... 2005 Poetics Today Style Guide Poetics Today first adheres to the rules in this style guide. For issues not covered in the style guide, refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (CMS15). ABBREVIATIONS Corporate, municipal, national, and supranational abbreviations, as well...

...Mieke Bal Taking up the time of my encounter with Benjamin Harshav, which was also when PTL became Poetics Today and a key moment in the development of literary studies toward a more theoretical grounding, this essay raises the issue of the place and status of poetics in today's field of literary...

... with Arendt's discussion of collective acts of political resistance—specifically her notion of human “natality,” the human potential for constantly creating new beginnings. [email protected] Amir Eshel , Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvi...

...The Editors of Poetics Today Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 We would like to make a correction to an article by Álvaro Seiça that appeared in Poetics Today 41:4. On the article's first page, the acknowledgment note should read, “This project has...

... of rhetorical and performative understandings of ekphrasis that can augment theoretical conceptualizations and bring them into line with the participatory and hybrid practices of ekphrasis today. Increasingly, what used to be a central aim of ekphrasis — the description of an artwork — has been replaced...

...Ryan Devitt Abstract The article argues for the renewed relevance of Foucault's early essays on literature, written throughout the 1960s, given a return to anthropological reflection in so much literary theory today (especially through affect theory and “new” phenomenologies—both of which rely...

...Joshua Landy Although it is, in principle, almost universally accepted today that authors and narrators must be rigorously demarcated, somehow scholars of Marcel Proust seem—whether wittingly or unwittingly—to make an exception for In Search of Lost me . Because it is written in the first person...

...Joanne Weiner Rudof This article discusses postwar efforts to document the survivor experience, which continue to the present time. Many historians today acknowledge the importance of these primary source materials to their work as well as the necessity for careful analysis of them. These materials...

... analysis of samizdat history. Finally, as a striking example of an epistemically unstable textual culture, samizdat represents not merely opposition to a defunct political system: it also exemplifies issues relevant to a global Internet culture today. © 2009 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

... took him at once to the heart of a range of psychosocial issues that are today studied under the cognitive scientific rubric of “theory of mind,” including the developmental interrelations of, and motivations for, social imitation, language acquisition, and mental representation. Taking first...

...Jan Baetens; Jean-Jacques Poucel This introductory essay defines the background terms and context of constraint-based writing and then situates each essay included in this double issue of Poetics Today . Taking the example of the Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Literature) as the foundational...

...Monika Fludernik The comment takes issue with David Darby's presentation of German narratology, arguing that German contributions to the field of narrative studies are much broader and more varied than argued by Darby in his article in Poetics Today , vol. 22, no. 4 (2001). © 2003 by the Porter...

...Galin Tihanov This invited foreword to a cluster of four essays on historical poetics seeks to establish how the relevance of Historical Poetics is reclaimed today. Affinities, differences, and questions of commensurability and historical contextualization are raised as part of the discussion...

...Emma Kafalenos The proliferation of (copies of) images in recent decades facilitates viewing the image to which an ekphrastic text responds. Typically, I have argued previously ( Poetics Today 33, no. 1: 27–57), whenever readers of an ekphrasis view the visual artwork to which the ekphrasis...

...Mark J. Bruhn This article proposes an essential pragmatic adjustment to the model of bidirectionality in verbal metaphor comprehension that has been developed from Max Black’s interaction theory of metaphor, most recently in the 2017 special issue of Poetics Today titled “Bidirectionality...

... a challenge to the discipline of literature today, suggesting a way out of reductive readings. Literature, beyond any profit-and-loss economy, is wasteful and profligate, yet it is precisely this that makes it indispensable. Engaging a mode of attention to and experience of nonunderstanding and excess, it has...

... studies as they are practiced today. This alleged decline does not mean that nonpractical texts, whether written or oral, have lost their various and often indispensable functions for socialization, developing skills, or emotional intelligence. It essentially means that the centrality...

... in comics, focusing on their general semantics. It argues that the intersemiotic interplay of the various resources and the evolving meaning construction is one of the most challenging aspects of comic analysis today and that recipients need to construct complex representations of what is shown (and told...

...Klaus Sachs-Hombach; Jan-Noël Thon Introduced here by its guest editors, this special issue of Poetics Today focuses on multimodal media. Its purpose is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to explore the multimodal combination of semiotic resources in a range of primarily aesthetic media forms...

...Hans Adler; Sabine Gross This article focuses on the role of cognitivism in literary studies and,conversely, the role of literature in cognitivist approaches. Taking as its point of departure the preceding issue of Poetics Today (vol. 23, no. 1), a special issue on cognitive approaches...