... recent dynamic conception that treats events less like things than systems. Contemporary cognitive approaches allow the recognition of events as subject to change over the course of reading and beyond, allowing a more capacious analysis than simply identifying ambiguity. In an analysis of core examples...

... and Semiotics 2018 ekphrastic moment reading event phenomenology pictorial third Bibliography Banville John , 1993 Ghosts ( London : Secker and Warburg ). Barnes Julian , 1989 A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters ( London : Jonathan Cape ). Barthes...

... observations about parallel shifts in the objects of identification from characters and events to abstract themes, a more detailed and complete picture of the changing functions of reading fiction can be drawn. 1. Introduction Literary theories have given a lot of attention to the difference between...

... of personal identification are a pivotal feature of expressive enactment, a type of reading experience marked by (1) explicit descriptions of feelings in response to situations and events in the text, (2) blurred boundaries between oneself and the narrator of the text, and (3) active and iterative...

... that the events unfurling are not just a series of punctual happenings or even a set of characters’ memories, but also carry with them the traces of storytelling choices, a text narrated using literary devices. As I detail below, recognizing the force of this narratorial self-reflexiveness is the key for reading...

...James Phelan This essay constructs a dialogue between Catherine Gallagher’s influential historical and theoretical account of the nexus among fictionality, readerly disposition, and character in the new genre of the novel and rhetorical theory’s alternative account of that nexus. In reading...

...- tival in Italy, where he had read with Ezra Pound, John Weiners, Barbara Guest, and John Ashbery, as well as Pablo Neruda, Salvatore Quasimodo, and André Frenaud, among others. The event, which was dominated by Americans, marked...

..., the recipient is no longer simply reading an ekphrastic poem but engaged in an activity of reading, viewing, and listening, whereby ekphrasis becomes part of a multisensory “event.” Digital “remediation” has given the ekphrastic writer a new creative freedom to work with the visual arts. In particular, software...

... temptations to simplify, to adopt misleading philosophical “pictures” or conceptual templates, to hypothesize phantom mental events to fulfill the needs of an unwittingly adopted explanatory schema. And those pictures of reading, as we see here, generate corollary pictures of “self-reading...

... display, by means of modifications, or what are called in the article lit mods . Thus, the article proposes an approach for a more informed reading and understanding of digital kinetic poems, since they are ever-changing events. Finally, it locates the work’s aural and performative versions in a cultural...

... observer and receiver remindings were a little more frequent for the expository text. The authors suggest that being an active participant in an event is a key to its relevance: literary reading “seems to connect particularly with knowledge that is personal in the sense that one...

... 65). Though she focuses on Celan, Wolosky s analysis can be applied to my reading of Ghilan, as she illustrates how the lyric poem embraces history its events and its conditions as the sphere of, and also the challenge to, meaning (666). Kornberg Lyric, Nation, and Dialogism 611 affective...

... event and the ecstatic sense of the world, this essay traces the thematic cohesion of the trilogy in terms of an understanding of divinity that provides an atheological grounding of phenomenological sense. This reading not only emphasizes Coetzee's turn toward a “leaner” style in his late writing...

...Lauren Shohet Andrew Marvell's “Upon Appleton House” meditates on when and how forms and events become meaningful. The poem reveals the limitations of criticism that assumes rather than questions what constitutes history. Drawing on the literary-historical conventions of its inherited country house...

... , the second book in the series: “Page 43 / you will read / differently if / there are 94 to the book / than if there are just / 45, What about / 523 what then / little hen.” Notorious for his massive tomes of verse, Silliman establishes an analogy between the length of his life and the length of his work...

... the immediacy of intuitions with the lawfulness of concepts—is a hopelessly riven “I-think.” Reading Kant was a traumatic event for contemporaries, especially for philosophers, who attempted to make the world whole again by formulating new versions of absolute unity. It was Wilhelm von Humboldt who theorized...

...Karin Kukkonen Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts...

... digital possibilities to comment on and interact about one's reading, physical reading groups have seen a resurgence; libraries, in particular, have evolved from being primarily depositories of books to being facilitators of various literary events. These growing reading communities, whether they take...

... and relations that could be called ethical.1 ‘‘Ethical Modernism: Servants as Others in J. M. Coetzee’s Early Fiction’’ first appeared in a different version as chapter one in J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event. Copyright (c) 2004 by The University of Chicago. All rights...

... interpretations of events in our world can differ as much as they do. I draw examples from two novels that juxtapose images and ekphrastic responses, one in which individual images are narrativized (Vargas Llosa) and one in which sequences of images are narrativized (Calvino). Generally, when we read...