.... Gillian Beer’s ‘‘The Making of a Cliché: ‘No Man Is an Island is a case study of an age-old cliché. Largely phatic, clichés form an integral part of communication, serving to ‘‘hold open neutral spaces within a common community...

...: Alexander Veselovsky and Narrative Hybridity in the Age of World Literature Kate Holland University of Toronto Abstract The idea of narrative hybridity was central to the work of the Russian literary theorist Alexander Veselovsky (1838 – 1906), particularly to his unfinished work His- torical...

...Lutz Koepnick Abstract Compression is often considered a royal road to process data in ever-shorter time and to cater to our desire to outspeed the accelerating transmission of information in the digital age. This article explores how different techniques of accelerated text dissemination...

... to the transhistorical possibilities of elegy for the Anthropocene reader. Pausing on Tennyson's imperative to “let the ape and tiger die,” Taylor explores how In Memoriam 's treatment of evolution, extinction, and geological time help us conceptualize the environmental losses of the present age. How might we think...

...Anita Wohlmann Abstract Stereotypes and clichés about older age typically evoke criticism and resistance. Rightly so, given that they simplify, overgeneralize, distort, and limit. This article treats stereotypes and clichés as forms that can indeed have powerful and harmful meanings; however...

...Nathaniel A. Windon nathanielwindon@gmail.com Melanie V. Dawson , Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 2020 , 364 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 Melanie V. Dawson's Edith...

... slowness: Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Lee Chang-dong's Poetry ( 2010 ). The essay treats the slowness that can accompany age as an experiential form and places it on the same plane of formalist inquiry as slow cinema, an aesthetic form characterized by a decelerated pace, long takes, minimalist...

... media as a touchstone for both defining literature in the digital age and inquiring into the mechanisms of contemporary canon formation. The article thus aims at introducing the Germanophone approach to canon developed in recent years and its results to a larger scholarly community. © 2015 by Porter...

... of representation in Piers Plowman . References Alford John A. 1977 . “ Literature and Law in Medieval England .” PMLA 92 , no. 5 : 941 – 51 . Sobecki Sebastian . 2020 . “ Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages , by Arvind Thomas .” English...

... and Disability . New York : New York University Press . Twigg Juila . 2004. “The Body, Gender, and Age: Feminist Insights in Social Gerontology.” Journal of Aging Studies 18 , no. 1 : 59 – 73 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2003.09.001 . Yoshizaki-Gibbons Hailee M . 2018...

... of the book's length for a general discussion of aging, poetry and temporality. One should bear in mind that Universe is not a retrospective work of synthesis but rather a present and future-oriented project. The point of departure for the article's analysis will be the following passage from Northern Soul...

...Jacob Jewusiak What issues emerge across the essays in this volume that demonstrate the potential for a formalism to arise from aging (rather than formalism being used exclusively as the means of extracting meaning about aging from the text)? Both aging and older age, the authors demonstrate...

... , no. 3 : 294 – 312 . Berndt Katrin , and Henke Jennifer . 2017 . “ Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’ and Sarah Polley's Away from Her .” In Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care , edited by Chivers Sally...

.... This article reads the sterility dystopia—a subgenre of science fiction where a global inability to have children results in aging populations and societal collapse—as registering the anxiety that arises at the intersection of age and the environment. Taking The Children of Men as a case study, I suggest...

...Alice Crossley Abstract This essay reads Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s controversial novel Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) for its contribution to discourses about aging masculinity and male sexuality in later life. The Diary meditates on the mental and physical vicissitudes of aging masculinity, arousal...

...Aagje Swinnen Abstract Scholars in literary aging studies typically engage in oppositional readings that reveal the often-hidden age ideologies of texts while addressing points of exit from these ideologies. This form of research is ethical and political in that it aims to clarify cultural meanings...

...Katherine Kruger Abstract Changes to working life and retirement are reshaping temporalities of aging. This essay identifies a growing interest by women writers in the narrative possibilities these changes present. Examining the relation between narrative form, aging, and precarious work in Deborah...

... and rhetoric have been linked in these recent theories and the ways literature has been excluded from this nexus. Turning to the Middle Ages,the article examines a different nexus between literature and rhetoric. Whereas advertising is typically seen in current theory as fundamentally“antipoetic...

...Jessica Bundschuh In an Internet age dominated by network structures and visuality, contemporary ekphrastic critics and writers have felt prompted to question anew the value of ekphrasis to its readers. That is, it has become important to demarcate a site for ekphrasis’s continued cultural currency...