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Reading, Fast and Slow
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 173–191.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Karin Kukkonen Abstract Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article argues against a simple binary between slow/literary and fast/digital...
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Reading Times: Temporalities and Time Work in Current Everyday Reading Practices
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and hence perceive slowing, or “thickening” of time. “Slow” reading for the sake of relaxation thus depends as much on the density of impressions of a text of a condensed nature as on the reader's willingness to pay attention to them. The perception that time has passed quickly stems from moments...
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Big Books in Times of Big Data
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 317–320.
Published: 01 June 2021
... specificity in this escape act. Whereas Knausgård and Ferrante were able to escape the grids of gender by overdetermining them, Vollmann and Danielewski remain stuck in an in-between space-time that is always changing but where one is never free. The last chapter, “Slow Reading, Materiality, and Mediacy...
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Reading in the Age of Compression
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and abbreviating the presumed tardiness of traditional reading. Yet compression's biggest provocation resides neither in its effort to circumvent the slowness or unwieldiness of the embodied world nor in its objective to sharpen the work of attention and neurological processing. I would argue that its most...
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Cinema of Senescence: Old Age, Slow Cinema, and Form
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 205–230.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Daniel Dufournaud Abstract If speed is a cornerstone of contemporary life, then one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome in the fight against agism is the fact that senescence entails a slowing down of the human body and mind. The question this essay asks is whether this form of life can...
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Queer Futures for an Aging Planet
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 157–179.
Published: 01 June 2023
... dystopia offers the limit case of human extinction. In reading the sterility dystopia in this way, we learn that future possibility does not depend on the birth of a new generation, but on a queer sense of intergenerational kinship in the shared now. The future depends on it. Instead of rendering slow...
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Metaphor and Affect
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 433–458.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of Chicago Press). Lakoff, George, and Mark Turner 1989 More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor (Chicago:University of Chicago Press). Langston, William 2002 “Violating Orientational Metaphors Slows Reading,” Discourse Processes 34 : 281 -310. Lazarus, Richard S. 1991...
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From “Under the Rose” to V .: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (4): 633–656.
Published: 01 December 2002
... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Carrell, Patricia L., and Joan Eisterhold 1988 “Schema Theory and ESL Reading Pedagogy,” in Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading ,edited by Patricia L. Carrell, Joanne Devine, and David E. Eskey, 73 -92 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2023
... with a particular representational mode, such as cinema (Dufournaud) or the diary (Crossley); social forms such as institutions (Vermeulen), the reading group (Swinnen), generations (Joosen), economic precarity (Kruger), and late style (French); genres such as the epic (Guimarães) and science fiction (Jewusiak...
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“Body Time”:: A Cognitive Perspective on Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 699–720.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of Georgia Press . Crane Mary Thomas . 2010 . Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Danta Chris Groth Helen . 2013 . Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind . New York : Bloomsbury . DeLillo Don...
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From the Margins of the Neoliberal University: Notes Toward Nomadic Literary Studies
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (1): 59–79.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . Boulous Walker Michelle 2017 Slow Philosophy: Reading against the Institution . London : Bloomsbury . Boxall Peter Jonik Michael 2016 “ Introduction: The Time Is Propitious...
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A Critique of Control and Black Boxes: Lit Mods of Ian Hatcher’s “⌰ (Total Runout)”
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 503–537.
Published: 01 December 2020
... is decisive. Slowing down its tempo or, for that matter, grabbing a screenshot can help us read some of themash-ups of text happening on-screen, butmore important, slowing down the tempo allows for a perception of kinetic beha- vior, a complementary reading that further informs the difference between...
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Experiencing Narratives: Default and Vivid Modes of Visualization
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 June 2017
... while reading. One is the observation that relatively static (or
at least slow-motion) images are clearer and better visualizable than fast-
moving ones, and the other is the finding that mental images that emerge
rapidly and effortlessly are more vivid. The former finding confirms intuitive...
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Assessing Narrative Space: From Setting to Narrative Environments
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (1): 79–103.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as setting to space as narrative environment. I argue that space in narrative is built through a combination of the social uses of space and its imagined qualities. We need to restore these frameworks to our reading of space, I mean to argue, in order to define the ways in which particular narratives...
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Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942 : The Ekphrastic Poet’s Collective Diner
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 383–401.
Published: 01 June 2018
... for a readership well versed in relational thinking, who have come to expect the copresence of image and text in nearly every reading experience. In this paper, my questioning of ekphrasis’s continued relevance proceeds via ekphrastic responses—in particular, Ann Lauterbach’s (1995) “Edward Hopper’s Way”—to Edward...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 131–147.
Published: 01 June 2021
... create different temporalities of reading. Karin Kukkonen examines how the objects of reading, in this case literary texts, themselves have the ability to structure our reading experiences by either slowing or accelerating our reading speed. Drawing on insights from narratology and empirical...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 321–324.
Published: 01 June 2021
... , English Studies , and Convergence and in several anthologies. Naomi S. Baron is professor emerita of linguistics at American University in Washington, DC. Her books include Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008) and Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (2015...
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The Aesthetics of Human Experience: Minding, Metaphor, and Icon in Poetic Expression
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 717–752.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., as Vico argues, to the devel-
opment of human thought. But in reifying the mind, we are blocking or
concealing those underlying forces. Literary language, to the contrary, as
Reuven Tsur (1992: 360–61; 2008: 577, 585) has shown, serves to slow down
such cognitive economy by delaying conceptual...
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Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2025
.... Reading for the loop, as I do in this article, is thus a way of highlighting the ideological significance of form. It shows how particular formal strategies can help us crystallize, imaginatively and affectively, the abstract notions of human-nonhuman interconnectedness that circulate in the environmental...
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The Endless Hustle; or, Saul Goodman Out of Time
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 379–404.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to speak of Breaking Bad as a story about “the slow curdling of a man's soul,” creator Vince Gilligan suggested viewers instead see “the story as slowly revealing something about Walter White that was already there. Perhaps what's really happening is that all the things in society which kept him in check...
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