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Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of such a text is Finnegans Wake (1939); earlier examples include Raymond Queneau's Le chiendent (1933) and the fourth chapter of Vladimir Nabokov's Gift (1937 – 38). Nabokov's short story, “The Circle” (1936), also has an ouroborean structure. It begins with the phrase, “In the second place” (375...
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Penetrating the Dutch Polysystem: The Reception of Virginia Woolf, 1920-2000
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 501–568.
Published: 01 September 2006
... in the 1960s, the changing book market and a changing attitude toward translation, and the growing impact of the modernist cohort on national literary criticism and production. Woolf's oeuvre appears to have figured in two increasingly separable repertoires, one shared by a circle of women writing...
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Configuration and Government: Stefan George's The Star of the Covenant
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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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Telling in Time (III): Chronology, Estrangement, and Stories of Literary History
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 125–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
...)Structuralist narratology—Genette's anti-perceptual, mind-less formalism, Barthes's drive against all sequentiality (actional, textual, historical) in the name of “writerly” license—as well as open follow-ups, in cognitivist and literary-empirical circles, for example. Through these lineages, inter alia...
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The Geometrical Method in Spinoza's Ethics
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2007
... circle of theologically radical yet devout friends, and others intellectually similar to them, of the truth of his philosophy by beginning with Cartesian principles they would accept. Finally, I argue that certain nongeometrical portions of the Ethics are directed at the emotions of these readers. ©...
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Referential Reflections around a Medallion: ReciprocalArt/Life Embeddings in Chekhov's The Seagull
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 681–709.
Published: 01 December 2000
... inter alia to explore interactions between art and reality. Starting with detailed textual analyses of the engraved sentence itself and the scene in which it appears, this article draws ever-widening circles around them,examining characterizations; major features of Chekhov's poetics; literary reference...
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Literary Innovation in Yiddish Sea Travel Narratives, 1815–24
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 357–382.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Ken Frieden Sea travel was an influential literary genre in Europe in the eighteenth century, and this genre subsequently influenced enlightened and Hasidic Jewish circles. As a result, the genre of sea narratives assumed a significant role in the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature...
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Historical Poetics and Poetic Language: Rethinking the Concept of Autonomy for Modern Literary Theory
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Jessica Merrill The article seeks to establish the intellectual history of the Russian formalists' concept of poetic language. Focusing on Roman Jakobson and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, it argues that the study of poetic language drew on Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics, historical...
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A schematic model of the ecosemiotic dynamic in the habitat system, highlig...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 September 2022
Figure 1 A schematic model of the ecosemiotic dynamic in the habitat system, highlighting the role of poiesis in semiotic alignment (structural coupling) of human and nonhuman own-worlds (circles), notably through the mechanisms of identification and symbolization.
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Theoretical Schools in the Humanities: Different Perspectives
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 687–690.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Oleg Sobchuk Grishakova Marina and Salupere Silvi , eds., Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy . New York and London : Routledge , 2015 . xii + 287 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...
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Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in temporality has led to a rediscovery of the works
of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Carole Baker’s video
project Circling Greyhounds can be read as a parody of the scientific pre-
tensions of film and photography (Jan Baetens...
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Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 145–146.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in temporality has led to a rediscovery of the works
of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Carole Baker’s video
project Circling Greyhounds can be read as a parody of the scientific pre-
tensions of film and photography (Jan Baetens...
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Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 146–147.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in temporality has led to a rediscovery of the works
of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey. Carole Baker’s video
project Circling Greyhounds can be read as a parody of the scientific pre-
tensions of film and photography (Jan Baetens...
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Spoken Revolutions: Discursive Resistance in Bulgarian Late Communist Culture
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 133–151.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and the group Synthesis. The Semi-
nar originated as an intellectual circle whose main goal was to engender a
dialogue—not simply among individuals but also across schools and disci-
plines. It was born out of a pressing need for verbal exchange: a desire
to communicate, share, and explicate alternative...
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Jan Mukařovský: Écrits 1928–1946
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 452–460.
Published: 01 September 2021
... was a crucial meeting point for various languages, cultures, and traditions. It is often argued that during its heyday, the Prague linguistic circle functioned as a crossroads where the German, French, Swiss, Russian, and above all the Czech and Slovak traditions converged. But beyond Czechoslovakia, and today...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
...-Garde via Unofficial Publishing to Underground: The Midnight Editions Circle, 1949–1955, and the Underground Circle of the Plastic People, 1969–1989”) , in Alan 2001: 154 -99. 2004a A Brief Report on Present Knowledge of Czech Samizdat Phenomena 1948–1989 (Prague: Libri Prohibiti...
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“Shoo—This Book Makes Me to Think!” Education, Entertainment, and “Life-Skills” Comics in South Africa
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 475–513.
Published: 01 June 2001
... -75 (Norwood, NJ: Ablex). Stadler, Jonathan 1993 “Bridewealth and the Deferral of Marriage: Towards an Understanding of Marriage Payments in Timbavati, Gazankulu,” Africa Perspectives 1 (1): 1 -31. Story Circle 1993 Roxy: Life, Love, and Sex in the Nineties (Cape Town: Medical Research...
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Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 735–758.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... And yet his prose of the seventies
was written strictly “for the desk drawer” (v stol ). The change in his attitude
to the samizdat, both in general and in relation to his own narratives, took
place at approximately the time when he distanced himself from the circles
of dissidents, including those...
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“Twofold Vibration”: Samuel Beckett's Laws of Form
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Poverty of Systems Theory,” in Anglistentag 1997 Giessen: Proceedings , edited by Raimund Borgmeier, Herbert Grabes, and Andreas H. Jucker, 337 -45 (Trier,Germany: WVT). Poulet, Georges 1966 The Metamorphoses of the Circle , translated by Carley Dawson and Elliott Coleman(Baltimore, MD: Johns...
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Playful Poetics: Metareferential Interfaces in Recent Indie Games
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 729–771.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and ludic system that are connected to the concept of the “magic circle.” While, according to Johan Huizinga ( 1949 : 12), the magic circle is a “temporary suspension of normal social life” in which “the laws and customs of ordinary life no longer count,” Pony Island seemingly crosses the boundaries set...
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