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... as an integrative activity : out of the wide repertoire of sense-making resources available to humans, the inferrer opts for the mechanism(s) that will best integrate the given text in or with the context. Among inference types, presupposition figures here as exemplary because it is the most encoded and determinate...

...Meir Sternberg This paper deals with “motivation” as fiction’s twofold logic of patterning and relates it to other concepts or lines of sense-making (e.g., integration, naturalization). The argument is best summarized through the paper’s headings. 1. Why Is the Discourse Like That? Motivation...

... of Sense-Making; 3.2 The Perspectival Mechanism vis-à-vis Its Rivals and Partners; 3.3 The Theory Reviewed from a Different Perspective: Correcting Some Misunderstandings and Misapplications; 3.3.1 The Figurative Mechanism; 3.3.2 Reasoning in Face of Unreason: (Un) Reliability as Explained Problem...

... and artistic sense-making, between factual and fictional storytelling. Equally involved, at a higher level still, are the relations between part and whole, form and force or function, typology and teleology, theory and history, (meta)discourse and ideology, the realities of literature and the desires...

...-reflexivity in literary fiction is metanarrativity, which we define (following Meretoja 2014 , 2018 , 2022a ) as self-aware reflection not only on the narratives’ own narrativity but also on the significance and functions of cultural practices of narrative sense-making in our lives. There is a need...

... or assumed by dominant hermeneutic and poetic theories since late antiquity. Shakespeare’s final romances move toward making an ethical sense—one rooted in human constants of embodied responsiveness to others—the source and ultimate judge of literary significance or poetic truth. By making the ethical rather...

...” often appears to make sense locally, inviting the reader to expect to make global sense of the poem. Instead, one encounters an intractable flux of verbal “found objects,” shifting styles and registers, teasing literary allusions and echoes, fragmentary narrative episodes and descriptive scenes. How...

... sense and refuses rhyme its own role in sense making. Rhyme is a complement to reason, or it is nothing; it is sense making, or it is trivial. Rossetti's verse, it need hardly be said, is anything but trivial, at least not once we've moved past lingering preconceptions about rhyme. Indeed, like so...

..., and creative writing exercises of the participants will show how these readers draw on both form and ideology when making sense of and coming to terms with the life and death of the main character, an eighty-two-year-old widow who descends from the hill to die and to follow her beloved to the grave...

... Traveller, Dated from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul's in the Year 2199, to a Friend Settled in Boston, the Metropolis of the Western Empire” (1780) and Anna Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812). Imagining the absence of a future in their place of composition, these poems attempt to make sense...

.... On the other hand, I think it is hard to deny that the work is an apologia for a misunder- stood self, in which the writer is also struggling to develop a narrative that organizes and makes sense of his experiences. From this point of view, the strategies of making himself an exemplum and casting his...

...Philippe Carrard Abstract Most theorists of history now seem to regard narrative as the only discursive model on which historians rely to make sense of the past. The structure of many works in current historiographic production, however, is not that of a narrative as defined in literary theory...

... to which those challenges can be said to have been of our own making up to now. Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism: Absolute Contingency The question motivating Meillassoux (2008: 9) is how we are to make sense of scientific statements regarding, for example, the origin of the universe...

... sequence makes better sense biographically, because “The Artist of the Spade” ends with two stories of a released prisoner leaving Kolyma and traveling back to Moscow. Artistically, however, the older sequence is the more impressive, since it ends with the story “Sententia,” one of Shala...

..., unable to make use of the understanding, did the opposite and more sublime thing: they attributed senses and passions, as we saw not long since, to bodies, and to bodies as vast as sky, sea and earth. (Ibid.: 114–15, §§401–2) 12. “All that has been so far said here upsets all...

...Mats Jansson Digital technologies entail new possibilities and challenges for the production and reception of ekphrasis. The ekphrastic poet is given the opportunity not only to write a poem “describing” a work of art, but to create a multimedial artwork involving several senses. In consequence...

... and employed narrative and narrative theory, particularly in those fields that make truth claims: history or political science, for example. Why have political scientists now decided to ‘‘trust the tale Is their sense of narrative the same as say, literary...

... sense, then what kinds of claims will they need to make?Most important, how will the problematic but unavoidable distinction between nature and nurture be dealt with? Though the kinds of explanations offered in both fields can obviously enough be relevant to defining what literature is in relation...

... : Tampere University Press ). Mäkelä Maria . 2012 “ Navigating—Making Sense—Interpreting: The Reader behind La Jalousie ,” in Narrative Interrupted: The Plotless, the Trivial, and the Disturbing in Literature , edited by Lehtimäki Markku Kartunen Laura Mäkelä Maria , 139 – 52...

... mediated. Next it argues that the notion of excess must also be studied the other way around, by looking into the excessiveness of the “real.” This amounts to an effort to cross the uncrossable divide between words and things to find out where literature “cuts” the real, creates affects and sense...