... the question of why anecdotal evidence features centrally and has come to play a key role in New Historicist writing. Here, I contend that, as components of narrative discourse, anecdotal materials are central in enabling New Historicists to make discernible on the surface of their discourse procedures...

... elements that led him ultimately to a distinctively literary historical mode of thought. Drawing on the resources of opinion, anecdote, and secret history, he articulates possibilities for historicist inquiry that continue to stand as powerful alternatives to the romantic ideology. © 2005 by the Porter...

...Françoise Lavocat When, why, and how do people write about a natural disaster? The article characterizes three ways of narrating catastrophe—allegorical, anecdotal, and historical—and shows that a shift toward the historical narrative takes place at the beginning of the seventeenth century, more...

... Historicisms in Renaissance Studies,” in The Uses of the Canon: Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory , 142 – 69 ( Oxford : Clarendon ). Fineman Joel 1989 “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction,” in Veeser 1989 , 49 – 76 . Foucault Michel 1990 [1978...

... (for an insightful analysis of the innuendos of published letters see Spacks Our ‘‘letter’’ pays no heed to the authorial conventions typically associated with letters published in maga- zines: it evokes no tone of intimacy or hint of consciousness, implies no relationship or stance, recounts no anecdotal...

... us smile at the narrator’s unwarranted confidence in memory or, at the very least, at his decision to make such a remark during an anecdote that illustrates the contrary. This authorial irony becomes more salient as we continue reading. First, the narrator tells us that Swann, “never having...

..., but concerns, rather, the more general problem that people have a tendency to reduce the complexity of an individual life to a simple, sentimental storyline. Through gossipy storytelling, Daisy is reduced to an anecdote about two dramatic episodes in her life: her birth process, during which her mother died...

... Historicist’s anecdote, somehow gets us closer, even if its ultimate insights are somewhat similar. There is a sense that the attention to materiality confirms the account by 12 virtue...

... and loaded each poem so heavily with commentary and anecdote that the effect was closer to citation than reading. At one point, he addressed the crowd: ‘‘I mean, you want me to be a poet He claimed instead to be ‘‘a result of having listened...

... that, for reading assignments not actively incorporated into the course structure, many students may be unlikely to complete them. How much reading are faculty assigning? Very little research has been done on this question. Anecdotally, the first author recalls from her undergraduate days that each semester...

... behind public, political, and mili- tary actions: Arrigo Caterino Davila’s The History of the Civil Wars of France (translated into English from the Italian in 1644, into French in 1657) and Antoine Varillas’s Histoire de Charles X (1683) and Les anecdotes de Florence; ou, L’histoire secre`te de la...

... psychologist, demonstrates in his analysis of the effects of atrocity on the survivor’s life. The deeply personal nature of testimony is of the essence and has its impact on listener and viewer. I do not wish to insist, however, that we always have to be addressed in the form of story or anecdote to take...

... . Fineman Joel 1986 Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets ( Berkeley : University of California Press ). 1989 “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction,” in The New Historicism , edited by Veeser H. Aram , 49 – 76 ( London...

... with a complex, communally shared repertoire of conventions, and the insti- tutions and practices of society.” Further, such negotiations are reinforced by the discursive method of “thick description” (inspired by the cultural anthro- pologist Clifford Geertz [1973]) and are presented in an anecdotal...

.... In Rodden’s (2001: 10) terms they would probably be called raconteurs “whose main unit of discourse is the anecdote.” Singer found it hard to resist interviews,8 yet he seemed anxious about them. For example, during the preparations for an interview on Swedish television, he nervously requested, “Don’t...

..., and the exploration of new everyday genres of the public lit- erary sphere: the newspaper feuilleton, the sketch (ocherk), the anecdote, and the document, in order to produce ‘‘the literature of facts’’ (Shklovsky 1929).Yet Shklovsky’s own practice of ocherk and literatura fakta harks back to Charles Baudelaire’s...

..., people, society, the current world. To apply his own nomenclature, they are all ‘‘motivateddistanced, camouflaged, materi- alized—and in real-life terms at that, not just realistic. Thus, an anecdote about the writer Alexei Remizov (Shklovsky 1971 [1923]: 21, 24) alludes to 164 Poetics Today 27:1...

... of specific books and films on groups of readers” are said to “rely on little more than speculations and anecdotes to support [the] claims of actual effects” (234). Even empirical research (on foregrounding) within the humanities draws scorn. In a detailed analysis of Willie Van Peer (1986) and David M...

... perspective proposed by the poet Meir Wieseltier In his seminal manifesto and historical essay, Wieseltier presents Yeshu- run as ‘‘an idiosyncratic anecdote’’ from the perspective of the dominant modernists, notably Zach, who...

... of philosophical writing that prevailed in his contemporary world. In support of this assertion, we have, most obviously, the evidence of his actual practice, in which he mixes rig- orously abstract argumentation with all manner of anecdotal material, humor, and trivia that often resembles...