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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 June 2008
... attempting to enrich a poem's setting in its cultural context, the other attempting to complicate a poem's relation to its literary background. For the former, I attempt to read Donne's “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” with the combination of attention to nonliterary texts contemporaneous with the poem...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 499–528.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the reader's task by reducing fictional mediation to a minimum. Their norms are (a) conventional in cultural context; (b) explicitly formulated by (c) a speaker who would appear, or has proved, reliable. This transparent communication is favored by popular literature and by didactic or strongly ideological...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 455–478.
Published: 01 September 2022
... narratology rhetorical narrative theory genre theory contextual narratology cultural context historical context In 2017 Sharon Dodua Otoo, a Black British expat, won one of German-language literature's most prestigious awards, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. To an extent, introducing her this way runs...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 403–460.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to understand literary and cultural texts both in their own right and in the context of other... systems; to develop advanced theories of literature, communication, and culture, and advanced methods of research; and to integrate the study of literature within the evolving larger field of the human sciences...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
... order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, routines versus animals, in the context of circus traveling(fieldwork carried out in 1975-79).The circus display of both animals and humans...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2002
... if not a conflict
always exists between what can be learned from vision and from, say, words
or between words and touch, a cultural historian will have to understand
the historical/ideological/cultural context in order to gain insight into the
question of why any particular intermodular conflict (itself...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 303–323.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of Renaissance Nostalgia ( Athens : Ohio University Press ). Gillman Abigail E. 2002 “Between Religion and Culture: Mendelssohn, Buber, Rosenzweig, and the Enterprise of Biblical Translation,” in Biblical Translation in Context , edited by Knobloch Frederick W. , 93 – 114 ( Bethesda...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 393–412.
Published: 01 June 2017
... psychosomatic perceptual patterns which are used on all levels of speech reception in cultural and political contexts. This makes rhetorically conspicuous texts efficient as stimulus material for empirical research into neurocognitive modeling of how poetic texts are read. Adaptations as revisitations of prior...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 287–308.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of experience (e.g. Atkinson 1997 ; Atkinson and Delamont 2006 ; Atkinson 2009 ; Woods 2011 ). Instead, the importance of situating constructions of the narrative self in their social, cultural, and political contexts was noted (Schiff 2006 ). And yet for the most part, such critiques did not make...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 641–668.
Published: 01 December 2020
... different meanings depending on the context and is a complex physical, linguistic, and cultural phenomenon. The article concludes that Müller both relies on and defamiliarizes the tentative yet motivated association between space and voice. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... to the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies a reservoir of potential insights into the embodied interconnectivity of cognitive process together with a critical language which is enactive, context oriented, sensitive to the conditions of live cultural ecologies. The essay features textual examples drawn from...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 475–513.
Published: 01 June 2001
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with an opportunity to redefine the popular dimension of education and
entertainment, not only at home or in multiple regional and international
contexts abroad but also in relation to ongoing debates in anthropology,
media studies, and education about how, what, and why different cultural
practices are locally...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 545–570.
Published: 01 December 2023
... structures and innovative visual decoding: Considering, on theoretical and empirical grounds, the existence of hydridic visualities in contexts of cross-cultural interaction. What happens when objects induce the meeting or clash of divergent technologies of the visual? Under what circumstances are objects...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 365–389.
Published: 01 June 2001
...”in the context of the overwhelmingly realist dominant of South African literary culture in English. I suggest that South African literary critics of both liberal and radical orientations have been unwitting partners in a commonly held instrumentalist concept of language. A clear regime of meaning may...
View articletitled, “A Primary Need as Strong as Hunger”: The Rhetoric of Urgency in South African Literary <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> under Apartheid
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The Music of Sympathy in the Arts of the Baroque; or, the Use of Difference to Overcome Indifference
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 607–650.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Ruth HaCohen Sympathy , in the sense of the ability to suffer with or for the other, entered English usage toward the end of the sixteenth century. This marks an important moment in Western culture, the birth of a new artistic sensibility nourished by the Aristotelian notion of poetic compassion...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 309–351.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Wigfall Green 1931, Harding 1973, Hornsby 1988, Hudson 1996, Milsom
1981.
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to consider further the cultural context offered by the milieu of law clerks.
Clerks and lawyers are interlinked in Beryn when Geoffrey ironically sug-
gests that both categories of men, hence...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 669–712.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of loss” (although said in different context), can be
fairly applied to the history of such archival documents as samizdat. This
particular case can serve as an example of how cultural heritage can be
endangered primarily as a direct result of political and ideological causes
and how the power...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 713–733.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., in the Soviet Union itself, the term samizdat was used in a broader sense, to mean diverse phenomena of unofficial cultural production—not necessarily of literary origin or dissident politics. In this broader sense, the term may be used to describe music samizdat (also known as magnitizdat ), cinematic samizdat...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 383–397.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska The article focuses on Julian Stryjkowski's best-known novel, Voices in the Darkness , analyzed in the context of this leading Jewish Polish writer's biography and his complicated linguistic and cultural position. A special emphasis is placed on the author's use...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 641–674.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Allan Poe's poetic genius to find expression as it surpasses those models. These views should give coherence and cohesion to Poe's work by attending to his personal and professional experience in its geographical, historical, economic, cultural, and social contexts in an attempt to solve the apparent...
View articletitled, Divination and Comparison: The Dialogical Tension between Self-Reflective Aesthetics and Sensational Motifs in Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin Series
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