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...João Paulo Guimarães Abstract This essay explores Ron Silliman's Universe , a serial poetic project which, according to the publisher's description, “were [the author] to live long enough, would take him three centuries to complete.” The article specifically focuses on the significance...

... as a universal idea across cultural traditions. It also examines how the artistic ideal is conceived of in Chinese and Western representation, how Chinese mimetic theory differs from its Western counterpart, and what implications an understanding of the differences may have for the comparative study of Western...

...Marie-Laure Ryan This essay explores how theoretical physics, narratology, and narrative itself deal with the idea that reality consists of a plurality of worlds. In physics, the existence of parallel universes has been postulated on the cosmic level to describe what lies on the other side of black...

... literature, namely, the Oulipo. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 Amato, Joe 2006 Industrial Poetics (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press). Appadurai, Arjun 2000 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). Bateson...

... be able to walk students through exercises (as Khan Academy's videos already do); they will also include advanced simulations, virtual labs, and other adaptive and personalized learning platforms (Silver 2023 ). The implications for universities and especially for humanities faculties—where teaching...

... and Literature,” Poetics Today 23 : 195 -220. Anderson, R. J. 1993 Rules of the Mind (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum). Auerbach, Erich 1973 [1946] Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature , translated by Willard R. Trask (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Bakhtin, Mikhail...

...: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature , translated by Willard R. Trask (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Barnes, Julian 1996 Cross Channel (London: Picador). Barthes, Roland 1974 S/Z ,translated by Richard Miller (New York: Hill and Wang). Bartlett, F. C. 1932 Remembering...

...Neil Vallelly Literary studies are living a nomadic existence on the margins of the neoliberal university, forced to adapt to the needs of more profitable disciplines and the insidious marketization of higher education to find an intellectual home. By drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic theory...

... and general principles of emotion modulation and involve ideals that are both hedonic and ethical. We may better understand the complex relations among narrative, emotion, and morality in terms of these story universals, their sources in emotion systems, and their associated ideals, which collectively predict...

...Adam R. Rosenthal Beginning in 2008, with the French publication of volume 1 of The Beast and the Sovereign, Éditions Galilée, the University of Chicago Press, and an international editorial team initiated the process of editing, publishing, and translating, in reverse chronological order...

... documents. Historians are slowly coming to agree that survivor accounts are a crucial source of evidence for appreciating the unorthodox and unprecedented moral universe of the Holocaust. Writers as diverse as Charlotte Delbo, Imre Kertész, Arnošt Lustig, and Aharon Appelfeld find ways of stripping...

... proclaims the universal applicability of psychoanalysis, grounded in the Oedipus Complex. This paper argues that Sachs's attempt to inscribe the South African native subject within the global imaginary of 1930s psychoanalysis proves subject both to reversals and transferential complications that render...

... narrativity should cover the same range of emotional experiences as literary narrative. Here I argue that digital narrative should emancipate itself from literary models. But I also view narrative as a universal structure that transcends media. This article addresses the question of reconciling the inherent...

...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...

... in relation to my account of narrative dynamics, in this “Telling in Time” series and elsewhere. Above all, given Shklovsky's perceptual emphasis, does his master effect constitute the genre's universal, overlapping and/or rivaling the dynamics of prospection (“suspense”), retrospection (“curiosity...

... to some sort of universal reality. When photographs are reproduced in literature, the subjective and not the objective is paramount in determining their evidential value. In other words, the photograph's evidential value is secured through a transformative process that is put into play by an active...

... of justice. To explain the phenomenon, this essay draws an analogy to poetic techniques that inform Franz Kafka's universe of discourse (prolepsis, actualization of figures of speech, illocutions lacking conventional force). The concluding section illustrates howguilt that was suppressed for fifteen years...

... of their patterning. That is why visual patterning is not admitted in nonmanneristic styles. Cognitive poetics suggests that in the response to poetry, adaptive devices are turned to an aesthetic end. In a universe in which “the center cannot hold,” readers of poetry find pleasure not so much in the emotional...

... extension, it typifies the shuttle among language, world, and perspective whereby we make sense of discourse, always with an eye to the best fit. As literary discourse enacts this universal quest at its most artful,pragmatics would be wise to abandon the strange gods inherited from logic and align...

... of this essay is primarily on music, related tendencies in the other arts (literature and painting) that contributed to a new awareness of the role of sympathy in the universes of the modern individual and society also are examined. © 2001 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2001 Ackerman...