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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2019
... influence of leisure reading. Simulation theory has emerged as the most common explanatory mechanism. We summarize simulation theory and indicate ways in which the theory requires a more concrete instantiation. To provide a contrast to simulation theory, we offer three accounts of the origins...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2021
... indicates a stark decline in leisure reading of books, especially fiction, by younger students (e.g., OECD 2019 ; Twenge, Martin, and Spitzberg 2019 ). This decline in reading for pleasure leads us to ask what is happening in formal school settings. Are faculty assigning fewer book-length works than...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 499–518.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Richard J. . 2017 . “ Leisure Reading and Social Cognition: A Meta-Analysis .” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 11 , no. 1 : 109 – 20 . Myers Karyn M. Davis Michael L. . 2012 . “ Mechanisms of Fear Extinction .” Molecular Psychiatry 12 , no. 2 : 120 – 50...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 2019
... . 1996 . “ Memory for Conversation .” Memory 4 , no. 6 : 615 – 31 . Mumper Micah L. Gerrig Richard J. . 2017 . “ Leisure Reading and Social Cognition: A Meta-Analysis .” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 11 , no. 1 : 109 – 20 . Oatley Keith . 2011...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 653–682.
Published: 01 December 2007
... to spend on leisure reading of literature.
Taking part in the experiment were 115 participants from three different
cultures. First, students of English from the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro and teachers of English who were participating in an in-service
training course at the Catholic...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to tell anecdotes about rec-
ollected experiences, to report what books or reading situations had im-
pressed them, to say who had influenced their reading interests, and to
discuss the influence of school and the competition of other leisure-time
activities. They were allowed to write at home...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 425–428.
Published: 01 June 2022
...), the award-winning Towards a “Natural” Narratology (1996), and Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (2019). Among her several (co)edited volumes are Hybridity and Postcolonialism (1998), In the Grip of the Law (2004), Idleness, Indolence, and Leisure in English...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 335–359.
Published: 01 June 2004
... less leisure time for women than for men—choose to engage in
collective reflection and dialogue between texts and lives. Reading groups
serve a much-needed function for contemporary women, for whom the
‘‘social construction of identity’’ is less an academic theory than a pressing
personal question...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 221–223.
Published: 01 February 2018
... on Literary Metaphor (2011); and Idleness, Indolence, and Leisure in
English Literature (2014). She has edited special issues for Style, Poetics Today, and
New Literary History. In progress is Narrative Factuality: A Handbook, coedited with
Marie-Laure Ryan.
Marta Figlerowicz is a comparative critical...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 241–263.
Published: 01 June 2004
... the cultural behavior in differ-
ent circles of German society, we constructed more than ninety questions
about personal reading strategies as well as about past socialization, edu-
cation, and professional and preferred leisure-time activities. The inquiry,
conducted as a telephone survey (Study II...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 645–650.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., and the world of leisure, but only for the select few. In a fresh and illuminating reading of Whitney's 1573 A Sweet Nosgay , Elsky shows how Whitney uses the temporality of the commonplace (in no-man's-land, so to speak, and operating out of the strictures of narratives of progress) to make it possible...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 203–206.
Published: 01 March 2011
...” for popular fiction that tends to be expelled
from literary canons. Drawing on his study of everyday reading behav-
ior in Poland and employing phenomenological sociology, he claims that
reading popular fiction is much more than a simple leisure activity: it plays
a vital role in how readers cope...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in Poland and employing phenomenological sociology, he claims that
reading popular fiction is much more than a simple leisure activity: it plays
a vital role in how readers cope with their environment.
In an afterword, Walter Nash discusses historical developments of the
English sonnet...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of speech, form, and affect to the destabilizing effects that postindustrial capitalism can have and has had on cities and their inhabitants. Following a brief overview of indeterminacy as a critical concept, from New Criticism to poststructuralist theory, the essay closely reads Robertson's Occasional Work...
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Journal Article
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2011
... sociology, he claims that
reading popular fiction is much more than a simple leisure activity: it plays
a vital role in how readers cope with their environment.
In an afterword, Walter Nash discusses historical developments of the
English sonnet to illustrate the potential for innovation...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 June 2012
... Work”; it is also indirectly eulogized in
parts of FTC, especially in the section dealing with the “adventure time”
of Greek romance, since the definition of this chronotope in effect opposes
it to nineteenth-century realism.
Part 4, “Chronotopical Readings,” consists of three essays. Gary...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., since the definition of this chronotope in effect opposes
it to nineteenth-century realism.
Part 4, “Chronotopical Readings,” consists of three essays. Gary Saul
Morson discusses the “open time” chronotope dominant in the works
of Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of Bakhtin’s favorite...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 June 2012
... time”
of Greek romance, since the definition of this chronotope in effect opposes
it to nineteenth-century realism.
Part 4, “Chronotopical Readings,” consists of three essays. Gary Saul
Morson discusses the “open time” chronotope dominant in the works
of Fyodor Dostoevsky (one...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 67–92.
Published: 01 February 2018
... with the extension of reading to ever-larger
groups of the population as they acquired education but also the leisure to
engage in literary pursuits. The widely attested and recurrent denigration of
fiction, then, derived not merely from the moral opprobrium attached to
literal untruth in genres affording...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
... ,edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer (Oxford: Berghahn). Ciret, Yan 1999 “Le Cirque au-dela du Cercle,” Artpress 20 : 3 . Cunningham, Hugh 1980 Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (London: Croom-Helm). Davis, Janet 1993 “Spectacles of South Asia at the American Circus 1890–1940...
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