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Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... nonlinear narrative plot spatial form ecological crisis New Formalism In the second volume of Time and Narrative ( 1985 , 101–12), Paul Ricoeur famously distinguishes between two layers of temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them “monumental” time and “mortal” time...
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Historical Poetics between Russia and the West: Toward a Nonlinear Model of Literary History and Social Ontology
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 453–483.
Published: 01 September 2017
... : Nauka ). Historical Poetics between Russia and the West:
Toward a Nonlinear Model of Literary History
and Social Ontology
Ilya Kliger
New York University
Abstract This essay explores the manner in which the persistence of literary forms in
history has been addressed by the Russian...
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Four spatial traces for nonlinear plots: discontinuous progression, the loo...
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Figure 1 Four spatial traces for nonlinear plots: discontinuous progression, the loop, the network, and the rhizome (author's creation). From Caracciolo 2021 , reprinted with permission.
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Apocalypse Left and Right: Bloch's and Rozanov's Renunciation of the Future
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 387–413.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Michal Oklot Focusing on two modernist thinkers, Vasily Rozanov (1856 – 1919) and Ernst Bloch (1885 – 1976), the article examines the ontological and existential implications of their eschatological thinking and its concept of nonlinear time, which negates the future when thinking of what is ahead...
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Thought Experiments, Literary Fiction, and Science Fiction: The Example of Isaac Asimov's Robot Cycle
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 529–561.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., which deploys its thought-experimental character in a specific form of nonlinear seriality, thus providing a clear and articulated demonstration of the oxymoronic, aimlessly argumentative power of fictional texts. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics...
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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
... clearly affected the participants in terms of their felt epistemic emotions. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2025 narrative complexity nonlinearity time loops epistemic emotions narrative engagement The narrative device...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Wibke Schniedermann; Steven Willemsen; Sean A. Yeager 3. See Kim and Anderson ( 1998 ) for helpful illustrations of combinatorically complex system archetypes. 4. Interestingly, Wiener ([ 1948 ] 2013: 35) hints at a connection between narration and nonlinear temporal structures in his...
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Joint Attention, Semiotic Mediation, and Literary Narrative
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
Published: 01 December 2016
... “communicative” but interpretative.18
This progression through levels of joint attentional framing is not straight-
forward or linear. There is also a nonlinear, destabilizing oscillation between
inside and outside that is an important part of the tale’s openness and inde-
terminacy. The heart of the tale...
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On the Theory of Prose
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 677–683.
Published: 01 December 2023
... is lavish with these. Of the two concepts, fabula and syuzhet , Shklovsky 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...
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The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 1–31.
Published: 01 June 2015
... “is by definition unprintable, for such an act
of material linearization would disrupt its characteristic [nonlinear] under-
lying macrostructure” (Ensslin 2007: 5).
Because of the nonlinear structure of these texts, “it is possible to explore,
get lost, and discover secret paths” in them, “not metaphorically...
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Unraveling Beginnings
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 739–744.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... In an epilogue, Buch Leander underscores his belief that history determines the kinds of opening favored (146); he formulates a number of distinctions between the Anglo-American and the French critical traditions (with the latter more likely to champion textual nonlinearity and open- endedness); and he...
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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
.... Indeed, both frameworks appear to challenge narrative's demand for chronology, as they introduce alternative, nonlinear, and achronological storytelling logics to communicate the experiences of the time looper or the person living with mental illness. Nonetheless, both frameworks still adhere to what I...
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“Civilised Off the Face of the Earth”: Museum Display and the Silencing of the /Xam
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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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Experiencing Virtual Worlds: Observation to Co-Creation
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 707–717.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the same characters
have a different life story But hypertext, being a fragmented and
nonlinear type of discourse, is only marginally able to tell stories and be
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the object of reader immersion. No matter what architecture...
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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 (2017) 38 (3): 417–428.
Published: 01 September 2017
... — is the central preoccupation of Kliger’s
elegant and wide-ranging essay. The term “ontology” in its title may make
some readers nervous, but the stakes are high, and the courage it takes to
insist on historicizing social ontology, and in a nonlinear fashion at that, is not
insignificant. Kliger’s article...
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A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s “⌰ (Total Runout)”
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
...: Nonlinear Phenomena 42, no. 1 3: 12 37. Lerner, Ben. 2016. The Hatred of Poetry. New York: FSG Originals. Leroi-Gourhan, Andre´. 1993. Gesture and Speech, translated by Anna Bostock Berger. Cam- bridge, MA: MIT Press. Lipovetsky, Gilles, and Se´bastien Charles. 2004. Les Temps Hypermodernes. Paris...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., scholars of literary form are well equipped to challenge this narrative of decline; indeed, the contributors consistently draw upon form as a way of disrupting some of the most engrained and problematic expectations regarding older age. By privileging the formless, nonlinear, immediate, and durable...
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Electronic Literature as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under Constraint
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
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on language and the materialities of communication. Here is where the
vaunted nonlinearity of networked environments is to be sought and not in
hyperlinks (which are only undifferentiated text blocks set out in a branch-
ing pattern, not language that needs conceptual and semantic connection
for its...
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Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
... in characters’ crossing paths in the storyworld. The latter far outnumber the former in Yanagihara's novel. 18. This is one of the main ideas of Caracciolo 2021 , which however focuses on a variety of nonlinear forms. This article seeks to bring into focus the specific narrative and thematic...
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