...Bohumil Fořt Doležel Lubomír , Heterocosmica II. Fikční světy postmoderní české prózy (Heterocosmica II: Fictional Worlds of Postmodern Czech Prose) . Prague : Karolinum , 2014 . 190 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 References Doležel...

...Meir Sternberg This paper deals with “motivation” as fiction’s twofold logic of patterning and relates it to other concepts or lines of sense-making (e.g., integration, naturalization). The argument is best summarized through the paper’s headings. 1. Why Is the Discourse Like That? Motivation...

... Thomas Bronwen ., Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . ix + 212 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...

...John Pier Shen Dan , Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions behind Overt Plots . with a foreword by Miller J. Hillis . Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics , vol. 7 . New York : Routledge , 2014 . 175 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute...

... 16 ( 2 ): 93 – 104 . Bordwell David 1985 Narration in the Fiction Film ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ). Breitinger Johann Jacob 1966 [ 1740 ] Critische Dichtkunst: Worinnen die Poetische Mahlerey in Absicht auf die Erfindung/Im Grunde untersuchet und mit...

...Lars Bernaerts; Brian Richardson In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem mutually exclusive. They each highlight different aspects of what narrators and characters think and feel, and their explanatory grounds differ. An unnatural reading...

... Keep: An Ethics of Fiction . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bracher Mark . 2014 . Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism . Austin : University of Texas Press . Buell Lawrence . 1995 . The Environmental Imagination...

... Sciences 12 , no. 5 : 187 – 92 . Caracciolo Marco . 2016 . Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Exploration in Readers’ Engagement with Characters . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . de Waal Frans . 2008 . “ Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution...

...Monika Fludernik Catherine Gallagher’s arguments for a rise of fictionality in the eighteenth century, reinventing the rise of the novel as a rise in fictionality, provides a starting point for the article. It will compare Gallagher’s thesis to other proposals about the rise of fictionality...

...James Phelan This essay constructs a dialogue between Catherine Gallagher’s influential historical and theoretical account of the nexus among fictionality, readerly disposition, and character in the new genre of the novel and rhetorical theory’s alternative account of that nexus. In reading...

...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...

...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...

... against wishfulness. Shared literary experience, most obviously of tragedy, allows us to make such bargains not only within ourselves but with the impresarios of the shared fiction and with other members of the audience we belong to as well (as for example when we adjudicate between Addison and Johnson...

...Adam Stock Most twentieth-century dystopian fictions such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night (1937), George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and John Wyndham's The Chrysalids (1955) adhere to a generic convention by which they project forward...

...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Dawson Paul , The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2013 . viii + 278 pp. New Books at a Glance Walter...

..., NY : SUNY Press ). © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Spolsky Ellen , The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community . Oxford University Press , 2015 . xxxi + 283 pp. Fiction, Fitness, and Failure H. Porter Abbott University of California...

...Bohumil Fořt © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Koten Jiří , Jak se dělá fikce slovy. Pragmatické aspekty vyprávění (How to Do Fiction with Words: The Pragmatic Aspects of Narration) . Brno : Host , 2013 . 160 pp. New Books at a Glance Mark J. Bruhn...

...Eyal Segal © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 Hühn Peter , Eventfulness in British Fiction . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2010 . viii + 213 pp. New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British Fiction. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. viii 1213 pp...