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Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility

Bipin Indurkhya, Amitash Ojha
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 93–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3716240
Published: 01 February 2017
...Bipin Indurkhya; Amitash Ojha In a verbal metaphor, the target and the source domains can usually be distinguished clearly, and some features of the source domain are mapped to the target domain, and not vice versa. This asymmetry of metaphor has been acknowledged in conceptual metaphor theory...
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Metaphor: The Journey from Bidirectionality to Unidirectionality

Roy Porat, Yeshayahu Shen
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 123–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3716252
Published: 01 February 2017
... the following: (1) The relation between the same two concepts/domains can, in principle, be either bidirectional or unidirectional. Hence, even if there is a conceptual asymmetry between the metaphor concepts/domains (so that one of them is a better candidate for being assigned the source function than...
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Principles That Promote Bidirectionality in Verbal Metaphor

Albert N. Katz, Hamad Al-Azary
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 35–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3716215
Published: 01 February 2017
... for use is knowledge available in semantic space (e.g., distance, feature types, concreteness, and density). The authors review and report studies that demonstrate that the information available in semantic space can invite bidirectionality or topic-vehicle asymmetry, and that bidirectionality can be more...
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Metaphor and Affect

Pradeep Sopory
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 433–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-433
Published: 01 September 2005
...: Cambridge University Press). Ortony, Andrew, Richard J. Vondruska, Mark A. Foss, and Lawrence E. Jones 1985 “Salience, Similes, and the Asymmetry of Similarity,” Journal of Memory and Language 24 : 569 -94. Priester, Joseph R., and Richard Petty 1996 “The Gradual Threshold Model of Ambivalence...
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Target First: On “Bidirectionality and Metaphor”

Mark J. Bruhn
Poetics Today (2018) 39 (4): 703–733.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-7150952
Published: 01 December 2018
... “ Dugald Stewart: His Development in Scottish and European Context ,” special issue, of History of European Ideas 38 , no 1 : 1 – 178 . Indurkhya Bipin Ojha Amitash 2017 “ Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility ,” Poetics Today 38 : 93 – 121...
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Bidirectionality and Metaphor: An Introduction

Chanita Goodblatt, Joseph Glicksohn
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3716189
Published: 01 February 2017
... “Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility.” Special issue , Poetics Today 38 , no. 1 : 93 – 122 . Jackendoff Ray Aaron David 1991 “More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff; Mark Turner,” Language 67 , no. 2 : 320 – 38...
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Some Cognitive Foundations of “Cultural Programs”

Reuven Tsur
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 63–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-1-63
Published: 01 March 2002
... as they talk’’ (cf. below, n. I also claimed that in the syllabo-tonic system in English, Hebrew, and Hungarian poetrylines 3 are overwhelmingly more frequent thanlines. The same asymmetry is found in French syllabic verse. I concluded therefore that theline...
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Why Monsters Are Dangerous

Olivier Morin, Oleg Sobchuk
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824226
Published: 01 December 2023
... by appealing to evolutionary psychology. There is a good evolutionary rationale for being wary of unknown biological entities (plants or animals). As we saw when discussing predators, there is a cost asymmetry to the identification of dangerous animals and plants. The costs of misidentifying a toxic plant...
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Visual Hybrids and Nonconceptual Aesthetic Perception

Michalle Gal
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 545–570.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824170
Published: 01 December 2023
... of it) with subsequent visual hybrids. Thus, Gil and Shen examine asymmetric linguistic units’ effect on the visual nongrammatical, nonverbal medium (Gil and Shen 2019 : 2). I find the encounter between the asymmetry of linguistic phrases and the visual hybrid to be paradigmatic of the freezing effect that language...
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Another Look at Retrospection: The Backward Movement of the Narrative Unconscious

Marina Ludwigs
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 697–727.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10017723
Published: 01 December 2022
... representation of the timeline. Just as in a river, the forward and backward directions of narrativity are not symmetrical because time runs in one direction. Instead of using the river metaphor, scientists speak of this asymmetry as the arrow of time , another term that stresses the directionality...
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Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative

