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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (1): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Gosizdat system of publishable literature
and institutionalized censorship. Playing “hot and cold” becomes a mode
of reading between the lines, a trope for Aesopian language itself.
The children’s playful activities of “revenge,” “testing the willpower”
and “walking on the edge” in House...
View articletitled, Reading Games/Games of Reading: Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment and Forms of <span class="search-highlight">Play</span> beyond Samizdat
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2025
... in fiction film and television seek a distinct kind of audience engagement, one that can be characterized as narrative play , a ludic invitation to actively engage with and decode the chrono-logic underlying these stories. To explore this ludic engagement, this essay investigates the role of viewers...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Jayme Stayer Bialostosky Don , How to Play a Poem . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2017 . xvii + 235 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 explication with practical application, they may be considered model studies...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 113–139.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Daniel Punday Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based...
View articletitled, Creative Accounting: Role-<span class="search-highlight">Playing</span> Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Eyal Segal Bowles Hugo , Storytelling and Drama: Exploring Narrative Episodes in Plays . Amsterdam : John Benjamins , 2010 . ix + 216 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance
Hugo Bowles, Storytelling and Drama: Exploring...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 143–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
... focus on the relationship of metaphors to various
types of discourse. Chapter 7 considers metaphors and humor, though the
actual discussion of metaphors here is backstage to the survey of theories of
humor and play. Among the topics addressed is the playful use of tautologies
(e.g., “boys...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 475–498.
Published: 01 September 2019
... that can be improved by actively engaging sympathetic curiosity. Baillie insisted that her plays had pedagogical value and that having audiences watch them would help them learn how to avoid the destructive nature of the passions. Working with Bonanno and Burton’s (2013) model of regulatory flexibility...
View articletitled, “Some Powerful Rankling Passion”: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Joanna Baillie’s Passion <span class="search-highlight">Plays</span>
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 561–589.
Published: 01 December 2014
... naturally to an investigation of the interactions among theater audiences and the various parts of the theater industry. To demonstrate the possibilities of audience studies, this essay includes an analysis of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's play Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid (1647), a comic drama...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 619–640.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Yael Zarhy-Levo This article engages with the issue of the factors determining theatrical prominence, endorsing the “institutional approach.” In discussing the major mediating role played by theater reviewers in the canonization of individual playwrights, the article focuses particularly on two...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 683–794.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Meir Sternberg Since modernism, narrative omniscience has been much attacked, yet little studied and understood. This in inverse ratio to the central role it actually plays in narrative discourse and metadiscourse alike: the telling, reading, grouping, evolving, conceptualizing of stories, invented...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 227–244.
Published: 01 June 2008
... in which there is no centralized control and in which chance often plays a major role (tragedies, comedies, most novels and films). I argue that the principal reason for the incompatibility of emergent behavior with narrative understanding is its massive distribution of causal agents—a complexity...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 529–560.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eyal Segal This article discusses time travel stories as being of particular interest to narratology: they play by their nature with the temporality of the storyworld itself (rather than with that of its narration, which is the type of time maneuver that narratology has mostly privileged...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 December 2016
... on King Lear ), and those bargains allow us to play off knowledge and wishfulness in ways that help us turn to interactions with others also in our condition to cope with the brute and blind fact of the natural world. Much work has been done in the distributed cognition required for complex social tasks...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 549–581.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and nonhuman own-worlds ( Umwelten ), playing a role in processes of structural coupling within a habitat, understood as a hybrid assemblage or collective of multispecies inhabitants. The article describes how oral poiesis, as a modeling system, contributes to sustaining the various modes of identification...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 465–495.
Published: 01 September 2004
... by drawing on a wide range of Beckett's work, including major plays,prose, Film , work for television, and critical writings. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Adorno, Theodor W. 1981 [1967]: Prisms , translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber(Cambridge: MIT Press...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the formation of cultural memory and that these roles are linked to their status as public discourse, to their fictional and poetical qualities, and to their longevity. This analysis...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 711–730.
Published: 01 December 2004
... vulnerability to literature and the part that vulnerability plays in literature's ethical force. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Adorno, Theodor 1964 Jargon der Eigentlichkeit: zur deutschen Ideologie (Frankfurt am Main:Suhrkamp). Benveniste, Emile 1971...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 353–383.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of gender can play an important interpretive role. Testimonial objects enable us to consider crucial questions about the past, about how the past comes down to us in the present, and about how gender figures in acts of memory and transmission. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Adler...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 597–614.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., this act plays on a formative underlying nature/culture structural opposition that is then subverted by circus culture only to be shown, in the end, to be part of the very bourgeois order it was supposed to challenge. I sketch out Carmeli's analysis of how the lions, Sidney Howes the trainer...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., including human life and well-being, is exempt from this causal necessity. Furthermore, I discuss the role the geometrical method plays in an aspect of the argument of the Ethics which can best be described as dialectical, in the Aristotelian sense of the word: Spinoza hoped to persuade the members of his...
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