...John Pier Altes Liesbeth Korthals , Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction . Frontiers of Narrative Series . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . xvi + 325 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017...

...Ruth Amossy Examining the rhetorical notion of ethos at the crossroads of disciplines,this article builds up an integrated model attempting to reconcile Bourdieu's theory of language and power with pragmatic views of illocutionary force. For the sociologist, the authority of the orator depends...

...Yona Hanhart-Marmor Abstract This article compares the Israeli series BeTipul and its French adaptation En thérapie to show that while the changes that were made in the adaptation were minimal, analyzing them proves to be a powerful tool for understanding the national ethos of both Israeli...

... of a dubiously instrumental and adaptationist ethos. I propose that scientists and literary scholars stand to gain equally from greater interdisciplinary dialogue on this rich and notoriously problematic topic. I wish to thank Suzanne Nalbantian for her comments on an earlier version of the latter part...

.... To this end, it situates this aesthetic in the context of an emergent metamodernism by relating the notion of connection, central to network aesthetics, to an ethos of affect and sincerity characteristic of metamodernism. The literary analysis, which focuses on five key hubs, then demonstrates how the poem...

... and poetic categories in the context of the Rhetoric , the Topics , and the Poetics . On the basis of these analyses, I discuss in the last part three endoxical dimensions of mimesis: (i) astonishment and pleasure, (ii)ethos and social praxis, and (iii) style and representation. Adorno, T. W. 1973...

... the genre especially suitable for cultivating a phenomenological ethos of reflective attachment in readers. On the one hand, expressive realist novels invite readers to perceive the first-person evaluations that give objects significance for particular characters, promoting affective attitudes...

... of different literary traditions and narrative modes and acknowledge that “environmental ethos is also culturally coded and dependent upon local contexts” (13), Environment and Narrative focuses almost exclusively on a small set of contemporary novels written in English; texts (by, among others, Jeff...

.... The same transgressional desire symmetrically organizes the mind figures. The verbo-modal dynamic (injunction/rejection of obe- dience) anchors ethos and pathos in the character of the letter writers: the authority of the Marquise...

... Altes (ibid.) argues, the current media ecology becomes a site for the con- struction of a work’s meaning and literary value. The idea that, in Korthals Altes’s (ibid.) words, “effects of pathos and ethos attached to an author’s public image seem to take on symbolic value, which then transfers back...

... stage. 1 The Israeli series, based on a book by Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk, grapples with the State of Israel's earliest and, arguably, most persistent and pervasive cultural ethos: the brotherhood in arms of Israeli soldiers in Israel's 1948 War of Independence. However, while the Israeli...

... is to generate the circle by establishing individual relationships be- tween the poet and his ephebes. In this context, poetry refers to ethos,or personal conduct, while the third book of The Star of the Covenant,where the poet addresses the members as a whole, unfolds the nomoi, the political dimension...

... of literary engagement and literature and ethos. Her main publications are Le salut par la fiction? Sens, valeurs, et narrativité dans “Le roi des aulnes” de Michel Tournier (1992) and The Autonomy of Literature at the Fins de Siècles (1900 and 2000) (2007), edited with Gillis J. Dorleijn and Ralf...

... within which the progressive ethos of the post-Stalinist era was enacted. Magnitizdat and the Bards: Unofficial Dubbing in the Post-Stalinist USSR The word magnitizdat has been the victim of some terminological confu- sion, having been frequently misused as a synonym for the musical genre...

... involving symbolic logic, science of exegesis, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, while Gadamer refers to an ethos, a sensibility, a practice, and an experience. Thus, Ricoeur's hermeneutics stands out as a multidisciplinary and paradigmatic methodology, considering the textual interpretation...

... Perelman’s new rhetoric but recast in terms of discourse analysis. Apart from chapters on the audience, on ethos and pathos, on enthymenes and analogies, and on pragmatic ways of argumentation analysis, one...

... published widely on narrative theory and analysis, as well as on literature and ethics. Her book Ethos and Narrative Interpretation (2014) was awarded the Perkins prize in 2016. Carsten Meiner is professor of French literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications include Les...

... is coeditor of Narrative, Interrupted (2012) and Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media (2015), and she has published on consciousness rep- resentation, voice and realism across media, the literary tradition of adultery, authorial ethos, and the methodological exchange between classical, post...

... a dispersive spiritual ethos across multiple disciplines and fields. And at another, attending to spirituality modifies, and perhaps enriches, how we interpret certain facets of modern thought (taken to designate theory in the expansive, open-ended sense prevailing after the -isms What this essay identifies...

... the ways in which our entanglement with digital media affects, guides, and shapes our engagement with the possible. Roine is a coeditor of the book The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory, and Philosophy (2021) and has published articles, for instance, on the ways in which...