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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Christopher Patrick Miller Abstract Indeterminacy is a term that has been asked to do a lot of work for literary and cultural criticism. For strictly formalist critics, it might be the quality of a text or artwork that both preserves useful ambiguity and invites participation from respondents...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and prototypes for efficient processing of the text. These indeterminacies do not, however, disturb readers or cause dissonance. Rather, they are advantageous, as they allow the constant accommodation of new incoming facts. In contrast to what is assumed by traditional reader response theories, gaps left...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 561–590.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of that mastery by the indeterminacy of their scope. Moreover, all categories of “key” statement—descriptive,autobiographical, and ars-poetic alike—are deprived of their“purchase” on the text by our chronic inability to distinguish instances of “use” from instances of “mention” in“The Skaters.” Such an account...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 675–691.
Published: 01 December 2006
... die Form des Romans,” in Medium Aevum Vivum: Festschrift für Walter Bulst , edited by Hans Robert Jauss and Dieter Schaller, 279 -304 (Heidelberg: Winter). 1971 “Indeterminacy and the Reader's Response in Prose Fiction,” in Miller 1971: 1 -45. 1972 “Die Lesserrolle in Fieldings Joseph...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 675–685.
Published: 01 December 2016
... — and by its
own terms, since gaps, failure, indeterminacy are central to Spolsky’s vision of
the way all organic life, including our own sociocultural ecology, works when
it’s working sufficiently well. Spolsky has been a long-time specialist in gaps.
Ever since her important Gaps in Nature (1993), she...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 605–639.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Franz Kafka “The Judgment” performativity indirect speech acts indeterminacy References Allington Daniel 2008 “How to Do Things with Literature: Blasphemous Speech Acts, Satanic Intentions, and the Uncommunicativeness of Verses,” Poetics Today 29 . 3 : 473 – 523...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 651–668.
Published: 01 September 2001
... , 455 -77 (Paris:Gallimard). 1982 Selected Poetry and Prose , edited by Mary Ann Caws (New York:Directions). Perloff, Marjorie 1983 The Poetics of Indeterminacy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 1985 The Dance of the Intellect (New York: Cambridge University Press...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 763–767.
Published: 01 December 2017
....
Somoff’s is an original study of narrative indeterminacy grounded in a
wide-ranging mix of theory, literary history, and close readings. This reader
regretted the curious absence of any analysis of the work of Dostoevsky’s
important fiction of the late 1840s, which could have enhanced her analysis...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 541–545.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that textuality is a condition from which we cannot
escape. Nonetheless, it also defines how individuals can imagine new
ways of articulating their present circumstances without appealing
simply to an unending indeterminacy’’ (68);
• ‘‘recuperates hope from textual dead ends precisely by mining...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 June 2010
... for the connection to be established.”
However, he criticized Ingarden for the degree of closure implicit in his
aesthetic theory: for Ingarden, the work loses its indeterminacy after its
“concretization” (the filling in of the blanks); for Iser (ibid.: 174–79), on
the contrary, it is around the text’s...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 418–423.
Published: 01 June 2022
... , and Nünning Ansgar . 2016 . “ ‘Unnatural’ or ‘Fictional’?: A Partial Critique of Unnatural Narrative and Its Discontents .” Style 50 , no. 4 : 419 – 24 . Fludernik Monika . 2011 . “ The Category of ‘Person’ in Fiction: You and We Narrative- Multiplicity and Indeterminacy of Reference...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 561–589.
Published: 01 December 2014
... summarize the critical debate on what the
audience saw when a boy actor enacted a female role and the recent argu-
ment by the historian Alexandra Shepard (2003) that young maidenhood and
manhood were perceived at this time as a mode of indeterminacy, a point
I shall explain in more detail later. Love’s...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 191–205.
Published: 01 June 2003
... partakes of the nature of its object of study. A scientific
explanation can possibly prove the indeterminacy of some object or process
in the world. But the proof is not the same as with literary interpretation
(and I did...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 131–174.
Published: 01 March 2024
... texts famously assaulted the conventions of the mystery novel, notably by bankrupting the genre's most basic promise that the guilty party will be recognized , and that this recognition will backfill any lacunae or textual indeterminacies. These texts announce a scene of anagnorisis (Colonel Mustard...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 331–351.
Published: 01 June 2010
... or process and the con-
nective asher as a reference to personal or thematic identity (who,
what) (see LaCoque and Ricoeur 1998: 316, 324);
• the rhetorical value of the idem per idem construction, conveying
either indeterminacy or intensification (see Vriezen 1950...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 671–689.
Published: 01 September 2001
... ghost seems more than ever a protean shape-shifter, a pal-
pable presence not ever to be grasped in its essence.What’s more the essays
alert us to certain indeterminacies in the idea of the ‘‘transcultural In our
era of globalized communication, most of our cultural activity is transcul-
tural...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2011
... experience.
(The topic has long been studied in the Tel-Aviv School of Poetics and
now also taken up by various other narratologists.) Finally, Oliver Buck-
ton’s “Mr. Betwixt-and- Between: The Poetics of Narrative Indeterminacy
in Stevenson’s Kidnapped and David Balfour” is insightful...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2011
...-and- Between: The Poetics of Narrative Indeterminacy
in Stevenson’s Kidnapped and David Balfour” is insightful into the relations
between the two novels, with their continuous fictional world, and specifi-
cally on the abrupt ending of Kidnapped. All this, however, is rather tenu-
ously related...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 183–199.
Published: 01 February 2018
...; Pignagnoli 2012 – 14; Wolf 2006. It is perhaps also worth mentioning that
Genette’s paratext is ambiguous by definition, being grounded in a metaphor (the threshold)
that highlights its own indeterminacy.
7. In my 2013 paper I point out that simply listing paratexts as resources of narrative com...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 611–631.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the dialogic narration of Jip and Zab typing into the same
computer file in Xorandor, there seems to be no way for the reader to attribute
the text he or she is reading to an identifiable source within that text. This
supports Rimmon-Kenan’s contention that ‘‘Thru links narrators
with indeterminacy...
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