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Edible Revolutionaries: The Rudolf Slánský Trial as a Romance
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... The distinctive features of all these miscarriages of justice were the public confessions of the accused to the most heinous felonies against the party and the Socialist regime with which they were charged. What was the reason for this? My article scrutinizes, from the generic perspective, the proceedings...
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Samizdat according to Andropov
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of December 1970. It was a memo addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union reporting on the status of samizdat in the country and suggesting some practical steps that would diminish the spread and impact of uncontrolled publications in the USSR. The second document, dated...
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Fiction and Silence as Testimony: The Rhetoric of Holocaust in Dan Pagis
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 209–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... question the very human capacity to understand whatever lies beyond one's own horizon of experience. Over the years, either party to the dialogue has turned out, or become, unequal to its demanding role. Pagis's alternative strategy of communication—fictional, poetic,implicit—is the focus of the argument...
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Demystifying the Logic of Tamizdat: Philip Roth's Anti-Spectacular Literary Politics
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 107–132.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Joseph Benatov Shortly after Nikita Khrushchev delivered his 1956 “secret speech” at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, the text of the report reached the United States by way of Poland and was published in the New York Times . The first secretary's denunciation of Stalinism thus...
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Suspicious Minds
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 215–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... The literary critic, like the detective, interprets clues, establishes causal connections, and identifies a guilty party: namely, the literary work accused of whitewashing or concealing social oppression. Deconstructionist critics like Shoshana Felman seek to expose the dangers of such a suspicious...
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Poetics of Emotion in Times of Agony: Letters from Exile, 1933–1940
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 129–169.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Els Andringa After the National Socialist party came to power in Germany in 1933 and in Austria in 1938, many writers and intellectuals fled these countries. As a result, a dense network of correspondences was established among exiles from many different countries in and out of Europe. This article...
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From Confusion to Conversion: Listening to the Narrative Voice of Michel Houellebecq’s Submission
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 347–367.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...
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Narrative as Social Action: Making Rhetorical Narrative Theory Accountable to Context
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 455–478.
Published: 01 September 2022
...), establish continua for mapping these social positions and conceptual frameworks and for evaluating their thematic salience in the narrative. Crucially, these methods are applied not only to text-internal figures like narrators and characters but also to the real-world parties to narrative: authors...
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Visual Hybrids as Constitutive Rhetorical Acts: Rhetorical Interplay between Unity and Difference
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 631–646.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Semiforgotten elements of the ancient faculty prove that rhetoric requires creative visual imagination from both parties (orator and audience) and that the practice emanates from and embeds in visuospatial, sensual experiences. These visual features are combined with the verbal in rhetorical practice resulting...
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Justice in Prague, Political and Poetic: Some Reflections on the Slánský Trial (with Constant Reference to Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera)
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 653–679.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Peter Steiner This article deals with the proceedings against the general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Rudolf Slánský, and thirteen other high officials. The most striking feature of confessional trials such as his is the lack of any manifest culpability for gross miscarriages...
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Multiparty Talk in the Novel: The Distribution of Tea and Talk in a Scene from Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 657–684.
Published: 01 December 2002
... of employing such
models for the analysis of fictional dialogue have been debated elsewhere
(for example,Toolan I hope to show that focusing on a scene of multi-
. I use the term multiparty talk in an attempt to capture the sense that talk may be fragmen-
tary, faltering, and made up of parties who may...
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Spoken Revolutions: Discursive Resistance in Bulgarian Late Communist Culture
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 133–151.
Published: 01 March 2009
... discussion
group “Synthesis”—a name alluding to the fact that it was a fusion of the
various disciplines that the last party directives called for.
While it would be an overstatement to claim that samizdat, the Seminar,
or Synthesis brought down the totalitarian system in Bulgaria, it seems...
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The Leninist Hypothesis
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 June 2016
...) the belief that a party might conduct revolutionary work in the cause of its
own obsolescence, (2) the notion that a revolutionary state is a necessary
transition to “full” communism, and (3) the idea that a revolutionary class,
the proletariat, interpellated by capital, is the vital agent...
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Shelley and the Poetics of Political Indirection
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 765–793.
Published: 01 December 2001
...: Johns Hopkins University Press). Bobbio, Norberto 1996 Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction , translated by Allan Cameron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Brewer, John 1976 Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge:Cambridge...
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From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 309–334.
Published: 01 June 2022
... masculinity-related online activities as part of the same online ecology. 8. This stance on art can be found in the extended Finnish version of the Finns Party's Election Programme for the Parliamentary Election 2011 (Finns Party 2011 ). 9. This Instagram post can be found via this link: https...
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One Line at a Time
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 425–429.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of a Holocaust
victim, we place it mentally, automatically, in a familiar context: we read
it as a statement from an injured party. There is a victim and a victimizer
in the scenario that we keep in mind as a frame of reference, and we hear
in the narrative the victim’s side of the story; presumably, one...
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Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the two major
existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The
“beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas the “power
party” emphasizes the operation of extratextual institutional forces. But he
suggests a third approach foregrounding the gamut of cultural...
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Dialogues with/and Great Books: The Dynamics of Canon Formation
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 244–247.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., artis-
tic) dialogues can contribute to a better understanding of the controversial
concept of “a great book.” He surveys what he considers the two major
existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The
“beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas...
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Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., artis-
tic) dialogues can contribute to a better understanding of the controversial
concept of “a great book.” He surveys what he considers the two major
existing approaches to the explanation of what makes a book great. The
“beauty party” focuses on inherent aesthetic qualities, whereas...
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Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 735–758.
Published: 01 December 2008
... first Kolyma tales, and
1961, the year of the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, during which the de-Stalinization initiated by Khru-
shchev’s secret speech of 1956 was conducted openly. Sadly, this reversal
was a prelude to the resurfacing of his camp...
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