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Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 631–634.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Thomas Bronwen ., Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . ix + 212 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance
Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...
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Fictional Worlds of Czech Postmodern Prose
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 731–736.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Bohumil Fořt Doležel Lubomír , Heterocosmica II. Fikční světy postmoderní české prózy (Heterocosmica II: Fictional Worlds of Postmodern Czech Prose) . Prague : Karolinum , 2014 . 190 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 References Doležel...
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Narrative Theory and the Brief and Wondrous Life of Post-Postmodern Fiction
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 183–199.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Virginia Pignagnoli As we enter a new literary period succeeding postmodernism, the models and methods of our theories are called into question vis-à-vis their ability to effectively frame the formal features describing contemporary literary narratives. The article surveys current discussions...
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AIDS and the Postmodern Subject: Joan Retallack's “AID/I/SAPPEARANCE”
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 693–710.
Published: 01 December 2006
... lines of the postmodern critique of science—linguistic slippage and paradigm-dependency—not to subvert or to critique science as an end in itself but to return attention to the human subject, specifically in the context of AIDS, suggesting that the individual becomes lost in the analytical, object...
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Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 864–866.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Narrative, and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, xii + pp.
Ursula Heise’s book explores the ways changes in the cultural conceptions
of temporality over the last decades manifest themselves in postmodernist
narratives—narrative being regarded as the literary genre most directly...
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Hybridity and the Unifying Space of Painting: Larry Abramson in Conversation with Theolonius Marx
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 665–675.
Published: 01 December 2023
... an unsettling visual “monster.” Picabia's practice of superimposition was a significant forerunner of prevailing contemporary practices in postmodern painting. In his essay “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” philosopher Fredric Jameson ( 1991 ) identifies pastiche as one of the main...
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The Affective Dominant: Affective Crisis and Contemporary Fiction
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 541–574.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Hans Demeyer; Sven Vitse Abstract Contemporary developments in fiction have so far primarily been interpreted as an attempt to move beyond postmodernism toward a renewed sense of realism and communication. This article suggests an alternative conceptualization and puts forward the hypothesis...
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Down in the Metamodernist Plain: Tracing a Twenty-First-Century Structure of Feeling in the Reception of NW and How to Be Both
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 563–586.
Published: 01 December 2024
... about the supposed demise of postmodernism and who may not be familiar with the theorization of the new cultural dominant. The aim is to discover how readers recognize, interpret, and describe the novels’ processing of the legacies of modernism and postmodernism in an effort to move beyond both...
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Possible Worlds in the History of the Novel
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . The analysis confirms adherence to the tool's patterns in the four histories. Such adherence may help us understand ways academics and specifically historians think about literature and validate the spatiotemporal framework as an analytic tool. In the current “post-postmodern” context of history as both...
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The Circus in Ruins: A Comment on “Lion on Display: Culture, Nature, and Totality in a Circus Performance,” by Yoram Carmeli
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 597–614.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of postmodern capitalism, its tensions, oppositions, and contradictions. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Beck, Ulrich 1995 Ecological Politics in the Age of Risk (Cambridge, UK: Polity). Benjamin, Walter 1969 “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations , translated...
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Photographs on the Walls of the House of Fiction
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 175–195.
Published: 01 March 2008
... narratives influence the relationship between word and image and the fictiveness of photographs within novels. Unlike earlier writers, who used photographs for illustration of place, postmodern novelists frequently use photographs as documentation, both in support of and in opposition to the written...
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Reversing the Oedipal Reading Practice: Interpellation, Enigmas of Reading, and John Barth's The Floating Opera
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 105–129.
Published: 01 March 2024
... by Slavoj Žižek and Eyal Dotan, this article describes the shift from modern to postmodern texts in terms of reading enigmas. The author's particular case study focuses on the narrator's addresses in John Barth's Floating Opera . These addresses reveal how the narrative oscillates between interpellations...
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Poetry as Prosthesis
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in the postmodern period and provide the model for “mechanical” writing practices in postmodernist poetry. The present essay examines the heterogeneity of postmodernist machine-writing practices and seeks, however provisionally, to reduce that heterogeneity to some degree of conceptual order. Four representative...
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Parody and Style
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 25–39.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Seymour Chatman This article questions recent arguments that “parody” is the prototypical postmodern genre, an argument which not only goes needlessly beyond the traditional definition of the term but handicaps stylisticians from distinguishing between it and its neighboring kinds of texts. Citing...
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Jameson’s Affective Turn: Bodily States, Temporality, and Aesthetics after Modernity
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 751–761.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Michael Larson Jameson Fredric , The Ancients and the Postmoderns . New York : Verso , 2015 . 306 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 References Dunn John O’Meara N.d. “ In Place of Change” (Review of Fredric Jameson, The Ancients...
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Two Sides to the Story: Multiple Versions and Post-Postmodernist Epistemology
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 569–587.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in certain situations as a way to find a new kind of value in storytelling. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 denarration epistemology narrative postmodernism post-postmodernism qualia truth References Barth John 1984 The Friday Book: Essays and Other...
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The Literature of Absolute War: Transnationalism and World War II
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as a unique, watershed event also downplays and even omits other relevant contexts such as literary postmodernism and the question of the psychology of personal participation. Despite the fact that the book does attempt to link the literature of the Second World War to the modernist literary tradition...
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Mapping the Real in Cyberfiction
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 349–377.
Published: 01 June 2000
... to the Theory of Narrative (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). Ballard, J. G. 1973 Crash (London: Cape). Baudrillard, Jean 1983 Simulations , translated by Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman (New York: Semiotext[e]). Booker, M. Keith 1994 “Technology, History, and the Postmodern...
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On the Notion “Post-Deconstructive Narrative”: Text Type or Textual Condition?
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 541–545.
Published: 01 September 2004
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Chapter 5, ‘‘Resisting Post-Deconstructive Space’’ (87–106), juxtaposes
Fredric Jameson’s resistance to postmodern space against Janet Kauffman’s
The Body in Four Parts (1993), a novel that ‘‘embraces [the] spatial contradic-
tions and material complexity’’ that Jameson views as politically disempow...
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“To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 639–661.
Published: 01 December 2022
... (or nodes). Through this network of related elements, a metamodern longing for connection (with the husband) merges with a postmodern awareness of the mediated nature of all narratives, since the story of the marriage pivots on analogies with external references. Crucially, the principle of analogy...
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