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Creative Accounting: Role-Playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 113–139.
Published: 01 March 2005
... on possible-world models. In both, emphasis is placed on the objects that make up this world. In role-playing games and recent theories of fictional world, this essay argues, emphasis on objects makes possible intertextual comparisons, which in turn help to define and rejuvenate the agency of readers...
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Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 387–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Hanna Meretoja; Eevastiina Kinnunen; Päivi Kosonen Abstract This article lays out the theoretical-analytic framework of narrative agency, three central dimensions of which are narrative awareness, narrative imagination, and narrative dialogicality, and presents a model of metanarrative reading...
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Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 March 2025
...—be it a temporal loop or mental illness—to rejoin a shared timeline. Drawing from temporalities of resistance, the author illustrates how the time loop films analyzed in this essay resist this call for a normative chronology through character- and viewer-based agency. First, the author shows how the protagonists...
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From “Under the Rose” to V .: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 633–656.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). Jakobson, Roman 1960 “Linguistics and Poetics,” in Style in Language , edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, 350 -77 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Kies, D. 1992 “The Uses of Passivity:Suppressing Agency in Nineteen Eighty-four,” in Advances...
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Social Networking Sites as Contexts for Uses of Narrative: Toward a Story-Critical Approach to Digital Environments
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 335–362.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in current analyses of the digital as a context for narrative. The aim is to construct tools for a semiotics of the imperceptible, an approach to analyze the ways in which the digital shapes human agency in dimensions the users cannot directly perceive but which nevertheless affect users’ sense of what...
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“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 435–462.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and mutative agency of immaterial relations responsible for epigenesis, or the molecular signals that alter genetic expression. To examine the agency of blankness as it applies across literary theory and epigenesis, this essay borrows from science studies, new materialisms, biosemiotics, new formalisms...
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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
... science and cultural artifacts, concerning the threat posed to life on the planet by human impacts. One notable form of time-loop pattern, which is particularly strong in the 1980s, uses plots of enhanced fictional agency in which time-traveling characters, often retroactively, prevent anthropogenic...
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Crowds in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Historical Writing
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 549–568.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of England , and Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. In particular, it examines the behavior of crowds as a whole, individuals (especially leaders), and subgroups in terms of the key notions of agency, moral responsibility, organization, and action. Finally, it places this debate within the context...
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A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s “⌰ (Total Runout)”
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
... as variable events, boldly problematize communication and cognitive processes in networks—whether they are implemented in computer systems by secret agencies or corporations. Hatcher’s critique of black boxes entails re-creating issues of security, control and surveillance, as digital systems are increasingly...
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Reading Times: Temporalities and Time Work in Current Everyday Reading Practices
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... that time is not just a practical issue to consider (when and where to read), or just something to work on through reading (e.g., changing a boring time into flow time). Texts also affect the readers’ sense of time; that is, agency lies in the literature read as well as the reader. The empirical data...
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Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Hemlock , given that it is addressed to young readers and there is concern that children's books could be used for grooming. Controversially, both novels locate the desire in the young girl rather than the old man and explore the agency and moments of disempowerment that the female characters experience...
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Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 463–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... agency. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 narrating the future crisis of imagination complexity collective agency world literature Ukrainian novel The future is nowadays a global concern. Across a variety of disciplines...
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Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Steven Willemsen Abstract Narrative time loops can challenge key dimensions of story comprehension, including causality, chronology, agency, and continuity. But how can such temporally puzzling experiences contribute to narrative engagement? This essay argues that many contemporary loop narratives...
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in Visual Hybrids as Constitutive Rhetorical Acts: Rhetorical Interplay between Unity and Difference
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Published: 01 December 2023
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Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason by Talal Asad
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 469–471.
Published: 01 September 2020
... 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics meritocratic rather than equitable society. Moreover, the accompanying notion of the subject as a self-governing agent, unfettered by religious tra- dition, constructs women who wear the hijab as subjects without authentic agency and hence unable...
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Small Stories in Charity Fundraising Letters and the Ethics of Interwoven Individualism
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2022
... ( 2018a ) asks whose agency is enabled through the representative experiencers’ stories. The story of the potential donor, as the key agent in the letter's multiple narratives, is the focus of section 3. The term supporter is often used within the fundraising sector, rather than donor...
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Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... reveals their world-making potential, which allows for imagining alternative futures, and serves as an emancipatory means for cultivating individual agency that is based not on certainty or metaphysics but rather on skepticism and relations between people, providing an “immunity” against uncurbed romantic...
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Black Hamlet : Psychoanalysis on Trial in South Africa
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 413–433.
Published: 01 June 2001
... or compromised agency in
general.
When Sachs feels overwhelmed by his own self-assumed responsibilities,
he cries out, perhaps unwittingly echoing Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ‘‘How
could I, one small individual, root up the curse of humanity Thus
when, late in the book, Sachs begins to see John as Odysseus...
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Wordsworth’s “First-Born Affinities”: Intimations of Embodied Cognition
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 693–715.
Published: 01 December 2011
... 1975 [1700] An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , edited by Nidditch P. H. ( Oxford : Clarendon ). Mar Raymond A. Kelley William M. Heatherton Todd F. Macrae C. Neil 2007 “ Detecting Agency from the Biological Motion of Veridical versus Animated Agents ,” Social...
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