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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... with this “econarratological” work. Importantly, the distinction between the spatial traces I have identified is not a categorical one, and several nonlinear forms may coexist within a narrative. In Powers's The Overstory , for instance, which I have read through the lens of the network, there are linear as well...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
Published: 01 December 2016
...: Narrative Mediation and Joint Attention
This brief review of the role of joint attentional framing and contextualiza-
tion in the Decameron illustrates how these processes have the potential to
create of the narrative a nonlinear dynamic structure. With the development
of the novel, these dynamic...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 677–683.
Published: 01 December 2023
... is almost exclusively concerned with plot, by which he means narrative form. One kind of plot that interests him is the nonlinear kind; that is why he gives mystery stories so much attention. But that is one option among others in narrative composition. If anything, the major narratological topic in Theory...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 739–744.
Published: 01 December 2019
... textual nonlinearity and open- endedness); and he summarizes his main arguments. Buch Leander deals with many other thought-provoking matters, such as the ambiguity of Genesis, the functioning of a standard textual beginning like Once upon a time, or the way literature flouts the cooperative principle...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 707–717.
Published: 01 December 2002
.... Edie (Chicago: Northwestern University Press). Mukařovsky, Jan 1978 Structure, Sign and Function , edited and translated by John Burbank and Peter Steiner (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Ryan, Marie-Laure 1991 Possible Worlds,Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 1–31.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Criticism , edited by Davis Robert C. Schleifer Ronald , 616 – 28 ( New York : Longman ). Rosenbaum Jonathan 2004 Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ). Ryan Marie-Laure 2004 “Digital Media,” in Narrative...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 327–340.
Published: 01 September 2021
... stories explore biological, geological, or astronomic time with fictional devices which rely on nonlinear patterns (which the article defines as the “discontinuous line,” the “loop,” the “network,” and the “rhizome”). Thus the fictional narratives considered here jeopardize the “creative imitation...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 299–321.
Published: 01 June 2001
... for the storage of human remains. Each box was
labeled with a particular dated event, sourced from historical narratives,
from archives, and from comments and stories by //Kabbo, /Han=kass’o,
Dia!kwain, and others who participated in the Bleek and Lloyd project.
With these boxes I presented a nonlinear time...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
... it through the overlapping temporalities of biology, culture, and literature. An old formalism attunes itself to the fact that time—the time of reading, narrative temporality, metrical arrangements, institutional time—is lived in, inextricably tied to the aging of our bodies. When we consider the essays...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in Levie 2007 But a transcendence of national and linguistic boundaries
does not in itself alter the necessity of discerning what counts as “literary”
within the diversity of materials. The dialogism that distinguishes Fyodor
Dostoyevsky’s major narratives, the mixture of the vernacular...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 15–35.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and suspension; in Johnson, they point to regularities that invite the reader to coconstruct an imaginative space that sustains the lives the novel evokes. References Bernaerts Lars . 2014 . “ Minds at Play: Narrative Games and Fictional Minds in B.S. Johnson's House Mother Normal .” Style 48...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 453–483.
Published: 01 September 2017
... The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). 1986 “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” Social Text , no. 15 : 65 – 88 . 2015 “On Re-reading Life and Fate,” New Left Review 95 : 81 – 93...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . 2021 . “ Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity .” Poetics Today 42 , no. 3 : 342 – 59 . Cooke Jennifer . 2020 . Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Falcus Sarah . 2020 . “ Age...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., with interdependent narrative trajectories. This article draws on small stories research and on scholarship on storytelling and ethics to explore the relative narrativity of the stories within charity fundraising letters and their marked contingence upon lack of resolution. This article also disentangles...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 267–270.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Segal Herman David , ed., The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . viii + 315 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 273–275.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Segal Meister Jan Christoph Schernus Wilhelm , eds., Time: From Concept to Narrative Construct; A Reader . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2011 . xxi + 260 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance
Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 255–258.
Published: 01 June 2013
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This book comprises fifteen short studies of narrative fiction (novels, tales, or
short stories) written in the British Isles and ranging from the late Middle Ages
to the end of the twentieth century. The book’s main subdivision is chrono-
logical, yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 258–260.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., 2010. viii 1213 pp.
This book comprises fifteen short studies of narrative fiction (novels, tales, or
short stories) written in the British Isles and ranging from the late Middle Ages
to the end of the twentieth century. The book’s main subdivision is chrono-
logical, yielding four sections: “Late...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 260–263.
Published: 01 June 2013
... at a Glance
Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British Fiction. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. viii 1213 pp.
This book comprises fifteen short studies of narrative fiction (novels, tales, or
short stories) written in the British Isles and ranging from the late Middle Ages
to the end of the twentieth century...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 263–267.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Gruyter, 2010. viii 1213 pp.
This book comprises fifteen short studies of narrative fiction (novels, tales, or
short stories) written in the British Isles and ranging from the late Middle Ages
to the end of the twentieth century. The book’s main subdivision is chrono-
logical, yielding four sections...
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