Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 764 Search Results for
essay
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... Reading them one after the other is an interesting experience, because there are numerous divergences, and these raise important questions concerning especially the relationship between narratology, or narrative theory, and history. This essay aims to deepen this experience and to offer a comparative...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... but rather on skepticism and relations between people, providing an “immunity” against uncurbed romantic enthusiasm. Amir Eshel has an ambitious project, which he began formulating in his previous book, Futurity (2013), and which his current collection of essays further extends and develops. To borrow...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 829–852.
Published: 01 December 2001
...David Darby This essay compares two distinct traditions of narrative theory: on the one hand, that of structuralist narratology as it emerged in the 1960s and in its various subsequent manifestations; on the other, that of German-language Erzähltheorie as codified in the 1950s, with a prehistory...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 710–712.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Hopps Gavin , Neumann Stella , Strasen Sven , and Wenzel Peter , eds., Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings . Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang , 2015 . 234 pp. New Books at a Glance
Mark J...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 753–755.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Eyal Segal Coll-Tellechea Reyes McDaniel Sean , eds., The “Lazarillo” Phenomenon: Essays on the Adventures of a Classic Text . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2010 . 202 pp. © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 617–622.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Rader Ralph W. ., Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays ., edited by Phelan James and Richter David H. . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . xii + 369 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance
Edward Adams...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Eyal Segal 2003 New Books at a Glance
6828 POETICS TODAY / 24:1 / sheet 145 of 151
Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, xi...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Eyal Segal 2004 New Books at a Glance
Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp.
This collection of fourteen essays aims to offer a rounded contemporary
account and appraisal of this distinctive and influential...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Daniel Dufournaud Abstract If speed is a cornerstone of contemporary life, then one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome in the fight against agism is the fact that senescence entails a slowing down of the human body and mind. The question this essay asks is whether this form of life can...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 563–603.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Matthew Sharpe This essay undertakes a close analysis of Leo Strauss’s remarkable but undertreated Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Symposium,” reading it as opening a privileged purview of his own (and his students’) wider understandings of philosophy, poetry, and politics. The essay begins by drawing out...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Libbie Rifkin This essay attempts to reframe the scholarship on postwar avant-gardist practice by rereading an event some commentators consider the beginning of the academic cooptation of the avant-garde: the Berkeley Poetry Conference of 1965. Held just after the anthology wars had established...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 107–125.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Paul Grimstad In his essay “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846), Edgar Allan Poe describes how he composed his lyric poem “The Raven” by following a series of predetermined steps. My essay shows how Poe's description of composition as rule following both has suggestive affinities...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 289–321.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Miranda Burgess This essay explores two approaches to affect in literary theory. The first of these approaches locates affect in discrete bodies and persons. The second views affect as a phenomenon anterior to the distinction of persons: a flow of energy among bodies as well as between bodies...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 689–730.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Monika Fludernik Taking its inspiration from cognitive narratology and particularly the work of Alan Palmer on the Victorian novel, this essay examines to what extent collective minds can be traced in early modern narratives. One of the typical sites of intermental thought is the representation...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 605–634.
Published: 01 December 2017
...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...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 59–110.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Jeffrey A. Grossman This essay challenges the standard view of the relations between two major Jewish corpora: German and Yiddish–East European culture and literature. In that view the writings of German Jews are steeped in either disdain for or romantic fantasies about East European Jews. Yiddish...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (4): 673–694.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to align themselves with the critical motives and methods of theory is dismissed for being un- or trans-historical. The primary goal of this essay is to suggest a middle way between these polarities, especially concerning recent scholarly interest in the history of the book. Specifically, this essay argues...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Sonja Laden This essay argues that the critical practice of New Historicism is a mode of “literary” history whose “literariness” lies in bringing imaginative operations closer to the surface of nonliterary texts and briefly describes some of the practice's leading literary features and strategies...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... For criticism that challenges the status quos of social and political life, it is often the interpretive condition that can unsettle existing patterns of recognition and judgment. What this essay finds in the work of Lisa Robertson is a more situated notion of indeterminacy, one that relates indeterminacies...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 323–364.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and imperial imaginary, which generated a particular founding myth for the colonial state of the Union of South Africa in 1910 and which also lent to foreign visitors,tourists, and immigrants a readily understood interpretation of South Africa and the Cape as “Mediterranean” rather than as“African.” This essay...
1
