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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 515–538.
Published: 01 December 2014
... presentism—media ecology combines a sense of historical alterity with an awareness of the continuing transformations of Shakespeare in changing media settings: from manuscripts and printed texts to theatrical performances, music, opera, cinema, and new media. As an example, the article focuses on the masque...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 39–78.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Theo Damsteegt It is argued that in internal focalization (e.g., interior monologue or internal sensory perception), the present tense serves to establish a seemingly direct, unmediated link with a character's mind. In reports of actions, too, the present tense may have this effect of providing...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 669–712.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the International Samizdat [Research] Association is to find and work out possible solutions to overcome the decay of samizdat materials both physically and “virtually”—in the collective memory of the present and for the cultural memory of future generations. © 2009 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 563–603.
Published: 01 December 2013
... at Strauss’s unusual reading of the culmination of Socrates’s great speech (Diotima on the “higher mysteries”) alongside Alkibiades’s speech in the Symposium as representing Plato’s “poetic presentation of philosophy.” The essay becomes more critical as it proceeds. Strauss’s reading of the Symposium , like...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a moral reassessment of the past. The representation of characters labeled as Jews presents an especially illustrative case. For example, in the later work Kuortti inserts a description of an episode about his own moral lapse and his subsequent remorse. In this episode, Kuortti disrespects a Jewish...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 505–522.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and French societies. The anchoring of the French protagonists in the longue durée —through cultural references, evocation of the psychoanalytic tradition, and grounding in Jewish history—contrasts with the acute presentism that characterizes the Israeli version. The adaptation thus proves to be a gateway...
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in On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figure 1 Detail from Ja und Nein , “So reagierten Leser” (“This Is What Our Readers Said”). The two captions read: “Here, we present to you the author: ZUSE, an electronic brain” and “An original poem by ZUSE, in the poet's handwriting.” The poem reads: “no kiss is silent / or love is silent
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jonathan Sachs What sort of temporality does a prediction about the future suggest? What does it mean specifically to predict decline and to imagine the absence of a future? How does the meaning of the present change in the face of anxieties about decline and an uncertain or absent future...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 1–52.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Tamar Yacobi As in my previous work, I define ekphrasis (following up Meir Sternberg’s quotation theory) as intermedial quotation or re-presentation (representation in the second degree). My focus here is on the intersection of two of its less common forms: Double Exposure and the Museum Book...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 387–432.
Published: 01 September 2010
...; those of his students and colleagues in the years 1925–28 with the poetic texts he gave them, generated in an experimental procedure and published in part in his book Practical Criticism ; and those with students at Harvard University during the years 1944–63. The challenge for us in this present essay...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Jo Labanyi The essay argues that modernity is best understood not as the cultural expression of capitalist modernization, but as a particular set of relations of present to past. It examines the varying attitudes toward the violent past of the civil war that have characterized Spain since...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 415–442.
Published: 01 September 2016
... into a narrated future to look back critically toward the present. In this focus on the past, such dystopias include slivers of contested and incomplete accounts of how the dystopian state came to exist, here termed future histories . Such accounts exist in a time frame that runs from the authorial present...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (4): 591–613.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jürgen Meyer New Historicism has alerted critics to the complex conditions of literary production in the age of the printing press. The revisionist challenge presented by Jerome J. McGann to the concept of “the” writer as autonomous authority in the publication of a text has necessitated...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Pilot suite, and it is presented in different versions: as a web-based work, sound piece, and performance. It remixes appropriated text from a WikiLeaked manual by the UK Ministry of Defence, essays on artificial intelligence, and Hatcher’s own text. The overall versions of the work, understood...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Silke Horstkotte This article approaches postsecularity from a historical angle by considering three recent German-language novels which reflect present-day ambivalences regarding religion and secularity through a genealogy of the present. Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World , Ilija Trojanow’s...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 353–383.
Published: 01 June 2006
... transmission. Inspired by Roland Barthes's notion of the punctum, we read such testimonial objects as points of memory—points of intersection between past and present, memory and postmemory, personal and cultural recollection. They call for an expanded approach to testimony, one in which a consideration...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 451–461.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Joanne Weiner Rudof This article discusses postwar efforts to document the survivor experience, which continue to the present time. Many historians today acknowledge the importance of these primary source materials to their work as well as the necessity for careful analysis of them. These materials...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 633–674.
Published: 01 December 2006
... and mere possibility. This does not mean that the PW model is incompatible with the many-worlds cosmology proposed by physics: faced with a narrative that presents multiple realities as existing objectively, the theory would simply claim that the actual domain is made up of a number of different worlds...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Day and No Memories” in a manner that confirms the accomplishment of the original poem while embedding it, subtly as well as evocatively, within the filmmaker's personal context. nebel ( mist ), by German filmmaker Matthias Müller, re-presents a cycle of poems by Ernst Jandl, Gedichte an die kindheit...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 February 2017
... argue further that metaphor comprehension involves both use of these factors and pragmatic knowledge and that, unfortunately, in the typical psychology experiments, metaphors are presented for processing in impoverished pragmatic conditions. Under these conditions, the main pragmatic knowledge available...
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