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Postcolonial Literature and the Magic Radio: The Language of Rushdie's Midnight's Children
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Gillian Gane Much postcolonial literature depends on unacknowledged processes of translation working like the “radio” in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children that magically renders all Indian languages intelligible to the children of midnight. It is surprisingly difficult to determine what...
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Rhetoric, Cognition, and Ideology in A. L. Barbauld's Hymns in Prose for Children (1781)
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Lisa Zunshine In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a “cognitive” reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 1781 book Hymns in Prose for Children . Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode...
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Queer Futures for an Aging Planet
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... This article reads the sterility dystopia—a subgenre of science fiction where a global inability to have children results in aging populations and societal collapse—as registering the anxiety that arises at the intersection of age and the environment. Taking The Children of Men as a case study, I suggest...
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Second-Generation Testimony, Transmission of Trauma, and Postmemory
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 473–488.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Ernst van Alphen In discussions of second- and third-generation Holocaust literature and testimony, it is an accepted idea that the trauma of Holocaust survivors is often transmitted from the first to the second and later generations. This article analyzes the “problems” of survivors' children...
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Reading Games/Games of Reading: Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment and Forms of Play beyond Samizdat
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., I examine different forms of “actual” play among author, censor, and reader, on the one hand, and rhetorical game playing in the narrative, on the other. More specifically, the essay analyzes children's games in the text to suggest that games become an Aesopian mechanism for addressing the Stalinist...
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The Ethics of Neurobiological Narratives
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
... structure event memory and co-construct the narratives that children use for self and moral identities. The bioemotional landscape formed by experience influences the narratives that shape the life course. Initially, this occurs nonverbally through touch and emotional response; later, it occurs through...
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Joint Attention, Semiotic Mediation, and Literary Narrative
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Adam Lively In this article I discuss the importance for narrative theory of the concept, drawn from developmental psychology, of “joint attention.” In the first part, I explain the basic concept and its significance for the emergence of narrative in young children. In the second part, I draw out...
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A Speculative History of No Future: Feminist Negativity and the Queer Dystopian Impulses of Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2016
... “reproductive futurism” to describe the tendency to define political value in terms of a future “for the children” and insisting that the power of queer critique inheres in its opposition to this narrative and therefore to politics as we know it. This assertion inspired extensive debate on relationships between...
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Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 177–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to the children’s books Where the Wild Things Are and The Gruffalo and the comic “The Baba Yaga” (from the Hellboy series): they all undergo a process of analysis and metacognitive reflection. Validating the tool as an analytic and an educational measure depends on its ability to guide the reader toward...
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Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Hemlock , given that it is addressed to young readers and there is concern that children's books could be used for grooming. Controversially, both novels locate the desire in the young girl rather than the old man and explore the agency and moments of disempowerment that the female characters experience...
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“I'll Never Have a Clown in My House” — Why Movie Horror Lives On
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 283–304.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., and Patricia M. Greenfield, 1 -67 (New York: Wiley). Cahill, Susan 1994 Writing Women's Lives:An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (New York: Harper Perennial). Cantor, Joanne 1998 ”Mommy, I'm Scared”: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 321–324.
Published: 01 June 2021
... sound. She is cofounder of the journal SoundEffects. Ayoe Quist Henkel is associate professor in Danish studies at VIA University College and has a PhD from the Centre for Children's Literature and Media, Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. She is an author and editor...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 295–297.
Published: 01 June 2023
... ), SEL ( Studies in English Literature ), and Textual Practice . He is currently working on a second book project, titled “The Ageing of Empire: Colonizing Care from Young England to Young India.” Vanessa Joosen is professor of English literature and children's literature at the University...
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Alison Hickey's Impure Conceits: A Review
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 443–447.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... At stake is Wordsworth’s attitude toward Bell’s Madras sys-
tem, an educational system that was, Hickey tells us, rst devel-
oped at Egmore, near Madras, to educate the ‘half-caste’ male children of
the European militaryTheBell system...
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Metaphor: The Journey from Bidirectionality to Unidirectionality
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 123–140.
Published: 01 February 2017
... 1985 “Young Children's Comprehension of Metaphoric Language.” Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development , Toronto , April . Chestnut Eleanor K. Markman Ellen M. 2014 “Children's Inferences Based on Figure and Ground Thematic Roles...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 161–169.
Published: 01 June 2004
... on Aggression,” in Handbook of Children and the Media , edited by Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer, 223 -54 (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage). Gerrig, Richard J. 1993 Experiencing Narrative Worlds (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Green, Melanie, and Timothy Brock 2000 “The Role...
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Target First: On “Bidirectionality and Metaphor”
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (4): 703–733.
Published: 01 December 2018
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2014 “ Abstract Analogical Reasoning in High-Functioning Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ,” Autism Research 7 : 677 – 86 .
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 659–661.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. His research interests are narrative theory, children's literature, and eighteenth-century English literature. His recent publications are “Currency's Reversed Marginal Role in Children's Literature: Loans, Debts, Mum Bucks...
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The Interface between Fiction and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... and Aesthetic Emotions,” American Psychologist 6 : 1545 -46. Wolf, Shelby A., and Shirley B. Heath 1992 The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of Reading (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Zillmann, Dolf 1991 “Empathy: Affect from Bearing Witness to the Emotions of Others,” in Responding...
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The Haunting Poetics of May Ayim's “die zeit danach” (1995) and Ada Diagne's “Der Sturm” (2021)
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 77–104.
Published: 01 March 2025
... will no longer stand —the true colors painted perhaps only by children in the womb perhaps – Black, red, and green is multi-referential, pointing both to a symbol of liberation struggles in Madagascar when Ayim was writing the poem and the Pan-African flag. The phrase “schwarz wie mitternacht” (black...
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