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Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 387–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Hanna Meretoja; Eevastiina Kinnunen; Päivi Kosonen Abstract This article lays out the theoretical-analytic framework of narrative agency, three central dimensions of which are narrative awareness, narrative imagination, and narrative dialogicality, and presents a model of metanarrative reading...
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Social Networking Sites as Contexts for Uses of Narrative: Toward a Story-Critical Approach to Digital Environments
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 335–362.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in current analyses of the digital as a context for narrative. The aim is to construct tools for a semiotics of the imperceptible, an approach to analyze the ways in which the digital shapes human agency in dimensions the users cannot directly perceive but which nevertheless affect users’ sense of what...
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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
... “whether [they have] been watching a time travel story or psychotic episode” (Rosen 2008 : 86). [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2025 illness narrative mental illness time travel narrative agency temporalities...
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Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Steven Willemsen Abstract Narrative time loops can challenge key dimensions of story comprehension, including causality, chronology, agency, and continuity. But how can such temporally puzzling experiences contribute to narrative engagement? This essay argues that many contemporary loop narratives...
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Creative Accounting: Role-Playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 113–139.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and the
baseball game described by Coover is that they locate agency in very differ-
ent ways. In both RPGs and the baseball game Coover describes, we rec-
ognize characters acting within an overall narrative. But while the players
of RPGs control these actions and try to manipulate the statistics to pro-
duce...
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Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn
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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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Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 463–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in narrative form and that the imagination more generally is in crisis. To move beyond what increasingly seems like an impasse in this theoretical discourse, the author suggests that the inquiry should take into account the heterogeneity of futural visions across the world-literary field by shifting the focus...
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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 time through textual form. These last reflections on the agency of form bring me close to existing empirical studies on narratives and subjective meaning making, and that is where I end this article. After all, most of the readers I interviewed read because it was pleasurable, and because...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Darko (2001) as her case studies, Kreitler shows how the protagonists of these films achieve some degree of agency by embracing, rather than overcoming, non-normativity. She closes with a meditation on Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995), arguing that its characters’ narrative agency offers a way...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 191–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... between narrative enactment and empathy or any other fixed rhetorical function or ethical effect. The theoretically and methodologically problematic equation between theory of mind and moral agency which does have supporters in narrative studies (for criticism, see, e.g., Gallagher and Hutto 2008...
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Toward a Hermeneutical Ethics of Narrative
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 739–748.
Published: 01 December 2020
... available new vocabularies and modes of interpreting and expressing and thus enrich our ethical imagination, amplify our moral and narrative agency, and expand our sense of the possible without diminishing the possibility of others (97). But narratives can also limit our range of imagination, thought...
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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
... travel agency science fiction collective trauma Apocalyptic disaster scenarios became increasingly present in twentieth- century narrative fiction. While disaster scenarios have existed in human culture since at least the story of the flood, new kinds of disaster scenario became imaginable...
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Small Stories in Charity Fundraising Letters and the Ethics of Interwoven Individualism
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2022
... ( 2018a ) asks whose agency is enabled through the representative experiencers’ stories. The story of the potential donor, as the key agent in the letter's multiple narratives, is the focus of section 3. The term supporter is often used within the fundraising sector, rather than donor...
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“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 435–462.
Published: 01 September 2023
... networks with special attention paid to how absence restructures a network by introducing the mutative agency of exteriority. An examination of epigenetic form, I argue, has immediate applications in literary and narrative theory but also in theorizing nonliterary textual systems, such as the human genome...
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The Birth of Narrative Out of the Spirit of the Excuse: A Speculation
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of agency that presents actions as reactions,
in the manner of the excuse narrative, responds to particular demands that
social beings are exposed to. Social beings face a variety of pressures to
conform to the needs of the group. This leads to a certain degree of com-
plexity. For example, an action...
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From “Under the Rose” to V .: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 633–656.
Published: 01 December 2002
...M. Angeles Martínez This study investigates linguistic differences between two fictional narrative texts—one a revision of the other—by Thomas Pynchon. New syntactic and lexical choices made by Pynchon when rewriting his early short story “Under the Rose” as chapter 3 in the novel V . are analyzed...
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ChatGPT and the Territory of Contemporary Narratology; or, A Rhetorical River Runs through It
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 197–205.
Published: 01 June 2024
... they typically take for granted when they engage with narratives created by humans: authorial agency, intentions/purposes, and audiences. I conclude, then, that users’ almost automatic attribution suggests that the rhetorical model captures something fundamental to the workings of narrative and countless readers...
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Crowds in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Historical Writing
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 549–568.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of England , and Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge. In particular, it examines the behavior of crowds as a whole, individuals (especially leaders), and subgroups in terms of the key notions of agency, moral responsibility, organization, and action. Finally, it places this debate within the context...
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Black Hamlet : Psychoanalysis on Trial in South Africa
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 413–433.
Published: 01 June 2001
...,” “Othellogy,”“King Lear,” and “Macbeth” (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books). Caruth, Cathy 1996 Unclaimed Experience:Trauma, Narrative and History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press). Cheyette, Bryan 1996 Constructions of“The Jew” in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875...
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Suture and the Narration of Subjectivity in Film
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 277–308.
Published: 01 June 2008
... consciousnesses in prison narratives: she thus explains how
“witnessing” is there “an intersubjective, intercorporeal form of involun-
tary agency” (ibid.: 96).
Like Doyle, I promote a phenomenological strategy—in this case,
directed toward a poetics of film narrative—that is neither entirely...
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