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Lists, Vignettes, Enumerations: Contemporary Life Writing and the Gesture of Refusal toward Narrative
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 363–385.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... Bluets and The White Book show their authors as deeply involved in imagining alternative acts of literary representation that exceed the scripts and protocols that are usually activated and called up through the story-ing of the self. As Nelson and Kang explore the story-critical affordances...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 191–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to the doctrines of the storytelling boom. Therefore it should not be idealized as a locus of “non-instrumental” narratives but instead critically examined as affected by the storytelling boom yet possessing unique affordances for its contestation. In what follows, we take up both the story logic of social media...
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Social Networking Sites as Contexts for Uses of Narrative: Toward a Story-Critical Approach to Digital Environments
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 335–362.
Published: 01 June 2022
... limited to the examination of that illusion: the illusion of narrative structure and its uses being a territory of intentional human agents only. 4 We now begin to unpack this illusion for the purposes of a story-critical approach through reevaluating the key concepts of affordance and affect...
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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
... afford epistemological and moral benefits within a productivist culture of speed that stigmatizes slowness and inactivity. In order to pursue an answer to this question, the essay turns to what critics have begun to call “slow cinema” and examines two films about people suffering from senescence-related...
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Co-opting Small Stories on Social Media: A Narrative Analysis of the Directive of Authenticity
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 265–286.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to the hugely popular feature of Stories on Snapchat and Instagram (also Facebook and Weibo). This article offers a methodology for studying such designed stories, underpinned by a technographic, corpus-assisted narrative analysis that tracks media affordances, including platforms’ directives to users for how...
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So Typical! Philip Roth's Age Stereotypes
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 63–87.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of what trite expressions, endless repetitions, and unoriginal stories accomplish. 1. The controversy around Philip Roth and accusations of misogyny, for example, continue even after his death (e.g., Freeman 2021 ). 2. In voicing this criticism of Roth's unoriginality, she perpetuates...
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From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 309–334.
Published: 01 June 2022
... into the Western way of life. What might have seemed to be the start of narrative empowerment, with social media enabling the endless telling and sharing of stories, has turned sour in the context of post-truth, fake news, and the recent hype over conspiracy theories. The storytelling boom has given rise...
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Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 287–308.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to be the one who has the right to perform the story, regardless of the story's ownership. Questions of narrative form as well as ownership and performance rights to a story are thus important in any critical investigation of the “voice” afforded to tellers in different contexts, especially when stories get...
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To Move, to Touch, to Listen: Multisensory Aspects of the Digital Reading Condition
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 281–300.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., we study the audiobook not only as a story read aloud or as a remediation of a written text but also as a part of digital, mobile audio culture and a tertiary orality afforded by digital media (Have and Stougaard Pedersen 2016 ). As the vignette above illustrates, audiobooks invite a “hearing...
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Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
... will be quite different. And indeed, the twentieth-century artists
have created that new context. We still need mothers and lots of what they
can provide, and so they remain as the organizing focus of an archetype — an
affordance — when a new story and set of characters is created around her.
The opening...
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Situated Cognition: The Literary Archive
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and fragmented archive from which
evolutionary stories are inferred. You might then consider that analyzing the
literary archive in a cognitive perspective and according to cognitive critical
instruments means recovering an enormous number of insights and case
histories of the kind I mentioned earlier...
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Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 387–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
... an increasingly prominent role in virtually all areas of our lives. 3 The notion of finding one's own narrative has pervaded culture at large, and it has been put to extensive commercial use. While recent story-critical discussions have highlighted problems of the current story economy in which emotionally...
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Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 15–35.
Published: 01 June 2023
... McEwan's Saturday .” In Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care , edited by Chivers Sally and Kriebernegg Ulla , 175 – 90 . Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript . Tew Philip . 2001 . B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading . Manchester : Manchester University Press...
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Joint Attention, Semiotic Mediation, and Literary Narrative
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 517–538.
Published: 01 December 2016
... that are obscured by classical semiotics. Joint attention offers affordances for quasirecursive recontextualization, since the object of joint attention may consist of another act of joint attention: literary narrative can create complex joint attentional structures by which the story is “seen” through nested...
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Fiction, Fitness, and Failure
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 675–685.
Published: 01 December 2016
... our many diverse, com-
plex, and interconnecting social affairs. As with affordances at every other
level of homeostatic maintenance, the inherent fuzziness of these contracts is
critical. Without their flexible enmeshment in the hard work of negotiating
social change, society would lose its...
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The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 215–222.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Eamon Duede; Richard Jean So [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 artificial intelligence cultural studies humanities critical theory Across the humanities, the response to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly...
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Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 203–206.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Eyal Segal Patea Viorica , ed., Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2012 . vii + 346 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 New Books at a Glance 203
“Affordances of Form...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (3): 373–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... for the challenge of representing an increasingly globalized, abstract, and fluctuating financial market. Succession 's solutions, the essay concludes, “yield artistic inspiration to the critical theories of finance capitalism that we will need to keep generating.” Thaïs Miller's essay tells the story of how...
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Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing, and the Trivial in Literature
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 200–203.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Perspective. Amster-
dam: Rodopi, 2012. vii 1 346 pp.
This collection, comprising sixteen essays, is devoted to theoretical issues
raised by the short story as a genre and offers critical perspectives on the
genre’s history and on the poetics of particular authors. The volume is
divided into four...
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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (4): 773–776.
Published: 01 December 2022
... 2022 This book analyzes and theorizes unnatural (that is, antimimetic) narratives in digital media; in doing so it promises to greatly extend the range of unnatural studies, revise and add to narrative theory, intervene in the theory and analysis of digital narratives, and critically deploy...
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