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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 269–297.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of the actual world, as both various kinds of reenactments and sometimes radical forms of subjectivity have (yet again) become well-established elements of many documentary films. However, it would seem that summarily treating “hybrid” documentary films, “animated documentaries,” and “documentary games...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 4 Three Witches Transformed into Animals , woodcut, in Ulrich Molitor's De Lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus , Ulm: Johann Zainer, ca. 1495. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. More
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Olivier Morin; Oleg Sobchuk Abstract Monsters and other imaginary animals have been conjured up by a wide range of cultures. Can their popularity be explained, and can their properties be predicted? These were long-standing questions for structuralist or cognitive anthropology, as well as literary...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
... order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, routines versus animals, in the context of circus traveling(fieldwork carried out in 1975-79).The circus display of both animals and humans...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that characterize collective human ontologies (animism, naturalism, totemism, analogism) through distinctive operations of symbolization (literality, metaphor, metonymy, analogy). These modes of ecopoetic symbolization serve to bring nonhumans, such as animals, plants, mountains, or rivers, into human own-worlds...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 693–715.
Published: 01 December 2011
...David S. Miall In his early poetic writing (around 1797–99), William Wordsworth (1770–1850) often expressed a sense of animism: a sentience to be found not only in living beings but also in the air and in stones. Support for the underlying, psychological meaning of Wordsworth’s account is provided...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Jeffrey Pence Cinema's power to represent animate life, and produce a profound impression of reality, warrants and supports its other fascinating capacity, namely, to fabricate frank yet appealing illusions. In certain instances, audiences may respond to the fantastic creations as if to a new...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 561–593.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Klas Molde In a supposedly enlightened and disenchanted age, why has lyric poetry continued to make claims and perform gestures that are now otherwise inadmissible or even unimaginable? Animation, invocation, and unmotivated praise, apparently artificially imposed (dis)order, and spurious gnomic...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 323–348.
Published: 01 June 2011
... emotion modifies another; and a tendency to animism, the interpretation of objects and events through human emotions, especially in the early phases of response, prior to consciousness. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 References Bergson Henri 1910 Time...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Suzanne Keen Pursuing my earlier theory of strategic narrative empathy, this essay shows Thomas Hardy's bounded strategic empathy for his fictional creations, Wessex countrymen and women; his ambassadorial strategic empathy for animals and select members of despised outgroups; and his broadcast...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to comparative literature explores points of alignment between the two fields, outlining possible cognitivist interventions into debates that have been animating comparative literature, such as those concerning “universals,” politics of translatability (especially in the context of world literature...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... Elsewhere, both temporally and culturally, theory of mind is certainly present and useful but not always prized in social life and does not animate expressive culture to the same extent. Such societies are structured by kinship sociality that presumes relatively stable identity and valorizes guileless...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 589–630.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Figure 4 Three Witches Transformed into Animals , woodcut, in Ulrich Molitor's De Lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus , Ulm: Johann Zainer, ca. 1495. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. ...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 579–596.
Published: 01 September 2019
... . “ What Do We Want from Talking Animals?: Reflections on Literary Representations of Animal Voices and Minds .” In Speaking for Animals: Animal Biographical Writing , edited by DeMello Margo , 17 – 33 . London : Routledge . Bekoff Mark . 2000 . Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 597–614.
Published: 01 September 2006
...- twentieth-century precursors.These artists say that most circuses are dimin- ished entertainments, which have lost their sparkle, their audiences, and with animal-rights activists relentlessly tracking their treatment of perform- ing animals and the panic proliferation of alternative and more novel enter...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 15–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
...), whereas it is recovered by Janet Soskice (1985), who renames it “interani- mative theory,” implying that the two parts “animate” each other. In none of these models is there any recognition, however, that the met- aphorical process might involve some inherent implication, whereby the source sheds...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 778–781.
Published: 01 December 2017
...). Referred to in the introduction as a “frequent conceptual investment” in “prosthetic articulationality,” this engaging and eclectic work is made up of several episodic sites of deconstruction, in each case of “the integrity of the animal organism by means of its inanimate ‘dependencies’” (27...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 505–511.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Visual hybrids are ubiquitous in art, religion, folklore, and popular culture. Some of the very first examples of representational visual art are of hybrids, such as the human/animal hunters of the cave art of Sulawesi in Indonesia, dated back to at least 43,900 years ago, recently reported by Aubert et...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 513–543.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., is a classic example—are ubiquitous throughout human art, mythology, religion, and culture. Some of the very first attestations of representational visual art are of hybrids, such as the human-animal hunters of the cave art of Sulawesi in Indonesia, dated back to at least 43,900 years ago, recently reported...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 571–588.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the incubus or the dream of that experience. The incubus, a hybrid male creature composed of human and animal parts that visits women in dreams, sits on their bodies, causes nightmares, in some stories engages in sexual activity, and steals away before the woman awakens, was in some cultures actually believed...