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Crowds in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Historical Writing
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 549–568.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Alan Palmer; Adam Stier An internalist perspective on the mind stresses those aspects that are inner, introspective, private, solitary, individual, psychological, mysterious, and detached. An externalist perspective stresses those aspects that are outer, active, public, social, behavioral, evident...
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How Not to Introduce Blues Prosody:: Langston Hughes and the Rhythms of the African American Vernacular Tradition
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (4): 645–681.
Published: 01 December 2019
... their rhythms with models of alternating stress, including both classical foot prosody and the beat prosody of Derek Attridge. The article shows that the systematic organization of blues structures originates in West African call-and-response patterning (not alternating stress), and is better explained...
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From Parallel Universes to Possible Worlds: Ontological Pluralism in Physics, Narratology, and Narrative
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 633–674.
Published: 01 December 2006
... in order to interpret it as a story. But the many-worlds interpretation of physics and the possible worlds (PW) model of narrative differ in their conception of the ontological status of the multiple worlds: in physics they are all actual, while narrative theory stresses the contrast between actuality...
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The Yiddish-German Connection: New Directions
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 59–110.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and her call for a more positive approach to literary analysis. The counterthesis about the interaction between German Jewish and Yiddish writers stresses the productive aspects of translation and transmission. Such a new approach, if not wholly free from the “hermeneutics...
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Feeling Beauty , Time, and the Body in Neuroaesthetics
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Apollo and Daphne in Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience (2013), this essay expands on her work by stressing the importance of the phenomenological body and a theory of time to an understanding of the aesthetic experience. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017...
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Fictionality: Cognition and Exceptionality
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to narrative stress the exceptionality of the fictional. This article investigates disagreements and potential points of mutual interest in a dialogue between Henrik Skov Nielsen, representing unnatural narratology, and Karin Kukkonen, representing second-generation cognitive narratology. The dialogue develops...
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Nonhuman Fictional Characters and the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis
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Poetics Today (2019) 40 (3): 579–596.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves —to consider the challenges that nonhuman characters pose to such models and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. It first considers the cognitive differences between humans and chimps to stress just how difficult it is to represent chimp cognition...
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At War with Stories: A Vernacular Critique of the Storytelling Boom from American Military Veterans
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 243–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of narrative in positive rather than negative terms, my interlocutors stressed their need to curate the situations in which storytelling could keep its promises. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2022 personal experience narrative folk...
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Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 299–323.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Figure 1 Stress Profiles of Frost's Poems. ...
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How to Do Things with Doxa: Toward an Analysis of Argumentation in Discourse
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 September 2002
...(Aristotle's topoï koinoï ) are distinguished from pragmatical topoi in Oswald Ducrot's sense and from commonplaces in the positive sense of the term; the notions of idée reçue ,of cliché, and of stereotype are described and reinterpreted in an argumentative perspective stressing their fundamental role...
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Free Verse and Prose Rhythm
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 325–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... technology to further investigate the rhythmic and informational characteristics of poetry and prose genres. Comparing the rhythms of nonmetrical texts was until recently theoretically hampered by the inability of twentieth-century linguistics to access stress timing in English speech (Fletcher 2012...
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Poetic Rhythm—Structure and Performance, An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 473–474.
Published: 01 June 2000
... dimen-
sions: linguistic stress pattern, metric pattern, and pattern of performance.
Two central differences between this theory of meter and generative ap-
proaches concern the status of deviation and the importance...
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The Case for the English Dolnik; Or, How Not to Introduce Prosody
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification ( Athens : Ohio University Press ). Strand Mark Boland Eavan , eds. 2000 The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms ( New York : Norton ). Tarlinskaja Marina 1993 Strict Stress-Meter...
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Some Cognitive Foundations of “Cultural Programs”
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 63–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables or long and short
syllables.
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boundary. The iambic pentameter, by contrast, can be divided into
positions; but then, the first segment begins and ends with a weak position,
whereas the second segment begins and ends with a strong...
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Rhythm: Form and Dispossession Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 487–494.
Published: 01 September 2023
... readings in age-old and ultimately irresolvable disputes regarding “correct” scansion. (I particularly admire his knack for reformulating a line with minor variations, so as to show the concomitant shifting of stress profiles.) The reading of Sterling Brown's “When de Saints go Ma'aching Home” (198–201...
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Disturbing Frames: Métalepses: Entorses au pacte de la représentation
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 625–630.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Monika Fludernik distinguishes five different types of metalepsis
implied by Genette’s inaugural characterization and illustrates them from
sixteenth- to nineteenth-century English literature. She stresses that meta-
lepsis is not necessarily anti-illusionistic but can reinforce realistic effects;
she...
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Modes of Intelligence
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 207–214.
Published: 01 June 2024
... than mediocre, for reasons that I think help reveal basic limitations in AI's basic model for the work of intelligence. Those working in AI know those limitations. But the general public seems increasingly content with views of intelligence and cognition that stress only finding patterns establishing...
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Bestowing Past and Future: The Given as Foreclosure in Marion, Derrida, and Nancy
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (2): 309–326.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., and Friedrich Nietzsche but
received its largest endowment from the line of thought initiated by Marcel
Mauss.1 Mauss’s legacy entails tracing the spirit of the gift, a charting that
often stresses the complex cycles of economic exchange behind benefaction.
An earlier version of this essay was presented...
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Jan Mukařovský: Écrits 1928–1946
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 452–460.
Published: 01 September 2021
... alongside translations. For example, the changing reception of Karel Čapek's French poems is considered in its reedited form in one essay, and conclusions are drawn by Mukařovský about the aesthetic value of the translations, leading him to stress the significance of translating for the literary tradition...
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