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...Simona Bartolotta Abstract Literary cognitivism can be broadly defined as the claim that literary texts can be a source of knowledge. This article proposes the concept of aimless argumentativity to denote a paradoxical epistemic activity performed by fictional narratives. This concept...

...Eyal Segal Mangham Andrew , ed., A Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xvi + 234 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, eds., A Cambridge...

... of crowds. The essay discusses how collectivity and intermentality are textualized in depictions of riots. It first analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's The Old Arcadia (1580) as a case study of rebellion in early modern fiction. The results of the analysis are then compared with selected passages from Raphael...

... to determine the relations between the text's overt (narratorial) and implicit (authorial) frameworks, considering that the one can never be taken on trust and the other can never speak except through its questionable proxy? Here two modes of discourse necessarily interact, one given (in or as fiction...

...Derek Attridge The distinctive ethical force of literature inheres not in the fictional world portrayed but in the handling of language whereby that fictional world is brought into being. Literary works that resist the immediacy and transparency of language— as is the case in modernist writing—thus...

... and Jeffrey Goldstein, 135 -57 (New York: Springer-Verlag). Chatman, Seymour 1990 Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). Chlopicki, Wladyslaw 1997 “An Approach to the Analysis of Verbal Humor in Short Stories,” Humor 10 (3): 333...

...Tamar Yacobi In both real-life and fictional testimony, the problems of reliability-judgment multiply when witnesses report events that count as extraordinary. Historians and other judges then suspect the teller of misrepresentation. On such testimonies there accordingly converge the issues...

... Press). Pratt, Annis 1981 Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Joshua Landy, Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust. Ox- ford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 255 pp. In this remarkable book, Joshua Landy proposes...

...H. Porter Abbott Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity . Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. Abbott, H. Porter 2001 “Scientists, Humanists, and the Cultural...

...Dan Shen; Dejin Xu This essay attempts to define unreliability in autobiography and explore its major forms and features in relation to unreliability in fiction. It starts with the construction of a narratological framework for autobiography, especially in terms of the narrative communicative...

... authors' success in the affirmation of their respective identity depends on the success of the love quest. Dante's case is especially relevant to this essay insofar as his poem instantiates his authorial identity as coincident with that of his fictional character. Augustine's confessions, however driven...

...Timothy Dow Adams This essay considers the history of photography in fiction, concentrating on issues of genre. Starting with a survey of nineteenth-century novels which included physical photographs, the essay moves to twentieth-century novels, discussing ways in which the generic rules of written...

...Guillemette Bolens This essay considers David Rudrum's claim that narrative is a type of language act that needs to be construed with regard to its use. Here this claim is related to one of the most influential literary traditions in the history of fiction: the Eastern Book of Sindibad and its...

... serve to illustrate the other pole on the closure/openness spectrum. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 Alewin, Richard 1983 [1974] “The Origins of the Detective Novel,” translated by Glenn Most, in The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory , edited by Glenn...

...Eyal Segal Hilary P. Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press , 2008 . xii + 289 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists...

...Eyal Segal Warren Motte, Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-first Century . Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive , 2008 . 237 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme...

...Eyal Segal Boyd Brian , On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 . xiii + 540 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories...

... in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives ,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79 ( 5 ): 701 – 21 . Green Melanie C. Garst J. Brock Timothy C. 2004 “ The Power of Fiction: Persuasion via Imagination and Narrative ,” in The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines...

...Eyal Segal Jusdanis Gregory , Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . 154 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance Hugo Bowles, Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative...

...Eyal Segal Punday Daniel , Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2010 . viii + 240 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance...