... between Self-Reflective Aesthetics and Sensational Motifs in Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin Series Miriam Ferna´ ndez-Santiago University of Granada Abstract This article explores the birth of detective fiction as a dialogical contestation to its gothic, sensational, and pseudoscientific sources...

... and states; at the same time, they have inspired new interpretive approaches within literary studies. A twofold motif structures what might be called the neuroliterary field: brains in literature/literature in the brain. There has been a certain convergence between the rise of “neuronovels,” on the one hand...

... that contemporary fiction marks a shift toward an affective dominant. In Postmodernist Fiction (1987) Brian McHale defines the dominant as a structure that brings order and hierarchy in a diversity of techniques and motifs in a literary text. Whereas in modernism the dominant is epistemological and in postmodernism...

... historical vitality in distinct elements revealed by morphological analysis, takes its inspiration from Alexander Veselovsky's theory of motif and Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of architectonics and the chronotope. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 aestheticism philology...

... Tolstoy's extensions and elaborations of metaphors for Truth and Falsehood in his postconversion works, and I argue that they comprise a central metaphorical motif, the full complexity of which has yet to be appreciated, in his novella “The Death of Ivan Il'ich.” © 2003 by the Porter Institute for Poetics...

... recourse to the concept of reproduction (for instance, in its Marxist form) risks being complicit in the reproductive system it criticizes. The deconstructive motif of débordement is introduced to problematize this onto-logic of re-production. The second part of the article analyzes more specifically...

... remains problematic, as does the concept of genre itself. Instead, we attempt to establish a taxonomy that isolates and identifies what we call the major colligatory motifs, numerous yet distinct, that constitute Menippean discourse, recognizing and applying where profitable the generic analysis of Garry...

...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...

... to be entities that enact the internal rhetorical interplay between difference and unity represented by visual elements and motifs. The article first investigates the concept of ingenium and multimodality to introduce general rhetoric as a holistic framework of human experience and expression that is inherently...

... characteristics of cultural production in the age of postmodernism. Pastiche is defined as a work of art consisting of motifs borrowed from one or more sources, an incongruous hodgepodge of materials, forms, and images. In this age of pastiche, what are the options open to artists—to endlessly quote, imitate...

... the needs of broadcast and cable networks and later subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms. These content creators adapted traditional motifs of Jewish humor by infusing their work with contemporary, popular feminist sensibilities and applying narrative tactics specific to digital technology...

... philological studies on the migration of folkloric and literary forms across space and time and the later theory that underlies his unfinished magnum opus, Historical Poetics (2010 [1940 Veselovsky was concerned with the evolution and transformation of genres, plots, and motifs across the globe...

... the introduction of individual motifs or groups of motifs [into the narrative] is called “motivation’” (Toma- shevsky 1965 [1925]: 78). (c) “Motivation as used by the Formalists is the reason governing the use of a particular device and may include everything from the author’s desire to shock...

... of Second Empire France in the Egypt of the Khedive Ismail. Egypto- logical motifs are commonplace in the urban architecture of most western view, Empire Review, Contemporary Review, United Empire, and the Nineteenth Century. Of course the five-volume opus published by the enthusiast Leo Weinthal...

... into account the evidence of failure, which is precisely the reappearance of the familiar motifs themselves. As I have argued elsewhere (Spolsky 2007), the reuse of old stories is not evidence of an unchanging, universal aspect of human life and culture, not a sign of a permanent truth but rather a sign...

... (Banerjee 1990: 202, 208, 220, 285, 288; Chvatík 1994: 95), there are several structural similarities between The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Tolstoy’s novel, such as the arrangement of the action around two couples, the motif of retreat to the countryside, and Anna’s and Tereza’s moments...

... as Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. But while we might be inclined to read Love’s Cure as a return to the themes of Twelfth Night, such an interpretation would be erroneous. Almost forty different early modern playwrights used the motif of the girl disguised as a boy, and Smith (1992: 137) cites Victor Oscar Free...

... definitions before applying them first to a general overview of motifs and structures and then to a reading of Beckett’s later short prose, the so-called ‘‘closed space fiction’’ (cf. Gontarski 1995: xxviii). My hypothesis is that Beckett’s use of spatiality (particularly in its relation to time...

... in Russia gained currency as vseobshchaiia literatura (universal literature).1 For Veselovsky, this is often the premodern repository of shared images, motifs, plots, and rhetorical figures 1. On Veselovsky and vseobshchaiia literatura, see Popova 2015: 22 – 25. Irina Popova is careful to point out...

... and the literature of medieval and Renaissance Europe. This may at least in part explain his inaugurating focus on the persistence of forms as the central problem of literary-historical study. New literary creations, Vese- lovsky argues, invariably rely on and reuse age-old motifs, formulas, and char- acter...