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The Self-Erasing Word: Tautology and Unspeakability in DeLillo’s End Zone
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 117–139.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . 2011 . “ ‘We Can’t Whistle It Either’: Legend and Reality .” European Journal of Philosophy 19 , no. 3 : 333 – 56 . Engles Tim . 1999 . “ ‘Who Are You, Literally?’: Fantasies of the White Self in White Noise .” Modern Fiction Studies 45 , no. 3 : 755 – 87 . Grausam Daniel...
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“Who, What Am I?”: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Eyal Segal Paperno Irina , “Who, What Am I?”: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2014 . x + 229 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance
Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds...
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Divination and Comparison: The Dialogical Tension between Self-Reflective Aesthetics and Sensational Motifs in Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin Series
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 641–674.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Miriam Fernández-Santiago This article explores the birth of detective fiction as a dialogical contestation to its gothic, sensational, and pseudoscientific sources in the periodical publications of its time and suggests the use of self-reflective irony as the rhetorical device that allows Edgar...
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Self-Reference in Literature and Music
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 263–267.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Segal Bernhart Walter Wolf Werner , eds., Self-Reference in Literature and Music . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2010 . x + 192 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance
Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British Fiction. Berlin: de...
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Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (2): 171–203.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Don Kuiken; David S. Miall; Shelley Sikora Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions...
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The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (3): 548–550.
Published: 01 September 2004
... a relevant up-to-date bibliography at the end of each essay.
Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv
Walter H. Sokel, The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka. Detroit, MI:
Wayne State University Press, 2002. 334 pp.
Walter Sokel is among the most eminent Kafka...
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Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 551–554.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Press).
Pratt, Annis
1981 Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Joshua Landy, Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust. Ox-
ford: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 255 pp.
In this remarkable book, Joshua Landy proposes...
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Abelard's Historia Calamitatum and Letters: Self as Search and Struggle
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (2): 303–336.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Eileen C. Sweeney In this essay, I offer an interpretation of Abelard's Historia Calamitatum and letters exchanged with Heloise, arguing that both are informed by the attempt to look below the surfaces of language, self, and action to a reality beneath and to achieve authenticity, by which I mean...
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Wittgenstein's Voice: Reading, Self-Understanding, and the Genre of Philosophical Investigations
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 499–526.
Published: 01 September 2007
... . This mode and that book particularly exerted a profound influence on Ludwig Wittgenstein, and in a fairly self-contained sector of his masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations , we see a modernized version of such self-interrogation in action. In his remarks on the experience of reading—a familiar...
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Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason by Talal Asad
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 469–471.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Taylor Johnston Asad Talal , Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 , vii + 222 pp. © 2020 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2020 Reference
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The Detached Self
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 663–695.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jeremy Page Abstract Daniel C. Dennett has argued that the self is a “theorists’ fiction,” a narrative self that is spun from the brain and functions like a center of gravity; an abstraction that is “supremely useful,” even if an ontological fiction. Various theorists, including Priscilla Brandon...
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Under Scrutiny: Blueprints for Self-Writing
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (3): 697–701.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Claudine Raynaud © 2001 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2001 Under Scrutiny:
Blueprints for Self-Writing
Claudine Raynaud
English, François-Rabelais, Tours
Philippe Lejeune, Pour l’autobiographie. Paris: Seuil, pp.
Philippe Lejeune, Les brouillons de soi...
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“Prodigious mixtures and confusions strange”: The Self-Subverting Mixed Style of The Cenci
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 713–763.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Newman Ivey 1966 [1938] The Unextinguished Hearth: Shelley and His Contemporary Critics (New York: Octagon). ‘‘Prodigious mixtures and confusions strange
The Self-Subverting Mixed Style of The Cenci
Mark J. Bruhn
English, Regis University
I read the Greek Dramatists and Plato...
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Love's Hologram: Shakespeare, Ricoeur, and the Equivocations of Erotic Identity
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 525–564.
Published: 01 September 2008
... composite images. These holograms of self and other provide visual signals which correspond to Paul Ricoeur's philosophy of “oneself as another.” The crisis of selfhood prompted by entanglement with the other— something established in both Shakespeare's poetry and Ricoeur's philosophy—is explored...
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The Politics of Estrangement: Tracking Shklovsky's Device through Literary and Policing Practices
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 35–66.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of this revolutionary estrangement on the self. Furthermore, the memoirs reenacted this unsettling estrangement by incorporating elements of official Soviet genres, such as the trial deposition, the interrogation autobiography, and the letter to the government. As Shklovsky suggests, the effects of revolutionary...
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Claims of Stable Identity and (Un)reliability in Dissonant Narration
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (2): 317–352.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Paul McCormick Self-conscious character narration provides special opportunities for authors to signal (un)reliability. This article focuses on one such opportunity. When narrators like John Dowell in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier consistently assert moral and cognitive distance from...
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Leaping into Space: The Two Aesthetics of To the Lighthouse
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the grasp of time. However, this aesthetics is shown to be illusory and self-deceptive: the very opposition between humanity and nature stems from the human desire to comprehend and thus reduce to reason (and language) what the text constructs as irreducible. Mrs. Ramsay's aesthetics gives way...
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Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (Exodus 3:14): God's “Narrative Identity” Among Suspense, Curiosity, and Surprise
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 331–351.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to the narrative relevance of God's self-designation in the context of the book of Exodus. The article investigates the narrative potential of God's revealed name along the threefold movement of suspense, curiosity, and surprise. The attention to the syntactic, semantic, rhetorical, and narrative aspects of God's...
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The Ethics of Neurobiological Narratives
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
... structure event memory and co-construct the narratives that children use for self and moral identities. The bioemotional landscape formed by experience influences the narratives that shape the life course. Initially, this occurs nonverbally through touch and emotional response; later, it occurs through...
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