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... 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...

... for Poetics and Semiotics 2003 Barroll, Leeds, ed. 2000 “Symposium: Material Culture,” Shakespeare Studies 28 : 123 -264. Birkerts, Sven 1994 The Gutenberg Elegies:The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (New York: Fawcett Columbine). Bolusset, Philippe 1998 “Pere andMere: Unequals...

..., and the group Synthesis, a more coherent formation that had a longer and more turbulent history. I explore the uniqueness of Bulgarian late Communist culture that, unlike its Soviet bloc counterparts, was never truly dissident in character. I seek to reveal why Bulgarian intelligentsia proved incapable...

...Eyal Segal Morson Gary Saul ., The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 . xi + 340 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Frederick Aldama, ed., Analyzing World Fiction...

...Eyal Segal Zunshine Lisa , Getting inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 . xiii + 217 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Deborah...

... for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 cultural memory dystopian fiction future utopia References Assmann Jan 2008 “Communicative and Cultural Memory,” in Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook , edited by Erll Astrid Nünning Ansgar , 109...

... 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...

...Luc Herman; Bart Vervaeck This essay aims to clarify how literary and nonliterary narratives function in society and culture. To reach this broad goal, it first presents a general framework inspired by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the American New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt...

..., this act plays on a formative underlying nature/culture structural opposition that is then subverted by circus culture only to be shown, in the end, to be part of the very bourgeois order it was supposed to challenge. I sketch out Carmeli's analysis of how the lions, Sidney Howes the trainer...

...H. Porter Abbott Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity . Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. Abbott, H. Porter 2001 “Scientists, Humanists, and the Cultural...

...Dorothee Birke Abstract While the internet is often seen as having destroyed book culture, this article is interested in those areas in our contemporary media environment where book and internet culture actually converge. Focusing on the example of BookTube, the author examines how book culture...

...”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...

... of information and communication (NTIC) on cultural stereotypes in mu- seums and exhibitions of the fine arts. She inquires if and how a virtual visit adapts the stereotypes attached to a consecrated, almost sacred place...

...Brian Richardson Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 Birke Dorothee , Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2016 . xi + 256 pp. ...

... 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...

...Eyal Segal Toker Leona , Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2010 . x + 240 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance Nele Bemong, Pieter Borghart...

...Gabriele Rippl This article takes as its starting point the conspicuous ekphrastic nature of many contemporary Anglophone transcultural novels and asks about their engagement with ekphrasis as a self-reflexive writing mode delving into implicit power relations, cultural hierarchies, and the media...

...Ann Rigney This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of cultural memory and examines in particular the way in which literary texts can function as a social framework for memory. Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception...

... Rosi . 2008 . “ In Spite of the Times: The Postsecular Turn in Feminism .” Theory, Culture, and Society 25 , no. 6 : 1 – 24 . Braidotti Rosi Blaagaard Bolette de Graauw Tobijn Eva Midden , eds. 2014 . Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere...

...Katie Trumpener [email protected] Nir Evron , The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2020 . 232 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 This book's...