...Dirk Klopper The article begins by examining the relationship between truth and reconciliation as propounded by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It contrasts a linear conception of this relationship with an iterative conception and equates these conceptions with the narrative...

...David S. Danaher Russian has two words corresponding to English truth and four words corresponding to English lie . While studies have detailed the semantic and pragmatic differences between these two terms, how these domains are metaphorized in everyday language—and exploited in literature—has yet...

...Robert Eaglestone The aim of this article is to come to terms with the implications of Wittgenstein's remark that “ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.” Arguing that ethics, truth, and aesthetics have been implicitly or explicitly part of literary discourse for many years, despite being...

...Brian McHale 2001 706 Poetics Today 22:3 Ronald Sukenick, Narralogues: Truth in Fiction. SUNY series, The Margins of Litera- ture, edited by Mihai I. Spariosu. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. Ronald Sukenick professes ignorance of narrative theory and claims to de...

...Daniel Just While not all literary fictions teach us valuable truths about life and the world, this expectation is what makes most of us read them. Literary texts communicate their truths in various ways, but what all of them have in common is that their truths are irreducible to unequivocal...

... . Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press . Derrida Jacques Grossman Évelyne . 2019 . “ The Truth That Hurts, or the Corps à Corps of Tongues: An Interview with Jacques Derrida ,” translated by Mercier Thomas Clément . Parallax 25 , no. 1 : 8 – 24 . Senatore Mauro...

... of reliability and rhetoric, truth and persuasion, norm and narrative discourse. To illustrate them, my essay juxtaposes the testimonial viewpoints and practices of two survivors of the Nazi camps: Primo Levi and Dan Pagis. The two may seem poles apart: while Levi is considered the quintessential witness, Pagis...

...Caryl Emerson As literary critics and language theorists, Viktor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin each utilize “aesthetic distance” in an unconventional way—unrelated, it would seem, to the usual aesthetic criteria of beauty, goodness, or truth. For the Formalist Shklovsky, the distancing...

... circle of theologically radical yet devout friends, and others intellectually similar to them, of the truth of his philosophy by beginning with Cartesian principles they would accept. Finally, I argue that certain nongeometrical portions of the Ethics are directed at the emotions of these readers. ©...

... of dissident opposition. Beyond binary oppositions of truth vs. falsehood, and dissidents vs. state, on which previous perceptions of samizdat have depended, we might now see the essential quality of samizdat to be its exemplification of epistemic instability, inasmuch as samizdat texts are not automatically...

... an engagement with literary forms and a search for truth, knowledge of the former advances a grasp of the latter. References Candel Bormann Daniel 2013a “Advanced Literacy and the Place of Literary Semantics in Secondary Education: A Tool of Fictional Analysis,” Semiotica 195 ( June ): 305...

... how the prefaces to the Danish novel in the eighteenth century discuss different types of truthfulness to introduce and explain an emerging notion of fictionality. I demonstrate that concerns with fictionality did not arise in the Volksbuch , which was the most popular literary genre of prose before...

... “narrativist turn.” It attempts to present a genealogy of the different ways in which disciplines in the human sciences have formulated and employed narrative and narrative theory,particularly in those fields that make truth claims: history or political science, for example. Why have political scientists now...

...Erin James Highlighting a trend in current models of narrative empathy that suggests that readers’ ability to empathize with nonhuman characters is dependent wholly on anthropomorphization, this essay explores two narratives that feature chimp characters—Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth and Karen...

...Susan Rubin Suleiman This essay explores questions about memory and its relation to historical truth, chiefly through an examination of the “Wilkomirski case,”involving a highly acclaimed Holocaust memoir that has now been shown to be a fake. I argue that the categorical distinction between memoir...

... or assumed by dominant hermeneutic and poetic theories since late antiquity. Shakespeare’s final romances move toward making an ethical sense—one rooted in human constants of embodied responsiveness to others—the source and ultimate judge of literary significance or poetic truth. By making the ethical rather...

... the philosophical “demotion of poetry”: a criticism of poets as motivated by the Eros of fame and of tragic poetry as at its best creating captivating images of gods and heroes which reflect their creators’ self-love and patriotic love of “one’s own,” as against any transpolitical truth. Part 4 then looks...

... in certain situations as a way to find a new kind of value in storytelling. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 denarration epistemology narrative postmodernism post-postmodernism qualia truth References Barth John 1984 The Friday Book: Essays and Other...

... on Photography since 1974 , 200 -204 (New York: Aperture). Hutcheon, Linda 1989 The Politics of Postmodernism (New York: Routledge). Mitchell, W. J. T. 1992 The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). 2005 What Do Pictures Want? The Lives...

... on philosophy s privileged relationship to, and responsibility for, reasoning and truth. However, when Socrates invokes the ancient quarrel with the poets, his aim is arguably to compete with them: to offer his new forms of philosophical conversation as a successor to, and improvement on, the epics...