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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 653–671.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Press). 1990 Versions of Pygmalion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Robbins, Bruce 1986 The Servant's Hand:English Fiction from Below (New York: Columbia University Press). Ethical Modernism:
Servants as Others in
J. M. Coetzee’s Early Fiction
Derek Attridge
English...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 29–53.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... 2000 “‘The Dictatorship of Sex’: Science, Glands, and the Medical Construction of Gender Difference in Revolutionary Russia,” in Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practice , edited by Hoffmann David L. Kotsonis Yanni , 138 – 60 ( Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 853–861.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of Nebraska Press). Todorov, Tzvetan 1975 [1970] The Fantastic:A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre , translated by Richard Howard (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). 1977 [1971] The Poetics of Prose , translated by Richard Howard (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). Modern Genre...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 211–224.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Hana Wirth-Nesher This introductory essay maps significant contributions to the study of modern Yiddish literature over the past two decades. Studies of Yiddish modernism have tended to focus on three aspects of this literature: continuity through the use of traditional, mythic, and ethnographic...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 225–301.
Published: 01 September 2014
...David G. Roskies This essay seeks to demonstrate how the spoken language became a central feature of modern Yiddish literature. This vocal strain was used at first to replace otherworldly with enlightened discourse, esoteric book culture with colloquial style, hackneyed phraseology with straight...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 631–634.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Thomas Bronwen ., Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . ix + 212 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance
Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 561–589.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jennifer A. Low This essay constructs a genealogy for early modern audience studies, showing how this subcategory of scholarship on early modern drama responds to some of the questions raised by early New Historicist criticism. The foundation of audience studies is theater history; its methodology...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 623–644.
Published: 01 December 2021
... situates China in the international trend of canon studies by tracing how the Chinese conceptualization of the canon was modernized in the 1990s by Western ideas when canon studies were introduced to China by Dutch scholar Douwe W. Fokkema. While embracing the Western notion of the canon as always...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 287–290.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Nathaniel A. Windon [email protected] Melanie V. Dawson , Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 2020 , 364 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 Melanie V. Dawson's Edith...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 487–494.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Ewan James Jones [email protected] Vincent Barletta , Rhythm: Form and Dispossession . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 216 pp. Ben Glaser , Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2020...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 523–525.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Susan McCabe [email protected] Pardis Dabashi , Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel . University of Chicago Press , 2023 . 296 pages. Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 Pardis Dabashi's Losing the Plot revises the way...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 589–630.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Guy Tal Abstract Studies of early modern images of witchcraft interpret the motif of hybrid creatures as representations of demonic incarnations intended in part to demonstrate the artists’ inventive prowess and capacity for phantasia . This article broadens the scope of analysis by arguing...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Jo Labanyi The essay argues that modernity is best understood not as the cultural expression of capitalist modernization, but as a particular set of relations of present to past. It examines the varying attitudes toward the violent past of the civil war that have characterized Spain since...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 603–609.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Roman insupportable (Paris: Gallimard). Weinstein, Arnold 1993 Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (New York: Oxford University Press). The Politics of Modernity:
Céline and French Literature between the Wars
Sebastian Veg
Centre de...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 689–730.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Monika Fludernik Taking its inspiration from cognitive narratology and particularly the work of Alan Palmer on the Victorian novel, this essay examines to what extent collective minds can be traced in early modern narratives. One of the typical sites of intermental thought is the representation...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 253–299.
Published: 01 December 2012
... – 223 . Bennassar Bartolomé , ed. 1995 Les catastrophes naturelles dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne ( Toulouse, France : Presses du Mirail ). Berlioz Jacques 1998 Catastrophes naturelles et calamités au moyen âge ( Florence, Italy : Edizioni del Galluzzo ). Bertrand...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2017
... dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structuralism. Separating the foundations of modern literary theory from a structuralist paradigm allows us to disassociate the formalists' original...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 751–761.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Michael Larson Jameson’s Affective Turn:
Bodily States, Temporality, and
Aesthetics after Modernity
Michael Larson
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Fredric Jameson, The Ancients and the Postmoderns. New York: Verso, 2015. 306 pp.
If the abundance of scholarly work...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 281–299.
Published: 01 June 2020
... mediated emotion states and the mechanisms by which music and prosody affect them. Staging Sincerity in Renaissance Italy and Early Modern China; or, Why Real Lovers Quarrel Casey Schoenberger Hong Kong Polytechnic University Abstract The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in China and the West saw a wave...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 327–346.
Published: 01 September 2020
... contexts, suggesting different ways that spirituality inflects such areas of thought as the humanities in a posthuman age, tensions between ideological and aesthetic theories, and postcritique. The New Immaterialism? On Spirituality in Modern Thought Matthew Wickman Brigham Young University Abstract...
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