... metaphorical bidirectionality possible, it explains how the arts enable us to iconically connect with the world through our embodied cognition, not as objective observers in the Western classical sense but as participatory sharers of that world. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017...

...Eyal Segal © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000 Jakobson, Roman 1960 “Concluding Statement:Linguistics and Poetics,” in Style in Language ,edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, 350 -77 (Cambridge: MIT Press). 1971 “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of...

...Idit Nov 2000 New Books at a Glance 473 6104 Poetics Today / 21:2 / sheet 209 of 214 Reuven Tsur, Poetic Rhythm—Structure and Performance, An Empirical Study in Cog- nitive...

...Jessica Merrill The article seeks to establish the intellectual history of the Russian formalists' concept of poetic language. Focusing on Roman Jakobson and the Moscow Linguistic Circle, it argues that the study of poetic language drew on Alexander Veselovsky's Historical Poetics, historical...

...Eyal Segal Michael Eskin, Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press , 2008 . xi + 237 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme...

..., emotional, and aesthetic aspects of literary narrative and other arts originated in an adaptive social context in our evolutionary past. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 References Alcorta Candace S., and Richard Sosis 2005 `` Ritual, Emotion and Sacred Symbols...

... it. By introducing the concepts of minding, metaphor, and icon as structures of the imagination, I show how the language of poetic expression in Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” enables us to apprehend the ways we intuitively participate in the reality that underlies our conscious experience. Such...

...Eyal Segal Jean-Louis Aroui Arleo Andy , eds., Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From Language to Metrics and Beyond . Amsterdam : John Benjamins , 2009 . xiv + 428 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Brian...

... Strauss’s unusual reading of the culmination of Socrates’s great speech (Diotima on the “higher mysteries”) alongside Alkibiades’s speech in the Symposium as representing Plato’s “poetic presentation of philosophy.” The essay becomes more critical as it proceeds. Strauss’s reading of the Symposium , like...

... of justice. To explain the phenomenon, this essay draws an analogy to poetic techniques that inform Franz Kafka's universe of discourse (prolepsis, actualization of figures of speech, illocutions lacking conventional force). The concluding section illustrates howguilt that was suppressed for fifteen...

...Margaret H. Freeman © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Baddeley, Laura Seager, and Nadean Bishop 1984 “Perpetual Noon: The Mystic Experience in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson,” Studia Mystica 7 (1): 6 -22. Bouissac, Paul, Michael Herzfeld, and Roland...

...Tony E. Jackson © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2005 Adler, Hans, and Sabine Gross 2002 “Adjusting the Frame: Comments on Cognitivism and Literature,” Poetics Today 23 : 195 -220. Bakhtin, M. M. 1981 The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays...

...Mieke Bal Taking up the time of my encounter with Benjamin Harshav, which was also when PTL became Poetics Today and a key moment in the development of literary studies toward a more theoretical grounding, this essay raises the issue of the place and status of poetics in today's field of literary...

... interview text. Both as a historical object and as a present-day, culture-specific practice, the literary interview is an interesting case of the dynamic interaction between the media and literature in contemporary cultures. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 This research...

... psychosomatic perceptual patterns which are used on all levels of speech reception in cultural and political contexts. This makes rhetorically conspicuous texts efficient as stimulus material for empirical research into neurocognitive modeling of how poetic texts are read. Adaptations as revisitations of prior...

...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. The...

...Ilya Kliger This essay explores the manner in which the persistence of literary forms in history has been addressed by the Russian tradition of Historical Poetics (Alexander Veselovsky, Viktor Zhirmunsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian Formalism) and within a certain strain of Western Marxism (Georg...

...Boris Maslov Historical Poetics, while in many ways an ally of Russian Formalism, finds itself in an uneasy relationship with the empiricist mode of formalist enquiry inasmuch as the latter is seen as generally inimical to historical contextualization. On the other hand, representatives of both...

...Michael Holquist; Eyal Segal Kliger Ilya and Maslov Boris , eds., Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics . New York : Fordham University Press , 2016 . xviii + 477 pp. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 References Bakhtin...

...Sean O’Sullivan Mittell Jason , Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling . New York : New York University Press , 2015 . x + 390 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 New Books at a Glance Jason Mittell, Complex TV...