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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (4): 637–664.
Published: 01 December 2005
... 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...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 393–421.
Published: 01 June 2000
... on violence and pain that promised to transform the torturer-physician into a New Man without bodily weakness and psychological self-division. The essay combines a theoretical argument on the connection between sublimity and pain with a historical overview of the rise of bio-ideologies. It ends...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
... meliorism and his belief that individual altruism might yet alleviate the painful drama of human existence. The essay details Hardy's employment of aesthetic Einfühlung to represent inanimate objects, to feel with the dead, and, paradoxically, to imagine the evolution of consciousness on the part...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 March 2021
... death (the end of all ends) calculable. The death penalty aims to put an end to the surprise of death. Though Derrida announces an aim for the Death Penalty seminar, at several key moments he is at pains to distinguish the work of reading, the work of the seminar—the work of a seminar that reads...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., a productive grotesque, is an archetype. However, with the support of some recent hypotheses in evolutionary anthropology and biology, the article refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. The cognitive perspective allows us to understand how our brains...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 363–391.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Applying the revised theory, the essay characterizes contrasts between Edmund Burke's and Thomas Paine's thought at all levels of framing. It shows how their lexical frames for “revolution” diverge as their main arguments craft opposing issue-defining frames for the central moral issue of revolution versus...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 463–472.
Published: 01 June 2006
... the educational value of hearing those sentiments
expressed.
In America, when friends, relatives, or others recount experiences they have
had of victimization and trauma, whether in their private or public lives, we
tend to want to hear that they have forgiven those who caused them pain,
Poetics Today 27...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of one’s body and psyche, physical pain, confusion, betrayal, humilia-
tion, a flood of information that has not been perceived before and that is
not attended to effectively, an inability of existing schemas to predict out-
comes, a flight response which is not possible, a hyperaroused state of mind...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 437–460.
Published: 01 September 2020
... performance artists that subject their body to pain, or they can be seen as a form of critique of the Russian institutions of power, such as the church and the law. However, such a reading does not account for the postsecular context within which the performance actions unfold or for the reactions...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 395–426.
Published: 01 September 2002
... defines pity and
fear as follows:
Let pity be a kind of pain caused by the sight of some evil, destructive or painful,
which befalls another who does not deserve it, and which we might expect to
befall...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
... as something to be carried
upon his capable shoulders with the confidence that he alone can encom-
pass what happened to her and encircle her pain.
It is also our privilege as scholars to seem to see more, to cosset and carry.
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But I am interested in the ways that Holocaust...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
...
of a painful past, on the other hand she voluntarily summons up the appa-
ritions of her dead mother, just as Ana in The Spirit of the Beehive persisted
in summoning up Frankenstein’s monster. At the end of Raise Ravens, how-
ever, Ana goes out into the sunny, modern outside world, apparently freed
from...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 721–785.
Published: 01 December 2010
... be understood in terms of
bodily pain and pleasure. Each individual mind at each moment in time
“is motivated by pains and pleasures, and by the memories of those [pains
or pleasures] now invested with consequent fear or desire to select por-
tions from [the] evidence” (ibid.: 41). A subject’s memory...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 127–137.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press). 1999 On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Sebeok, Thomas, ed. 1960 Style in Language (Cambridge: MIT Press). Spolsky, Ellen 2001 Satisfying Skepticism:Embodied Knowledge...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the qualities of the wine in question.
Jonathan Charteris-Black (chapter 8) presents the volume’s most directly
functional (or purposive) account of mixed metaphors in his discussion of the
use of complex metaphors in patients’ accounts of chronic pain. He claims
that in such a context, mixing metaphors...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 205–208.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the qualities of the wine in question.
Jonathan Charteris-Black (chapter 8) presents the volume’s most directly
functional (or purposive) account of mixed metaphors in his discussion of the
use of complex metaphors in patients’ accounts of chronic pain. He claims
that in such a context, mixing metaphors...
Journal Article
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (3): 439–469.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., David 1995 “Light and Dark Imagery in Tolstoy's `The Death of Ivan Il'ich,'” Slavic and East European Journal 39 : 227 -40. 1998 “The Function of Pain in Tolstoy's `The Death of Ivan Il'ich,'” Tolstoy Studies Journal 10 : 20-28. Forthcoming “Conceptual Metaphors for the Domains TRUTH...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 December 2004
... indi-
cates that their dialogue is suffused with their pain over the child’s death
and that their interaction (or lack of interaction) between his burial and this
dialogue has only compounded their pain.
2. Rhetorical Literary Ethics
My approach to Altieri’s challenge and to the demands of ‘‘Home...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 663–695.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to Dennett's view as an “abstract narrative account,” and criticizes it for neglecting embodiment (“the living body” [67]) as a fundamental precursor to an established self. For Menary, the abstract narrative account is problematic because it entails ascribing mental states and sensations, such as pain...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in his previous book, Futurity (2013), and which his current collection of essays further extends and develops. To borrow a phrase from Bruno Latour, Eshel believes that literary studies “ran out of steam” and literary scholars often focus on the pains and melancholic memories of a traumatic past...
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