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... and vatic sayings that pretend to universal or transcendent knowledge are marks of the lyric as a genre. Sketching a theory of poetic license, this article addresses the lyrical entanglement of enchantment and embarrassment. The author argues for a concept of the lyric as a medium for regulating the balance...

.... Gander, Forrest 1998 “Poetic License and the Bomb” (Review of Doubled Flowering), The Nation , July, 29 -31. Halperin, Daniel 1995 Saint Foucault:Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press). Johnson, Kent 1998 “Letter to American Book Review,” Jacket 5 . Available...

... Press . Perloff Marjorie . 1981 . The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press . Perloff Marjorie . 1990 . Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press . Pratt...

... wonder whether ‘‘pretense’’ is the right term.12 Does Lucan pretend to tell us the story of Pompey and Caesar? Does he fabricate it (to use Smith’s term)? Not at all; he tells us a true story, em- bellishing it. Does Schiller fabricate the plot of Mary Stuart? Poetic license indeed allows him...

... the regularities, unique or universal, to the severest test. Its superior quali- fications have nothing to do with its reputation for specialnessparasit- ism’’ among the hardheaded, poetic license among the literati, fictionality among all—as parallel examples from history writing will establish, along...

... for Americans to take up the great weapons of democratic discourse and poetic license, to turn over the actual weapons and open our mouths instead. But the trope works on both sides of the preposition: these could as likely be literal bullets loaded in the metaphorical mouth of the otherwise unnamed gun ready...

... 742 Poetics Today 24:4 which was refused a license in 1965, demonstrates the malign effect of con- tainment within the archive. The reader of this script appears to have been...

... of fact’’ (ibid.: whereas fictional writing is char- acterized by an ‘‘independence of factuality: the built-in license to create a world as one thinks fit, which includes the right to bridle or flaunt that 5 license’’ (ibid.: In view of this (differential) communicative constant, all...

... scientific use, treating them in effect with poetic license and happily engaging in creative analogies (examples that come readily to mind are chaos theory and fractal structure). In the re- verse direction, one encounters a specific type of prejudicial discrimination against literary terms: the tendency...

... or ascending) sequence, ideological bias, editorial interference, memory lapse, Freudian slip, irony, and point of view. Motivation, with its focus on the poetic license or presumption of fiction- ality — or world-making generally — brings out the principles of order and ordering inherent...

... of Reading (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Goldman, Susan R., and Ronald J. Kantor 1993 “The Limits of Poetic License: When Shouldn't an Ending Be Happy?” Poetics 22 : 135 -50. Graesser, Arthur C. 1983 “How to Develop a Theory of Story Points,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 : 600...

... 1993 “The Limits of Poetic License: When Shouldn't an Ending Be Happy?” Poetics 22 : 135 -50. Goodblatt, Chanita, and Joseph Glicksohn 2003 “From Practical Criticism to the Practice of Practice of Literary Criticism,” Poetics Today 24 (2). Graesser, Arthur C., Joseph P. Magliano, and Karl...

... Screenshot of title page, Deena Larsen’s “Carving in Possibilities.” www .collection.eliterature.org/1/works/larsen__carving_in_possibilities.html. Creative Com- mons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License Mathieson † The Body and the Possible Soul in Digital Ekphrastic Poetry 367...

... poetics, the flaunting of control lost, as in the Coover 1970: 27 example, would be equally suicidal. Which shows again how the fictional narrator’s license of fiction- 784 Poetics Today 28:4 (e.g., the eyewitness narrator’s) isn’t replaceable by ontic limitation, either, any more than...

... of certainty. First, he decided that the letters of the hypogram should occur consecutively (in a pinch, he made small allowances for poetic license). Then he determined that the hypo- gram could only appear within a small word...

... Speak as I Am: The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun (in Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad). Perloff, Marjorie Poetic License: Essay on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric (Evanston, IL: Northwestern...

... and Semiotics. 126 Poetics Today 27:1 in (Post)Structuralist narratology—Genette’s anti-perceptual, mind-less formalism, Barthes’s drive against all sequentiality (actional, textual, historical) in the name of ‘‘writerly’’ license—as well as open follow-ups, in cognitivist and literary-empirical circles...

... of novelistic discourse, carnival, and public square culture and the political proper.Thus, although Bakhtin does not address the paradox that, historically, neither the popularity of the polyphonic novel nor sanctioned periods of public license—the Brazilian carnival or the German Fasching would be cases...

... are not supposed to be my affair. My privilege is in the magic of the imagination. My duty is only to the callings of artistic freedom. And there is no restriction on how this freedom is exer- cised, because the artistic license is essentially unrevocable—imagination, fed by hubris, untempered by humility...

.... Or so an exponent of readerly diversity, license, construction, would argue. 332 Poetics Today 36:4 The second part of Culler’s sentence, however, shifts poles, and with it reference points, from the reader all the way to the author, and so necessarily to a communication model governed...