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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jacob Jewusiak Abstract Associated with disaster metaphors such as floods, avalanches, tsunamis, and icebergs, older people have come to take the symbolic form of the environmental impacts they are imagined causing. Yet even as older people are posited as the cause and imaginatively take the shape...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 253–299.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Françoise Lavocat When, why, and how do people write about a natural disaster? The article characterizes three ways of narrating catastrophe—allegorical, anecdotal, and historical—and shows that a shift toward the historical narrative takes place at the beginning of the seventeenth century, more...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (4): 695–727.
Published: 01 December 2003
... the problems that nag materialist epistemologies, I examine the role of material(ocular) proof in Othellogy , in the form of the much discussed handkerchief. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology of perception, I argue that Othellogy provides a parable about the disaster of confusing the objecthood...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of joint; characters move around without purpose, going through the motions of old routines, as though disaster has not yet occurred. Mr. Jimmy continues his business even though Lizzie suspects she is his only client; the adjunct persists with his research even after his wife has left him; in the library...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 June 2005
... (1906
[1779]: 112), explaining his distaste for John Milton’s elegiac ‘‘Lycidas and
the obverse rule of thumb is apparent in the art that reacted to the immedi-
ate disaster. Grief seemed to instill a desire to communicate ‘‘directly’’
and to disdain ‘‘art’’ificial figures, elegant verse, complex...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 473–488.
Published: 01 June 2006
... (Boston: Mariner Books). Raczymow, Henri 1994 “Memory Shot through with Holes,” Yale French Studies 85 : 98 -105. Randle, Judith 2004 “Deaths, Disasters, and Traumas: Changing Meanings of the Word `Survivor,' 1850-Present.” PhD diss. , University of California, Berkeley. van Alphen...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (1): 81–103.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . “ The Birth of Poetry from the Music of Disaster: Divine Violence in the Poetry of Meir Wieseltier .” Modern Jewish Studies . Soker-Schwager Hanna , ed. 2014 Preface to “A Weak Messianic Power: Political Theology, Religion, and Secularism in Hebrew Literature” (in Hebrew). Special issue, Mikan...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
...). But in the poster’s din we also see a blowup
of Delbo’s left arm, its concentration camp number an indelible smudge.
How to respond? The proportions are eye-catching, visually pleasing; they
reproduce Delbo’s image as forethought to the symposium’s title: ‘‘Disaster
and After But something jars: everything...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . Levine Caroline . 2015 . Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . McArdle Andrea . 2014 . “ Storm Surges, Disaster Planning, and Vulnerable Populations at the Urban Periphery: Imagining a Resilient New York after Superstorm Sandy .” Idaho...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Hazard , 516 – 29 ( New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ). Siegel Lee 2005 `` The Imagination of Disaster (Review of McEwan, Saturday) , Nation , April 11 , www.thenation.com/issue/april-11–2005 . Slimak Louis Jason 2007 `` A Mind with a View: Cognitive Science...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
... with the par-
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ticipants in and victims of the events of The Dynasts is a fruitless task for the
Spirit of the Pities, because it cannot act compassionately or altruistically
to avert the disasters into which human agents blunder. Yet, for Hardy, this
Spirit’s strenuous...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 327–346.
Published: 01 September 2020
... prominent writers. The narrator in Marilynne Robinson s novel Housekeeping (1980) tells us how, in the wake of a flood in the town of Fingerbone, mundane objects seemed strangely transformed. Outliving the disaster brought back from the deep as though from the grave these random items acquired the aura...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 June 2012
... fundamentally
different chronotopes, namely, the epic and the novelistic (or protonove-
listic in Milton’s case), as defined by Bakhtin. In both cases, this hetero-
chronicity stems from the text’s response to what is perceived by its author
as a historical disaster of great magnitude—the failure...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., this hetero-
chronicity stems from the text’s response to what is perceived by its author
as a historical disaster of great magnitude—the failure of the seventeenth
century English Republic and the terrorist attack of 9/11, respectively. Joy
Ladin reflects on the chronotope in lyric poetry—a topic...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 June 2012
... by Bakhtin. In both cases, this hetero-
chronicity stems from the text’s response to what is perceived by its author
as a historical disaster of great magnitude—the failure of the seventeenth
century English Republic and the terrorist attack of 9/11, respectively. Joy
Ladin reflects on the chronotope...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 581–611.
Published: 01 December 2005
... into our conception of the past.
Looking back at twentieth-century history, Arendt proposes to estrange the
immanency of disaster. To do so, one has to ‘‘look for the unforseeable and
unpredictable for ‘‘the more heavily the scales are weighted in favor of the
disaster, the more miraculous...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 363–391.
Published: 01 June 2017
...
are hurled from their thrones by the Supreme Director of this great drama and
become the objects of insult to the base, and of pity to the good, we behold such
disasters in the moral, as we should behold a miracle in the physical order of things.
We are alarmed into reflection; our minds (as it has...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 463–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., somewhat paradoxically, when it is independent of the physical properties of the Body under the protection of a constant supply of Time. This is an artificial life of temporal mutations, which contradicts the natural lifecycle of bodies and leads to various disasters, and of human hubris, which fuels greed...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... as Lord Chelmsford, whose forces had been
massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana. Stormberg, Spion Kop, Magers-
fontein, might have been even more appalling disasters had he been in com-
mand’’ (ibid cast a revealing light on the reasons for the waves of vio-
lence which accompanied his appointment...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 June 2012
... Are Closer than They Appear ,” in Fata Morgana , 67 – 68 ( Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press ). 2007b “ Reflections on Poetry and Disaster ,” Reginald Shepherd’s Blog , reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com/search?q=september+11 . 2010 “ The Other’s Other ,” in Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays...
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