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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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Narrative Forms of Adaptation, Retreat, and Mitigation in Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Lieven Ameel Abstract This article examines narrative engagement with strange weather and rising waters in Richard Ford's Let Me Be Frank with You (2014). It applies three terms from climate policy— adaptation , retreat , and mitigation —as heuristic concepts to approach the formal responses...
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Testing the Limits: Leanne Shapton’s Ekphrastic Assemblage
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 337–357.
Published: 01 June 2018
... image and text? How exactly does the narrative engage with the image that is embedded in it? These questions inform my analysis of how ekphrasis is reshaped in a highly unorthodox novel, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books...
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The Ethics of Neurobiological Narratives
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
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concern, will dampen the engagement ethic. Berkowitz (1970) points out
how self-concern was emphasized not only by Rousseau and other Roman-
Narvaez • The Ethics of Neurobiological Narratives 91
tic philosophers but by psychologists such as Carl Rogers (1995) and Abra-
ham...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 191–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... affordances for a critical engagement with the current celebration of narrative. How should a narrative theorist position oneself vis-à-vis these developments that are currently changing the public notions of what narratives are and what they can do? By drawing from narrative hermeneutics and cognitive...
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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
...-making. It analyzes how reading together metanarrative fiction, which critically engages with the roles of cultural narrative models in contemporary society, can shape narrative agency—that is, the ability to navigate narrative environments. The article illustrates the metanarrative reading-group model...
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Narratology Talks to the Talking Cure in Persuasion
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 671–693.
Published: 01 December 2024
... melancholy to achieve a sense of well-being. In line with the goals of narrative therapy, she learns to tell a different story about herself than the one that has oppressed her since her broken engagement. The novel represents the therapeutic elements involved in such reenvisioning, including validation...
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Imaginary Encounters: Walter Benjamin and the Aura of Photography
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the physiognomies—those of my family and com-
rades alike.” On the paradoxical features of Benjamin’s autobiographical writings, which
involve the dissolution of identity in the very process of its (narrative) construction, see Rugg
1997 and Richter 2004.
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form of engagement. Both...
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Multimodality and Materiality: The Interplay of Textuality and Texturality in the Aesthetics of Film
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (2): 235–268.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in which embodied responses are assigned an intrinsic and inalienable role. Taking the medium of narrative film as its point of departure, the article draws on the rapidly expanding body of literature on film reception addressing issues of emotional response, engagement, embodiment, and immersion...
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Narrative as Social Action: Making Rhetorical Narrative Theory Accountable to Context
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 455–478.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., it argues for theorizing narrative occasion by focusing on two dimensions: 1) the social positions it entails and 2) the conceptual frameworks it engages. Readings of two German-language texts, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther (1774/1787) and Babak Ghassim and Usama Elyas's “Behind Us, My Country” (2015...
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Lists, Vignettes, Enumerations: Contemporary Life Writing and the Gesture of Refusal toward Narrative
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 363–385.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Anne Rüggemeier Abstract Focusing on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) and Han Kang's The White Book (2016), this contribution explores how contemporary life writers critically engage with the causally and temporally bound form of narrative through the use of story-critical forms such as lists...
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Demystifying the Logic of Tamizdat: Philip Roth's Anti-Spectacular Literary Politics
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 107–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the broader politics of representing life behind the iron curtain. It argues that Philip Roth's sustained professional engagement with the Czech socialist experience can be read as his critical refusal to take part in the dominant U.S. narrative of Eastern European suffering and oppression. The essay analyzes...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2018
... methods for
close textual analysis, but there is no comparable trend for novel studies to
engage more substantially with narratology. The case for this remains strong,
however, because novel studies is ineluctably concerned with narrative not
only as an inherent feature of the novel itself...
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“Some Powerful Rankling Passion”: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Joanna Baillie’s Passion Plays
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., the article demonstrates the importance not just of inherent differences in emotion regulation but also of learning opportunities individuals engage to develop it. In particular, the article presents a model of how people learn through narrative simulation, drawing on the work of Romantic writers and current...
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Reading, Fast and Slow
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 173–191.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Karin Kukkonen Abstract Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital...
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Empathetic Hardy: Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Strategies of Narrative Empathy
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
... strategic empathy for feeling humanity in an indifferent, Godless universe. Hardy's work demonstrates engagement with a variety of empathetic narrative strategies outlined in my Empathy and the Novel (2007), from the fellow-feeling of eighteenth-century moral sentimentalism, to the role-taking imagining...
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Ian McEwan's Neurological Novel
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Jane F. Thrailkill Drawing on cognitive science, literary critics such as Mark Turner have affirmed that for human beings thinking is crucially bound up with narrative. This essay examines how Ian McEwan in his novel Saturday (2005) adds a specifically affective element to the human engagement...
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Fictionality, Audiences, and Character: A Rhetorical Alternative to Catherine Gallagher’s “Rise of Fictionality”
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 February 2018
... and Richardson are deploying fictionality, their deploy-
ments engage their readers in significantly different ways. The most salient
difference is that Addison does not ask his audience to enter a narrative audi-
ence, while Richardson does. Because Addison explicitly announces his depar-
ture from...
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The Future-as-Past in Dystopian Fiction
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 415–442.
Published: 01 September 2016
... reality. By providing scattered hints from which further information can be deduced or inferred, often but not always with the help of contextual knowledge, this temporal narrative strategy invites the reader to actively participate and politically engage in the reconstruction of future histories...
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The Languages of Art: How Representational and Abstract Painters Conceptualize Their Work in Terms of Language
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
... using terms such as language, vocabulary, conversation , and narrative , the two use these words in different ways and with different meanings. For example, representational painters refer to “languages” that consist of the systems of represented objects, people, or landscapes that they depict, whereas...
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