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... studies doxa across historical, cultural, and ideological issues in discourse and more specifically discourse endowed with a legitimizing power and a pedagogical vocation. One of the objectives of this study is to show that the neutrality of dictionary is only apparent: self-evidence is a cultural...

... of which we find records in the cultural archive. The eight case studies collected in this special issue can be read as explorations of the historical variety of these lived negotiations. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 situated cognition cognition in the wild extended...

... of Knowledge (New York: Knopf). Cognitive Literary Studies: The ‘‘Second Generation’’ H. Porter Abbott English, UC Santa Barbara Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. A biologist, about...

...Omri Herzog; Tamar Hager Complex changes have buffeted the discipline of literature during the past decades, calling on us to rethink its academic and cultural definitions, boundaries, and territories. Texts which until recently have not been examined within literary studies (such as films, online...

... and Semiotics 2023 This handbook is the result of an ambitious, interdisciplinary, and pioneering project, in that it not only opens new horizons for the study of the wide field of factual narratives across disciplines and various media, but it also charts important new trajectories for narrative theory...

... act of setting the text and letting it stand. Cryptography is a form of productive reading , a practice that involves taking the poem neither as an isolated object nor merely as a document for cultural study, but as the product of multiple forces, some of them deriving from the poet (his or her psyche...

...), and practices of thinking across the boundaries of media. It discusses both fields’ indebtedness to cultural studies, as well as cognitive literary theorists’ commitment to historicizing and their sustained focus on the embodied social mind. Copyright © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020...

...Helen Freshwater This article problematizes cultural studies' recent return to the“thing,” assessing the archive's position in research work. I draw on my experience of consultation of the surviving records of the Lord Chamberlain's theater censorship office in order to demonstrate...

...Lisa Zunshine In this article I explore the possibility of a dialogue between cultural studies and cognitive science by proposing a “cognitive” reading of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 1781 book Hymns in Prose for Children . Literary critics have pointed out that the tacitly catechistic mode...

... of adaptation. Literature — tragedy in particular — helps us cope, both individually and perhaps as a whole species, with the grim riddle of our estrangement from a world whose blind mechanisms we have to cope with. Some recent work in cognitive cultural studies can be taken to argue that aesthetic experiences...

...Eamon Duede; Richard Jean So [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  artificial intelligence cultural studies humanities critical theory Across the humanities, the response to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly...

...Mark J. Bruhn Theory of literature, literary criticism and interpretation, literary and cultural history, semiotics of culture, linguistics, rhetoric and communications, cultural anthropology, cognitive studies, translation theory:... the common denominator of all this diversity is the ambition...

...Ingo Berensmeyer This article proposes media ecology—a combination of media studies and performance studies with literary and cultural history—as a research perspective for Shakespeare studies. In contrast to a hermeneutics of renewal—as evinced in both New Historicism and what has been called...

... to understanding the culture that produced the original. In this way, this case study contributes to the study of the international circulation of television productions and to the analysis of the tension between international homogenization and local specificities. [email protected]...

...Ming Dong Gu Mimesis is one of the most fundamental ideas in Western poetics. Mimetic theories constitute a mainstream in Western aesthetics. In comparative studies of Chinese and Western poetics, however, there exists a widely accepted opinion that mimetic theory is a cultural invention unique...

... .” International Studies Perspectives 1 , no. 3 : 289 – 303 . Backe Hans-Joachim . 2015 . “ The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media .” Poetics Today 36 , nos. 1–2 : 1 – 31 . Beecroft Alexander . 2010 . Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns...

...David Ayers Contemporary materialist theory is converging with the study of material culture, as evidenced by increasing attention given to the book as a material object produced, circulated, and consumed as a commodity. It is, however,problematic to conceive of the book as a material object, since...

.... This aesthetic response may contribute to an open-ended ethical self-fashioning and may protect critical discourse from itself by preventing the standardization of cultural experience. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Andrew, Dudley 2000 “The `Three Ages' of Cinema Studies...

... of Louvain, Cultural Studies Abstract  This essay deals with the question of the multiple constraints that deter- mine the production of highly commercialized literature, namely, novelization. As a literary genre, novelization is easy to define: it is the novelistic adaptation of an original film...