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Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel by Dorothee Birke
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (1): 167–169.
Published: 01 March 2019
...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. ...
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Time: From Concept to Narrative Construct; A Reader
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 273–275.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Segal Meister Jan Christoph Schernus Wilhelm , eds., Time: From Concept to Narrative Construct; A Reader . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2011 . xxi + 260 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance
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Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anatolii Zhigulin, this essay shows how the address to the target audience and the circumvention of the hurdle audience can influence the shape of works of testimony. It then turns to the complex relationship between the target audience and the general reader in the Gulag stories...
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Looking Through the Eyes of the Other: Sartrean Reader Consciousness
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (2): 281–302.
Published: 01 June 2025
... identified in contemporary narrative theory, the author argues that Looking through the eyes of the narrator affords textual encounters that prioritize the experiences of Others to produce ethically involved readers. Through the Look, Sartre theorizes a commonly accepted dyadic structure of human relations...
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German Narratology for French Readers
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 359–366.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and Ruprecht). 1979 Theorie des Erzählens (Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht). German Narratology for French Readers
Liesbeth Korthals Altes
University of Groningen, Arts, Culture, and Media
John Pier, ed., Théorie du récit: L’apport de la recherche allemande. Villeneuve d’Asq...
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The Impossibly Many Loves of Charles Swann: The Myth of Proustian Love and the Reader's “Impression” in Un amour de Swann
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 619–652.
Published: 01 December 2007
... that elicits from us spontaneous and lasting reactions to the text. Proust in fact withholds a clear characterization of love and, instead, imparts to our subjective impressions about this emotion an illusion of objectivity. When the reader applies what he or she has “discovered” about love in Un amour de...
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Response: On Derrida’s Seminars: Reading Derrida’s Readers
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 103–119.
Published: 01 March 2021
... . Albany, NY : SUNY Press . Response On Derrida s Seminars: Reading Derrida s Readers Herman Rapaport Wake Forest University Abstract This article contextualizes Derrida s seminars within the European seminar tradition familiar to French and German academic cultures as a prerequisite to dis- cussing...
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On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 331–361.
Published: 01 June 2024
..., and indulging in reasoned speculation about the future of literary and nonliterary text generation. Meanwhile, it becomes increasingly difficult for readers to clearly classify such texts as either human-made or machine generated. There will also simply be more of it: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum ( 2023b ) warns...
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Sample of tiny Instapoem instructing readers to “Keep Going,” among Instagr...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 September 2022
Figure 13 Sample of tiny Instapoem instructing readers to “Keep Going,” among Instagram Top 9 for #instapoetry. Posted by @afterbreakup on February 22, 2020. Screenshot on March 26, 2020.
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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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The Future-as-Past in Dystopian Fiction
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 415–442.
Published: 01 September 2016
... reality. By providing scattered hints from which further information can be deduced or inferred, often but not always with the help of contextual knowledge, this temporal narrative strategy invites the reader to actively participate and politically engage in the reconstruction of future histories...
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Narrative and Normative Pattern: On Interpreting Fiction, with Special Regard to (Un)Reliability
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 499–528.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the reader's task by reducing fictional mediation to a minimum. Their norms are (a) conventional in cultural context; (b) explicitly formulated by (c) a speaker who would appear, or has proved, reliable. This transparent communication is favored by popular literature and by didactic or strongly ideological...
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Collage excerpted from @auburette's confessional post from March 1, 2019, a...
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Figure 20 Collage excerpted from @auburette's confessional post from March 1, 2019, and subsequent readers’ comments, screenshot March 5, 2019.
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The Visual Experience of Image Metaphor: Cognitive Insights into Imagist Figures
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 423–470.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Daniel W. Gleason In this essay I investigate how image metaphors—metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish”—promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand...
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The Interface between Fiction and Life: Patterns of Identification in Reading Autobiographies
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Els Andringa The aim of this study is to investigate how reading experiences intertwine fiction and life and how such experiences change over time. Twelve reading autobiographies of young, motivated readers (age range twenty-two to thirty-two; six men, six women) were analyzed using qualitative...
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Immersion and Defamiliarization: Experiencing Literature and World
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 569–595.
Published: 01 September 2018
... by a fictional text, while Uri Margolin has conceived of defamiliarization as directing the reader’s attention to the artificial nature of the construction of the fictional world. In this article we set out to show that it is productive to distinguish between different types of readerly engagement, typified...
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Narrative Structuring of Sympathetic Response: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Toni Cade Bambara's “The Hammer Man”
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 561–607.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Howard Sklar This essay examines some of the ways that narratives produce sympathy in readers. First, I compare several models that have been proposed to explain how fictional texts structure readers' emotional responses. In this connection, I highlight some of the ways that narratological analyses...
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Experiencing Narratives: Default and Vivid Modes of Visualization
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Renate Brosch This article deals with the phenomenology of reading narrative fictions, in particular with the production of mental imagery in the process of reading. Because readers differ in their capacities to visualize, this article proposes a distinction between default visualization and vivid...
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Fictionality, Audiences, and Character: A Rhetorical Alternative to Catherine Gallagher’s “Rise of Fictionality”
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 February 2018
... the novel, Gallagher contends, readers willingly suspend disbelief as they follow the adventures of characters who are nobodies. Furthermore, whereas fictionality outside the novel yielded practical payoffs as its inventions led to indirect engagements with the world, fictionality in the novel, although...
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Reading Strategies in Everyday Life: Different Ways of Reading a Novel Which Make a Distinction
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 241–263.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of literary reading and their meaning in terms of coping with daily life and in terms of a person's biography]. In the first, ethnographic part of this study, six volunteer readers (who had spontaneously purchased a recently published novel) observed their own reading practices. The subjects were interviewed...
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