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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 437–518.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Inbar Shaham The structure of repetition, as Meir Sternberg (1978) defines it, consists in the repeated presentation of a fabulaic event along the text continuum. It has three types of component members: (1) forecast (e.g., command, scenario); (2) enactment (representing the forecast’s objective...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figures 22a–b Example of a repetitive gallery, copying the same post over 400 times to take up the hashtag feed. Posted by @omnipotentvision on December 2, 2018, and screenshot December 2, 2018.
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figures 22a–b Example of a repetitive gallery, copying the same post over 400 times to take up the hashtag feed. Posted by @omnipotentvision on December 2, 2018, and screenshot December 2, 2018.
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (4): 679–701.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., with implications for the reader’s empathy. It examines how “resonance” between paired voices on separate narrative levels occurs when repetition of a deictic across juxtaposed passages or narration and dialogue leads readers to sense a rhetorical continuity despite the grammatical discontinuity. Copyright © 2018...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 June 2016
... (such as concepts of repetition and event) and an exegesis of what remains, and remains to be elaborated, in the utopianism of Leninism. I am particularly interested in the force of Fredric Jameson's call for “anti-anti-utopianism” in understanding the aesthetic and political processes of “repeating Lenin...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 393–412.
Published: 01 June 2017
... works share with the rhetorical repertoire of repetition similar cognitive-affective properties, because both function via recognition of sameness or similarity. Recent paradigm shifts in adaptation studies have much enlarged the field of research, so Linda Hutcheon's as yet empirically unsupported...
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 389–400.
Published: 01 September 2013
... by Biddle Mark E. ( Macon, GA : Mercer ). Kafalenos Emma 2006 Narrative Causalities ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Kawin Bruce 1972 Telling It Again and Again: Repetition in Literature and Film ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). Kermode Frank...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
... activities affect the planet as a whole and even leave a geological mark—that is the idea behind the widely cited, if controversial, idea of the Anthropocene. 3 The loop is a form that implies repetition and difference; it is an unstable form that always brings in the possibility of (more or less...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of topos and then compare it to three modern theories of the literary topos. This comparison will focus on three central components in the notion of the topos: the cultural provenance of topoi, the textual function of topoi, and the repetition of topoi in literary history. On the basis of this comparison I...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (3): 503–519.
Published: 01 September 2000
... is constituted:
it is not a radical fabrication of a gendered self. It is a compulsory repetition
of prior and subjectivating norms, ones which cannot be thrown off at will
but which work, animate and constrain the gendered subject, and which
are also the resources from which resistance, subversion...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2025
... and varied (Richardson 2024 ). These repetitions are ontologically distinct, occurring at the same time and usually starting at the same place as the first version. Paradigmatic examples of this kind of work would be O. Henry's “Roads of Destiny,” Robert Coover's “The Babysitter,” and Tom Tykwer's Lola...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (4): 471–499.
Published: 01 December 2021
... around itself” and repeats itself until (as the reference to simulacra suggests) it becomes nothing more than an image of itself. For Foucault, the being of literature is repetition: a work of literature becomes literature by virtue of a reduplication that is entirely unique to its discourse...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 63–87.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and semantically implode through repetition, exaggeration, distortion, self-reflexivity, and humor. My analysis of character types, trite metaphors, and intertextual references to other genres illustrates that stereotypes and clichés have multiple, sometimes unpredictable functions and effects. They can...
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 59–126.
Published: 01 March 2012
... certain theoretical points but also undermine
Zupančič’s disclaimers about poetics: she is doing poetic analysis—and
this is what my discussion will now focus on. Indeed, to say that verbal
repetition objectifies comic obsession is to engage in poetic analysis, to
invoke...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 53–75.
Published: 01 March 2025
... over and over again. The most widely known ITL film, Harold Ramis's 1993 romantic comedy Groundhog Day , was so successful that it has come to serve as shorthand for the feeling of being trapped in endless repetition. In ITL stories, the same day, or the same hour, or the same twenty minutes keep...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... by rearranging the order in which events are being told, and it can also override the linear progression of time within the storyworld. One of the most widespread narrative devices for unsettling a linear progression of time is the loop, which is defined by repetition and the return to a beginning or earlier...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 325–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... enjambed , that is, rhythms that extend across more than one line. 1) The first type of meter is any chain of iterated segments of stressed and unstressed syllables. I call this type of rhythmic repetition an isochronous chain , or i-chain . An example is a short stretch of iambic pentameter...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
... clearly in her present. This dislocated temporality is distinct from the drawn-out, repetitive present of maintenance in The Cost of Living . In passing, Lizzie comments on her “obsession” with books that survive only in fragments, offering an insight into a narrative that seems as though it too has been...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 June 2001
... principle on which narrative
rests. In such cases the conjunction and may be seen to serve an iterative
rather than a temporal function. As such it constitutes repetition without
change, analogous to a trauma that is replayed in fantasy but not resolved.
If the temporal gives rise to narrative...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 9–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
... situation as an example of the general situation of a teacher of philosophy. This leads him to describe the dissociations that the principle of repetition entails for teaching bodies, their corps and corpore. Dissociations, or, to pick up a term underscored in the final pages of the text, effacements, which...
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