... Tony E. Jackson English, North Carolina at Charlotte Peter Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2002. x + 193 pp. Joanna Gavins and Gerard Steen (eds Cognitive Poetics in Practice. London: Rout- ledge, 2003. xii + 188 pp. In the unfolding history of a new approach...

... of Beryn , an anonymous continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . The Sindibad tale and the Tale of Beryn thematize narrative use in the context of a trial, in which the pleas and counterpleas highlight the function of fictionalizing acts. Fiction in these narratives is conceptualized as a practice...

...Eyal Segal Carroll Joseph , Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice . New York : State University of New York Press , 2011 . xvi + 352 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina Grishakova and Marie...

...Brian Richardson Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 Birke Dorothee , Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2016 . xi + 256 pp. ...

..., center on recurring images in a manner consistent with the modern practice of mindfulness meditation. There is a significant overlap between the way meditation was understood by seventeenth-century Christians and the way it is understood by modern meditators in a secular and therapeutic context. Neurally...

... that affect contributes decisively to reason, few essays examine the processes, particularity, and significance of this contribution to literary experience. The authors use historical evidence to argue that the affective impact of Native Son reorganized cognitive practices authorized by segregation. Adaptive...

...Eyal Segal Richardson Brian , ed., Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practice . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2008 . xi + 282 pp. © 2011 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2011 New Books at a Glance Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Beginnings...

... Adams Edward ., Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . x + 322 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance Edward Adams, Liberal Epic...

... to apply a “flickering” reading practice. This kind of practice rejects the oedipal role of the author as a father, in the Lacanian sense, who is the absolute subject responsible for constructing meaning and forming the law of the text. Todd links his role as narrator to his heart disease: “Come along...

... Thinking , edited by Michael Wertheimer (New York: Harper &Brothers). From Practical Criticism to the Practice of Literary Criticism Chanita Goodblatt 6865 Poetics Today / 24:2 / sheet 59 of 256 Foreign Literatures...

..., in the work of Nicolae Steinhardt and Joseph Brodsky, and also in secret police interrogation and reeducation practices and in CIA manuals. In Sentimental Journey, Shklovsky wrote that during the civil war, life itself was made strange and became art. Shklovsky's memoirs shed light on the effects...

...Anne Line Dalsgård Abstract Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's observation that practice is not in time but makes time and Michael Flaherty's concept of time work, this article explores temporal aspects of the use of literature in contemporary Denmark and describes how reading allows readers...

... practice. The article pays special attention to (1) the way Aristotelian poetics developed throughout the seventeenth century from a flexible set of tips to a hegemonic theoretical practice; (2) the increasing use of textual and performative constraints to resolve the disorder and friction typical...

...Petra Aczél Abstract Rhetoric is broadly referred to as the theory and practice of suasory communication enabling humans to participate actively in public. Although traditionally viewed as strongly tied with exclusively verbal persuasion, rhetoric has always extended beyond this limitation...

... twelve years is bringing the field into view as a global, transhistorical, and anti-disciplinary practice, spanning many centuries and continents, and encompassing a wealth of methodological tools and approaches. These new developments promise to revitalize a field that currently finds itself...

... 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...

...Henry Greenspan; Sidney Bolkosky Studies of interviewing suggest that there is a wide gulf between interviewing theory and actual practice. Regarding interviews with Holocaust survivors specifically, there have been no systematic studies of the relationships between theory and practice, nor has...

...J. Martin Daughtry Magnitizdat was the slyly humorous nickname for the unofficial practice of dubbing and distributing reel-to-reel audio tapes in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. In this article I reflect on magnitizdat's cultural significance through an examination of several amateur reel-to-reel...

... for such constructions may be not the global literary commerce envisioned by Goethe and adopted by Karl Marx, not the romantic tradition of poets as world legislators, and not the current model of a “world republic of letters.” The model adopted in this essay, rather, is the literary practice of writing under constraint...

... theoretical and more scientific literary scholarship, the continued attention to poetic practice as potentially also a theoretical practice is particularly important today, another key moment, when we are turning to interdisciplinarity. © 2000 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2000...