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...Gillian Gane Much postcolonial literature depends on unacknowledged processes of translation working like the “radio” in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children that magically renders all Indian languages intelligible to the children of midnight. It is surprisingly difficult to determine what...

...Figure 19 Girolamo da Carpi (attr.), Landscape with Magic Procession , 1528, oil on canvas, 159 × 116 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Photo: © Mondadori Portfolio/ Electa/ Bridgeman Images. ...

... and repair. In it, Manhattan becomes inhabited, and haunted, by eight resurrected spirits of the Holocaust who magically transform New York into a shtetl of re- membrance, recalling the vanished world of European Jewry. Many readers know that these men—whether in spectral or living form— are more than...

... . New York : Oxford University Press , 2023 . 423 + xviii pp. Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 Emergent artificial intelligence (AI) technologies seem to augur a break between poetics today and the poetics of yesteryear. Were we to ask our handheld magic...

... and ludic system that are connected to the concept of the “magic circle.” While, according to Johan Huizinga ( 1949 : 12), the magic circle is a “temporary suspension of normal social life” in which “the laws and customs of ordinary life no longer count,” Pony Island seemingly crosses the boundaries set...

... vision of Bukowski* and Linda, blinded by domestic disputes to the “magic” of “the universe.” The domestic is seemingly set against the universal, yet the poem intertwines the macro and the micro, such that what seems like a call to looking at the “bigger picture” (the universe) is actually a call...

... as the materials of action, and the instructions as the description of action. For the present purposes, I refer to the recipe as a textual formula in the culinary context, even if, historically, the recipe has also a medicinal and magical history (Goody [1977] 1995: 137). Even if the most dominant form...

... . 2002 . Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Forrest-Thomson Veronica . 1978 . Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Frick Werner . 1996 . “ Poeta vates...

... Pavel, of Thematics: New Approaches (1995); and editor, with Michael Saler, of The Re-­Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age (2009). He is author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (2004) and How to Do Things with Fictions (forthcoming...

... Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema , translated by Celia Britton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Moore, Rachel O. 2000 Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Mulvey, Laura 1986 [1975] “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in Narrative...

... Hendrickje is empowered almost magically to enlarge her vision of the world beyond the limits imposed by her Calvinist upbringing through contact with the artist and an oeuvre “infused with God’s breath” (Devereux 2015: 74). It is typical of characters in the novels under examination to be overaffected...

... . Butler Charles . 2002 . “ Now Here: Where Now? Magic as Metaphor and as Reality in the Writing of Diana Wynne Jones .” In Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom , edited by Rosenberg Teya , Hixon Martha P. , White Donna R. , and Scapple Sharon M. , 66 – 78 . New...

... choses: Un archéologie des sciences humaines ( Paris : Gallimard ). Frazer James George 2003 [1922] The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion , www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/bough11h.htm ( accessed October 15, 2012 ). Gilead Sarah 1991 “ Magic Abjured: Closure...

..., The Baroque Era (New York:Norton). Tomlinson, Gary 1987 Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press). 1993 Music in Renaissance Magic: Towards a Historiography of Others (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 1999 Metaphysical Song: An Essay...

... reality. 86 Poetics Today 38:1 Characteristic of Dickinson’s perceptions of life, death, and reality is her poem Of God We Ask One Favor (A 819, F1675/J1601).12 Its structuring met- aphor is LIFE IS A MAGIC PRISON (figure 9). Figure 9 Dickinson’s Magic Prison In one input space...

... the emergence of structure, of meaning, from a substrate or matrix that is inchoate: things emerge from other things. The fluid, rapidly scrolling cursor of the typical LLM as it spits out a response to a query is like a magic trick, showing us a version of automated poiesis even while the real machinery...

... (together with Claude Bremond and Thomas Pavel) of Thematics: New Approaches (1995) and the author of Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (2004). He is currently working on a second collection together with Michael Saler, The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic...

... out the common view that sees in Flaubert a magic burst of poetry, a novel- istic ‘‘revolution’’ linked to a kind of metaphysical choice ‘‘not to say any- thing a refusal of expression that becomes the presumably unexplained...

... and mutation. One implication of Evron's argument is that the calculus of loss and gain inspire new novelistic forms: for Wharton, the fusion of omniscient narrator and new-style ethnographer; for Roth, magical realism under the surface of the historical novel; for Shabtai, the eschewal of linear narrative...