Wibke Schniedermann, Steven Willemsen, Sean A. Yeager
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557569
Published: 01 March 2025
... foundational articulation of cybernetics , stating that “ within any world with which we can communicate, the direction of time is uniform .” If his argument is correct, the communicative asymmetries of narration may be a necessary condition for rupturing temporal linearity. 5. Though the dynamics...
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Keats's Hyperion : Time, Space, and the Long Poem

Lilach Lachman
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 89–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-89
Published: 01 March 2001
... that are intertwined in our percep- tion, my argument is informed by two theoretical ideas adapted from Stern- berg’s work on spatio-temporal dynamics. First, in his studies of narrative and its theory of the art of description and of biblical poetics Sternberg emphasizes the asymmetry between the medium...
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The Nature of Poetic Texts

Margaret H. Freeman
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 535–547.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-535
Published: 01 September 2005
... dichotomies characterized by cogni- tive overloadsplit and integrated focus’’ and ‘‘convergent and divergent style The final two chapters provide further extensions of Tsur’s approach by examining the cognitive foundations of religious imagery in poetry and analyzing the asymmetry of sacred, sexual...
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Defaulting to Fiction: Neuroscience Rediscovers the Romantic Imagination

Alan Richardson
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 663–692.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1459845
Published: 01 December 2011
... : 1414 – 34 . Merker Bjorn 2007 “ Memory, Imagination, and the Asymmetry between Past and Future ,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 ( 3 ): 325 – 26 . Modell Arnold H. 2003 Imagination and the Meaningful Brain ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press ). Nalbantian Suzanne...
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“Twofold Vibration”: Samuel Beckett's Laws of Form

Ingo Berensmeyer
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 465–495.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-25-3-465
Published: 01 September 2004
... over their asymmetry in the theory as it stands—see Lehmann 2002. 476 Poetics Today 25:3 whichformscanbefixedAmedium is a large mass of loosely coupled elements, which is susceptible to form’’ (Luhmann 1992: 31). Writing is to language as form is to medium.The elements of language can...
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The Unspoken Intimacy of Aesthetic Experience: Hardy and Degas

Elaine Auyoung
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 301–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-8172598
Published: 01 June 2020
... embodied knowledge, Hardy amplifies the asym- metry between the multimodal richness of their mental representations and the perceptual features of the printed text. This asymmetry in turn enables readers to feel as if they privately share common ground with the figures in the fictional world. Consider...
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How Not to Introduce Blues Prosody:: Langston Hughes and the Rhythms of the African American Vernacular Tradition

Michael Skansgaard
Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 645–681.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-7739071
Published: 01 December 2019
....) As a Table 2 Performative norms in Anglo-American and West African traditions Anglo-American Preferences West African Preferences Rhythm isochrony / matchstress asymmetry / stress-mismatch Phrasing ictic / tactical pulses responsorial / phrasal pulses Movement metronomic / monorhythmic dynamic / polyrhythmic...
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Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value

Daniel Candel Bormann
Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 177–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2087572
Published: 01 June 2013
...., Arakelian 1985; Ball 1997; Gilead 1991; Keeling and Pollard 1999; Kidd 2011; Moseley 1988), The Gruffalo has barely received attention, and “The Baba Yaga” has received none,29 although the Hellboy series as a whole has (Aho 2008 – 9; Anderson 2011; O’Connor 2010; Sommers 2012). This critical asymmetry...
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A Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 127–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2879766
Published: 01 June 2015
..., “specific textual modalities and the methods by which textual scholar- ship works to denaturalize them and reawaken our awareness of them as modes of signification” (3). Randell McLeod’s “Fearful Asymmetry” and Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass’s “What Is a Book?” investigate ques- tions related...
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Storytelling and the Sciences of the Mind

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 130–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2879775
Published: 01 June 2015
... by which textual scholar- ship works to denaturalize them and reawaken our awareness of them as modes of signification” (3). Randell McLeod’s “Fearful Asymmetry” and Roger Chartier and Peter Stallybrass’s “What Is a Book?” investigate ques- tions related to the ontology of books. McLeod analyzes...
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