... groups in both nineteenth- and twentieth-century Houston, Texas. Nineteenth-century groups found in their literary and associational practices the warrant to embark on a broad program of collective action; twentieth-century groups, by and large, severed this link yet still met important needs for women...

... Places': Frost and Hawthorne,” in Frost Centennial Essays ,edited by Jac L. Tharpe, 275 -87 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi). New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century Leslie Brisman English, Yale Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Oxford University...

...April London Isaac D'Israeli's contributions to the formation of literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries remain unexplored, his voluminous writings mined for apt quotations rather than considered as significant in their own right. This article argues that his...

...Robert Folkenflik A stage in the history of reading underlies the origins of Wolfgang Iser's method. His distinctive theory of reading is adumbrated in the writings of the period of his original specialty, the eighteenth century. In The Implied Reader Iser takes his theoretical hints and directions...

...-Century English Novels H. M. Daleski English, Hebrew University Abstract  The point of departure for the article is Gérard Genette’s distinction between “the world in which one tells” and “the world of which one tells,” the divi- sion between the worlds being referred...

...Eyal Segal Dawson Paul , The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2013 . viii + 278 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter...

... of nineteenth-century historiography to explore potential differences between fictional and historiographical treatments of crowds. It concludes that, while histories tend to be pragmatically inclined to treat crowds as social minds, the distinctive affordances of fiction allowed nineteenth-century novelists...

...Maria Mäkelä The article challenges both cognitive-universalist and unnatural-exceptionalist approaches to fictional minds by analyzing how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novel merges the premodern poetics of exemplarity with emergent modern techniques of representing consciousness...

...Eyal Segal Patea Viorica , ed., Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2012 . vii + 346 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance 203 “Affordances of Form...

..., John 1995 Paul Celan: Poet,Survivor, Jew (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Forché, Carolyn, ed. 1993 Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (New York: W. W. Norton). Friedländer, Saul 1993 [1982] Reflections of Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death ,translated...

... of “musical ekphrasis.” Abbate, Carolyn 1991 Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrativity in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press). Agawu, Kofi 1991 Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press). Bailey...

...Eyal Segal Morgan Monique R. , Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British Long Poem . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2009 . x + 233 pp . © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Geert Brône...

...Eyal Segal Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles, eds., Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . viii + 257 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...

...Ewan James Jones [email protected] Vincent Barletta , Rhythm: Form and Dispossession . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 216 pp. Ben Glaser , Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020...

...Eyal Segal Warren Motte, Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-first Century . Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive , 2008 . 237 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme...

... of a great period of prose fiction, for down in the plain little is visible.” Over a century after the publication of her essay, a period that saw a range of academic writing testifying to the culmination as well as the exhaustion of both high modernism and postmodernism, critics and scholars dealing...

...Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen Building on recent theory of fictionality as a rhetorical concept, this article examines fictionality in the history of the novel. It argues that the Danish eighteenth-century novel provides answers to the question of the origin of the novel. A smaller novel corpus than...

...Melanie Conroy Literary historians have long made an issue of the extent to which the modernist novel broke with conventions established in the nineteenth century. One of the most debated questions is the occurrence, or dating, of an “inward turn,” a rupture with the external orientation...

...Ruth HaCohen Sympathy , in the sense of the ability to suffer with or for the other, entered English usage toward the end of the sixteenth century. This marks an important moment in Western culture, the birth of a new artistic sensibility nourished by the Aristotelian notion of poetic compassion...