...Meir Sternberg © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 Preface and Acknowledgments Had I a couple of lifetimes to spare, I would happily devote one of them to the comparative study of Yiddish, building on my education at home and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

...Meir Sternberg Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Preface and Acknowledgments This is a companion special issue to our recent one on ‘‘How Testimony...

... that of the English eighteenth-century novel enables a method which combines quantitative studies and close readings. By examining the prefaces to the eighteenth-century Danish novels and studying the Danish novel compared to the Volksbuch , I argue that the genre is formed by a reflexive use of fictionality. I show...

...). It is defined by him visvis the call to action l’appel( ), the declaration, the petition, and the preface. For instance, the call to action, according to Aba- stado, invites action without proposing a program, as did, for example, the 262 Poetics Today 30:2 “Appeal of 18 June 1940” (ibid10...

... Press . Eliot T. S. ( 1924 ) 1963 . “ A Prediction .” In Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by Edel Leon , 55 – 56 . Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall . Frege Gottlob . ( 1879 ) 2003 . “ Begriffsschrift(1879): Selections (Preface and Part I...

... with many different plot-lines” (emphasis mine). In prefaces to different editions of Zoo Shklovsky also focuses on the ways the plotlines typical for an epistolary novel (e.g., “love and partings”) interact with literary criticism and historical reflections on Russian Berlin. The book is written...

..., Paratexts The unease surrounding photography that emerges in the foregoing dis- cussion resurfaces in the preface to the War Primer: This book seeks to teach the art of reading images. For it is just as difficult for the untrained viewer to read images as it is for him to read hieroglyphs...

... of an avant-garde group; the other investing the group’s works and texts with both aesthetic and economic value. The volume also contains a bibliography on movements and their manifestos by William T. Starr (115–32). The bibliography is prefaced by an explanation of how the texts were...

... Court Press). Granet, Marcel 1999 [1934] La pensée chinoie , with a preface by Léon Vandermeersch (Paris:Albin Michel). Hansen, Chad 1992 A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Henderson, John 1984 The Development...

..., that all beginnings are artificial, in the sense of being mediated and narratively constructed. Next, Marilyn Edelstein’s “Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Pref- ace” is devoted to the preface, the most interesting of the “paratextual” beginnings of a book. She inquires about...

..., in the sense of being mediated and narratively constructed. Next, Marilyn Edelstein’s “Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Pref- ace” is devoted to the preface, the most interesting of the “paratextual” beginnings of a book. She inquires about the extent to which the author’s authority...

... and narratively constructed. Next, Marilyn Edelstein’s “Before the Beginning: Nabokov and the Rhetoric of the Pref- ace” is devoted to the preface, the most interesting of the “paratextual” beginnings of a book. She inquires about the extent to which the author’s authority is carried by a preface: “What...

... in the pages of the journals, some of Kierkegaard’s wounded amour propre found published expression in Prefaces (1844 [SKS 4/KW 9 a satirical work to which we shall return. .  It was published separately in English, without the preceding discussion of the novel, in Kierkegaard 1940. The same had...

... by Fulton H. Anderson (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill). Blake, William 1982 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake: Newly Revised Edition , edited by David V. Erdman (Berkeley: University of California Press). Curley, Edwin 1985 “Editorial Preface,” in The Collected Works of Spinoza...

... of Nebraska Press ). Gauvin Lise 1991 “Préface: Le roman à l'écriture,” in Romanciers qúebécois: Entretiens , by Royer Jean , 7 – 12 ( Montreal : L'Hexagone ). Genette Gérard 1987 Seuils ( Paris : Seuil ). Greatbatch David 1988 “A Turn-Taking System...

... newspaper the Life of Art.The immediately striking fact about The Knight’s Move, dubbed as ‘‘irreverent’’ by Victor Erlich (1965: 77), was its two prefaces—one aimed at the exiles, the other addressed to young literature students at home. Like Voronsky’s disparaging address to the émigrés, Shklovsky’s...

... poet-­centered theory of reading in the “1800 Preface to Lyrical Bal- lads,” which seeks to promote readers’ sympathy with poets and poets’ with the characters represented by their verse, and calls upon an elaborate poet- ics of metaphor in order to project and then displace alternative versions...

... Heng Read the Poems ( JournaloftheOrientalSocietyofAustralia[ JOSA] 368 Poetics Today 23:2 and ‘‘A Second Look at the Greek Preface on the Way to a New Understanding of Han Dynasty Poetics’’ (Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews [CLEAR] His book Fornication in the House of Right...

... into consideration in literary analysis if they influence the perception of a work” (26). The analyses of specific works in this book focus particularly on three types of such “frames”: paratextual (prefaces/prologues and epilogues), intertextual (where the later text is viewed as the ergon and the earlier text...

... into consideration in literary analysis if they influence the perception of a work” (26). The analyses of specific works in this book focus particularly on three types of such “frames”: paratextual (prefaces/prologues and epilogues), intertextual (where the later text is viewed as the ergon and the earlier text...