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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2000
...“authority,” for the generic identity of poetry, and, finally, for the estranging light that machine writing retrospectively sheds on the entire history of poetry. In that light, all poetry, indeed all language use whatsoever, appears to be what Donna Haraway terms a cyborg phenomenon —a human being coupled...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 211–224.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the central question facing mod-
ern writers of Yiddish: “How could one write aesthetically in a language that
was considered the quintessence of deformity?” Enlightenment thinkers,
starting from Moses Mendelssohn, had deemed Yiddish a corrupted form
of German: a dialect and jargon unfit for belles...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 399–421.
Published: 01 September 2014
... community in the Holocaust and the multilingual composition of Yiddish as a fusion language that crosses lexicons and alphabets. By invoking or embedding Yiddish in non-Yiddish writing, whether in its original Hebrew letters or in transliteration, authors emphasize the characters' and the reader's encounter...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
...). Experimental or conceptual writing, rendered as a purely aesthetic procedure, neutralizes a lived history of slavery that is in fact constitutive of the very language being selected or erased. What exactly is being experimented with as well as the critical force of the procedure is emptied out, including...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., which disrupted his contribution to the development of “the science of literature” undertaken by the formalist clique in Moscow and Petrograd, Shklovsky used writing as a way of constructing the Soviet writer's experience of émigré life. To further investigate the link between language and exile...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 221–262.
Published: 01 March 2000
... journal Tel quel in the s, who claimed that an
infinitely varied language itself writes itself, or disrupts the poet’s writing of
the poem.14 The poetic economy of any poem is infinite, but the pull of any
Considering that pr...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 225–301.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of modern Yiddish literature into performance art, so as to capture and commemorate the language. The representation of speech in modern Yiddish writing was not ethnography but the replacement of the old with a new orality, and it happened in five phases. By the final, post-Holocaust phase, the vocal strain...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2010
... is their conceptualization of writing as a craft and a profession and their infrequent but functional use of explicitly normative language. Finally, the role of the genre's highly influential institutional context in the handbooks' formulation of generic norms and constraints is considered as well. This article ultimately...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
... nonrepresentational painters write about “languages” composed of sets of colors or shapes. Moreover, representational artists claim to engage in a “conversation” with the viewers of their works, whereas nonrepresentational artists prefer to “converse” with their materials or canvases. In general, representational...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 435–452.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Simon Lewis This essay argues that Breyten Breytenbach's use of the English language to write his prison memoir True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1994[1984]) represented a kind of linguistic treason consistent with Breytenbach's legally defined treason against the apartheid state. While...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Ingo Berensmeyer The formal specifics of Samuel Beckett's writing have so far been redescribed in terms of mysticism, ordinary language philosophy,phenomenology, and deconstruction. Expanding on but also departing from these descriptions, this article tests the capability of a different heuristic...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... into the embodied
interconnectivity of cognitive process together with a critical language which is en-
active, context oriented, sensitive to the conditions of live cultural ecologies. The essay
features textual examples drawn from the writings of Michel de Montaigne and
Andrew Marvell.
Keywords situated...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 653–671.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Derek Attridge The distinctive ethical force of literature inheres not in the fictional world portrayed but in the handling of language whereby that fictional world is brought into being. Literary works that resist the immediacy and transparency of language— as is the case in modernist writing—thus...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 37–62.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., and even fulfilling. The discussion builds on the work of theater scholar Elinor Fuchs—her memoir about her mother's dementia, but also her writing about theater and the insights its formal modes have given her into dementia and ageing in general—to formulate an account of dementia language and the way...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2009) 30 (4): 693–717.
Published: 01 December 2009
... when
we think of writing “about ourselves.” Language thinks us and so we must resist
its insidious influence so as to rid ourselves of the crushing presence of thedéjà-
dit. (My translation)
To put it succinctly: “Ecrire à contraintes entrave le vouloir-dire” (To write
using...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 539–559.
Published: 01 December 2020
...).Writing as a passage of life into formal language does not presuppose distinctions between fact and fiction, reality and representation, ontology and textuality. In their book onKafka, for example, Deleuze andGuattari (1986: 29, 40) present Kafka s letters, short stories, and novels as components...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and reading, such as consonant writing, speed-reading apps, and the PDF file format, borrow from the language of compression yet, precisely in so doing, obscure the constitutive multilayered temporality of reading and the embodied role of the reader. While discussing different methods aspiring to compress...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 471–499.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of Foucault 1954–1984 , edited by Rabinow Paul , translated by Harari Josué V. , 205 – 222 . New York : New Press . Foucault Michel . (1970) 2015 . “ Why Did Sade Write? ” In Language, Madness, Desire: On Literature , edited by Artières Philippe , Bert Jean-François...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 393–412.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Pascal Nicklas; Arthur M. Jacobs Rhetorical effects in speech and writing have a great strategic importance in achieving the communicative end of being persuasive: they are key in the exertion of power through language. Persuasion occurs by cognitive-affective stimulation, relying on specific...
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