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From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (4): 570–572.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eyal Segal Stein Daniel and Thon Jan-Noël , eds., From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2013 . vi + 416 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance...
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Art Theory for (Neuro)Scientists: Bridging the Gap
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 497–516.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., for the theoretical (or philosophical). Indeed, prompted by the undeniable success — and promise — of cognitive neuroscience, one fundamental question in aesthetic theory is whether neuroscience possesses “the key to understand what art really is” (Ramachandran and Hirstein 1999: 17). In this article, based...
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Creative Accounting: Role-Playing Games, Possible-World Theory, and the Agency of Imagination
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (1): 113–139.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Daniel Punday Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based...
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Is Mimetic Theory in Literature and Art Universal?
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 459–498.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Ming Dong Gu Mimesis is one of the most fundamental ideas in Western poetics. Mimetic theories constitute a mainstream in Western aesthetics. In comparative studies of Chinese and Western poetics, however, there exists a widely accepted opinion that mimetic theory is a cultural invention unique...
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Life without Theory: Biography as an Exemplar of Philosophical Understanding
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 527–570.
Published: 01 September 2007
... it philosophically interesting. Instead of looking to philosophy to provide a theory of biography, we should, I maintain, look to biography to provide a crucially important example and model of what Ludwig Wittgenstein called “the kind of understanding that consists in seeing connections.” This kind of understanding...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 373–422.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Mark J. Bruhn This essay reconstructs Percy Shelley's theory of mind from his letters and many unfinished essays as well as his Defence of Poetry (1821), emphasizing his radical insistence on the formal and teleological roles of analogy in human cognition, communication, and culture. Adopting...
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Reconsidering Narrative Theory Rhetorically
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 353–358.
Published: 01 June 2010
...David Gorman Richard Walsh, The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction , Ohio State University Press, 2007. x + 194 pp. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 Reconsidering Narrative Theory Rhetorically
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The Literary in Theory
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 368–370.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Eyal Segal Jonathan Culler, The Literary in Theory . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press , 2007 . xi + 276 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance
Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound...
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A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and Emotions
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Blakey Vermeule In an important book of evolutionary literary theory, William Flesch argues that we tell stories to exercise our sense of moral outrage. In this essay I try to spell out some of the consequences of his view. First I give an overview of his argument. Then I revisit a major work...
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Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, and Gravity's Rainbow
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (3): 465–505.
Published: 01 September 2010
... approaches to categorization via prototype, exemplar, and knowledge theories. Against this background, I review the many genres that have been attributed to Gravity's Rainbow , then examine three influential generic framings of this text and what the text can tell us about the nature of categories and how...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 619–662.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of conceptual metaphor and blending theories with respect to conceptual conflict and creativity. The deficiency may be supplied by recourse to English Romantic theories of poetic imagination, which are centrally occupied with the logic of conceptual conflict and the motive for creativity. Particularly pertinent...
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Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory for Beginners
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (4): 611–613.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Oleg Sobchuk Semenenko Aleksei ., The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . xvi + 177 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 References Jakobson Roman 1960 “ Closing...
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Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives
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Poetics Today (2012) 33 (2): 241–244.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Eyal Segal Bemong Nele Borghart Pieter De Dobbeleer Michel Demoen Kristoffel De Temmerman Koen Keunen Bart , eds., Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives . Gent : Academia , 2010 . v + 213 pp . © 2012 by Porter...
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Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (3): 401–403.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Eyal Segal Aldama Frederick ., ed., Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . xiii + 311 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance
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The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 318–320.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Eyal Segal Meretoja Hanna , The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . xviii + 282 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books...
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Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value
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Poetics Today (2013) 34 (1-2): 177–231.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Daniel Candel Bormann This article presents a tool of literary analysis developed by the author as an alternative to existing possible world theories (PWT). The aim is to create links between the latter’s neutral, descriptive accuracy and more value-laden approaches with an eye to both research...
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Historical Poetics and Poetic Language: Rethinking the Concept of Autonomy for Modern Literary Theory
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 519–548.
Published: 01 September 2017
... dialectology, associationist psychology, and avant-garde ideology. This is in contrast to claims that Russian formalism was from the start inspired by Saussurean structuralism. Separating the foundations of modern literary theory from a structuralist paradigm allows us to disassociate the formalists' original...
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A Theory of Narrative in Culture
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 605–634.
Published: 01 December 2017
... habitus. The second part of the essay compares the proposed theory of narrative in culture to existing narrative theories about circulation and negotiation and to the traditional model of narrative as a form of communication, which it tries to overcome. Finally, the essay offers a detailed analysis...
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An Aristotelian Theory of Communication
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 769–771.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Stephen Halliwell Zoran Gabriel , Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle . Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars , 2014 . xv + 256 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 An Aristotelian Theory of Communication
Stephen...
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Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 781–783.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Robert T. Tally, Jr. Ryan Marie-Laure Foote Kenneth Azaryahu Maoz , Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2016 . viii + 312 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics...
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