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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Eyal Segal Kern Stephen , The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . xi + 253 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance
Marina Grishakova and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 367–368.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Eyal Segal Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound . London: Routledge , 2007 . xi + 144 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance
Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 117–171.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Melanie Conroy Literary historians have long made an issue of the extent to which the modernist novel broke with conventions established in the nineteenth century. One of the most debated questions is the occurrence, or dating, of an “inward turn,” a rupture with the external orientation...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 501–568.
Published: 01 September 2006
... shows differences in evaluative patterns between her early and later receptions, due to shifts in both social structure and conceptions of literary value. The quantitative data (numbers of mentions and translations/editions) are compared with other modernist authors from the same “cohort” (Joyce...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 653–671.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Derek Attridge The distinctive ethical force of literature inheres not in the fictional world portrayed but in the handling of language whereby that fictional world is brought into being. Literary works that resist the immediacy and transparency of language— as is the case in modernist writing—thus...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Brian McHale When, in 1944, William Carlos Williams defined a poem as “a small (or large) machine made of words,” he had in mind as a model for poetry the precision machines of speed and power celebrated by other modernist writers and visual artists. But this was not the only machine model current...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 665–675.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Larry Abramson Abstract While the drive toward homogeneous and pure visual languages was at the foundation of early twentieth-century utopian modernist art systems, the Dadaist and Surrealist reaction to this utopianism took the form of extreme and often violent hybridity. Marcel Duchamp's 1913...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 399–436.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., frequently involving causality, are invoked to naturalize the narrative strategy and conceal the authorial manipulation that lies behind it. The traditional coincidence plot is a key plot feature in varying manifestations from the Renaissance to the postmodernist novel; however, modernist and postmodernist...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 437–464.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in general have severe drawbacks. In conclusion, I propose that the “ungrammaticality” of “The Windhover'”s tropes and the importance of the notion of“thing” puts Hopkins in proximity to the problems of the later modernist poets, such as William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, who struggle...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 683–794.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of omniscience appeared, often in response to it. Those neo-modernist challenges meet, multiply, and frequently run to extremes in Jonathan Culler's (2004) antitheistic critique, which accordingly presents an overall mirror-image to how and where and why omniscient narrative is (re)constructed. Nor is this key...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 387–413.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Michal Oklot Focusing on two modernist thinkers, Vasily Rozanov (1856 – 1919) and Ernst Bloch (1885 – 1976), the article examines the ontological and existential implications of their eschatological thinking and its concept of nonlinear time, which negates the future when thinking of what is ahead...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 September 2018
... between imaginary narratologists who are paradigmatic proponents of two schools of thought in postclassical narratology: the cognitive and the unnatural. The two narratologists juxtapose their respective concepts and methodologies in an analysis of William Golding’s late modernist classic The Inheritors...
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Reading Virginia Woolf Logically: Resolute Approaches to The Voyage Out and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the conventions of the bildungsroman and the marriage plot only to ruthlessly dispense with them. Both works use a particular kind of modernist therapeutic pedagogy reliant on logic and form. Reading Virginia Woolf Logically: Resolute Approaches to The Voyage Out and Wittgenstein s Tractatus Megan Quigley...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2000
... and emphasis on the immediate. To some extent in repudiation of modernist ideals, rock songs find themes and literary techniques in the poetry of the nineteenth century,particularly the Victorian and Decadent. While some of the parallels may appear accidental, others are deliberate to the point...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 89–127.
Published: 01 March 2001
... and their interplay with time should also enable us to trace(dis)continuities between the Romantic model and its (post)modernist variants. Abrams, M. H. 1953 The Mirror and the Lamp:Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Arnheim, Rudolf 1971 Entropy and Art...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 173–191.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... This binary is in fact not native to the public debate about literature in the digital age but can be traced back from the digital revolution to modernist attitudes on literature, as they emerge in Viktor Shklovsky and Walter Benjamin. Drawing on results about reading speed in reading science and on current...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 597–621.
Published: 01 December 2021
... poetics against the backdrop of concurrent changes to audio technologies during her career. Finally, the article argues that by paying attention to the ongoing shifts in media ecologies in relation to modernist innovations, we might gain insight into the larger phenomenological and sensorial sphere...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 541–574.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in motifs such as desire, attachment, fantasy, and identification. Formal and narrative devices that in modernist or postmodernist fiction contributed to an epistemological or ontological dominant tend to foreground questions of affectivity in contemporary fiction. Through the analysis of novels by Ben...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 325–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
...J. H. Crone Abstract Free verse and prose rhythms, by definition, do not have metrical organizing schemes, but does this mean that rhythm in free verse or prose poems is like speech or prose rhythm? Taking up these questions debated since the advent of modernist free verse more than one hundred...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 131–174.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that the reader must recognize but an unexpected and unannounced void, namely, the absence of the letter E from the entire text. Framing this exercise in literary constraint as a modernist mystery novel, Perec aligns the stakes of noticing, or not noticing, his missing letter with postwar debates about...
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