...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Phelan James , Reading the American Novel 1920 – 2010 . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2013 . viii + 270 pp. New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds., On Voice. Amsterdam: Rodopi...

...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 White Gillian , Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 360 pp. New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds...

...Eyal Segal Houen Alex , Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . viii + 282 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British...

...Eyal Segal Bendixen Alfred , ed., A Companion to the American Novel . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2012 . lxx + 633 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance Alfred Bendixen, ed., A Companion to the American Novel. Malden, MA...

... by models of syntax and musical phrasing. Second, it argues that these misclassifications — far from being esoteric matters of taxonomy — lie at the heart of African American aesthetics and identity politics in the 1920s and 1930s. Whereas literary blues verse has long been oversimplified with conventional...

...Kristiana Willsey Abstract In a post-draft era in which American civilians have grown increasingly apart from their military, veterans are urged to share their stories, to personalize distant and poorly understood conflicts—to make war meaningful. But individual veterans can't control the larger...

...Walter Reich Western cultures, and especially American culture, commonly disapprove of persons who refuse to forgive those who have harmed them and disapprove even more strongly of persons who harbor a desire for revenge. As a consequence, persons who live within those cultures and hold...

...Eyal Segal 2006 John Pier, ed., The Dynamics of Narrative Form: Studies in Anglo-American Narratology . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. 272 pp. Hamburger, Käte 1993 [1968] The Logic of Literature , 2nd rev. ed., translated by Marilyn J. Rose (Bloomington: Indiana University Press...

...Eyal Segal Punday Daniel , Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2010 . viii + 240 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance...

... much faculty were assigning) and perceptions (of how much they felt students were completing). For several decades, American researchers have been measuring how much of their assigned reading college students are completing. While results vary across studies, one indisputable conclusion...

... to and commentary on American folk poetry and its accompanying mythology. Reference points include Ruth Finnegan on oral poetics, George Lakoff on the contemporary theory of metaphor, and Aldous Huxley on the nature of altered states of consciousness. © 2003 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2003...

... studies, which privilege words (the “original”) over images (the adaptation itself). Instead, the analysis foregrounds the specificity of the Latin American cultural framework as one of camouflage, in which encryption and decoding are central and potentially empowering. This utopian thrust is located...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...

... narrators and focalizers is suggested and briefly exemplified through a number of well-known Anglo-American novels. © 2002 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2002 Bal, Mieke 1981 “Notes on Narrative Embedding,” Poetics Today 2 (2): 41 -59. 1985 [1977] Narratology...

...Luc Herman; Bart Vervaeck This essay aims to clarify how literary and nonliterary narratives function in society and culture. To reach this broad goal, it first presents a general framework inspired by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the American New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt...

... Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942 , one of the most iconic paintings in American art. My consideration draws on Harriet Tarlo’s recognition (2009) of the contemporary value of found poetry, here applied to advance the concerns of ekphrasis in the process of retooling its response to a changing public sphere...

... at work in religiously inspired jazz. It distinguishes different levels of religious meaning, purpose, and spiritual experience. In so doing, it explores productive resonances between the characteristics of jazz and Paul Corrigan’s definition of “postsecular” American poetry written in the late twentieth...

... sequence. I conclude with close readings of two moments from Michael Roemer's 1964 film about African American life, Nothing but a Man : they illustrate how suture enables the narration of intersubjectivity in film, in its embodiments (including the political) from violation and humiliation to evasion...

... that become more common in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? This essay addresses these questions through a reading of two poems that fantasize the imagined ruins of London: Thomas Littleton's “The State of England and the Once Flourishing City of London. In a Letter from an American...

... positions, central among which is that of the dissident author Ivan Klíma. Ultimately, Roth's resistance to stereotypical discourse on the socialist Other comes at an important sociocultural moment in the 1980s, when other American intellectuals prefer the security granted by the narrative of tamizdat...