...Tamar Yacobi Interpretive disputes about the text's implied normative framework (its aesthetics, ideology, reality-model) involve the reliability of the fictive narrator who mediates between interpreter and implied author. Narrative and normative reconstruction must go together. But how...

...Thomas Pavel This article begins with a discussion of the views on mimesis defended in recent works by Lubomír Doležel, Dorrit Cohn, and Jean-Marie Schaeffer. It then argues that literary fiction typically represents human beings in their relationship with norms and values. But since norms...

... is their conceptualization of writing as a craft and a profession and their infrequent but functional use of explicitly normative language. Finally, the role of the genre's highly influential institutional context in the handbooks' formulation of generic norms and constraints is considered as well. This article ultimately...

... the chain of transmission is the author, our frame-sharer and our normative reference-point for every intermediate viewpoint. To test and illustrate these relations anew, they are extended here beyond the traditional semiotic boundaries of language, so that mediation extends to the very medium. My test case...

... thing the “turn to ethics” in literary studies has produced is a rise in popularity of Emmanuel Levinas among critics. The invocation of Levinasian responsibility, with its refusal to entertain a practical or normative ethics, demonstrates, among other things, how far some streams of ethical criticism...

... of method rather than dictating its norms. Citing the extraordinary methodological flexibility of Victorian scientists and writers Lewis Carroll and James Clerk Maxwell, this essay reminds us that our relation to science and theoretical abstraction need not be a zero-sum game. Afterword Andrea Henderson...

... to manipulate their experience of time. The main part of the article focuses on cultural norms and readers’ expectations in relation to reading time, while the last, shorter part discusses the structuring temporal effects of a literary text, such as presence, narrative, and endings. The article concludes...

... insight that adaptation is the norm and not the exception in human imagination finds an unexpectedly large field of application. This shift away from the narrow standard paradigm of novels adapted for the screen to a more fundamental aesthetics of adaptation has also helped establish connections between...

... only one aspect of this intersection: the role of pain (the hurting body as the norm) in these two aesthetic economies, Shklovsky's and Bakhtin's. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1984 [1963] Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics , translated...

..., such as providing the occasion for reflective normative discussions. Comparing the continuities and disjunctures between women's reading groups over time demonstrates that broad social and cultural “frames” (to use Erving Goffman's [1974] term) strongly influence how literature enters our individual and collective...

... engage the reader ethically; and to do justice to such works as a reader is to respond fully to an event whereby otherness challenges habitual norms. When the fiction itself concerns the ethics of otherness, as in J. M. Coetzee's two earliest fictions, Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country...

... to the establishment of a climate of normative sympathy between teller and receiver. Humorous novels, far longer and more complex than jokes, largely base the process of incongruity-resolution on an interplay of, on the one hand, text-internal coherence established by the persistent use of strong implicature...

... 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...

... chooses.When one is constituted as a subject one is already constituted as a boy or girl. As soon as a child is spoken to or about, for example, he or she receives a gender. ‘‘There is no ‘one’ who takes on a gender norm. On the contrary, this citation of a gender norm is necessary in order to qualify...

... of historical reality such as social practices, events, and discourses, which in their own ways provide topological matter for literature. With regard to the literary dynamics of topoi, I shall argue that while literary topoi are founded in cultural normativity, literature constantly explores and sometimes...

... like truth, normativity, and ethics from a perspective which lies at the intersection of linguistics, philos- ophy, and logic and thus promises a neutral approach to value (Dolezˇel 1998). The present tool systematically translates modal into cultural vocab- ulary for better understanding...

... Rorty and argues for the world-making potential of normative imaginary of the poetic, can the ethical message of poetry really be reduced to such terms as inclusion? One of Eshel's poetic case studies addresses Dan Pagis (1930–86), a prominent Holocaust poet. The Holocaust made its way into Pagis's...

... and their “sexist baggage,” while also acknowledging their potential in theorizing sexuality as “lived in and over time” (14–15). Gallop closes the introduction outlining her methodology for her work—what she has termed “anecdotal theory.” Anecdotal theory draws on personal narrative, thereby resisting the norms...

..., 2003. 412 pp. If the ideal resides within the world, why is the world so remote from it? And if it is not to be found there, why does it possess so manifest a normative value? (134) Ask yourself the following question: why, if the world is so full of corruption, do so many human beings...

... and the Classical Theory of Tragedy: The False Aristotelian Dogma In traditional literary history (for example, Lanson 1952 [1894 French classical tragedy is commonly considered a coherent whole of extremely specific rules whose normative force is so strong that we may compare them...