...Isabelle Wentworth This article looks at Don DeLillo’s novel The Body Artist through the lens of cognitive literary criticism, unpacking the intersection of time, intersubjectivity, and identity. Building on cognitive linguistic principles, the article’s methodology examines diverse linguistic...

... Apollo and Daphne in Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (2013), this essay expands on her work by stressing the importance of the phenomenological body and a theory of time to an understanding of the aesthetic experience. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017...

... reproduce specific events and their original responses. This article reveals how elisions of memory and story produce pathologies of embodiment in post-Shoah generations. Interrogating construction of physical bodies as archives, memory, and story, the article demonstrates how corporeality, memory...

... ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press ). Hansen Mark B. N. , 2006 Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media ( New York : Routledge ). Hayles N. Katherine , 2006 “ The Time of Digital Poetry: From Object to Event .” In New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories , edited...

... detachment from patients to delude themselves that they will not sicken and die. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Wittgensteinian and enactive/embodied cognitive and phenomenological concepts that support his work offer models for clinicians committed to authentic care of patients. Spoken Body...

... the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (London: Oxford University Press). Craig, A. D. 2002 “How Do You Feel? Interoception; The Sense of the Physiological Condition of the Body,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3 : 655 –66. 2003 “Interoception: The Sense of the Physiological...

...Miranda Burgess This essay explores two approaches to affect in literary theory. The first of these approaches locates affect in discrete bodies and persons. The second views affect as a phenomenon anterior to the distinction of persons: a flow of energy among bodies as well as between bodies...

...Peggy Kamuf This article aligns moments from three of Derrida’s seminars and seeks to characterize the signature gesture of his teaching, which may be described as putting his teaching body, or corps enseignant , on an indivisible line supposed to divide mortal bodies from the bodies...

...Benjamin Kossak I. A. Richards is often remembered as a father of close reading and New Criticism, but his work was also deeply indebted to experimental psychology. That cross-disciplinary foundation introduces not only a reader but also a reading body. This article traces Richards’s continual...

... orthodoxy in literary studies today, hardly anything has been thought or said about this body of work in which Foucault, as David Carroll points out, “has the most to say about literature and language.” This lacuna is all the more surprising, since Foucault's early essays offer a rich and fruitful...

... or conversational speech change shape in the context of testimony? What happens when Charlotte Delbo uses metaphor, simile, or personification to convey her experiences in Auschwitz? What happens to oral testimony when Holocaust survivors bear witness while the camera records parasemantic body language that swerves...

...Joseph Tabbi Electronic literature is not just a “thing” or a “medium” or even a body of “works” in various “genres.” It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective...

...Loren Kruger; Patricia Watson Shariff This article examines the ways comics contribute to nonformal education in contemporary South Africa, especially the Heart to Heart project,produced by the Storyteller Group, and Body and Soul , by the Soul City project. While Soul City follows the urban bias...

... study. My overall aim in this essay is thus threefold: to survey the range of artistic expression available for such transmedializations, to examine the degree to which the composers' creative responses draw on a body of shared cultural conventions, and to develop some first steps toward a methodology...

... and levels of abstraction. Studied together, their poetry exposes the centrality of guns not only to US America's collective self-image as a social body and national power but also to the American literary imagination. In light of this apparent contradiction, this essay considers what the pervasiveness...

...Daniel Dufournaud Abstract If speed is a cornerstone of contemporary life, then one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome in the fight against agism is the fact that senescence entails a slowing down of the human body and mind. The question this essay asks is whether this form of life can...

..., the article discusses the ways in which the unfolding of causes and consequences in literary narratives affect readers' judgments and understanding of characters and outcomes. These experiments support the claim that readers may derive bodies of evidence from their literary experiences that they apply...

... only one aspect of this intersection: the role of pain (the hurting body as the norm) in these two aesthetic economies, Shklovsky's and Bakhtin's. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1984 [1963] Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics , translated...

... Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, with contributions from Oudart's own phenomenological observations, and seeks to return the body (including its politics) to suture and to film narrative. The fundamental image drawn from Merleau-Ponty is the chiasmus, the film version of which is the shot/reverse shot...

... are dispersed throughout the body of the poem, while the word itself remains unsaid. Both the retrieval of a word on the tip of one's tongue and the (re)construction of an anagram involve sorting through the phonetic and semantic cues that hint at the absent target word. I suggest that these similarities may...