...Peter Cosgrove This article analyzes some of the problematics of allegorical reading and suggests a method of reading poetry by paying attention to the impenetrable“thingness” of tropes and figures, using as an example a poem notorious for the prevalence of allegory in the history of its...

..., Harry C. 2000 “The Struggle against Positivism,” Academe , July–August, 46 -51. Brown, Bill 2001 “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28 : 1 -22. Bruster, Douglas 2001 “The New Materialism in Renaissance Studies,” in Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages...

...: Cornell University Press). Zola, Emile 1972 The Debacle ,translated by Leonard Tancock (London: Penguin). How to Do Things with Doxa: Toward an Analysis of Argumentation in Discourse Ruth Amossy 6722 Poetics Today...

...: Atlantic Books). Armstrong, Paul B. 1990 Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). Attridge, Derek 2004 The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge). Austin, J. L. 1962 How to Do Things with Words: The William...

...Eyal Segal Hopps Gavin , Neumann Stella , Strasen Sven , and Wenzel Peter , eds., Last Things: Essays on Ends and Endings . Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang , 2015 . 234 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Mark J...

... Panksepp call our “affective consciousness,” a form of prereflective reception that arises from bodily experience. Focusing upon Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things , the article proposes a theoretical framework for interrogating the forms of priming, bias, and insight gained via these physical...

...Eyal Segal David Bevington, Shakespeare's Ideas: More Things in Heaven and Earth . Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell , 2008 . 234 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...

...Viktor Shklovsky We get used to horrible things and stop fearing them. We get used to beautiful things and stop enjoying them. We get used to people and stop experiencing them as personalities. Art is a means to make things real again. These ideas, expressed by a very young and polemically minded...

... surrounding the mediation of historical understanding by material things. In order to get at the thorny issues surrounding the material as an authorizing category in cultural analysis, I focus on Shakespeare's well-known literary meditation on visual proof (and visual perception) in Othellogy . Reemphasizing...

... thing the “turn to ethics” in literary studies has produced is a rise in popularity of Emmanuel Levinas among critics. The invocation of Levinasian responsibility, with its refusal to entertain a practical or normative ethics, demonstrates, among other things, how far some streams of ethical criticism...

... of reasoning about the world, of finding connections and meaning in it, of perceiving a direction over the course of things, of posing oneself as a subject in society and history, and legitimizing this worldview, no longer differ only in their presuppositions,premises, and the basic axiology, but in the very...

... the idea: perspectival mechanisms, which foster incongruity/superiority between participants in a narrative and thus enable comedies to turn someone’s unhappiness into a funny thing. Also, Zupančič mistakes causal and temporal development for a feature of tragedy as against comedy, rather than identifying...

... in Shakespearean drama and a framing of the enterprise of theater. The concept of affordance was developed by the environmental psychologist James J. Gibson to describe the action possibilities of things. Affordances inhere in environments that themselves reflect various human interactions and routines...

... in painting, because where metaphors lead us to see one thing in the light of the other, so with hybrid creatures we can see either or any part of the hybrid in the light of the other part or parts. With some of the similarities between metaphorical speech and visual perception and interpretation identified...

... canvas. Katherine Mansfield was the decisive influence yet exemplified Impressionism's limits. “The mere expression of things adequately and sensitively, is not enough,” Woolf quotes Mansfield. As the painter transformed vision into design, Woolf turned story into novel via continuity of moments through...

...Douglas A. Brooks The guest editors of this special issue, James A. Knapp and Jeffrey Pence,contend that the current preoccupation with the materiality of things has usually generated a polarization between “history” and“theory” in literary criticism, whereby the work of scholars who continue...

...Helen Freshwater This article problematizes cultural studies' recent return to the“thing,” assessing the archive's position in research work. I draw on my experience of consultation of the surviving records of the Lord Chamberlain's theater censorship office in order to demonstrate...

... writing itself cannot be straightforwardly conceived as a material thing, as Derrida has shown. Moreover, it is difficult to conceive the book as a commodity, since the notion of the commodity is also problematically rooted in the notion of the material, as can be established by reference to Marx...

... An Example from Proust; 2.3.4 Impossible Ontology: The Mediator Accompanied or Abandoned by the Author; 2.4 Making Bricks without Straw: How to Do Things with an Unworkable Formula? 3 The Constructivist Turn: (Un)Reliability as a Mechanism of Integration: 3.1 The Perspectival Mechanism among Other Lines...