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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alice Crossley Abstract This essay reads Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s controversial novel Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) for its contribution to discourses about aging masculinity and male sexuality in later life. The Diary meditates on the mental and physical vicissitudes of aging masculinity, arousal...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 387–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
... through the analysis of one reading-group session, which focuses on a metanarrative excerpt from Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries . The article suggests that a creative, dialogical space of a metanarrative reading group forms a productive environment for exploring the affordances, limitations, and power...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 33–58.
Published: 01 June 2015
... this, the argument compares three novels that share the generic conventions of romantic fiction: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Helen Fielding's modern adaptations of Austen, Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999). Each novel depicts potential lovers who are initially...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 331–351.
Published: 01 June 2006
... on disease and mortality were included in Judenräte statistical bulletins. However, much of the activity of these health departments and doctors had to be concealed from the German authorities and thus is not reflected in formal ghetto records. Some information can be gleaned from the few surviving diaries...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 385–397.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Annette Wieviorka This essay traces transformations in the figure of the witness from the period of the ghettos to the present, focusing on the meaning and contexts of the predominant forms of testimony during the Holocaust and since. Efforts to bear witness in diaries, chronicles, and unpublished...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 261–285.
Published: 01 June 2023
... on the figure of the older lay reader and their reading practices. It presents field work involving a 2017 reading and writing club of women over sixty who responded to the novella Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill (2006) by the Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst. Analyzing the reading diaries, group discussion...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 697–701.
Published: 01 September 2001
... is a resisting genre, a site of resistance, even if it is gradually being accepted. Lejeune surveys and assesses his own research, from the mixed import of structuralism and exis- tentialism to Paul Ricœur’s impact. He finally concentrates on the diary, the last genre to remain unwanted in the canon of belles...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 49–78.
Published: 01 March 2008
...: Iudicium). Shields, Carol 1995 The Stone Diaries (New York: Penguin). Sontag, Susan 1979 On Photography (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin). Wagner, Peter 1995 Reading Iconotexts: From Swift to the French Revolution (London: Reaktion). 1996 “Introduction: Ekphrasis, Iconotexts...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 March 2004
... du Seuil). Tsurayuki, Ki no 1981 The Tosa Diary , translated by William N. Porter (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle). Weinberger, Eliot 1996 “Can I Get a Witness,” Village Voice Literary Supplement 147 : 8 . 1997 “Three Footnotes,” Boston Review 22 (3–4): 36 -37. Wilkomirski...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 617.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Beckett: The Author in the Autograph), a book on the diary strategy in fiction (Diary Fiction: Writing as Action), and The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, now in its second edition. He has also edited a double issue of the jour- nal Sub-­Stance titled “On the Origin of Fictions...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2016
...). Overall, the novel New Books at a Glance 227 dramatizes the impossibility of the Cartesian split between body and mind. Next, Trites discusses cognitive conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 217–220.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 March 2016
...). Overall, the novel New Books at a Glance 227 dramatizes the impossibility of the Cartesian split between body and mind. Next, Trites discusses cognitive conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 222–225.
Published: 01 March 2016
...). Overall, the novel New Books at a Glance 227 dramatizes the impossibility of the Cartesian split between body and mind. Next, Trites discusses cognitive conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 227–229.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 232–235.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 235–237.
Published: 01 March 2016
... conceptualizations of race and illustrates these from Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007). The protagonist, a Native American teenager, tells about his life on the Spokane Indian Reservation, his decision to go to an all-white public high school, and his experiences...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 719–751.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... 1861b Notes from the House of the Dead [Zapiski iz mertvogo doma], in Bazanov et al. 1972–90 , vol. 4 . 1864 Notes from the Underground [Zapiski iz podpol'ia], in Bazanov et al. 1972–90 , vol. 5 : 99 -179. 1873 “One of Today's Falsehoods” [Odna iz sovremennykh fal'shei], in Diary...