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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 471–515.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of representation and reality. Through a juxtaposition of Ramachandran's emphasis on caricature as a central principle of art and Ellis's focus on distorted and questionable realities, this essay suggests new possibilities for the integration of cognitive science with literary and philosophical criticism. Porter...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 27–57.
Published: 01 March 2012
... other, the result is not redundancy. Rather, the juxtaposition draws attention to the polysemy of the image and to what I call the polysemy of looking. Ekphrasis that narrativizes, moreover, necessarily adds information to what is depicted, whereas ekphrasis that describes may add information but need...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 429–454.
Published: 01 September 2022
... narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters’ movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), restricted to a single location but encompassing thirty-two years of time. To enrich...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 93–121.
Published: 01 February 2017
... juxtaposition References Ads of the World 2015 adsoftheworld.com/ (accessed October 26, 2015) . Binkley Timothy 1974 “On the Truth and Probity of Metaphor,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 , no. 2 : 171 – 80 . Black Max 1962 “Metaphor.” In Models...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 631–646.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and advertisements where visual metaphors (substitutions), similes (addition), or contrasts/associations (juxtapositions) are used to exemplify this type. Hybridity here is explicit and the novel unity of the parts conveys an assertive or persuasive message. Cognitive linguists have argued (Lakoff-Johnson 1980...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 435–469.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to the dialogue. The scene becomes increasingly tense and uncomfortable as Ilana and Abbi begin to fight, swearing at each other. The couple looks on in growing horror, and this juxtaposition and irony, additional tropes of Jewish humor, reverse the viewers’ expectations and make the scene increasingly humorous...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 61–93.
Published: 01 March 2000
...’
‘‘organic form the ‘‘bad taste’’ of a Yeshurun poem often means that a
poem is simply a heterogeneous assemblage, a juxtaposition of fragments
belonging to different worlds, a cacophony of voices. Moreover, as the vio...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 373–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... “the way we live now.” At the same time, Hipsky goes on to show, the juxtaposition of nineteenth-century novel and twenty-first-century series allows some historical changes to surface. While both are preoccupied with speculative finance, Succession is required to seek visual and spatial solutions...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of the characters’ transfers. She smuggles in her own
reliable (if enigmatic) re-presentations between the stereotypical guesses of
the viewers from TV and the correctives by the nuns in the know (includ-
ing the painter), so that the juxtapositions deepen the irony of subjective or
projective ekphrastic...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2017
... is a wolf,” a metaphor that is
incompatible and even grotesque in its juxtaposition of man and animal.
As we shall argue in our own essay in this issue, the grotesqueness of this
A preliminary version of this paper was presented at two venues: the research seminar held at
Bar-Ilan University...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 573–578.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... On Flesch’s juxtaposition of realism and nominalism, see Flesch 2012: 3.
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always been our deepest human crisis? Or is solitude simply one problem, an
unhappy problem certainly, but one that has its own physical origins and
bounds? Is it not possible that intense solitude...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 539–560.
Published: 01 December 2014
... create
an ideological juxtaposition which, in turn, would have an impact on the reception.
Limon † Elizabethan Theater Reconstructions Reconsidered 543
(often designed as the “temple for the elite of society”) but is manifested,
above all, by the Christian church as theater.5 Stuart...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 175–181.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of attending” (93) leaves room for “unsung regions,” “attention downshift,” and arts of “focused non-focalization” (213, 234–35). Along with this frank and resourceful allowance of boredom (“I love poems about boredom” [242]), another delight of Alford's study is its juxtapositions: in one chapter, just a few...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 17–39.
Published: 01 February 2018
... reactions.
Von Contzen’s (ibid.: 149) juxtaposition of exemplarity with cognitivist
mind attribution theories is also valuable in the context of the seven-
teenth- and eighteenth-century novel: “The concept of exemplarity implies
that a character who functions as a model is both very much alike...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 313–329.
Published: 01 June 2010
... study.
. For an illuminating early formulation of the link between time and narrative established
in Time and Narrative, see Ricoeur 1980. Here it is not yet the juxtaposition of cosmologi-
cal and phenomenological times but Heidegger’s threefold analysis of time that serves as
Ricoeur’s...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... They lived in hollows, woods, and mud huts—perhaps in caves of the neighbouring rocks. Behind them stood an earlier band. No man was there. Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon—all, for the moment, in juxtaposition...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 March 2002
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questionable assumptions and a new platform from which to interrogate
venerable social institutions. Consequently if we want to understand the ap-
peal that the juxtaposition of these two ideas—God ‘‘fashioneth’’ children;
children ought to pray to Him—had for Barbauld when she was writing her
Hymns...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 103–119.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and the Sovereign (2010, vol. 1), an out-work or hors d oeuvre is inserted in the form of a French historical text from 1681 about the dissection of an elephant, a text to be juxtaposed with the immense sovereign, Louis le Grand (Derrida 2010, 1:338). Mention or juxtaposition of references to texts by Georg...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and movements back and forth between and in the chapters, Pry strikes readers as narratively disjointed and unresolved. In its app format, the work often exploits the juxtaposition of expressive forms to demonstrate that spatial staging can take place not just verbally; by using sound and film sequences...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of their original contexts and allowed by their juxtaposition with
one another to produce new shades of meaning. ‘‘U.S. Blues’’ is the best
example of this technique:
Red and white—blue suede shoes
I’m...
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