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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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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 721–785.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Jeroen Vandaele What is narrative humor? With this question in mind, my essay (in two parts) reviews several studies of narrative and humor. Part 1 discusses Edmond Wright (2005), who argues that both humor and narrative crucially require audiences or readers to switch between “intentional...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 February 2018
... it allowed for such payoffs, ultimately makes novel reading an inner-directed activity. Readers derive pleasure from the various ways the novel makes them aware of their ontological differences from characters. Rhetorical theory, by contrast, sees the nexus of fictionality, audience, and character...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 59–126.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Jeroen Vandaele This is part II of a two-part essay on narrative humor. Part I appeared in Poetics Today 31:4; it explained Wright’s (2005) idea that both humor and narrative require audiences/readers to switch between “intentional perspectives,” that is, between the cognitive-emotive states...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2022
... addresses, but he highlighted a key difference between his concept and Prince's. Rabinowitz ( 1977 : 127n14) views the narrative audience as “a role . . . the text forces the reader to take on,” whereas Prince's narratee is “someone perceived by the reader as ‘out there,’ a separate person who often serves...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 429–451.
Published: 01 September 2019
... , no. 4 : 594 – 628 . Culler Jonathan . 1980 . “ Prolegomena to a Theory of Reading .” In The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation , edited by Suleiman Susan R. Crosman Inge , 46 – 66 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Cupchik Gerald C...
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 683–698.
Published: 01 December 2019
... anticipates the reader’s likely negative comments and thus becomes in tune with his perspective; and (3) the tactic of enlarging the audience by which the narrator reincorporates a sectarian ideology into a larger and more universal ensemble. The conclusion questions the place of the reader and investigates...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 455–478.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and actual readers. In addition to providing a framework for describing narrative occasion, this socially attuned analysis highlights problems with rhetorical narrative theory's treatment of audience, particularly its idealization of the authorial audience. The article thus points the way toward dismantling...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Tamar Yacobi As defined in my previous work, (un)reliability is one of five types of hypothesis or integration mechanism, whereby readers account for textual incongruities. In principle, we may always appeal to alternative logics of resolution: ambiguous data may be attributed to generic convention...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., spin out of control? And what are the repercussions of this loss of control for the survivor’s audience, for the community of readers who gather around the testimonial speaker? Most of us are familiar with the substantial body of literature that de- scribes the problems anyone has creating...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 21–42.
Published: 01 March 2002
... characters) through handwritten or printed texts (with occasional visual illustrations) to (sometimes subtitled) movie versions. Furthermore, a large audience listening to Charles Dickens reading some chapters from Bleak House, a solitary reader of the same novel, and a family watching the television...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 361–380.
Published: 01 September 2021
... elicit from audiences and thereby allows us to integrate into Ricoeur's model some of the aspects broached by cognitive narratologists. Now this idea will be certainly bewildering to most readers. Plato's comments on mimesis in the Republic form part of a radical critique of poetry that has...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 587–614.
Published: 01 December 2024
... readers/audiences social media institutionalization public humanities Amateur literary activities can expose and critique professional literary activities. —Carolyn Dinshaw, How Soon Is Now? BookTube is one of the most intriguing of the many vibrant subcultures spawned by the video...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 43–87.
Published: 01 March 2007
...—that involving a comparison of two or more texts. Moreover, consider the relationship between the reader/audience and the author in autobiography as opposed to fiction. In fictional studies, many narratologists adopt and modify the distinction of four reading posi- tions as first put forward...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., a guide to how designs are created through textual and intertextual phenomena. At the same time, reader responses are also a test of the efficacy of those designs. The model of audience behind the approach’s conception of reader response is the one developed by Peter J. Rabinowitz that I later modified...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 111–125.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in acknowledging that writers change their images from one work to another,4 before going on in the afterword to the second edition to adopt the idea of a “relatively stable audience postulated by the implied author — the readers the text asks us to become” (quoted by Shen, 17). The evolution of Booth’s...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 223–241.
Published: 01 June 2020
... readers now find themselves justly called out on their smug self-satisfaction. Note that, in theater, disparity between what characters know and what audiences know is routine we call it dramatic irony. But, then, in theater, Zunshine Who is He to Speak of My Sorrow? 229 audiences are not often...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 765–793.
Published: 01 December 2001
... not only its composition and its recep- tion by an immediate audience but also its relation to future readers and audiences, claims for poetic form itself the privilege of a future perspective 3 on the present. Moreover if poetry’s longevity—the sense in which poems outlive both...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 255–288.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-­class reader and poor characters in order to instruct her audience in the complex perspective-­ taking of empathy across class. At the same time, Gaskell explores the moral obligations concomitant to imagining and feeling with fictional suffering. I pay particular attention...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 301–314.
Published: 01 June 2020
...). Elsewhere, I have considered the strategies by which realist writers engage their readers background knowledge (Auyoung 2018). Here, I want to bring out the social consequences of making inferences about what an artwork seems to imply. Hardy and Degas, by repeatedly prompting audiences to make inferences...