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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 681–709.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of The Seagull . The quoted sentence is also strongly influenced by a sentence from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment . Hardly mentioned in the literature, this latter fact further demonstrates the potentially endless chain of art/life embeddings, which in this case begins with Dostoyevsky and ends, potentially...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 153–215.
Published: 01 June 2010
...,” in Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise , edited by Dick Allen and David Chacko, 411 –28 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Haycraft, Howard, ed. 1946 The Art of the Mystery Story (New York: Grosset and Dunlap). Himes, Chester 1989 [1969] Blind Man with a Pistol (New York: Vintage...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 435–441.
Published: 01 June 2000
... (Berkeley:University of California Press). Ellroy, James 1987 The Black Dahlia (New York: Mysterious). 1994 “Sex, Glitz, and Greed: The Seduction of O. J. Simpson,” GQ , December, 214 -17, 267. 1996 My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (New York: Knopf). Keitel, Evelyne 1994 “The Woman's...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 543–557.
Published: 01 September 2019
... . “ Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction .” In Scandinavian Crime Fiction , edited by Nestingen Andrew Arvas Paula , 1 – 17 . Cardiff, UK : University of Wales Press . Å ström Berit Gregersdotter Katarina Horeck Tanya eds. 2013 . Rape in Steig Larsson’s Millennium...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 489–495.
Published: 01 June 2006
... to fictionalize and make art out of the camps themselves, to try to transport readers to the scene of the actual crime, to attempt to re-create all those layers of depravation and depravity, to express the ineffable, to describe the unimaginable. If the Holocaust truly is unimaginable, then there is no place...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 425–429.
Published: 01 June 2006
... side of the story. And where there are ‘‘sidesor, if you will, parties to a conflict— then we expect to hear from one party only partial truth. As the whole matter is framed for us who look upon it from a distance of decades, in a context of judicial proceeding—a crime has been committed and we (i.e...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 695–697.
Published: 01 December 2024
... at restoring decent relationships following violent wrongdoings, especially in the wake of crimes against humanity. Rather than emphasizing quantitative or procedural elements (such as reparation agreements, treatises, or retributive justice focused on punishing perpetrators), reconciliation studies...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 453–455.
Published: 01 June 2000
... distortion and erasure, will evoke the scene of a crime that has gone unmentioned. One of the central ideas to emerge from this study is that the readability of the text depends on the sole condition that we con- nect the two modes...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
...; it is biographical time formed and fed by reading of other people's lives; and it is the suspense and restlessness of crime fiction. The other kinds of time, which reading may dissolve, are the boring times spent sitting in a train or standing by a production line, or the desperate time in the middle of the night...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 719–751.
Published: 01 December 2005
... at daybreak and brought to Semenovsky Square in St. Petersburg. There, assembled on a scaffold 3. Leonid Grossman 1963b [1935: 683] characterizes Dostoevsky’s ordeal as an ‘‘unconsum- mated’’ execution, putting quotation marks around the word without attribution. 4. On Dostoevsky’s crime, see Frank 1976...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and Ideology in the Modern Novel (2019) bridges narrative theory with the constitution of racial ideologies. She is the principal investigator (PI) of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project “Ocean Crime Narratives: A Polyhedral Assessment of Hegemonic Discourse on Environmental Crime...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... closer to the world of hard-­boiled crime fiction or film noir than the classic whodunit; behind the single miscreant—the mystifying intent of the individual work of fiction—are arraigned a host of murkier, more menacing structural forces that leave a spreading stain on the social body...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 497–499.
Published: 01 June 2006
... the Holocaust (2002) documents patterns of memory revealed in the oral testimony of Holocaust survivors. His cur- rent research analyzes perpetrators of crimes in apartheid South Africa, drawing on the comprehensive disclosures of those applying for amnesty to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 2014
... – Summer 2014) q 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 192 Poetics Today 35:1-2 Sedgwick, and Edna Ferber) or styles of writing (such as the hard-boiled tra- dition in detective and crime novels), both of which made their mark during this period. Finally, Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 713–763.
Published: 01 December 2001
... as a play about ‘‘radical innocence’’ that attempts (and in his view fails) to show ‘‘that the crime [Beatrice] commits is some- how separable from the integral real person’’ (ibid.: Yet both his own and Brown’s analyses amply demonstrate that this alone cannot distin- guish Shelley’s play from...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 297–309.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Bezwinská, Jadwiga, and Danuta Czech, eds. 1973 Amidst a Nightmare of Crime: Manuscripts of Members of Sonderkommando , translated by Krystyna Michalik (Warsaw: State Museum of Oświeçim). Browning, Christopher R. 1992 Ordinary Men: Reserve Police...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with the era as a historical event. Pagis's Holocaust poetry conveys the impossibility of testimony and vehemently protests both humanistic ideals and Jewish motives of divine justice. Against such views of the Holocaust as “another planet” or as a crime instigated by an inhuman dimension of mankind, Pagis...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 653–679.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of the CPCS Regional Committee in Brno André Simone, former member of the editorial staff of Rudé právo (Trial After confessing at a public trial to all crimes, the felons got what they deserved. With the exception of three who merely received life sentences (London, Hajdu˚, and Löbl), they were...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 641–674.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Study of Religion 49 . 2 : 361 – 73 . Nicol Brad 2011 “Detective Fiction and ‘The Original Crime’: Baudrillard, Calle, Poe,” Cultural Politics 7 . 3 : 445 – 63 . Person Leland S. 2008 “Queer Poe: The Tall-Tale Heart of His Fiction,” Poe Studies 41 . 1 : 7...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
... detail, and his minimalist editing—what follows this revelation is more character study than crime drama. The collective effort to avoid publicity about the brutal crime, one that involves the local police, the boys’ school, and their pushy fathers, makes the film an implicit indictment of multiple...
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