Search Results for aging

...Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons [email protected] Jane Gallop , Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 , 152 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 Disability...

... 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 [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. This special issue, “Forms of Aging,” will appear...

... form institution References Bernaerts Lars . 2014 . “ Minds at Play: Narrative Games and Fictional Minds in B.S. Johnson's House Mother Normal .” Style 48 , no. 3 : 294 – 312 . Berndt Katrin , and Henke Jennifer . 2017 . “ Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice...

.... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... on the Border: 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...

...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...

...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...

...Elizabeth Allen [email protected] Arvind Thomas , “Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2019 . ix + 267 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022 Arvind Thomas has...

...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 [email protected] 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...

... storytelling in the age of streaming. What comes next, with the end of “Peak TV”? In this era of uncertainty, one thing remains certain: the enduring power of storytelling to transform, adapt, and captivate audiences amid the industry's shifting affordances and limitations. References Adalian Josef...

... 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...

..., to study the relationship between professional and amateur readers in the digital age, being attentive to the communicative mediums, specific platforms, and niche communities in which such practices take place. In this sense, BookTube is symptomatic of a larger disjuncture whereby amateur bookishness...