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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 351–386.
Published: 01 September 2005
...April London Isaac D'Israeli's contributions to the formation of literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries remain unexplored, his voluminous writings mined for apt quotations rather than considered as significant in their own right. This article argues that his...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 143–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Eyal Segal Singles Kathleen , Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2013 . vii + 312 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, eds., A Cambridge...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 659–688.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lauren Shohet Andrew Marvell's “Upon Appleton House” meditates on when and how forms and events become meaningful. The poem reveals the limitations of criticism that assumes rather than questions what constitutes history. Drawing on the literary-historical conventions of its inherited country house...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eyal Segal © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Stein Daniel and Thon Jan-Noël , eds., From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2013 . vi + 416 pp. New Books at a Glance...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Daniel Candel Bormann The article analyzes the “fictional” worlds employed by literary historians with a tool grounded in possible worlds theory. The core of the tool's spatiotemporal framework is applied to four literary histories which cover the history of the novel from its beginnings...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Swastika Night (1937), the article suggests that the history of feminist speculative fiction offers a counter to twenty-first-century queer scholarship's sometimes reductive approaches to gender and reproduction. Burdekin's book is best known for its prescience in imagining the horrifying prospect...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 705–707.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ellen Spolsky © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 Bruhn Mark J. and Wehrs Donald R. , eds., Cognition, Literature, and History . New York : Routledge , 2014 . xii + 271 pp. New Books at a Glance Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs, eds., Cognition...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 453–483.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ilya Kliger This essay explores the manner in which the persistence of literary forms in history has been addressed by the Russian tradition of Historical Poetics (Alexander Veselovsky, Viktor Zhirmunsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian Formalism) and within a certain strain of Western Marxism (Georg...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 260–263.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Segal van den Oever Annie , ed., Ostrannenie: On “Strangeness” and the Moving Image; The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2010 . 279 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 699–705.
Published: 01 December 2002
...,” Poetics Today 11 : 753 -74. Hamburger, Käte 1973 [1968] The Logic of Literature, 2d rev. ed. , translated by Merilynn J. Rose(Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Pavel, Thomas 1992 “Between History and Fiction:On Dorrit Cohn's Poetics of Prose,” in Neverending Stories:Towards a Critical...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 521–591.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Donald R. Wehrs This essay explores Shakespeare’s qualification of romance conventions as a significant event in Western literary history. It may be seen as part of a sustained challenge to the subordination of somatic and affective sense to intellectual, conceptual significance advocated...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Adams Edward ., Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . x + 322 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (3): 405–411.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., Bayreuth (Trier:Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier). Darby, David 2001 “Form and Context: An Essay in the History of Narratology,” Poetics Today 22 : 829 -52. Doležel, Lubomír 1998 Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). Fehn, Ann...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 March 2022
... topology. The article demonstrates how this notion works with respect to new places (the horse carriage), discourses (gastronomy), practices (gallantry), and events (revolts). Third, the article discusses how literary history reflects upon its own heterodox topoi and the constant risk of their becoming...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 103–125.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and its history might be compared to the rings within the trunk of a tree. The repertoire of its core meanings has remained essentially unchanged since ancient times, yet starting in the Middle Ages, and continuing to the present day, the core has been gradually supplemented with new functions...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 651–668.
Published: 01 September 2001
... such an opposition between theory and history and argues for a lyric theory that sees poetic language as representing historical experience within the very formal elements and self-consciousness of language that are lyric poetry's distinctive features. Paul Celan offers a paradigmatic illustration of such synthesis...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 829–852.
Published: 01 December 2001
... (Evanston, IL:Northwestern University Press). Iser, Wolfgang 1972a Der implizite Leser:Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett (Munich:Fink). 1972b “The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach,” New Literary History 3 : 279 -99. 1974 The Implied Reader: Patterns...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 863–864.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Eyal Segal 2001 New Books at a Glance Niall Ferguson, ed., Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. London: Pica- dorxpp. This collection of essays aims to present not ordinary historical writing but a history of the subjunctive and contrary-to-fact conditional: ‘‘What...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 125–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... context. Narrative, Shklovsky's own forte, would appear the paradigm case, as the most inclusive genre and the most akin to art's and life's temporal movement. I accordingly revisit “making strange,” with its branches and afterlives, from the viewpoint of narrative theory and history—especially...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Aleida Assmann The essay focuses on the relationship between memory and history, which has changed in many ways under the impact of the Holocaust. Memory that had been discarded by historians as an unreliable and distorting source came to be acknowledged as an important factor in the reconstruction...