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What Science Can't Know: On Scientific Objectivity and the Human Subject

Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen
Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10938579
Published: 01 March 2024
... at a symmetrical process for literary studies, one aspiring to grasp the essence of its objects, accede to reductionism in their neglect of the unimaginable complexity of the object of study” (22–23). Confusingly, whereas Easterlin's preceding argument identifies in literary meaning a logical and absolute...
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Poetic Rhythm—Structure and Performance, An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics

Idit Nov
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 473–474.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-2-473
Published: 01 June 2000
... in Hungarian poetic rhythm. Appendix  The Interdisciplinary Perspective: Impressionism, Reductionism, Cognitive Po- etics places the present study in a wider perspective, beyond metrics. Ap- pendix  gives a list of verse lines...
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Toward a Theory of Embodiment for Literature

Ellen Spolsky
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 127–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-24-1-127
Published: 01 March 2003
...- 2 cism, but it was an important landmark in the ongoing struggle against reductionism in literary theory. It also served to bring into clearer focus the larger issue of determinism and choice in language and thought...
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Narratology Made User-friendly: Rhetoric, Ethics, Storytelling

Michael Eskin
Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 795–805.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-013
Published: 01 December 2007
... of the central motivating forces of Phelan’s rhetorical-ethical approach to narrative. Linking ethical inquiry to the rhetorical analysis of narrative technique enables Phelan partially to obviate the reductionism of much ethical criticism predicated on the “what” of narrative, on plot and theme...
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Cognitive Literary Studies: The “Second Generation”; The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity

H. Porter Abbott
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 711–722.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2006-009
Published: 01 December 2006
...–x). In quite self-consciously representing themselves as ‘‘a second genera- tion in the cognitive study of literature’’ (x), the editors insist that in this volume the reader has nothing to fear of the scientistic reductionism and disambiguation that humanists often attribute to the use...
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Introduction: Exchange Values: Poetics and Cognitive Science

Mark J. Bruhn
Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 403–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1375243
Published: 01 September 2011
... that explanation at each step be attentive and adequate to the real complexities of the human object in question, presumably to ensure that advancing generalization should not amount to mere (or “eliminative”) reductionism.1 The danger and pre- caution may be captured by the fact that my epigraph’s...
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Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives

Brian Richardson
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 15–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557585
Published: 01 March 2025
... understandable—most authors do present these scenarios as possible—an overemphasis on its possibility can lead to a misleading reductionism that does a disservice to the writer's invention, the reader's response, and the narratologist's responsibility. We should treat impossible narratives as impossible...
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Situated Cognition: The Literary Archive

Terence Cave
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3868486
Published: 01 June 2017
... the cultural reach of cognition: what it is capable of, and its constraints, in different local ecologies. The Universal and the Historical I need here to return to and develop a point made earlier concerning the question of reductionism. Despite all this talk of histories and pre-histories...
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Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility

Korina Giaxoglou
Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 287–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-9642623
Published: 01 June 2022
... . “ Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? ” Qualitative Health Research 7 , no. 3 : 325 – 44 . Atkinson Paul . 2009 . “ Illness Narratives Revisited: The Failure of Narrative Reductionism .” Sociological Research Online 14 , no. 5 : 196 – 205 . Atkinson Paul , and Delamont Sara...
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“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves

T. J. Martinson
Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 435–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578513
Published: 01 September 2023
... and Phenotype in Development and Evolution , edited by Hallgrimsson Benedikt , 87 – 102 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Griesemer James . 2011 . “ Heuristic Reductionism and the Relative Significance of Epigenetic Inheritance in Evolution .” In Epigenetics: Linking Genotype...
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Rhetoric, Neurocognitive Poetics, and the Aesthetics of Adaptation

Pascal Nicklas, Arthur M. Jacobs
Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 393–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3869311
Published: 01 June 2017
... lamps does not go unheeded, methodological reductionism has its advantages. The reception of a full-length adaptation on the scale of a novel or of an epic poem has moments of different qualities. Instances of recognition where the cognitive-affective reaction to reading an adaptation as adaptation...
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Style in the Novel: Toward a Critical Poetics

Daniel Hartley
Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 159–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-4265119
Published: 01 February 2018
.... I write craft because the “linguistic situation” and “experience” do not simply persist, unadulterated, into the literary work. There is no sociological reductionism at work here. On the contrary, it is one of the crucial points of a critical poetics that it recognizes literary composition...
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Making It New: Institutionalizing Postwar Avant-Gardes

Libbie Rifkin
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 129–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-1-129
Published: 01 March 2000
..., it is also by necessity his least nuanced and has been criti- cized by some (e.g., Bürger as an example of the economic reductionism from which he has consistently tried to distinguish himself. His essays on art maintain...
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Adjusting the Frame: Comments on Cognitivism and Literature

Hans Adler, Sabine Gross
Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 195–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-2-195
Published: 01 June 2002
... in this creation has a purpose and follows a teleology. Zunshine’s text, while not without merit, exemplifies the danger of reductionism. Richardson’s is easily the most stylistically polished and intellectually mature essay in the second section of the issue. At the same time, his analysis is the least...
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Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities

Joshua Landy
Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 169–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1586581
Published: 01 June 2012
... The Histories , edited by Waterfield Robin ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Hofstadter Douglas 1980 “ Reductionism and Religion ,” in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 : 433 – 34 . The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version 1952 ( New York : Thomas Nelson ). Horace 1970...
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My Leader, Myself? Pictorial Estrangement and Aesopian Language in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich

Anna Wexler Katsnelson
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 67–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-27-1-67
Published: 01 March 2006
... not one but two self-portraits, and designed his tombstone.32 In 1933, he also learned that he was terminally ill. Biographical reductionism, essentialism, and over- dramatization aside, one might be inclined to doubt that this flurry of auto- related projects was for Malevich a mere coincidence.33 I...
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Facing Fictions: The Insights and the Limits of Evolutionary Literary Psychology

William Flesch
Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 539–571.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3638054
Published: 01 December 2016
... what candle is held to the mirror. (Ellen Spolsky [2008, 2010] has made this argument eloquently and has written passionately and rightly against the reductionism of much of the pseudoscientism to be found in literary Darwinism.9) I am also, however, somewhat suspicious of the overselling...
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Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis

Tamar Yacobi
Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-21-4-711
Published: 01 December 2000
... in the communicative circle who fails to catch the echo or its two-edged point. Here again the running intertext saves the text from reductionism in the shape of readerly, or literary critical, stereotype. For the analogy between the two speakers does not only lead to a comparison of character and modes...
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Narrative Structuring of Sympathetic Response: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Toni Cade Bambara's “The Hammer Man”

Howard Sklar
Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 561–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2009-005
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Sternberg (2003a: 378), for instance, points to the “affective reductionism à la Brewer and Lichtenstein,” which emphasizes “the emoter’s role . . . [of ] the audience” at the expense of the emotions of the “agent.” Indeed, there is sometimes 4.  This affinity is hardly surprising, since Graesser...
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Cognitive Science and the Problem of Representation

Richard van Oort
Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 237–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-24-2-237
Published: 01 June 2003
... which they can be more generally understood. To put it as pithily as Tseng 2003.5.9 08:20 van Oort • Cognitive Science and the Problem of Representation 291 possible: the answer to biological reductionism is not cultural idealism...
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