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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 541–574.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that contemporary fiction marks a shift toward an affective dominant. In Postmodernist Fiction (1987) Brian McHale defines the dominant as a structure that brings order and hierarchy in a diversity of techniques and motifs in a literary text. Whereas in modernism the dominant is epistemological and in postmodernism...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 489–512.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Georges-Elia Sarfati This essay is a contribution to the theory as well as to the critical analysis of doxa. Analyzing French dictionaries of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, it shows how they organize, transform, and develop dominant reprensentations of Jewish identity. It thus...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Nicholas Paige When literary scholars analyze narrative personhood historically, they typically see periods , explained as an effect of deeper psychosocial mutations. Thus the dominant first person of the eighteenth century is the counterpart to a new bourgeois subject, while the third-person...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 319–347.
Published: 01 June 2000
... well displace the relativistic interpretive paradigms that have dominated the humanities for the last few decades. Through a review of a number of recently published works, I assess the situation of these two fields in relation to the specific, currently reigning approaches to literary study as well...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 521–591.
Published: 01 September 2011
... or assumed by dominant hermeneutic and poetic theories since late antiquity. Shakespeare’s final romances move toward making an ethical sense—one rooted in human constants of embodied responsiveness to others—the source and ultimate judge of literary significance or poetic truth. By making the ethical rather...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Derek Attridge In the teaching and criticism of poetry, this essay argues, the dominant prosodic tradition, based on classical metrics, provides no way of analyzing and appreciating one of the longest-lasting and most effective verse forms in the English tradition. But using the beat prosody...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 217–240.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Pavla Veselá In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the US establishment strove to reaffirm a vision of a unified American nation. The dominant rhetoric employed strategies typical of community building, such as delineating boundaries and focusing around symbols. However, Robert Pinsky’s...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 561–589.
Published: 01 December 2014
... with a cross-dressed brother and sister. The analysis examines the construction of the play and its production history to understand the potential pleasures it offered to early modern spectators. This adds a new dimension to the gender studies that formerly dominated the scholarship on this play...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 325–356.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Shachar Pinsker This essay examines the ways in which Yiddish—as a language, a set of literary traditions and practices, and a “postvernacular”—operates within the context of Israeli, Hebrew-dominated literature. After establishing the subject's poetic, historical, and political framework, I...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Yoram S. Carmeli This article deals with exclusion and the construction of periphery as modes of ritualizing and binding together a dominant social order. Under scrutiny is the peripheral British traveling circus and the way its traveling and performance define the margins of the modern fragmented...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 December 2004
... to Charles Altieri's challenge that the dominant approaches to literary ethics are limited because they privilege texts, especially narratives, ultimately committed to judicious rationality. The response offers an account of the rhetorical dynamics of lyric narrative in general and of the rhetorical...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 1–37.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and, historically, the project of finding the essential difference gives way to Roman Jakobson's notion of the poetic function, dominant in poetry but available to prose as well. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Abrams, M. H. 1953 The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Andrea Macrae Abstract The explicit imperative to “tell a story” recently dominating UK and US fundraising discourse refers specifically to the central compelling “story” of the representative victim/beneficiary, and yet there are multiple stories at work in charity fundraising letters...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 363–385.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., vignettes, and meditations. While scholars of narrative agree that we witness a new dominance of the generic conventions of traditional autobiography—especially its trope of redemption and conversion narratives—among storytellers on digital platforms as well as in advertisement, marketing and political...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 323–364.
Published: 01 June 2001
... age to modernism. This essay suggests that these broad issues of national identity formation and of simultaneous transition between two different cultural milieus, which are evident as much in the dominant nations of Europe at the time as they are in the making of South Africa, may be tracked...
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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...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 March 2002
... lead to a fundamentally new reading of Jane Austen's last novel, Persuasion (1818). Austen's was a period when a dominant constructionist psychology—associationism—vied with emergent brain-based,organicist, and nativist theories of mind. Austen pointedly contrasts a heroine seemingly formed...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 581–609.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the distinctive properties of the digital medium. Two myths have dominated this theorization. The myth of the Aleph (as I call it) presents the digital text as a finite text that contains an infinite number of stories. The myth of the Holodeck envisions digital narrative as a virtual environment in which the user...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 125–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... defamiliarized, fabula , à la Tristram Shandy. Itself a variant of the anti-chronologism that has always dominated narrative study—as early as in medias res —this formula proves untenable in all its versions and reversions. But the inquiry into it, and them, is nonetheless instructive. The versions consist...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 107–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the broader politics of representing life behind the iron curtain. It argues that Philip Roth's sustained professional engagement with the Czech socialist experience can be read as his critical refusal to take part in the dominant U.S. narrative of Eastern European suffering and oppression. The essay analyzes...