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... by Mirra Ginsburg (New York: HarperCollins). Why the First-Wave Russian Literary Diaspora Embraced Shklovskian Estrangement Greta N. Slobin College of Letters, Wesleyan Abstract This essay explores the implications of Victor Shklovsky’s concept of es- trangement as it extends...

...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...

.... , 83 – 121 ( Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum ). Wordsworth’s “First-­Born Affinities”: Intimations of Embodied Cognition David S. Miall University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies Abstract In his early poetic writing (around 1797–99), William Wordsworth (1770– 1850) often...

...Eyal Segal 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. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter...

...Nicholas Paige When literary scholars analyze narrative personhood historically, they typically see periods , explained as an effect of deeper psychosocial mutations. Thus the dominant first person of the eighteenth century is the counterpart to a new bourgeois subject, while the third-person...

...William Nelles; Linda Williams The topic of narrative order remains the one understudied component of Gérard Genette’s model of narrative. One significant exception to the neglect of order is Dorrit Cohn’s claim that first-person narratives may be classified according to whether they are narrated...

...Eyal Segal Patea Viorica , ed., Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2012 . vii + 346 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance 203 “Affordances of Form...

... and Metaphor” (38.1). My target first proposal stipulates that, in the creation and comprehension of metaphoric expressions in natural discourse contexts, bidirectional processing always initiates with an abstraction from the target domain that is effectively projected on the source domain, promoting...

... was twenty-two. He was cast as Kazablan in 1966 and as a 1967 war fighter in 1968. His songs were included in a film and an album of traditional songs in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish or Sephardi) in 1971, and he starred in his first sitcom, Krovim Krovim (Hebrew for Close Together ), in 1983. I have identified...

..., the concept itself is hardly ever used by nonacademics in reference to twenty-first-century art—fiction and poetry included. This is not to say that general readers do not recognize the manifestation of a new structure of feeling in contemporary novels. In fact, following Williams's definition of the term...

... Places': Frost and Hawthorne,” in Frost Centennial Essays ,edited by Jac L. Tharpe, 275 -87 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi). New Criticism for the Twenty-First Century Leslie Brisman English, Yale Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Oxford University...

... comprehension begins first with the target , as seen through the lens of the source . This is a process , which entails subsequent transformations of both target and source, in an interactive, bidirectional series of acts of cognition. Metaphor production, in contrast, conforms to a target first model...

...Asiya Bulatova From its first publication in 1923, Viktor Shklovsky's book Zoo, or Letters Not about Love has been discussed as a text that takes up a borderline position between literature and literary theory. The fact that the book was written and first published in Berlin ensured its place...

...) and the other hypothetical (behind the fiction). As regards the norms of communication, the first mode depends for its reliability on the second; as regards the forms of communication, the second depends for its discovery on the first. Though omnipresent, our difficulties in relating narrative to normative...

... and represented alternative political views, they cannot be qualified as oppositional or “dissident” in the traditional sense of the term. In the early 1980s, when these unofficial artistic groups first emerged, they were relatively small and unknown. However, by the end of the decade, when the Soviet state...

... punishable through the misuse of a variety of laws under various pretexts. It occurred first in the Soviet Union as early as the 1920s, before the term was used, and then, labeled as such, from the 1950s onward. While samizdat publication occurred in Czechoslovakia after 1948, the word itself was used...

...Alexander Gribanov; Masha Kowell Among the many documents released one way or another during the early 1990s, there are two that open the window into the perception of samizdat by the top Soviet authorities. The first of them was signed by Yuri Andropov, then the head of the KGB, in the last days...

...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...