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Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis

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Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-4-711
Published: 01 December 2000
..., as in the detective story, and/or to functional drives, like surprise, no less than to the teller's blind spots. What distinguishes the perspectival or the unreliability hypothesis is that it brings discordant elements into pattern by attributing them to the peculiarities of the speaker through whom the world...
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(Un)Reliability in Narrative Discourse: A Comprehensive Overview

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Meir Sternberg, Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 327–498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3455114
Published: 01 December 2015
... Objectivism: Miniature and Large-Scale Reflexes (Expressions, Giveaways); 4.6 How the Implied Author and Author-Centeredness (Re)Enter by the Backstairs. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 constructivism implied author informant integration mechanisms perspectival hypothesis...
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Narrative and Normative Pattern: On Interpreting Fiction, with Special Regard to (Un)Reliability

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Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 499–528.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3455123
Published: 01 December 2015
... measure, therefore, involves the conception of (un)reliability as a perspectival hypothesis formed by the reader. More precisely, the hypothesis of a fictional mediator’s unreliability is a mechanism for recon- ciling textual incongruities by appeal to a deliberate tension between the viewpoint...
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Mimesis and Motivation: The Two Faces of Fictional Coherence

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Meir Sternberg
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 329–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1812153
Published: 01 December 2012
... as a perspectival hypothesis: its collocation with the other four integrating mechanisms sharply illumi- nates both its hypothetical status and its perspectivizing distinctness vis-a`-vis the various alternatives. So, adding or dropping some mechanism(s) would make a heuristic, or expository, 408 Poetics Today...
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Intratextuality, Extratextuality, Intertextuality: Unreliability in Autobiography versus Fiction

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Dan Shen, Dejin Xu
Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 43–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2006-015
Published: 01 March 2007
... to adjustment, inversion, or even replacement by another hypothesis altogether.” In order to resolve textual problems, different readers may adopt different read- ing hypotheses, including the “existential,” the “functional,” the “generic,” 52 Poetics Today 28:1 the “perspectival...
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Joint Attention, Semiotic Mediation, and Literary Narrative

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Adam Lively
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3638042
Published: 01 December 2016
... perspectival prisms of embedded narrative and character. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 References Boccaccio Giovanni 1972 [1353] The Decameron . Translated by McWilliam G. H. ( Harmondsworth : Penguin ). Bruner Jerome 1983 Child's Talk...
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Factives and Perspectives: Making Sense of Presupposition as Exemplary Inference

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Meir Sternberg
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 129–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-129
Published: 01 March 2001
.... Actually, such clashes abound throughout discourse, and multiple resources for integrating them emerge. Far from disabling or defeating inference, contradiction and lesser incongruities rather powerfully activate and channel it. Of the available integrative resources, again, the perspectival mechanism...
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Omniscience in Narrative Construction: Old Challenges and New

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Meir Sternberg
Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 683–794.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-012
Published: 01 December 2007
..., itself free to quote other characters and to interact with them in different ways, harmoniously and/or conflictually, on different perspectival axes. A wide-ranging approach to (un)reliability as a perspectival hypothesis of integration has been developed in Yacobi 1981, 1987a, 1987b, 2000...
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What Science Can't Know: On Scientific Objectivity and the Human Subject

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Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen
Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10938579
Published: 01 March 2024
..., I conclude, be practically met. Whatever else we use the term subjective to mean, we use it in an epistemic sense to mark the perspectival or evaluative character of specific claims whereby their truth or falsity cannot be settled as a matter of objective (or “empirical”) fact, and whereby...
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Narrative Humor (II): Exit Perspective

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Jeroen Vandaele
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 59–126.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1505540
Published: 01 March 2012
... the idea: perspectival mechanisms, which foster incongruity/superiority between participants in a narrative and thus enable comedies to turn someone’s unhappiness into a funny thing. Also, Zupančič mistakes causal and temporal development for a feature of tragedy as against comedy, rather than identifying...
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Philosophical Genres and Literary Forms: A Mildly Polemical Introduction

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Jonathan Lavery
Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 171–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2006-020
Published: 01 June 2007
... one possible for certain thoughts?  (Emphasis added) The hypothesis that Jordan frames here as a question, which I have itali- cized, encapsulates much of the spirit of this special issue: certain thoughts, along with ways of formulating and collecting these thoughts, appear...
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Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis

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Ignasi Ribó
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-9780431
Published: 01 September 2022
...-wide “perspectivism” in which nonhumans are deemed to “see themselves as persons” just like humans do (Viveiros de Castro 1998 : 470; see also Kohn 2013 ). In contrast, the naturalist ontology, which corresponds to the modern dualism of nature and culture, recognizes a common biological physicality...
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Keats's Hyperion : Time, Space, and the Long Poem

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Lilach Lachman
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 89–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-1-89
Published: 01 March 2001
... and the external field 8 upon which change materializes. Coleridge’s interest in the shift of focus from mechanical to perspectivized motion is indicative of a new conceptu- . Eichner points to the contrast between the eighteenth-century emphasis on static categories...
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Exceptionality or Exemplarity?: The Emergence of the Schematized Mind in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Novel

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Maria Mäkelä
Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 17–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4265047
Published: 01 February 2018
... and anyone in the storyworld, verifying those schematic sketches of the characters’ interiorities that nevertheless come into existence through privileged novelistic consciousness representation. All in all, the hypothesis of focalization in narrative constellations that would allow a per- sonified...
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Closure in Detective Fiction

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 153–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2009-018
Published: 01 June 2010
...- neously discovered and filled in—that is, the hypothesis that turns out to have been mistaken is firmly replaced by one that counts as unambigu- ously correct. In cases where the gap revealed at last remains open (or at least not unambiguously closed) following its discovery, thereby creating...
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Narrative Humor (I): Enter Perspective

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Jeroen Vandaele
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 721–785.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-011
Published: 01 December 2010
... Comedy? Testing a Hypothesis .'' Paper presented at the Fourteenth Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies , Bologna, Italy , July 6 . Forthcoming `` Narrative Humor (II): Exit Perspective ,'' Poetics Today . Vargas Llosa Mario 1977 La tía Julia y el escribidor...
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Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 661–664.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-005
Published: 01 September 2010
... order and duration), and to types of “presentational,” especially perspectival, modes. Chap- ter 5, “The Surface of Narrative,” deals with how the reader constructs a world from the “surface”—that is, language—of narrative. The discussion is first organized according to world...
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New Beginnings in Literary Studies

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 664–667.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-006
Published: 01 September 2010
... order and duration), and to types of “presentational,” especially perspectival, modes. Chap- ter 5, “The Surface of Narrative,” deals with how the reader constructs a world from the “surface”—that is, language—of narrative. The discussion is first organized according to world...
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An Introduction to Narratology

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 667–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-007
Published: 01 September 2010
... perspectival, modes. Chap- ter 5, “The Surface of Narrative,” deals with how the reader constructs a world from the “surface”—that is, language—of narrative. The discussion is first organized according to world elements, namely, space/time and fictional characters (especially how...
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Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 670–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2010-008
Published: 01 September 2010
... order and duration), and to types of “presentational,” especially perspectival, modes. Chap- ter 5, “The Surface of Narrative,” deals with how the reader constructs a world from the “surface”—that is, language—of narrative. The discussion is first organized according to world...
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