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The Grammar of Forgetting: Proust sous l’emprise de la philologie
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 635–666.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Robert S. Kawashima The Proustian search consists of a dialectic process. Time, for example, must be “lost” before it can be “regained.” Involuntary memory itself takes the form of this dialectic: an experience (the taste of the madeleine, e.g.) must be forgotten before it can be remembered...
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Proust, His Narrator, and the Importance of the Distinction
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 91–135.
Published: 01 March 2004
... seeks to link litera-
ture with life, we must strenuously resist the temptation to take Marcel as
his entirely reliable mouthpiece.
A Madeleine and a Piece of Toast
Let us begin at the beginning, with the first thing anyone learns about
Proust, the first involuntary memory with which the narrative...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 573–606.
Published: 01 December 2007
...). This
escape from the relentless oppression of ordinary existence, back into “the
paradises which we have lost,” is permitted by the action of involuntary
memory, which recalls certain past events without the contribution of
his “will” or his “intellect” (ibid.: 451); a reminiscence brought...
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Intention in Extremity: Reading Dickinson after the Holocaust
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 175–207.
Published: 01 June 2005
... and thus,
by analogical implication, an involuntary memory. Involuntary memory is,
in fact, an unspoken subject throughout Klüger’s essay, and in this respect
the four words recollected from Dickinson provide an especially fitting con-
clusion, pointing Klüger’s carefully worked through meditation...
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How Two Distant Strangers Exposes the Racial Blind Spots of the Involuntary Time Loop
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Wibke Schniedermann Abstract This essay explores the racial-ideological undercurrents of the involuntary time loop (ITL) formula. It specifically looks at narrative form and other established formal elements such as typical plotlines, character constellations, and editing. The case study of a film...
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Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 551–554.
Published: 01 September 2005
... composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult to understand or
explain the workings of our selves. Fortunately for us, Landy contends...
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Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 554–556.
Published: 01 September 2005
... composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult to understand or
explain the workings of our selves. Fortunately for us, Landy contends...
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Poetry: The Basics
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 557–558.
Published: 01 September 2005
... composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult to understand or
explain the workings of our selves. Fortunately for us, Landy contends...
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Music, Rhythm, Language: A Special Issue of Representations
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 558–561.
Published: 01 September 2005
... composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult to understand or
explain the workings of our selves. Fortunately for us, Landy contends...
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Perspectives on Three Decades of Cognitivist Efforts
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 September 2005
... composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult to understand or
explain the workings of our selves. Fortunately for us, Landy contends...
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Heroes and Heritage: The Protagonist in Indian Literature and Film
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 549–551.
Published: 01 September 2005
... time.These temporary, suc-
cessive sub-selves never completely vanish from the overall composition of
the self; they remain present and at least partly recuperable, making pos-
sible such phenomena as involuntary memory. Complex and inherently
contradictory, this picture of the self makes it difficult...
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A Beatrice for Proust?
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 607–618.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and involuntary memory, each of which,
in a parallel suspension of the otherwise rigid laws of human existence,
combines imagination with physical presence—but also, unfortunately,
runs into a couple of difficulties. Let us start with the idea that, in Proust
as in Dante, “the artistic conversion...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... to repeatedly reset, even if particular characters maintain memories across iterations (e.g., Groundhog Day , Russian Doll ); the second possibility is character- framed looping , which follows the timeline of a single time traveler who visits past/future versions of themself (e.g., All You Zombies...
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Goosebumps, Shivers, Visualization, and Embodied Resonance in the Reading Experience: The God of Small Things
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 273–293.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Lawrence W. Wiemer-Hastings Katja 2005 “Situating Abstract Concepts.” In Grounding Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language, and Thinking , edited by Pecher Diana Zwaan Rolf A. , 129 – 63 ( New York : Cambridge University Press ). Basu Biman...
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Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2025
... is restricted to the audience. Furthermore, circular narratives are infinitely repeated unchanged, while in time loop narratives, characters can change events and alter their trajectories. As Wibke Schniedermann ( 2023 : 304) has pointed out, “Character memory is essential for conclusively identifying...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., they are mediated by frame
conditions. Many survivors speak not from the countries of their birth but
from new, postwar homelands.Their language is often that of exiles caught
up by an involuntary displacement. They may even feel exiled from lan-
guage itself. Given, too, that there is a displacement in time...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 479–502.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the involuntary memory that has so centrally figured in the recep-
tion of this literary masterpiece. In it, Proust seems to give ‘‘instructions for
use dictating how to read his novel. A great deal of scholarship—recently
by Julia Kristeva—has stopped at this passage to scrutinize its secrets and
marvel...
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Memory and Modernity in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil War
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the Franco dictatorship and continuing to the present day. The obsessive memorialization of the Nationalist war dead throughout the Franco dictatorship led, at the time of the transition to democracy, to a desire to break with the past; it was not, as is often argued, a determination to forget...
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Narratorial Border Crossings in Major Early-Twentieth-Century English Novels
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
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pervading sense of him. The crossing of the narratorial border here would
seem to be involuntary, even compulsive. It is not without relevance in this
regard that Povey was reputedly based on the author’s father.
Like Bennett in The Old Wives’ Tale, Lawrence maintains the imperson-
ality of his...
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Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of 2007. It is during this time that he learns of his impending death on New Year's Day of 1993. Jack's death also marks the teleological end point to the narrative and describes the problem to be overcome, and the plot centers on his attempts to ward off this fate. His initially involuntary travels...
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