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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 429–451.
Published: 01 September 2019
... or geographically distant narratives “closer” to the recipient under the assumption that their impact will increase. In this article, we review experimental and other empirical evidence on narrative processing in order to unravel which types of personal relevance are more likely to be impactful than others, which...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 697–727.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in hand with the conscious, forward-oriented operation of narrative thinking that appears to us as cumulative and anticipatory. In other words, narrative thinking or narrative processing oscillates between the forward direction of anticipation and backward direction of consolidation. Although we do...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 323–348.
Published: 01 June 2011
...David S. Miall Research that suggests the primacy of the emotions provides the context for a study of some of the processes sustained by the emotions during literary reading. In particular, the early processing of emotion in response to language, including narrative, is shown by several ERP (evoked...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 597–622.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of a profound methodological schism. Reviewing the status of interpretation in cognitive and unnatural approaches to narrative, we contend that scholars in the cognitive camp have tended to treat interpretation as an object of study (i.e., investigating the interpretive process), while those in the unnatural...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Renate Brosch This article deals with the phenomenology of reading narrative fictions, in particular with the production of mental imagery in the process of reading. Because readers differ in their capacities to visualize, this article proposes a distinction between default visualization and vivid...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 425–448.
Published: 01 September 2021
... reality. Nevertheless, by stating that history and fiction converge in the process of emplotment, the constructivist model developed by White was provocative and sometimes led to a panfictionalist conception of narrativity. Similarly, Ricoeur's thesis, or at least the way it has been understood in many...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2022
... processes involved both in the causes of suffering and need and in their alleviation are downplayed in the service of more impactful individualistic narratives. 7. This article's re-entextualization and recirculation of the individuals’ stories in the illustrative letters is arguably more ethically...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 227–244.
Published: 01 June 2008
... (the evolution of the horse). The perils of our weakness for narrative templates in trying to understand emergent behavior arise when understanding the internal nature of the process of emergence is critical to our choice-making behavior. This is especially the case when our health and well-being depend...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 265–281.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Richard J. Gerrig; David N. Rapp Most psychological researchers now accept the premise that literary narratives have an effect on people's everyday lives. Contemporary research examines the types of psychological processes that give rise to literary impact. The article describes experiments in two...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 399–436.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... An analysis of this narrative core of the coincidence plot centers on the depiction of the characters' cognitive processes and the suspense generated by the reader's anticipation of a recognition scene. Beyond this, the narrative explanation of coincidence is a key feature: a variety of explanatory patterns...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 395–428.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Paul B. Armstrong Cognitive narratology needs a neuroscientifically sound understanding of language. This essay lays out a neurobiological model of narrative that explains how stories arise from and set in motion fundamental neuronal and cortical processes, and it then asks how the aims and methods...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... by the sort of pragmatic processing attendant on the appreciation of humor in jokes.This factor in itself, I contend, accounts for the exclusion of this sort of work from 1. Regarding the issue of whether all verbal jokes are, in fact, narratives or not, Attardo and Chabanne (1992) and Attardo (2001...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 129–169.
Published: 01 March 2011
... explores the expression of highly emotional experience in private letters, written at the time by professional literary writers and now available in print. Starting from existing linguistic, stylistic, and narrative studies of verbal emotional expression, a selection of representative epistolary texts...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 175–200.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of oppositions that was established at the start as the narrative proceeds. In some cases, such as Tomas’s, we realize in the actional process that this structure was never there in the first place; it only appeared to be. Tomas was never really defined by the opposition between love, care, and compassion...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., control, and impotence, focused through the fictional diarist Utsugi's physical ailments and expression of libidinal intensities. The article argues for Tanizaki's depiction of male aging as an exercise in both disenfranchisement and agentive potential. First, it reads the aging process through aesthetic...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 437–472.
Published: 01 September 2008
...- tion—to being conceptualized in narrative terms. Future research will thus do well to examine even more closely the nature of the boundary between narratives and explanations. Study of this boundary is essential for under- standing the role of stories in science as well as the process by which sci...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 209–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of reliability and rhetoric, truth and persuasion, norm and narrative discourse. To illustrate them, my essay juxtaposes the testimonial viewpoints and practices of two survivors of the Nazi camps: Primo Levi and Dan Pagis. The two may seem poles apart: while Levi is considered the quintessential witness, Pagis...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 173–191.
Published: 01 June 2021
... narrative theory, this article devises an alternative argument for literary reading as a process that unfolds over multiple time scales linked to different layers of meaning making. Reading literature, from this perspective, is not exclusively slow but, rather, works through a combination of both fast...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
...- ent conceptual processes when they describe their work. Data from ekphrastic texts written by artists to accompany their artwork show that, although both kinds of painters refer metaphorically to their art using terms such as language, vocabulary, conversation, and narrative, the two use...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 453–473.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the emotional content of readers’ narrative experiences. Our goal is to highlight the diversity of processes that contribute to readers’ affective responses. Finally, we consider how ordinary processes of learning and memory might explain changes in readers’ social cognition. References Allbritton...