...Mark J. Bruhn This essay argues that Percy Bysshe Shelley’s (1792–1822) analogical poetics at once anticipates and challenges contemporary cognitive-scientific models of conceptual structure. Section 1 outlines unresolved logical and motivational issues that limit the explanatory power...

... is to integrate these varied cognitive literary studies into our own response to Richards, specifically through the empirical study of poetic texts within the tradition of the Gestalt school of psychology. In the first section, we discuss the poem as a gestalt, which stands behind Richards's presentation...

... in exemplars or standard cases of these types). Building on the taxonomy outlined in the first three sections of the essay, especially my account of core features of explanation, the final section constitutes a “coda” in which I use the taxonomy to investigate how narrative relates to description...

... with narrative qua narrative. This article takes up Ricoeur's thesis of a narrative reconfiguration of time but tries to find it in the very structures of narrative. A brief presentation and critique of Ricoeur's approach is followed by a second section that draws on the phenomenological tradition to define...

..., in the doubly coded (embedded) section, the subordination of one voice to the other voice is so extreme that the section can be likened to a duet sung by one voice. This hierarchical relation in which the materiality of the representation is fully controlled by the embedding voice permits a filmmaker or visual...

...). This essay draws out the implications of Richards's approach to cognitive literary studies for our work on poetic metaphor. In the section entitled “A Gestalt Approach to Poetry” we develop and incorporate his Interaction Theory of Metaphor into our Gestalt-Interaction Theory of Metaphor, applying...

...Jonathan Monroe In leading off the section “Aftershock: Poetry and Cultural Politics since 1989,” this essay takes as its point of departure the pivotal historical, cultural, and political questions posed by the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores, in particular, the concomitant collapse...

... of justice. To explain the phenomenon, this essay draws an analogy to poetic techniques that inform Franz Kafka's universe of discourse (prolepsis, actualization of figures of speech, illocutions lacking conventional force). The concluding section illustrates howguilt that was suppressed for fifteen years...

..., 1994; Heffernan 1993; Yacobi 1995, 1998). Central questions concern the definition of musical ekphrasis in relation to “program music” and music's ability to narrate or portray extramusical realities, that is, to relate to them by way of mimesis or reference. In a second section I attempt to position...

... appears as a counterexample to one of the central generalizations in this article. The concluding section not only summarizes the article's argument but also widens its scope, briefly alluding to some further research, in which similar cognitive assumptions are applied to an instance of figurative...

... the experience of those people who limit their exploration of the storyworld to watching the TV show. In turn, the last section asks what kind of stories lend themselves to transmedial projects and why such projects are currently popular. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013...

... aspects of Shklovsky's theory of estrangement and analyzes his contradictory attitudes toward democracy and modernization. The final section traces the fortunes of Shklovsky's concept of estrangement at the hands of its most significant critics, Bertolt Brecht and Herbert Marcuse. © 2005 by the Porter...

... and that the distinction actual/nonactual repeats itself within each of these parts. The last section of the essay explores what it takes for a narrative to impose a many-worlds cosmology, distinguishing these narratives from other texts that present contradictory versions of facts and situating them with respect to three...

... of Swann's passion, the story presents nine different falling-in-love scenes, which, it seems, contradict the prevailing view that Swann's tale is a relatively “easy” section of Proust's novel. Indeed, I argue here that the illusive transparency of Un amour de Swann is at the heart of a textual mechanism...

... narrative. The last section of the essay uses W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants , an especially complicated novel which combines fiction and nonfiction, biography and autobiography, as a case study. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Agee, James, and Walker Evans 1941 Let Us Now Praise...

... and point of the strange mixture, the article’s final section argues against the scholarly attempts to split ekphrasis between “literary description” and “art critical interpretation.” Rather, literary ekphrastic texts, which Durcan’s brilliantly exemplifies, sometimes combine the two roles. They re-present...

... of the literary and theoretical implications of the findings of the previous generation of textual philological Talmudic scholarship. The article challenges previous efforts by Daniel Boyarin and Barry Scott Wimpfheimer to apply Bakhtin’s thought to the Talmud. The final section presents a close reading...

... of Wolfgang Iser and Louis Marin). Lily's painting qualifies as the only viable alternative to Mrs. Ramsay's self-contained crystals of shape. Finally, I show how Woolf herself tried to (p)reenact Lily's painting in the central section of the novel, “Time Passes.” Apparently built on the humanity/nature...

... of totality, frag- mentation, and limits in Balzac. Following an introduction by the editor, Stéphane Vachon, the work is divided into six parts, each of which is pre- ceded by an introduction summarizing the section and its principal argu...

... issues and topics covered in its five main sections. Therefore, readers who lack the time to closely read the 733 densely packed pages are advised to begin by carefully scrutinizing the extremely informative and rich introduction, coauthored by editors Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan, before...