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Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942 : The Ekphrastic Poet’s Collective Diner
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 383–401.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Yet Lauterbach, in proposing Hopper, the visual artist, as a lyrical guide to negotiate the tensions between public and private, self and other, and individual and collective at play in his iconic painting, references central concerns of ekphrasis in the digital age. Copyright © 2018 by Porter...
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Collective Minds in Fact and Fiction: Intermental Thought and Group Consciousness in Early Modern Narrative
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 689–730.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Monika Fludernik Taking its inspiration from cognitive narratology and particularly the work of Alan Palmer on the Victorian novel, this essay examines to what extent collective minds can be traced in early modern narratives. One of the typical sites of intermental thought is the representation...
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Literature as a Spur to Collective Action: The Diverse Perspectives of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Reading Groups
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 335–359.
Published: 01 June 2004
... 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...
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We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 418–423.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Monika Fludernik [email protected] Natalya Bekhta , We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2020 . 230 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022...
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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
... catastrophes from occurring. This form, used in Benford's Timescape , the Terminator films, and Star Trek IV , can be seen as hypothetically countering the collective anticipatory environmental trauma that has arisen since the mid-twentieth century, whereas in reality humanity can be said to experience deep...
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Telling in the Plural: From Grammar to Ideology
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 591–618.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Uri Margolin This article aims to provide a definition, description, and typology of collective narrative agents and of collective narratives. A collective narrative agent occurs in a given narrative if three conditions are satisfied:(a) the argument position in numerous narrative propositions...
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From Dispersed to Distributed Archives: The Past and the Present of Samizdat Material
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 669–712.
Published: 01 December 2008
... share of samizdat documents were smuggled out of the communist countries to the West, ending up in numerous organizations and private collections abroad. The dispersed character of samizdat archival sources has a negative effect on the quality of research in this area. One of the main objectives...
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(Post)Colonial We-Narratives and the “Writing Back” Paradigm: Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 155–179.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Rebecca Fasselt This article considers how postcolonial narratives written partly in the first-person plural collective voice reflect recent critical developments in postcolonial studies rather than echoing the outmoded “writing back” paradigm. Even colonial texts such as Joseph Conrad's The Nigger...
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On the Literariness of the Author Interview
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 181–213.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Galia Yanoshevsky This article explores the literary functions of the author interview in all types of media (printed or broadcast, single or collected interviews). It claims that the literariness of the interview resides in the conversational exchange that takes place during the interview...
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The Body as Archive: The Shoah and the Story (Not) Told
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 667–693.
Published: 01 December 2017
... elides categorical distinctions of first-and second-order autobiographical memory, or memory and story. Thus survivors’ stories seem descendants’ memories. Previous scholarship discusses collective and post-memory but does not explain descendants’ trauma embodiment and how corporeal and psychic traumas...
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Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and nonhuman own-worlds ( Umwelten ), playing a role in processes of structural coupling within a habitat, understood as a hybrid assemblage or collective of multispecies inhabitants. The article describes how oral poiesis, as a modeling system, contributes to sustaining the various modes of identification...
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Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 463–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... from its core regions to the semi-periphery. Reframing the problem of the future as that of collective action rather than of complexity, the author proposes that the perceived failure of narrative imagination is, in fact, an expression of the generic limits of the novel, limits that are particularly...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 429–445.
Published: 01 September 2018
... how challenging or innovative, exploits our cognitive makeup. By examining these assumptions and by tracing the history of cognitive and unnatural models of narrative, this special issue seeks to move beyond a conceptual standoff between them. The essays collected in the issue demonstrate...
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Introduction: Why, How, and Where Literature
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Is it principally a research methodology — a way of observing, reading collecting, organizing, and interpreting information on reality? Or is it an object in itself? The article addresses this unresolved tension, outlining several new ways to manage this cultural and academic unclarity. References Becher...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 183–187.
Published: 01 June 2019
... that until now have attracted comparatively little attention in multimodality studies, including not only multimodal novels, comics, and films but also current television programs, video games, and other forms of digital media. On the other hand, and no less importantly, the articles collected here engage...
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Afterword
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2020
... when we have sought to be more “scientific” in our methods. Logic falls on the far side of this divide; because we typically regard it as a consummately scientific and formalized practice, we presume that it is antithetical to our own. The essays in this collection amply demonstrate...
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How to Do Things with Doxa: Toward an Analysis of Argumentation in Discourse
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of innovation, or of denouncing collective representations by exposing their ideological foundations, the analysis of argumentation in discourse views doxa as an essential ingredient of all literature, classical and modern. This essay raises first the question of the nature of doxa: is it an orderly whole...
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Electronic Literature as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under Constraint
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
...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...
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Constraint on the Move
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 December 2009
... author , for instance, in a text that is limited to monosyllabic words), it may also provide for fresh and largely unsuspected choices and for new sorts of mobility as well. This essay tests this hypothesis, examining three contemporary works: a collection of sonnets by Raymond Queneau, a novel...
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Ian McEwan's Neurological Novel
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of knowledge, in which individuals and collectives—including novelists— participate in making up meaningful presents and livable futures. Saturday provides a meditation on how we might further bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences of mind through cautious collaborations based on the biological...
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