...H. Porter Abbott The difficulty of understanding emergent behavior is usually attributed to our need to see in it the operation of some kind of centralized control where there is in fact none (Keller 1985, Resnick 1994). Yet as a species, we seem to have little difficulty with complex narratives...

...H. Porter Abbott © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Elizabeth Barry, Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché . Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 232 pp. Beckett, Samuel 1956 Waiting for Godot (London: Faber). 1961 Happy Days (New...

...H. Porter Abbott From a cognitivist perspective, I defend the utility of the implied author for the interpretation of fictional texts that support more than one intentional reading. David Herman (2008) provides a foil in his opposition to the implied author as object-like source and his promotion...

...H. Porter Abbott Spolsky Ellen , The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community . Oxford University Press , 2015 . xxxi + 283 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 References Abbott H. Porter 2013 Real Mysteries: Narrative...

...H. Porter Abbott Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity . Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. Abbott, H. Porter 2001 “Scientists, Humanists, and the Cultural...

... Notes on Contributors Eyal Segal is a research fellow in the Porter Institute of Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Decisive Moment Is Everlasting: Static Time in Kafka’s Poetics (2008, in Hebrew), and has published articles on narrative closure...

... © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 Notes on Contributors Lars Bernaerts teaches literary and narrative theory at the Free University of Brussels and is a postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University. His research...

...- war and wartime political thought and its relation to their critical and poetic work. According to Beasley, Hulme and Eliot identified themselves with “classicism” in the sense determined by Charles Maurras and the Poetics Today 31:2 (Summer 2010) © 2010 by Porter...

... by Charles Maurras and the Poetics Today 31:2 (Summer 2010) © 2010 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 368 Poetics Today 31:2 Action Française; thus Eliot’s theory of the “dissociation of sensibility” that took place at the time of the English civil war was indebted to Maurras’s...

...Eyal Segal David Bevington, Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth . Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell , 2008 . 234 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...

...Eyal Segal Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller, eds., Metaphor and Gesture . Amsterdam: Benjamins , 2008 . viii + 306 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, Ezra Pound...

...Eyal Segal Hilary P. Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press , 2008 . xii + 289 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists...

...Eyal Segal Paul John Eakin, Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press , 2008 . xvii + 184 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S...

...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...

...Eyal Segal Warren Motte, Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-first Century . Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive , 2008 . 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...

...Eyal Segal Cornelia Müller, Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking: A Dynamic View . Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2008 . xix + 272 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S...

...Brian McHale Tyrus Miller, Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press , 2009 . 258 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S...

...Eyal Segal Coll-Tellechea Reyes McDaniel Sean , eds., The “Lazarillo” Phenomenon: Essays on the Adventures of a Classic Text . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 2010 . 202 pp. © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance...

...Eyal Segal Tambling Jeremy , Allegory . London : Routledge , 2010 . viii + 192 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance Reyes Coll-­Tellechea and Sean McDaniel, eds., The “Lazarillo” Phenomenon: Essays on the Adventures...

...Eyal Segal Vermeule Blakey , Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2010 . xvi + 273 pp . © 2012 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 New Books at a Glance Reyes Coll-­Tellechea and Sean McDaniel, eds...