... frame my analysis of Shelley's dramatic style with a set of poetic and critical contrasts. Judged in the light of twentieth-century treatments of the Cenci story by Antonin Artaud, Bertrand Tavernier, and George Elliott Clarke, Shelley's style appears comparatively unmixed and unrealistic or, as Stuart...

..., and by the ironic treatment of his narrative voice. By taking the elusiveness of this narration more fully into account, it becomes possible to read Submission as a tentative — if never unambiguous — narrative of religious conversion. To this extent, the treatment of Islam in Submission can be seen as consistent...

... Britanna engages in a playful treatment of orthodoxies by questioning the paradigms upon which Renaissance culture is founded. References Alciato Andrea 1531 Emblematum liber ( Augsburg, Germany : Heynrich Steiner ). Ambrose of Milan 1857 De officiis ministrorum ( Tübingen...

..., in its treatment of two key issues — the susceptibility of speech acts to failure and the relation of indirect speech acts to questions of knowledge and power — Kafka's text has important implications for contemporary performative theory. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016...

... of nineteenth-century historiography to explore potential differences between fictional and historiographical treatments of crowds. It concludes that, while histories tend to be pragmatically inclined to treat crowds as social minds, the distinctive affordances of fiction allowed nineteenth-century novelists...

.... Significantly, Lauterbach’s “Edward Hopper’s Way”, a found poem marked by digression, simulates a space of intimacy within Hopper’s pictorial elegies of alienation and lost commonality. Granted, “Edward Hopper’s Way”, in its oblique treatment of Hopper, does not conform to a traditional definition of ekphrasis...

...Jan-Noël Thon From John Grierson’s influential early definition of documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality” via documentary studies’ reconstruction of the multitude of existing forms to philosophers’ attempts to develop comprehensive accounts of documentary as a specific kind...

...Darcia Narvaez Narratives are embedded in human biology. Each individual's emotional system is shaped by early experience and can be viewed as a biosocial personal grammar for the social life. A child builds a biosocial grammar initially from caregiver treatment. Caregivers and cultures help...

... Anthology of Poetry is tested against a number of poems in the anthology, and the treatment of dolnik verse in a number of poetry handbooks is considered. Finally, Langston Hughes’s “Song for a Dark Girl” is discussed as an example of how dolnik verse might be taught. © 2012 by Porter Institute...

... to replicate Western discourses, instead adhering to a more dialectical treatment of the mutually antagonistic positions. Moreover, China's rising international status and its pursuit of wider global influence have led Chinese scholars to approach literary (re)historiography as an opportunity to showcase...

... and actual readers. In addition to providing a framework for describing narrative occasion, this socially attuned analysis highlights problems with rhetorical narrative theory's treatment of audience, particularly its idealization of the authorial audience. The article thus points the way toward dismantling...

...Marina Ludwigs Abstract This essay proposes that understanding a text in narrative terms is based on the reverse causality of what it calls the narrative unconscious . The argument revisits literary and critical treatments of retrospection as a phenomenon of narrative temporality. It considers...

...' criteria for similarity. In an extended case study of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), I argue that Victorian social-problem literature thematizes empathy across difference and that the self-conscious treatment of cultural difference is particularly helpful...

...Irene Tucker; Milette Shamir Hagai Levi is one of today's most celebrated and innovative TV creators. Originally from Kibbutz Sha'alvim, and now residing in Tel Aviv, he gained international recognition for his groundbreaking television drama BeTipul ( In Treatment ), which delves...

... Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024 BeTipul En thérapie In Treatment longue durée presentism Since the 1970s, analyses focusing on television series have become so widespread that they have come to constitute a field of research in its own right...

... and Deirdre Wilson, of Paul Grice’s treatment of the pragmatics of conversation (and linguistic exchange generally) in terms of four “maxims”—roughly, speak truthfully (quality), speak sufficiently (but no more: quantity), speak clearly (manner), and speak to the point (relevance). While Grice...

... novel to TV and from traditional TV to streaming platforms are also at the heart of our interview with Hagai Levi, one of today's most innovative and successful TV creators (his work includes In Treatment , The Affair , Our Boys , and Scenes from a Marriage among others). Levi sheds light on what...

... of the reasons for the sustained appeal of masterpieces) and in the sense of noting in Homer’s epic an exemplary, New Books at a Glance 789 rich treatment and illustration of the issues discussed in the previous part of the book. First, the Homeric narrative “earns...

... for the sustained appeal of masterpieces) and in the sense of noting in Homer’s epic an exemplary, New Books at a Glance 789 rich treatment and illustration of the issues discussed in the previous part of the book. First, the Homeric narrative “earns attention” by its...

... Armand’s harsh treatment of the enslaved blacks, which recalls the Uncle Tom’s Cabin tradition. But if we examine the text in an overall way, paying close attention to the interaction among details in various parts of the text, we may perceive a very different, deeper meaning structure. As I...