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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 429–451.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Anežka Kuzmičová; Katalin Bálint Although personal relevance is key to sustaining an audience’s interest in any given narrative, it has received little systematic attention in scholarship to date. Across centuries and media, adaptations have been used extensively to bring temporally...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 629–667.
Published: 01 December 2008
... invested with authority. From this perspective, new questions about the production, distribution, and reproduction of samizdat texts with varying types of content turn on a central issue: how was the trustworthiness or value of such texts established? This article explores these issues through personal...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 151–174.
Published: 01 September 2015
... experiencing them as personalities. Art is a means to make things real again. These ideas, expressed by a very young and polemically minded Viktor Shklovsky almost a hundred years ago, are as relevant today as ever: current studies in cognition confirm his insights about the process of automatization...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 573–606.
Published: 01 December 2007
... is especially relevant to this essay insofar as his poem instantiates his authorial identity as coincident with that of his fictional character. Augustine’s confessions, however driven by a love quest, belong to the more conventionally autobiographic genre of the personal memoir. The fiction...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 265–281.
Published: 01 June 2004
... in the narrative? To make our predictions, we drew upon the social psychological literature on persuasion, which suggests that, when topics have personal relevance to readers, they are more likely to think critically (e.g., to retrieve counterargu- ments from memory) about statements concerning those topics...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
... themselves: ‘‘I was moved because character x was in such a sad situation Andringa • Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies 211 essentially about (theme), if it has a high personal relevance, such as, for example, the battle between the sexes or social injustice. If one...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and self-consciousness to its functions. So, for example, strong emotions that are personally relevant may (but do not always) engage the default mode network, while emotions involving other people generally do not” (ibid.: 60). The truth of her observation depends on the degree of self-reflection...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 229–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
... that requires an already experienced reader to demonstrate how thinking and feeling might be kept alive. The experienced reader demonstrates this by continually exploring and questioning the text on the basis of a felt personal relevance. This finding is compatible with research in reading for pleasure...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of verbal humor, such as jokes. Here I look into incongruity-resolution theories of humor and certain linguistically based accounts of joking as well as the insights provided by Sperber and Wilson's theory of relevance into the type of pragmatic processing attendant on the appreciation of humor. Jokes...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 739–748.
Published: 01 December 2020
... literary and personal involvement with histories of violence raised intense controversies. Poetics Today 41:4 (December 2020) DOI 10.1215/03335372-8720169 q 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics This book stands out for a number of reasons. First, it is an important and timely demonstration...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 717–729.
Published: 01 December 2017
... considered that mimesis exists either in a straight form (one person speaking continuously), as several persons speaking with- out intervention by the poet, or as a combination of the two modes. These delineations later gave rise to theories of mediacy, perspective, and speech and thought representation...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 417–428.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Galin Tihanov This invited foreword to a cluster of four essays on historical poetics seeks to establish how the relevance of Historical Poetics is reclaimed today. Affinities, differences, and questions of commensurability and historical contextualization are raised as part of the discussion...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 305–334.
Published: 01 June 2004
... person, however, should not be given the same weight in the results as a position expressed by three different viewers. For this reason, the sample was checked and adjusted for the multiple occurrence of author names: the 319 relevant mails could be attributed to 277 different persons. The following...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 387–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
... as personal and collective futures. There are many ways in which metanarrative fiction can be relevant to narrative agency. Such fiction can contribute to narrative awareness by encouraging us to critically reflect on the kinds of cultural narrative models that dominate in society. It can contribute...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 141–149.
Published: 01 March 2005
...., Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Think- ing after Cavell afterWittgenstein. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003. xxii + 353 pp. It is easy to agree with the editors of this collection of essays that ordinary language philosophy is relevant to the study of literature. In fact...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 221–249.
Published: 01 June 2002
... are based on a detailed analysis of two films, The Naked Gun and AFish Called Wanda . Their relevance for humor in other genres, contexts, and uses remains to be verified. © 2002 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2002 Abelson, Robert P. 1981 “Psychological Status of the Script...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 June 2004
... concepts, espe- cially those that represent personal strivings. The aesthetic feelings that mark accord between imagination and understanding will sometimes en- liven these poignantly self-relevant moments. And the generativity of aes- thetic reflection may at times challenge the reader’s sense of self...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 335–362.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of Personal Experience .” In Lindberg and Roine 2021a : 49 – 59 . Mäkelä Maria , Björninen Samuli , Hämäläinen Ville , Karttunen Laura , Nurminen Matias , Raipola Juha , and Rantanen Tytti . 2021 . “ Dangers of Narrative: A Critical Approach...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 397–401.
Published: 01 June 2003
... for the purpose. Social psychologists first and foremost want controllable testing conditions in order to isolate an issue relevant to any narrative, and their work seems to imply that (substantial) literary narratives most often consti...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 281–299.
Published: 01 June 2020
... this view: rather than functioning primarily as an obstacle to rational calculation, emotions play a critical role in decision making by guiding attention to matters of personal relevance, what Lisa Feldman Barrett (2017: 73) calls an affective niche. In Descartes Error, Anto- nio Damasio (1994: 78...