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Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 105–125.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Melanie Kreitler Abstract This essay focuses on time loop films featuring a protagonist with a mental illness, arguing for these films’ cultural-political potential for reframing how viewers perceive neuro-non-normative subjectivities. To do so, the author introduces the concept of normative...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2025
...). Melanie Kreitler is a postdoc in the Department of Anglophone Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies at the University of Giessen. Her book Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity: An Experiential Approach to Puzzle Films and Complex Television will be published in 2025. Her research interests include...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 191–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... The latter relates the unfolding of an individual life to historical events and change of fashions and mentalities, showing how even highly subjective bodily experiences, such as those linked to illness or sexuality, are mediated by cultural narrative models of sense-making. To take another example, Karl Ove...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... loops of collective memory and neurodiverse perception, as well as the looping forms of generational trauma and mental illness. The essays collected here address all outlined forms of narrative looping: both metaphorical and formal, whether diegetically framed or character framed. We are interested...
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Psychological Processes Underlying Literary Impact
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 265–281.
Published: 01 June 2004
... infor-
mation that was either consistent with everyday truths (e.g., most forms of
mental illness are not contagious) or inconsistent with everyday truths (e.g.,
most forms of mental illness are contagious). Under what circumstances
would we expect readers to be affected by such discussions...
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Reading Virginia Woolf Logically: Resolute Approaches to The Voyage Out and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by bouts of mental illness and despair, in the long run, the writing of Melymbrosia helped her to stay alive, to become that writer, Virginia Woolf. Christine Froula (1986: 63), building on DeSalvo s work, similarly notes that although Rachel s death records the failure of Woolf s imaginative project...
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Prelinguistic and Preliterate Substrates of Poetic Narrative
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... 1984 Ascent to Civilization: The Archaeology of Early Man ( New York : Knopf ). Grant E. C. 1968 `` An Ethological Description of Nonverbal Behavior during Interviews ,'' British Journal of Medical Psychology 41 : 177 – 83 . 1972 `` Nonverbal Behavior in the Mentally Ill...
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New Towers of Babel: Faith and Doubt in the Future of Translation
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 309–316.
Published: 01 June 2024
... adult (YA) fiction, à la Colleen Hoover. I wanted to see if GPT-4 could counter the lexical contraction that inevitably results from statistical models and their regression to the mean. I also had a hunch, given the narrator's nostalgic yearning for a past lover now suffering from mental illness...
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Mind-Tricking Narratives: Between Classical and Art-Cinema Narration
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 119–146.
Published: 01 June 2013
... is schizophrenic but that in fact he
is not. He merely pretended to be mentally ill, so that he would be acquitted
of murder by reason of insanity.
The list of this kind of film could of course be extended considerably — and
will be later in this article. For now, suffice it to say that there is clearly...
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Facilitating Reading Engagement in Shared Reading
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 229–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Forthcoming. “ The Day We Were Dogs: Shared Reading, Mental Illness, and Moments of Transformation .” Ethos . Cremin Teresa , Bearne Eve , Mottram Marilyn , and Goodwin Prue . 2008 . “ Primary Teachers as Readers .” English in Education 42 , no. 1 : 8 – 23 . Cremin...
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Reading Times: Temporalities and Time Work in Current Everyday Reading Practices
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of war veterans in the provincial town of Horsens, also in Mid Jutland (see Dalsgård 2018 ); thirteen readers suffering from mental vulnerability or illness in Copenhagen (see Christiansen and Dalsgård, forthcoming ); three fifteen-year-old school pupils from Aarhus; and some readers in my personal...
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Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 287–308.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Korina Giaxoglou Abstract Illness stories have been celebrated as a resource for giving patients voice from the active position of the wounded storyteller . The proliferating research on illness stories, however, has often reproduced a reductionist approach to narrative as a window to subjective...
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Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind ed. by Beth Lau
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 752–754.
Published: 01 December 2019
... : Anti-Blackness and Police Violence after Ferguson. An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III. Ill Will Editions. illwilleditions.noblogs.org/files/2015/09/Wilderson-We -Are-Trying-to-Destroy-the-World-READ.pdf. Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study...
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Of Heartache and Head Injury: Reading Minds in Persuasion
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 141–160.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., emphasizing the emotive, uncon-
scious, and intuitive aspects of mental life that have long been associated
with literary Romanticism but that are equally salient for Romantic-era
brain science as well.
Austen is often thought of as a novelist working primarily from the em-
piricist standpoint...
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Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (I)
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 297–395.
Published: 01 June 2003
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ing and self-communing) is mentally sui generis, a processor apart.
Yet the authors keep silent on either principled consequence, getting
down to their limited and ill-defined business with ‘‘knowledge’’ instead.
There ensues...
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Spoken Body: An Infinite Jest of Life, Death, and the Medical Tongue
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 June 2020
... at a time of the colossal work. Many of the subplots in the 1,079-page novel revolve around physical or mental illness. The I narrator, Hal Incandenza, whose creation reflects Wallace s autobiography, is a drug-addicted, despairing tennis prodigy who undergoes ametamorphosis by the end of the novel s...
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A Cognitive Approach to Metaphor in Prose: Truth and Falsehood in Leo Tolstoy's “The Death of Ivan Il'ich”
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 September 2003
... University Press). Gibbs, Raymond, Dinara Beitel, Michael Harrington, and Paul Sanders 1994 “Taking a Stand on the Meanings of Stand:Bodily Experience as Motivation for Polysemy,” Journal of Semantics 11 : 231 -51. Gibbs, Raymond, and Jennifer O'Brien 1990 “Idioms and Mental Imagery...
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Factives and Perspectives: Making Sense of Presupposition as Exemplary Inference
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 129–244.
Published: 01 March 2001
...., ‘‘I regarding ‘‘the King of
France’’ above) voice, let alone endorse his addressee’s belief—or anyone
else’s: ours, the group’s, the culture’s—or does the addressee need to infer
the presupposer’s belief after the fact(ive), complete with belief-frame? Why
should I commit myself to your mental...
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Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 15–35.
Published: 01 June 2023
... : Routledge . Rimmon-Kenan Shlomith . 2002 . “ The Story of ‘I’: Illness and Narrative Identity .” Narrative 10 , no. 1 : 9 – 27 . Shklovsky Viktor . 2015 . “ Art, as Device.” Translated and introduced by Alexandra Berlina . Poetics Today 36 , no. 3 : 151 – 74 . Simonsen...
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Brains in Literature/Literature in the Brain
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 327–360.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences ( New York : Peter Lang ). Martin Emily 2010 “ Self-making and the Brain ,” Subjectivity 3 ( 4 ): 366 – 81 . Max D. T. 2007 “ Swann’s Hypothesis ,” New York Times , November 4...
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