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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2005
...) (Moscow: Knizhnaia palata). 1996 “Uranovaia udochka” (“The Uranium Rod”), Grani 179 : 170 -81. Target Audience, Hurdle Audience,
and the General Reader:
Varlam Shalamov’s Art of Testimony
Leona Toker
English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract Literary testimony combines...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 459–498.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to the Western tradition. And on this scholarly consensus has been constructed a fundamental dichotomy, ramifying into a series of binary oppositions: the metaphorical,figurative, transcendental nature of Western art, as against the metonymic,literal, immanentist nature of Chinese art. Critically reviewing...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 595–601.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics (New York: Grove). Said, Edward 1983 The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). The Art of Making It New, Revisited:
Beckett and Cliché
H. Porter Abbott
English, UC Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Barry, Beckett...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Karen Sullivan Representational and nonrepresentational (abstract) artists exhibit different conceptual processes when they describe their work. Data from ekphrastic texts written by artists to accompany their artwork show that, although both kinds of painters refer metaphorically to their art...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 497–516.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Federico Langer This is an exciting era for experimental (or empirical) aesthetics. For the first time developments in cognitive neuroscience have made it possible to probe the brain for the mechanisms involved in the appreciation and creation of works of art. These are exciting times, too...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 119–146.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Endings! ,” People , March 10 , 39 . Wilson George 2006 “ Transparency and Twist in Narrative Fiction Film ,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 ( 1 ): 81 – 95 . Wyatt Justin 1994 High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood ( Austin : University of Texas...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 485–518.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Historical Poetics and the morphological method have at different points been accused of favoring atomizing analysis over aesthetic appreciation. This putative inability to grasp the work of art as a totality is a taint that literary theory inherited from nineteenth-century philology, whose mission...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 403–423.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Renate Brosch This article examines the uses of ekphrasis in recent popular novels, situated in a cultural economy in which there is great public interest in art objects and the world of artists, dealers, and collectors. Discussing novels by Siri Hustvedt, Thomas van Essen, Ali Smith, and Donna...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 9–20.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., sustainable,intelligible, intellectually coherent paradigm for answering basic and recurring questions about the cognitive instruments of art, language, and literature. © 2002 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2002 Brown, Margaret Wise 1942 The Runaway Bunny , pictures by Clement...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 357–359.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Eyal Segal 2002 Beardsley, Monroe 1958 Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism (New York: Harcourt, Brace &World). Goodman, Nelson 1968 Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (Indianapolis, IN:Bobbs-Merrill). New Books at a Glance...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 151–174.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Viktor Shklovsky We get used to horrible things and stop fearing them. We get used to beautiful things and stop enjoying them. We get used to people and stop experiencing them as personalities. Art is a means to make things real again. These ideas, expressed by a very young and polemically minded...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 571–588.
Published: 01 December 2023
... enrich and inflect the meanings of our words as we use them, and, finally, (3) the significance that these issues concerning verbal or linguistic meaning hold for our comprehension of parallel forms of meaning in the visual arts. The emphasis is on the artistic representation of hybrid creatures...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 589–630.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that the hybrid functions as a prolific site of reflection on the symbolic analogy between art and witchcraft, highlighting the common creativity attributed to the artist and the magician both. A comparative analysis of Italian, German, and Dutch images produced in the long sixteenth century identifies three...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 217–250.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Ellen J. Esrock Embodied approaches to art history concerned with empathic projection can be reinforced by introducing empirical research that corroborates experiential observations about a spectator's bodily responses and by a more nuanced repertoire of bodily focused viewing. To reinforce...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 61–92.
Published: 01 February 2017
... is metaphorical bidirectionality possible, it explains how the arts enable us to iconically connect with the world through our embodied cognition, not as objective observers in the Western classical sense but as participatory sharers of that world. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017...
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The Music of Sympathy in the Arts of the Baroque; or, the Use of Difference to Overcome Indifference
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 607–650.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... This article delineates strategic points in the emergence of this sensibility and the forms and contexts of its presence in art during the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century. The primary thesis is that sympathy thrived where mimetic illusion failed. In the figurative terms...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 669–704.
Published: 01 December 2020
... such fundamental concepts as complication, resolution, and illustration. Since Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1766) distinguished the temporal arts like poetry, where signs are consecutive, from the spatial arts like painting, where signs are juxtaposed, the latter have been considered to be limited when it comes...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 583–587.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and the Visual Arts.] Hildesheim : Olms , 2019 . 596 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022 For anyone who regards books as merely two-dimensional surfaces whose task it is to make texts available, this volume is an eye-opener. Spanning nearly six hundred pages...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 631–646.
Published: 01 December 2023
... visual and sensual. Then the paradigms of visual rhetoric are outlined to propose a possible classification of visual hybrids, illustrated by contemporary examples from art and advertising. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 visual...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 125–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Meir Sternberg Trumpeted as the artistic hallmark, central to Russian Formalism, and persistent ever since, estrangement yet remains an ill-defined term. We have nothing like a comprehensive approach to it, equipped to specify its workings by kind, medium, art form, discourse level, historical...
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