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How to Build a Hybrid: The Structure of Imagination

Yeshayahu Shen, David Gil
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 513–543.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824156
Published: 01 December 2023
...Yeshayahu Shen; David Gil Abstract How do we conjure up novel and unfamiliar entities in our imagination? Thomas Ward and others have suggested that we do so by deriving such entities from ordinary familiar ones. Hybrids, however, pose a challenge to this view since they are not derived from any...
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Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

N. Katherine Hayles
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 67–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-25-1-67
Published: 01 March 2004
... and signification at the outset. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation. It makes materiality an emergent property, so that it cannot be specified in advance,as if it were a pregiven entity. Rather, materiality...
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Place Deixis and the Schematics of Imagined Space: Milton to Keats

Mark J. Bruhn
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 387–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-3-387
Published: 01 September 2005
... typically operates for the rhetorical sequencing of entities conceived as themes, rather than for the grounding and interrelation of entities conceived as objects within a represented scene. With the advent of romanticism, however, place deixis begins to appear with greater frequency, density, and variety...
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Telling in the Plural: From Grammar to Ideology

Uri Margolin
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 591–618.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-3-591
Published: 01 September 2000
... as a collective agent. To qualify, the collection must act as a plural subject or we-group, capable of forming shared group intentions and acting on them jointly. A different type of collective agent is a community: a group with a shared sense of identity. At the extreme end stands the group as a corporate entity...
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Visual Hybrids as Constitutive Rhetorical Acts: Rhetorical Interplay between Unity and Difference

Petra Aczél
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 631–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824212
Published: 01 December 2023
... of this connection persuasion becomes identification, a constitutive act enhancing the unity of different entities (either human or material). The present essay conceives of rhetoric, and especially visual rhetoric, as a suitable framework to interpret visual hybrids. Here, visual hybrids are understood...
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Metrical Hybridization: Prosodic Ambiguities As a Form of Social Dialogue

Vered Shemtov
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 65–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-65
Published: 01 March 2001
...Vered Shemtov At the core of this study is the assumption that the sound of discourse transfers the text from its silent fictional existence to an independent entity that refers, through its linguistic dialect, to a social context outside the text. This assumption makes it possible to move beyond...
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Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction

Pieter Vermeulen
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 15–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10342057
Published: 01 June 2023
... Kornbluh that expands the notion of form to include infrastructures, institutions, and other entities that provide sustenance and continuity to offer a different account of the cultural work such fictions do. The essay argues that two canonical works of fiction about dementia— J. Bernlef's Out of Mind...
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Introduction

Michalle Gal, David Gil, Yeshayahu Shen
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 505–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824142
Published: 01 December 2023
.... The visual hybrid glues to one another parts of entities that are extracted from different categories, to create an entity that belongs to no category. It challenges our draw to visual order and manifests the parallel draw to visual creativity, imagination, and innovation. Moreover, as exposed in the first...
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Why Monsters Are Dangerous

Olivier Morin, Oleg Sobchuk
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824226
Published: 01 December 2023
...: no special feature betrays the fact that they are not real (to nonspecialists at least). Likewise, some imaginary animals—the Yeti, the Loch Ness monster, some unicorns—would not be out of place in a real-world bestiary. Fictional entities need not necessarily wear their fictionality on their sleeve (Goodman...
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From “Under the Rose” to V .: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction

M. Angeles Martínez
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 633–656.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-4-633
Published: 01 December 2002
.... Sanford and S. C. Garrod devel- oped the notion of mental representations: the stores of information that we human beings build up from our interactions with events and entities in the real world and that we bring to bear in the interpretation of spoken and written discourse. These mental...
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Creative Accounting: Role-Playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination

Daniel Punday
Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 113–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-1-113
Published: 01 March 2005
... and because it marks a kind of limit to the kinds of textual features that possible-world theories can attend to. Like the statistical structure of RPGs, the basic building blocks of Do- ležel’s (1979: 196) theory are entities: ‘‘A possible world is not a random assemblage of entities; it is constructed...
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Visual Hybrids and Nonconceptual Aesthetic Perception

Michalle Gal
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 545–570.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10824170
Published: 01 December 2023
... metaphors are conditioned upon homospatiality, that is, the existence of elements in the same single bounded, physical entity. These elements, Carroll claims, bring to mind different categories or concepts, which we combine and activate by mapping part of what we associate with one of the categories onto...
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Bidirectionality and Metaphor: An Introduction

Chanita Goodblatt, Joseph Glicksohn
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3716189
Published: 01 February 2017
... between entities. Through its productive nature, it brings to the fore latent expressive qualities in both vehicular material and referent that will allow the establishment of semantic correspondence between the two entities. It is precisely this productive nature of the denotative act...
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Diegesis and Representation: Beyond the Fictional World, on the Margins of Story and Narrative

Remigius Bunia
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 679–720.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-010
Published: 01 December 2010
... could intuitively say without any deeper analysis that a universe includes all entities and events without exception. In Genette’s example, Renoncourt lives in a universe (not in the sense of diegesis but in the intuitive sense) and tells about his experiences in this universe...
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Fictional Worlds of Czech Postmodern Prose

Bohumil Fořt
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 731–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4184326
Published: 01 December 2017
..., types of worlds, or fictional entities. And finally, the method of style analysis is a practical tool for inves- tigating particular fictional texts with their potential to ground fictional worlds and the ways the stylistic means shape these worlds (intensional func- tions). In this respect...
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Defamiliarization of Spatial Metaphors for Voice in the Work of Herta Müller

Pavlo Shopin
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 641–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-8720113
Published: 01 December 2020
... concerns of literature and psychology. Recent developments in the study of cognitive processes (see Kukkonen 2014) indicate that concepts, schemas, andmental representations are approximations of experience rather than universally valid entities, but they remain a useful heuristic in the context...
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Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 305–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160757
Published: 01 September 2015
... work and text, the role of cultural context, and the significance of authorial inten- tions for the identity of a work or the nature of fictional entities. The first essay, “The Menard Case and the Identity of a Literary Work of Art,” by Toma´ˇs Hrˇíbek, examines the contrasting views of Goodman...
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Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 308–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160769
Published: 01 September 2015
... work and text, the role of cultural context, and the significance of authorial inten- tions for the identity of a work or the nature of fictional entities. The first essay, “The Menard Case and the Identity of a Literary Work of Art,” by Toma´ˇs Hrˇíbek, examines the contrasting views of Goodman...
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Text + Work: The Menard Case

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 310–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160781
Published: 01 September 2015
... work and text, the role of cultural context, and the significance of authorial inten- tions for the identity of a work or the nature of fictional entities. The first essay, “The Menard Case and the Identity of a Literary Work of Art,” by Toma´ˇs Hrˇíbek, examines the contrasting views of Goodman...
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Fiction and Narrative

Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 313–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160793
Published: 01 September 2015
... of authorial inten- tions for the identity of a work or the nature of fictional entities. The first essay, “The Menard Case and the Identity of a Literary Work of Art,” by Toma´ˇs Hrˇíbek, examines the contrasting views of Goodman and Danto about the relations between work and text. Goodman’s “textualism...
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