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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (4): 759–780.
Published: 01 December 2003
...David Ayers Contemporary materialist theory is converging with the study of material culture, as evidenced by increasing attention given to the book as a material object produced, circulated, and consumed as a commodity. It is, however,problematic to conceive of the book as a material object, since...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 309–351.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Guillemette Bolens This essay considers David Rudrum's claim that narrative is a type of language act that needs to be construed with regard to its use. Here this claim is related to one of the most influential literary traditions in the history of fiction: the Eastern Book of Sindibad and its...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 1–52.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Tamar Yacobi As in my previous work, I define ekphrasis (following up Meir Sternberg’s quotation theory) as intermedial quotation or re-presentation (representation in the second degree). My focus here is on the intersection of two of its less common forms: Double Exposure and the Museum Book...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 475–513.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and Respondents (Cape Town: Buchu Books). Epskamp, Kees 1992 “Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Cartoons and Drawings,” in The Empowerment of Culture: Development Communication and the Popular Media ,edited by Ad Boeren and Kees Epskamp, 79 -94 (The Hague: Center for the Study of Education in Developing...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Eyal Segal © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 Shklovsky Viktor , Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot , translated by Avagyan Shushan . Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press , 2007 . ix + 428 pp. New Books at a Glance Guillemette Bolens, Le...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2 The Devil Striking Witches out of the Book of Life, and Inscribing them in the Book of Death , woodcut, in Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium maleficarum , Milan: Apud Haeredes August. Tradati, 1608. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. More
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Published: 01 December 2024
Figure 1 Scholarly book history research meets popular bookish publics via Ariel Bissett's Is BookTube Educational? video. More
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 423–475.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Stephanie Greenblatt Ginensky; Hana Wirth-Nesher © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 Recent Scholarship in Yiddish Studies: An Annotated Bibliography (Books Published 1995–2014) Stephanie Greenblatt Ginensky and Hana Wirth-Nesher Goldreich Family Institute...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Sylvie Patron Two books on the representation of consciousness in narrative have recently been published in the United States and the Netherlands (in a series devoted to French language and literature), The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (2011...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Eyal Segal Fishelov David , Dialogues with/and Great Books: The Dynamics of Canon Formation . Brighton : Sussex Academic , 2010 . xi + 219 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance Nele Bemong, Pieter Borghart, Michel De...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Ties van Gemert Inge Van de Ven , Big Books in Times of Big Data . Leiden : Leiden University Press , 2019 . 251 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 Big Books in Times of Big Data examines the stylistics of monumentality by reading...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 583–587.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sabine Gross [email protected] Christoph Benjamin Schulz , ed., Die Geschichte(n) gefalteter Bücher. Leporellos, Livres-accordéon und Folded Panoramas in Literatur und bildender Kunst. [The (Hi)stories of Folded Books. Leporellos, Livres-accordéon, and Folded Panoramas in Literature...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Dorothee Birke Abstract While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (4): 673–694.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to align themselves with the critical motives and methods of theory is dismissed for being un- or trans-historical. The primary goal of this essay is to suggest a middle way between these polarities, especially concerning recent scholarly interest in the history of the book. Specifically, this essay argues...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 319–335.
Published: 01 June 2018
...] : 261). I also draw on “Towards a Model of Inter-semiotic Translation”, by Daniella Aguiar and Joao Queiroz, who suggest the concept of “creative sign transmutation” (2009). Second, I discuss the collaborations of the US calligraphic artist and book illuminator Thomas Ingmire. Inviting US and UK poets...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 413–433.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Jonathan Crewe This article examines Black Hamlet , written in 1937 by the pioneering South African psychoanalyst Wulf Sachs. Sachs's book stages a cultural exchange in the guise of a professional dialogue between the author and a Manyika healer-diviner given the pseudonym John Chavafambira...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 181–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the book's length for a general discussion of aging, poetry and temporality. One should bear in mind that Universe is not a retrospective work of synthesis but rather a present and future-oriented project. The point of departure for the article's analysis will be the following passage from Northern Soul...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 731–752.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Ulrich Kinzel This essay on the German poet Stefan George and his poetry book The Star of the Covenant (1914) is part of a broader study of literary models of an ethics of the self in the context of governmental practices. For George and his circle of followers, the particular lines of this context...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 209–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the success of his project, his last book, The Drowned and the Saved,expresses a great disillusionment about his life's work as a witness to the Holocaust. The change can be traced, first, to his growing doubts about the reliability of witnesses, and second, to the reactions of readers, which made him...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 353–383.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Marianne Hirsch; Leo Spitzer Focusing on a book of recipes and a miniature artists' book from the Terezín and Vapniarka concentration camps, this essay argues that such material remnants can serve as testimonial objects that carry memory traces from the past and embody the process of its...