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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Alice Crossley Abstract This essay reads Tanizaki Jun'ichirō’s controversial novel Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) for its contribution to discourses about aging masculinity and male sexuality in later life. The Diary meditates on the mental and physical vicissitudes of aging masculinity, arousal...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 561–607.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of fictional narratives can complement approaches to the study of reader response that rely exclusively, or heavily, on psychological assumptions. I demonstrate some of the advantages of a narratologically based approach by analyzing in detail Toni Cade Bambara's short story “The Hammer Man.” I contend...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1 Visual hybrids: half-man, half-bird hybrids and their original categories. Printed with permission from Yeshayahu Shen and David Gil.
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2021
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 393–421.
Published: 01 June 2000
... argues that Dr. Death is a variant of the fascist New Man, a new modality of corporeal subjectivity, produced through the utilization of the sublime experience of violence for ideological ends. Rooted in the aftershocks of the Darwinian revolution, the new perception of nature as cruel and rapacious...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 711–730.
Published: 01 December 2004
... “Snake-Charming,” to views of Rilke as an effeminate man. Male critics' warding gestures when confronted with Rilke's imperatives—the caution lest this seductive man touch us—resembles male homosexual panic, the alarm of men confronted with male desire. The essay's broader point concerns our...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Vanessa Joosen Abstract Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man. Their experimental narrative forms include a complex chronology, unreliable narrator, dream scenes, gaps...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 363–391.
Published: 01 June 2017
... opponents by ridiculing deserved failures and absurd successes. Thus narrative genre ties surface-frame phrases like “rights of man” and “swinish multitude” to deep-frame assumptions about more fundamental concepts (human nature, society, government). © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 225–301.
Published: 01 September 2014
... developed the new orality by introducing gendered speech and professional argot, creating in turn a Yiddish of the common man, woman, and child and a Yiddish Sublime. In the next phase, two verbal artists, Eliezer Shteynbarg and Itzik Manger, perfected a single, minor speech genre that was performable...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Ulla Savolainen Abstract This article attends to literary testimonies of the Gulag and Soviet terror by an Ingrian Finnish man called Aatami Kuortti from the perspective of cultural memory. By analyzing two testimonies by Kuortti published in Finland in 1934 and 1964, the article focuses on “memory...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 63–87.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as a particularly rich test case in which stereotypes and clichés abound: a grumpy and “dirty” old man sees in aging nothing but decline, tragedy, and an accumulation of illnesses—associations that age scholars have challenged for decades. These stereotypes, however, also have less predictable affordances...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 475–497.
Published: 01 September 2007
... transgression of classical genre definitions at work in Kierkegaard's writing. This, in turn, can be shown to relate to Kierkegaard's fundamental religious concerns and to reflect the carnivalesque destabilization of social, cultural, and artistic forms enacted in the paradoxical figure of the God-man. © 2007...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 277–308.
Published: 01 June 2008
... sequence. I conclude with close readings of two moments from Michael Roemer's 1964 film about African American life, Nothing but a Man : they illustrate how suture enables the narration of intersubjectivity in film, in its embodiments (including the political) from violation and humiliation to evasion...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 153–215.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to the closural mechanisms operating in the detective story and the reasons for their special force.To round out the picture, the argument concludes by examining two detective novels with unconventionally open endings: Anthony Berkeley's The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... The argument is developed through a reading of Peter Verhelst’s The Man I Became and through a discussion of the case of mind reading. Copyright © 2018 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2018 antimimetic cognitive narratology fictional minds mind reading unnatural narratology...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 499–518.
Published: 01 September 2019
... affective cognition explains the paradox of how Native Son , while triggering racist fears with the image of the violent, angry black man, also paradoxically reduced those fears. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 References Alcorn Marshall . 2013...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 513–543.
Published: 01 December 2023
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 61–92.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of Social Suspicion and Fishy Smells,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103 , no. 5 : 737 – 49 . Lion-man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man (accessed October 5, 2016) . Malloy Vanja , ed. 2015 Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries ( Amherst...
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