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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 635–652.
Published: 01 December 2009
... , edited by Hermannus Mutschmann (Leipzig, Germany: Teubner). Compose, Condense, Constrain Jacques Roubaud Translated by Jean-Jacques Poucel Abstract  An elaboration of the Oulipian practice of writing under constraint, this lecture illuminates select philosophical arguments in a manner...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 551–605.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Siglind Bruhn Not only poets may respond to a work of visual art with a creative act in their own medium, transposing the style and structure, the message and metaphors from the visual to the verbal. Composers, more and more frequently,are also exploring this interartistic mode of transfer...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 February 2018
... that peaks at a certain point, after which use steadily declines. Because the novel as a whole is composed of multiple forms in constant flux, it becomes impossible to isolate periods of homogeneous practice that could be said to operate according to some deeper sociocultural logic. periodization first...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 319–335.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Finally, a Japanese composer produced a musical composition in response to the poem and the artist’s book. It could be argued that poetry written in response to calligraphic marks is at the very limits of both mimesis and ekphrasis. However, I argue that it is precisely at such limits that intermediality...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 437–518.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., the argument proceeds with special reference to these genres, as well as to the cinema’s medium, practice, and conventions in general, often citing literary parallels or precedents for comparison. It examines the different elements that serve to (re)compose the repetition structure for certain ends; the types...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 497–528.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Joshua Levinson This article investigates the reading dynamics of the rewritten Bible or the exegetical narrative in rabbinic literature of late antiquity. The exegetical narrative is composed of a story which simultaneously represents and interprets its biblical counterpart. Its singularity...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 623–644.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Haifeng Hui Abstract Though particular texts have long held culturally foundational authority, debates over the idea of a canon and the texts that are to compose it are a much more recent phenomenon, one that originated in the United States and quickly spread to other countries. The present article...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 191–246.
Published: 01 June 2007
...) there was a sharp division between analytic philosophy commentators and other commentators, but near-unanimity in adopting a “Democritean” conception of the text as composed of discrete, separable parts. In the second period (1983-92), an “Aristotelian” conception of the text, in which functionally distinct parts...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
... nonrepresentational painters write about “languages” composed of sets of colors or shapes. Moreover, representational artists claim to engage in a “conversation” with the viewers of their works, whereas nonrepresentational artists prefer to “converse” with their materials or canvases. In general, representational...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Paul Grimstad In his essay “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846), Edgar Allan Poe describes how he composed his lyric poem “The Raven” by following a series of predetermined steps. My essay shows how Poe's description of composition as rule following both has suggestive affinities...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 417–436.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of transcendence. In which ways, though, do jazz artists connect their spiritual and religious experiences and beliefs with their individual musical language? In contrast to Western, composed sacred music, jazz generates religious meaning through its improvisatory practices, which unfold differently in each...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., Comment j’ai écrit certains de mes livres [How I wrote certain of my books], these texts were not ‘‘freely’’ composed but produced by the operation of me- chanical techniques for generating and/or manipulating bits of language...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 471–499.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in its being—a literature whose special form reminds us, on one hand, that the body is nothing more than a limit (or rather, the site of all those limits that, taken together, compose our human finitude), but also that our radical finitude corresponds to and makes necessary a radical openness...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 June 2021
... novels composed of concatenations, endless lists of things, and minor narratives composed of insignificant details. These enumerations and arbitrary categorizations bring structure and order to the overload of information but do so “ without compression ,” and the resulting novels are still interminable...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 497–516.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., artistic systems could be characterized as complex systems, composed of multiple parts (e.g., institutions, artists, “experts,” artifacts), structured by different kinds of relations among those parts (social, semiotic, conventional, and so on), and supporting multiple mechanisms to achieve its purposes...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2015
... It is important that Elizabeth experiences almost simultaneously the changing tones of the two letters in these three parts, each composed on a different day. The moment is so effective, because the letters give us two perspectives, one immediately after the other, and both imply a sense of hurry. First...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 393–441.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Rex places on the “final,” aphoristic lines of the chorus. The entire six-line passage (1524–30, of which 1527–30 is the aphorism quoted in the previous note) is very likely an insertion by a later hand, not something composed by Sophocles. Bernard Knox’s (1957: 185n1) judgment that these lines...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 611–634.
Published: 01 December 2009
... on the strength of the books that its members have composed by using self-imposed rules, the presence of which may not always be apparent to the unsuspecting reader. Take, for example, La disparition (1969), the three-hundred-page mys- tery novel written by Georges Perec. The first reviews...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 607–650.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and was imbued with rich sympathetic overtones. This intricate cultural background seems to stimulate director Alain Corneau in his engag- ing movie TouslesmatinsduMondeof in which he cast a solitary figure for the historical composer St. Colombe, associating him with Jansenist sensibilities (and thus...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 653–668.
Published: 01 December 2009
... imply that other tools have already been made available? His parenthetical reference to “rein- venting” restrictions would suggest this. Or do the constraints that the Oulipo devises give those who wish to compose literature (and are they enthusiastic about literature or about...