...Jürgen Meyer New Historicism has alerted critics to the complex conditions of literary production in the age of the printing press. The revisionist challenge presented by Jerome J. McGann to the concept of “the” writer as autonomous authority in the publication of a text has necessitated...

...Tony E. Jackson Ciccoricco David , Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . x + 317 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Stories, New Explanations: Cognitive Literary Studies at Work Tony E. Jackson...

...: A Brief Documentary History (Boston:Bedford/St. Martin's). Aldridge, John W. 1966 me to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis (New York: Books for Libraries). Arendt, Hannah 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem:A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin). Berenbaum, Michael...

...Harris Friedberg Foremost theorist of the New Criticism, W. K. Wimsatt, inherits from the Romantics the desire to differentiate poetry from prose on essentialist rather than formal grounds. In I. A. Richards, a new antithesis between the symbolic or referential use of language and its emotive use...

...Thomas Scholz Hatavara Mari Hyvärinen Matti Mäkelä Maria Mäyrä Frans , eds. Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds . New York : Routledge , 2016 . xii + 314 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

... Students (New York: Henry Holt). Ellis, James 1965 “Frost's `Desert Places' and Hawthorne,” English Record 15 : 15 -17. Richard, Cliff 1959 “ Living Doll .” Song lyrics available on the Web at www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/l/living_doll_cliff_richard.html . Stone, Edward 1974 “Other `Desert...

... (e.g., novelistic) or inspired (biblical, Homeric). Here I review the various old-new critical thrusts against epistemic superprivilege (outright denials, partisan judgments, attempted confinements, impairments, replacements, as well as genuine misunderstandings) arisen since my constructive theory...

... artist or fiction writer to speak or embody a world-making voice other than her or his own. The final requirement for double coding to enable representation of a new art form is the imaginative leap of a perceiver, who interprets the artwork in the fictional world (the artwork made by the fictional world...

...Sabine Gross Reading in Style: Visual Text from a New Angle Sabine Gross German, University of Wisconsin–Madison Garrett Stewart, The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 411 pp. (170 illustrations). 1. Situating Reading Images...

... with the malleability and mediality of the canon. In a development that has largely gone unnoticed outside German-speaking countries, new approaches to discussing current and future processes of canonization have been developed in recent years. One pivotal element of this process has been a thorough reevaluation of new...

... of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and her call for a more positive approach to literary analysis. The counterthesis about the interaction between German Jewish and Yiddish writers stresses the productive aspects of translation and transmission. Such a new approach, if not wholly free from the “hermeneutics...

...Jean-Jacques Chardin New Historicism, a reaction against formalist criticism, attempts to read literary texts of the Renaissance in relation to the nonliterary text production of the period. One of its central assumptions is that early modern humans are the subject of power relations shaped...

... : 1 – 20 . Branch Lori . 2016b . “ Postcritical and Postsecular: The Horizon of Belief .” Religion and Literature 48 , no. 2 : 160 – 66 . Brooks David . 2013 . “ The Humanist Vocation .” New York Times , June 20 . www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/opinion/brooks...

... and analysis of cultural bias that has characterized New Historical readings. For the latter, I attempt to read Stevens's “Puella Parvula” as a crisis lyric and battleground for the anxieties of influence as elaborated by Harold Bloom. I conclude by comparing the two modes of “unknowing” that these methods...

... translators in their hands like Starfleet crew members listening in on alien tongues. If the fictions and realities of machine translation seem far from the brave new worlds of generative language models, recall that the dreams of AI have long been powered by a wish to transcend the contextual specificity...

...Eyal Segal Hickman Miranda and McIntyre John , eds., Rereading the New Criticism . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2012 . viii + 255 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance 197...

... new institutions. Institutionalization and breakthrough, thus, go hand in hand. © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000 Allen, Donald, ed. 1960 The New American Poetry, 1945–60 (New York: Grove). Arac, Jonathan 1987 Critical Genealogies:Historical Situations...

... of Reality in Western Literature , translated by Trask Willard R. ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Belsey Catherine 2007 “Historicizing New Historicism,” in Grady Hawkes 2007 , 27 – 45 . 2010 “The Poverty of (New) Historicism,” in Literature as History...

...Eyal Segal Aldama Frederick ., ed., Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . xiii + 311 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Frederick Aldama, ed., Analyzing...

...Roger Edholm Abstract James Phelan presents his rhetorical approach to narrative in opposition to the existing paradigm in contemporary narrative theory. His rhetorical poetics is therefore described as a search for a new paradigm. This article argues, however, that Phelan's view of narrative does...