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A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies: Older Women's Responses to Dimitri Verhulst's Novella Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 261–285.
Published: 01 June 2023
... strands emerge that characterize the field. First, there is a profound belief that literature can reveal what it means to grow older because its specific way of world-making is particularly suited to address the complexity of human experience. As Sarah Falcus ( 2015 : 53) argues in “Literature and Ageing...
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So Typical! Philip Roth's Age Stereotypes
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 63–87.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Anita Wohlmann Abstract Stereotypes and clichés about older age typically evoke criticism and resistance. Rightly so, given that they simplify, overgeneralize, distort, and limit. This article treats stereotypes and clichés as forms that can indeed have powerful and harmful meanings; however...
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Queer Futures for an Aging Planet
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that P. D. James's novel expresses the demographic dread arising from the relative shift in younger and older populations—not of a world lacking children, as we might expect, but of one catastrophized by the overabundance of the old and aging. Pushing against the link between climate activism...
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Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 131–156.
Published: 01 June 2023
... than in the older man, with the child focalizers also mediating the story, so that the feelings of Tom and Daniel remain relatively obscured. Autumn stresses the continuity of character traits, feelings, and relationships during an ageing process that spans several decades, while suggesting...
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The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki's Diary of a Mad Old Man
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 231–260.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to a prestigious national literary award under his name, Tanizaki is “widely regarded in the West as one of the major figures of Japanese fiction” (Atkinson 2003 : 37). The dichotomy of age and youth, and the erotic dynamics of age disparity between (typically) older men and younger women, are recurrent themes...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
... “on the basis of age alone,” she offered an emphatic yes. The destruction of older lives in care homes was represented as an “inevitable biological catastrophe”—an act of God or nature, unfortunate but necessary casualties in the war against the disease. Writing in January 2021, Gullette reflected...
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Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969–82
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 111–129.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of this style both to her own embodied experience and to contemporary conceptions of productivity for older artists. As Hutcheon and Hutcheon ( 2012 ) suggest, generalizations about changes in productivity as artists age are often negative as their creative output is seen to decline both in quantity and quality...
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Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 287–290.
Published: 01 June 2023
... focusing on the generation of young men who died in World War I and the reaction of an older generation to their absence. The second chapter examines how middle-aged individuals respond to the loss of their own youth. In the latter chapter Dawson provides an excellent reading of Wharton's The Mother's...
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Ron Silliman's Universe : Aging, Epic Poetry, and Everyday Life
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 181–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... attention to the richness of our surroundings. In a blog post about Northern Soul , Canadian poet Frank Davey ( 2014 ) points out that “Silliman . . . is an older poet very much preoccupied with aging,” and goes on to cite some passages from Silliman's poetry to illustrate his own claim: “What time...
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Cinema of Senescence: Old Age, Slow Cinema, and Form
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
... morality to the experiential richness of old age. Through older characters whose slowness allows them to focus their attention on people and on injustices that would otherwise go unnoticed, Tokyo Story and Poetry suggest the need to slow down our thinking and expand our attention spans amid pressures...
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Time Travel Stories as a Challenge to Narratology: The Case of The Time Traveler's Wife
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 529–560.
Published: 01 December 2015
... their life together as
adults at a “normal” age difference, Henry being eight years older than
Clare when he is not time traveling. But we also learn about: (1) Henry as
an adult, in his time travels to the past, interacting with Clare as a child and
a teenager (the last encounter of this kind, from...
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The Interface between Fiction and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... remained stable over a long time
or that were reestablished after an interval. Two of the six male readers
appeared to have a strong preference for science fiction (SF). Both started
reading it at a young age, one because his older brothers read SF, the other
because his father did. Both stated...
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Beyond Faith and Reason: Postsecular Genealogies in Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World , Ilija Trojanow’s The Collector of Worlds , and Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s Blumenberg
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., according to which the formation of modern secular thought remains bound tomuch older sacred andmythologicalmodels which it trans- forms, is negated by the manifest and nontransformed presence of the mar- velous. Yet Blumenberg s journey into a fantastic world is also a narrative of aging and dying. His...
View articletitled, Beyond Faith and Reason: Postsecular Genealogies in Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World , Ilija Trojanow’s The Collector of Worlds , and Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s Blumenberg
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 131–147.
Published: 01 June 2021
... ; Hungerford 2016 ). While this new situation is often seen as cause for alarm, we see no indications that literature and reading are nearing extinction. Literature may converge with other art forms, and our modes of cultural consumption may change accordingly, but history shows us that older media and art...
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Narrative Tradition on the Border: Alexander Veselovsky and Narrative Hybridity in the Age of World Literature
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 429–451.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on the Border:
Alexander Veselovsky and Narrative Hybridity in the
Age of World Literature
Kate Holland
University of Toronto
Abstract The idea of narrative hybridity was central to the work of the Russian literary
theorist Alexander Veselovsky (1838 – 1906), particularly to his unfinished work His...
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Narrative Media: The Impossibilities of Digital Storytelling
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 623–643.
Published: 01 September 2018
... that the concepts foregrounded by unnatural approaches may serve to pinpoint where digital narratives create impossibilities in their departure from older media, or where they adopt impossible configurations that are part of particular narrative traditions. In turn, cognitive-theoretical approaches help us see how...
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Research Use of Holocaust Testimonies
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 451–461.
Published: 01 June 2006
... is still working, whose children are not fully grown, who may
not yet have grandchildren is not the same as that of a person seventy years
of age or older. The factual information of their experiences is the same,
but their reflections may not be.
Because we have continued to videotape survivor...
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Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Katherine Kruger Abstract Changes to working life and retirement are reshaping temporalities of aging. This essay identifies a growing interest by women writers in the narrative possibilities these changes present. Examining the relation between narrative form, aging, and precarious work in Deborah...
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Reading Strategies in Everyday Life: Different Ways of Reading a Novel Which Make a Distinction
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 241–263.
Published: 01 June 2004
... the use of these
strategies depended on gender and on the sociocultural milieu (comprising
age, school performance, liking for certain subject matters, and aesthetic
preferences) as well as on reading socialization. Some of these variables are
classic socioeconomic categories, and it has often been...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 339–362.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., NJ: Princeton University Press). Oestreich, Gerhard 1982 Neostoicism and the Early Modern State , translated by David McLintock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Panizza, Letizia A. 1991 “Stoic Psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De Remediis,” in Atoms...
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