..., MA: Harvard University Press). Wittgenstein’s Voice: Reading, Self-Understanding, and the Genre of Philosophical Investigations Garry L. Hagberg Philosophy, East Anglia Abstract  Since the time of Socrates and perhaps even that of Heraclitus, philo- sophical reflection has found...

...Eyal Segal Bernhart Walter and Kramer Lawrence , eds., On Voice . Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2014 . xv + 229 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds., On Voice. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014...

... of a Talmudic passage which demonstrates how this new approach sheds fresh light on the place of the feminine voice in the Talmud. References Talmudic texts and editions All manuscripts and editions cited from the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Databank of the Saul Lieberman Institute for Talmudic...

...-Holocaust contemporary writing, Yiddish as incorporated into non-Yiddish writing is at times represented as a language of limits, untranslatability, and loss. Two recent works of literature provide case studies for the way in which Yiddish, as voice and as alphabetic image, is represented in English...

...Pavlo Shopin In this article, the author analyzes spatial metaphors for voice in the work of Herta Müller. His analysis shows how she evokes spatial experience to convey her vision of voice. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization, the author argues...

... dismantles the lyric speaker’s sovereign position and consequently uncovers the silent — and silenced — dialogic voices that are an inseparable part of the genre. The article concludes with an analysis of lyric address and the ethical role of reading, whereby readers are implicated in the process of forced...

...Korina Giaxoglou Abstract Illness stories have been celebrated as a resource for giving patients voice from the active position of the wounded storyteller . The proliferating research on illness stories, however, has often reproduced a reductionist approach to narrative as a window to subjective...

..., 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...

...Eyal Segal Hansen Per Krogh Iversen Stefan Nielsen Henrik Skov Reitan Rolf , eds., Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2011 . vi + 268 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina...

...Francesco Ferrari [email protected] Idit Alphandary , Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2024 . 217 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024...

..., in the doubly coded (embedded) section, the subordination of one voice to the other voice is so extreme that the section can be likened to a duet sung by one voice. This hierarchical relation in which the materiality of the representation is fully controlled by the embedding voice permits a filmmaker or visual...

... resides precisely in this synergy of narrative and exegesis. As exegesis, it creates new meanings from the biblical verses, and as narrative, it dramatizes those meanings by means of the biblical story world. The concurrent presence of two distinct voices, biblical and rabbinic, as well as two distinct...

...Rebecca Fasselt This article considers how postcolonial narratives written partly in the first-person plural collective voice reflect recent critical developments in postcolonial studies rather than echoing the outmoded “writing back” paradigm. Even colonial texts such as Joseph Conrad's The Nigger...

... “contamination” of narrators’ speech by characters’ speech have long nuanced our understanding of quoted speech as always being read as purely diegetic. The article suggests how a reader’s stance toward a narrator’s voice can be mirrored by a similarly dialogically positioned pair of diegetic characters...

... hybridization as the simultaneous existence of several voices represented by a mixture of multiple prosodic structures, each referring to a different set of poetic and ideological conventions. Considering examples from Emily Dickinson and Guillaume Apollinaire, I develop a method of analyzing the dialogical...

... by connecting characters in different locations. This article argues that the technical capabilities of different communication systems, when represented within a novel's story world, help determine the forms of plot, characterization, and narrative voice that a novelist can feasibly present. To demonstrate...

... highlighting the fictive status of this figure. Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada does this by first building up the heteronym of Yasusada, then systematically effacing him as he himself adopts a variety of other voices and personae. The Yasusada poems also serve to expand the range...

... as an archive of trauma stories and set off against other forms of autobiographical discourse, on the one hand, and legal testimonies, on the other. It is argued that its specific value lies in forging a transgenerational link between the faces and voices of victims and those who listen to them, thus...

... a homogeneous, metonymic image for the totality of life under Communism. In The Prague Orgy , Roth situates himself in stark opposition to the representational practices of Milan Kundera by resisting the easy sensationalism of such “writing for the West.” Roth prefers to give voice to an array of internal Czech...

... and determining their spatiotemporal coordinates and quantity. Similar to concepts of temporality, questions of experiencing and narrating subject(ivity), that is, “focalizer” and “voice,” are discussed in (quasi-)physical terms of space, time, and quantity. This inevitably leads us to ask whether a conceptual...