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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (3): 471–516.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Ann Banfield Virginia Woolf's experiments begin with Impressionism. But knowing Roger Fry's criticism of Impressionism as analyzing commonsense appearances but destroying design, she adopted Fry's dualist aesthetic. Paul Cézanne's“Post-Impressionism” constructed a geometry in Impressionism's...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (1): 101–116.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Megan Quigley This article argues for a “resolute reading” of Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out , akin to Cora Diamond and James Conant’s reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . The resolute approach to the Tractatus contends that we should embrace Wittgenstein’s assertion...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 501–568.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., classification, and judgment. The components are interconnected in that all are value-laden or interest-driven. Three independent sets of data concerning the reception of Virginia Woolf were collected to bring out different parts of these components and changes therein. Karl Erik Rosengren's mention technique...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 251–284.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Marco Caracciolo This essay argues against the prevalent view of the aesthetics implicit in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse . It is an aesthetics of closure, an attempt to make “of the moment something permanent” (Woolf 2000a [1927]: 176), which is usually associated (as are Woolf's own...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Marco Caracciolo Abstract In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101–12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers of temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them “monumental” time and “mortal” time. The former is connected with authority and British imperial...
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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... monologue. The article concentrates on a detailed analysis of examples in novels by D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2009 Narratorial Border Crossings in Major Early-Twentieth-Century English Novels H. M...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (3): 429–454.
Published: 01 September 2022
... narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters’ movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), restricted to a single location but encompassing thirty-two years of time. To enrich...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (1): 159–181.
Published: 01 February 2018
...), and the linguistic proprieties of inherited novelistic genres, types, and forms (which are themselves mediations of sociality). These categories are exemplified through an analysis of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927). Copyright © 2018 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2018 Style in the Novel...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (3): 527–570.
Published: 01 September 2007
...: Clarendon). Bostridge, Mark 2004 Lives for Sale: Biographer's Tales (London: Continuum). Boswell, James 1953 [1791] Life of Johnson (London: Oxford University Press). Briggs, Julia, 1995 “ Virginia Woolf and the `Proper Writing of Lives,' ” in Batchelor 1995: 245 -65. Clifford, James...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 171–201.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway, Peter Walsh spots a pretty woman on a London sidewalk and, feeling a sudden I wish to thank Suzanne Keen, Meir Sternberg, Eyal Segal, and the readers for Poetics Today for their wise editorial suggestions. Thanks also to Cathy Kerr for many fruitful discussions...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Hall, H.D., Margaret Goldsmith, and Frederick Voight, as well as the Woolfs and Bertrand and Dora Russell.” 14. Additional biographical information is taken from Patai’s introductions to the reissued novels, where she documents 1980s conversations with Burdekin’s unnamed surviving partner...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 573–578.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own to suggest that one of the tragedies of women’s lives has been the opposite of solitude: the constant noise and interruption of domestic responsibilities and chatter?5 Can we not take Malcolm X’s autobiography to suggest that one of the tragedies of being black...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (3): 523–542.
Published: 01 September 2018
... ). Tsur Reuven . 2000 “ Picture Poetry, Mannerism, Sign Relationships ,” Poetics Today 21 , no. 4 : 751 – 81 . Verhelst Peter . 2016 [2013] The Man I Became , translated by Colmer David ( London : Peirene ). Woolf Virginia . 1981 [1925] Mrs. Dalloway ( New York...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 641–674.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America ( Princeton : Princeton University Press ). Williams Michael J. S. 1988 A World of Words: Language and Displacement in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press ). Woolf...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (2): 363–385.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to capture and communicate a fundamentally nonnarrative experience of reality (Meretoja 2014 : 14–15). Especially avant-garde writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, or Alain Robbe-Grillet chose fragmentation and collage as they worked toward and explored the possibilities of an understanding...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (1-2): 117–171.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in the Modern Novel: A Study of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, William Faulkner, and Others ( Berkeley : University of California Press ). Jauss Hans Robert 1982 “ Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory ,” in Towards an Aesthetics of Reception , translated...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (3): 639.
Published: 01 September 2003
... 2003 Notes on Contributors Ann Banfield teaches literature and linguistics in the English Department at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Unspeakable Sentences: Narra- tion and Representation in the Language of Fiction and The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (3): 563–564.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Massachusetts. Tony E. Jackson is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Char- lotte, where he teaches literary theory, modern British literature, film, and history of the novel. He is the author of The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad,Woolf...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 263–264.
Published: 01 March 2000
...- ture, Women’s Studies, Sagetrieb, American Letters and Commentary, Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts (1996) and H. D. and Poets After (2000). Lilach Lachman is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Called, her book of poems, ap...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of The Subject of Modernism: Narrative Alterations in the Fiction of Eliot, Conrad,Woolf, and Joyce He has published previously in Poetics Today as well as in Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, SubStance, Twentieth- Century Literature, Clio, Genre, Narrative, and Literature/Film Quarterly. His...