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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2012
...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...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 15–35.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Kornbluh that expands the notion of form to include infrastructures, institutions, and other entities that provide sustenance and continuity to offer a different account of the cultural work such fictions do. The essay argues that two canonical works of fiction about dementia— J. Bernlef's Out of Mind...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 cognitive anthropology evolutionary psychology hybrids predators minimally counterintuitive representations Imaginary animals could be like imaginary phone numbers. Fictional phone numbers look very much like real ones...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Adam R. Rosenthal In this article the author explores how the problem of the seminar enters into the work of Jacques Derrida. He shows how it emerges not only within the context of the teaching institution but also as a conceptual thematic with a history far in excess of the educational...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 March 2001
... on his institutional position; for Ducrot or Maingueneau, drawing on Aristotle, the image of the orator is built by the discourse itself. Analyzing political as well as literary texts, this essay takes into account the institutional position of the speaker; his “prior ethos” (the image his audience has...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 51–79.
Published: 01 March 2010
... literature. The essay presents, first, some aspects of the genre, which is less simple or homogeneous than may appear. Second, it discusses a seminal article that has opened the mainly form-oriented domain of constrained writing to the broader field of cultural and institutional constraints: R. A. Peterson's...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 731–736.
Published: 01 December 2017
...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...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 429–451.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 ...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 327–360.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and sociality, and memory. The article concludes by underlining the difference between incorporating “brains in literature” and placing “literature in the brain.” © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 The argument of this article was initially presented in the workshop...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... + 219 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022 Amir Eshel has an ambitious project, which he began formulating in his previous book, Futurity (2013), and which his current collection of essays further extends and develops. To borrow a phrase from Bruno Latour...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 505–511.
Published: 01 December 2023
... .” In Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture , edited by Brah Avtar and Coombes Annie . New York : Routledge . [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 This content...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 463–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... key character, Father Teodor, may be taken as a narrative manifestation of new, de-centralized leadership (albeit considerably idealized) in a world where institutional politics is discredited. Since he does not lead the demonstration in a conventional sense, when he is killed by the state police...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 513–543.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to the construction of hybrids but to various other domains of our cognitive lives. This article is the product of years of collaboration by its two authors, which would not have been possible without the generous support of Bernard Comrie and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 417–436.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and early twenty-first centuries. Fragile Faith: The Jazz Stage as a Space for Religious Imagination in a Postsecular World Uwe Steinmetz German Liturgical Institute at Leipzig University Abstract Jazz, today a broadly defined, global form of improvised music, remains a music between heaven and earth...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
... creation of terms, keywords, genres, structures, and institutions as it is the production of new literary objects. The ideas of cybervisionaries Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Ted Nelson, foundational to the electronic storage, recovery, and processing of texts, go beyond practical insights and can be seen...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 129–150.
Published: 01 March 2000
... performance. Olson's reading is considered by some a tour de force and by others a drunken ramble. This essay interprets it as an attempt to articulate an institution and contends that its excesses derive from his simultaneously marginal and central positioning as the “boss poet”of a community committed...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 437–472.
Published: 01 September 2008
...David Herman Description, narrative , and explanation can be viewed both as cognitive activities and as forms of communication, that is, text types embedded within sociocultural, institutional, and discipline-specific histories of practice. I relate these three text-type categories to research...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a definition of samizdat, which was missing in the KGB memo. The differences between the two documents allow a glimpse of their respective institutional thinking about samizdat. Andropov's document implied that the samizdat phenomenon was so widespread that the repressive apparatus could not cope...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 287–297.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., in response, can institute new effects. Copyright © 2018 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2018 ekphrasis epistemology image polysemy quotation References Balzac Honoré de , 1974 [1830] Sarrasine , translated by Miller Richard , in Barthes 1974 [1970...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 293–318.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of redescription, a mode of knowledge, and how the claims made for it by the various disciplines say something about their own opera-tions, limitations,and presuppositions. By examining the diverse ways narrative is inflected in different institutional settings, we might also discover something about our concern...