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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
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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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 327–498.
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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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 499–528.
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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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (3-4): 329–483.
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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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 43–87.
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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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
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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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 129–244.
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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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 683–794.
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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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 1–16.
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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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 59–126.
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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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 171–189.
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 Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
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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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 89–127.
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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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 17–39.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 153–215.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 721–785.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 661–664.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 664–667.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 667–670.
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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 670–673.
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...