...Maria Mäkelä The article challenges both cognitive-universalist and unnatural-exceptionalist approaches to fictional minds by analyzing how the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novel merges the premodern poetics of exemplarity with emergent modern techniques of representing consciousness...

...Christian Biet; Karel Vanhaesebrouck This article investigates the way the notion of constraint could be extended to theater studies and theater history, focusing on the case of French classical tragedy in the seventeenth century. Can classical poetics be regarded as a set of constraints? Rather...

.... This article delineates strategic points in the emergence of this sensibility and the forms and contexts of its presence in art during the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century. The primary thesis is that sympathy thrived where mimetic illusion failed. In the figurative terms...

...William Flesch In Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection , Angus Fletcher rightly argues against the idea, enthusiastically embraced by literary Darwinism, that evolution explains how exquisitely the individual mind and perhaps the progressive...

...Françoise Lavocat When, why, and how do people write about a natural disaster? The article characterizes three ways of narrating catastrophe—allegorical, anecdotal, and historical—and shows that a shift toward the historical narrative takes place at the beginning of the seventeenth century, more...

..., center on recurring images in a manner consistent with the modern practice of mindfulness meditation. There is a significant overlap between the way meditation was understood by seventeenth-century Christians and the way it is understood by modern meditators in a secular and therapeutic context. Neurally...

...Georges-Elia Sarfati This essay is a contribution to the theory as well as to the critical analysis of doxa. Analyzing French dictionaries of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, it shows how they organize, transform, and develop dominant reprensentations of Jewish identity. It thus...

...Casey Schoenberger The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in China and the West saw a wave of skeptical approaches to metaphysics, ethics, and the physical sciences, including a related interest in “playing devil’s advocate” for seemingly weak propositions. This article analyzes two works...

..., Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture (2012), Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating: Modes of Construction of Anglophone Culture (2012). He is also the editor of Ranam, the journal of the Strasbourg English Department. His research areas are Shake- speare, seventeenth-century poetry...

..., this has the unfortunate consequence of “suggesting, against all evidence, that the original work existed in a sort of direct and continuous dialogue with works from the seventeenth century [Lazarillo’s earliest extant editions are from 1554], despite the fact that those works were the product...

... work existed in a sort of direct and continuous dialogue with works from the seventeenth century [Lazarillo’s earliest extant editions are from 1554], despite the fact that those works were the product of markedly different social and political contexts” (14). Therefore, Lazarillo studies need...

..., against all evidence, that the original work existed in a sort of direct and continuous dialogue with works from the seventeenth century [Lazarillo’s earliest extant editions are from 1554], despite the fact that those works were the product of markedly different social and political contexts” (14...

.... http://emc.eserver.org/1-9/flesch.html . 2016 “Facing Fictions: The Insights and the Limits of Evolutionary Literary Psychology,” Poetics Today 37 ( 4 ): 539 – 71 . Fletcher Angus 2011 Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection...

.../Early Modern Studies,” in Redrawing the Boundaries , edited by Greenblatt Stephen Gunn Giles , 41 – 63 ( New York : Modern Language Association of America ). Martz Louis 1962 [1954] The Poetry of Meditation: A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century...

... in European written culture only during the early modern period. In the course of the late sixteenth cen- 6104 Poetics Today / 21:2 / sheet 8 of 214 tury and the seventeenth century, a systematization took shape in European attitudes toward nationality...

... with the most canonical of all authors. Marcy North’s ‘‘Rehearsing the Absent Name: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets through Anonymity’’ shrewdly focuses on Sonnet 71, ‘‘which imagines its own anonymity’’ (21), and on its appearance in a mid–seventeenth cen- tury commonplace book. She searches through...

... Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth-Century Estate Poems and Related Items ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ). Gil Daniel Juan 2006 Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in the Sonnets ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ). Goldberg Jonathan 1983 James I...

... and is writing a book on literary culture in seventeenth-century England. Leslie Brisman is Karl Young Professor of English at Yale University. His own views of the art of reading poetry can be found in his article ‘‘The Wall Is Down: New Openings in the Study of Poetry which is to appear in an upcoming...

..., Daniel 1992 Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Garber, Daniel, John Henry, Lynn Joy, and Alan Gabbey 1998 “New Doctrines of Body and Its Powers, Place, and Space,” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy , edited by Daniel Garber...

... the gaps in languages and cultures. Chapter , ‘‘The Myth of the Other traces the history of the image of China in Western imagination, from seventeenth-century missionaries to contemporary thinkers, and finds a pattern of alternately...