...Joseph Tabbi Electronic literature is not just a “thing” or a “medium” or even a body of “works” in various “genres.” It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective...

..., novelizations are works of literature that can be enjoyed without knowledge of the film they are based on; on the other, they can be (and often are) seen as mere tools of film advertising. This latter aspect becomes particularly evident when looking at the cover design of a novelization. It invariably features...

... for neuroimaging methodology, and the goal of establishing the neurobiological foundations of mind and behavior. A neural turn has also been taken in some quarters within the literary field. The neurosciences have provided writers of literature with resources for depicting characters and psychological processes...

...Eyal Segal Milne Anna-Louise , ed., A Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xxiii + 259 pp. © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders, eds...

...Inbar Shaham Cartmell Deborah , A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell , 2012 . xiii + 433 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Deborah Cartmell, A Companion to Literature, Film...

...Eyal Segal Chrostowska S. D. , Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700–1800 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2012 . viii + 273 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance...

...Asiya Bulatova From its first publication in 1923, Viktor Shklovsky's book Zoo, or Letters Not about Love has been discussed as a text that takes up a borderline position between literature and literary theory. The fact that the book was written and first published in Berlin ensured its place...

...Eyal Segal Wolf Werner , Bernhart Walter , and Mahler Andreas , eds., Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2013 . vi + 390 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance...

...Eyal Segal Trites Roberta Seelinger , Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature . Amsterdam : Benjamins , 2014 . viii + 164 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart...

...Ellen Spolsky New Books at a Glance Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs, eds., Cognition, Literature, and History. New York: Routledge, 2014. xii 1 271 pp. This collection of essays mirrors the promise, the accomplishments, and the challenges of cognitive literary studies. Not only...

... 2010 “World Literature beyond Hegemony in Yuri M. Lotman's Cultural Semiotics,” Comparative Critical Studies 7 , nos. 2 – 3 : 257 – 74 . Kliger Ilya Maslov Boris 2016 “Introducing Historical Poetics: History, Experience, Form.” In Persistent Forms: Explorations...

... Literature Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen Aarhus University, Denmark Abstract Building on recent theory of fictionality as a rhetorical concept, this article examines fictionality in the history of the novel. It argues that the Danish eighteenth- century novel provides answers to the question...

...Eyal Segal Bernhart Walter Wolf Werner , eds., Self-Reference in Literature and Music . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2010 . x + 192 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British Fiction. Berlin: de...

...Eyal Segal Lehtimäki Markku , Karttunen Laura , and Mäkelä Maria , eds., Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing, and the Trivial in Literature . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2012 . xvi + 327 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 200...

...Jean Kaempfer © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000 Pacificism and Literature Jean Kaempfer French Literature, Lausanne 6104 Poetics Today / 21:2 / sheet 185 of 214...

...Daniel Allington Literature has at times been theorized in terms of a message passing from author to reader, and this has often been done by reference to general theories of language use: the work is the vehicle of intentions that are realized (or not) in the reader's responses; the work...

...). Hollier, Denis 1993 Les Dépossédés. Bataille, Caillois, Leiris, Malraux, Sartre (Paris: Minuit); English translation: Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War, translated by Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997). Morel, Jean-Pierre 1985 Le...

...” in language and in literature—a range of contemporary scholarship in philosophy, cognitive science, psy- chology, neurology, and anthropology as well as literary study. Her first book, La Logique du corps articulaire (2000), examined two contrasting con- cepts of the human body—as jointed...

...” in language and in literature—a range of contemporary scholarship in philosophy, cognitive science, psy- chology, neurology, and anthropology as well as literary study. Her first book, La Logique du corps articulaire (2000), examined two contrasting con- cepts of the human body—as jointed...

... to show (1)why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is construed as fundamentally performative; (2) how it functions in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction, and (3) what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory, where Judith Butler...