proof Archival Revelations and Aesthetic Response 7026 Poetics Today / 24:4 / sheet 57 of James A. Knapp...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 609–625.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Kathrin Stengel An inquiry into Wittgenstein's ethics and aesthetics has to start with the following questions: Can an aesthetics and/or ethics be extracted from his philosophical texts at all? If yes, what kind of aesthetics and/or ethics does Wittgenstein offer beyond his well-known aphoristic...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 564–567.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Wolf Werner , Bernhart Walter , and Mahler Andreas , eds., Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2013 . vi + 390 pp. New Books at a Glance...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2022
... self-knowledge and our experience of all reality. Her argument includes the sciences within her view of aesthetic cognition. Although the means is absolutely contemporary and alive to our collective insights from current cognitive science, the conclusion is one that would be recognizable to almost all...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 545–570.
Published: 01 December 2023
... . Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics . Nature, Science, and the Arts, vol. 12 . Bern : Peter Lang . Gal Michalle . 2019 . “ Visual Metaphors: Revisiting the Non-conceptual .” In Vision Fulfilled the Victory of the Pictorial Turn , edited by Benedek András...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 301–314.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Degas’s 1873 Dance Class enable audiences to experience a form of social connection unavailable to them in everyday life. Drawing on perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse comprehension, and empirical aesthetics, the author shows how the cumulative experience of grasping what a literary text...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 637–664.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Caryl Emerson As literary critics and language theorists, Viktor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin each utilize “aesthetic distance” in an unconventional way—unrelated, it would seem, to the usual aesthetic criteria of beauty, goodness, or truth. For the Formalist Shklovsky, the distancing...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 595–608.
Published: 01 December 2004
... and the same Arguing that ethics, truth, and aesthetics have been implicitly or explicitly part of literary dis- course for many years, despite being constantly disavowed, I suggest that the recent movement called the ‘‘New Aestheticism’’ can contribute much to understanding the relationship between ethics...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 489–495.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Thane Rosenbaum A “post-Holocaust novelist” describes the reason for insisting on this category and explains why he thinks the Holocaust itself should not be directly portrayed. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 The Audacity of Aesthetics: The Post-Holocaust Novel...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 117–142.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Nadine Kuperty-Tsur This essay considers the aesthetic changes in French poetry and painting as a result of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in August 1572. By the end of the same year, the formal purity and striving for detailed perfection that defined mannerism were no longer relevant goals...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 471–515.
Published: 01 September 2009
...: New York Review of Books). Dixon, Robert 1986 “Aesthetics: A Cognitive Account,” Leonardo 19 (3): 237 -40. Eaglestone, Robert 2003 “Critical Knowledge, Scientific Knowledge, and the Truth of Literature,” in The New Aestheticism , edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas, 151 -66...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 641–674.
Published: 01 December 2016
... contradictions resulting from the recent aesthetically and historically detached approaches of narratological and postmodernist analyses. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Edgar Allan Poe detective fiction self-reflective irony narratology References Baudrillard...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 393–412.
Published: 01 June 2017
... insight that adaptation is the norm and not the exception in human imagination finds an unexpectedly large field of application. This shift away from the narrow standard paradigm of novels adapted for the screen to a more fundamental aesthetics of adaptation has also helped establish connections between...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 751–761.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Michael Larson Jameson’s Affective Turn: Bodily States, Temporality, and Aesthetics after Modernity Michael Larson University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Fredric Jameson, The Ancients and the Postmoderns. New York: Verso, 2015. 306 pp. If the abundance of scholarly work...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 235–268.
Published: 01 June 2019
... References Antunes Luis Rocha . 2016 . The Multisensory Film Experience: A Cognitive Model of Experiential Film Aesthetics . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Asher Nicholas Lascarides Alex . 2003 . Logics of Conversation . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 717–752.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Margaret H. Freeman This paper argues that the cognitive sciences need to incorporate aesthetic study of the arts into their methodologies to fully understand the nature of human cognitive processes, because the arts reflect insights into human experience that are unobtainable by the methodologies...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 461–465.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Justine Pizzo Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer , eds., Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire . New York : Fordham University Press , 2019 . viii + 261 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 How might we think...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 479–532.
Published: 01 September 2022
... million posts to #poetsofinstagram alone, yet this so-called fidget-spinner literature has received little scholarly attention. While some magazines have featured the well-known Rupi Kaur, no academic work to date has extensively analyzed the aesthetics and cultural antecedents of Instapoetry...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., control, and impotence, focused through the fictional diarist Utsugi's physical ailments and expression of libidinal intensities. The article argues for Tanizaki's depiction of male aging as an exercise in both disenfranchisement and agentive potential. First, it reads the aging process through aesthetic...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Marco Caracciolo This essay argues against the prevalent view of the aesthetics implicit in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse . It is an aesthetics of closure, an attempt to make “of the moment something permanent” (Woolf 2000a [1927]: 176), which is usually associated (as are Woolf's own...