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Poetics Today (2009) 30 (3): 517–560.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Karen Sullivan Representational and nonrepresentational (abstract) artists exhibit different conceptual processes when they describe their work. Data from ekphrastic texts written by artists to accompany their artwork show that, although both kinds of painters refer metaphorically to their art...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 265–285.
Published: 01 June 2018
... landscapes of our digital age. Against the backdrop of intermediality theory, my functional analysis of the cultural work of ekphrasis builds its argument on the analysis of three novels: No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014), Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2013), and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011). I...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (4): 673–688.
Published: 01 December 2004
... visuality and its implications may be traced. In a culture caught between the forces of globalization and its own attempts at modernization, such as contemporary China's, Zhang's work contributes to an ethics of what may be called postvisuality. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Anne Line Dalsgård Abstract Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's observation that practice is not in time but makes time and Michael Flaherty's concept of time work, this article explores temporal aspects of the use of literature in contemporary Denmark and describes how reading allows readers...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 866–867.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of postmodernism and its relation to modernism.
Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv
John Hollander, The Work of Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, xii +
pp.
Hollander’s book consists of twenty-three essays written in the course of
twenty years, beginning...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 357–359.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Eyal Segal New Books at a Glance
Gérard Genette, The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence.Translated by G. M.
Goshgarian. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, vii + pp.
Gérard Genette, The Aesthetic Relation. Translated by G. M. Goshgarian. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, xi...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (3): 485–518.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Historical Poetics and the morphological method have at different points been accused of favoring atomizing analysis over aesthetic appreciation. This putative inability to grasp the work of art as a totality is a taint that literary theory inherited from nineteenth-century philology, whose mission...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (4): 711–722.
Published: 01 December 2006
...H. Porter Abbott Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Alan Richardson and Ellen Spolsky, eds., The Work of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, and Complexity . Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xvi + 191 pp. Abbott, H. Porter 2001 “Scientists, Humanists, and the Cultural...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 641–668.
Published: 01 December 2020
...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...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 310–312.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Eyal Segal Koblížek Tomáš , Kotátko Petr , and Pokorný Martin , eds., Text + Work: The Menard Case . Prague : Litteraria Pragensia , 2013 . 152 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance
Sabina Schenk, Running and Clicking...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (4): 731–737.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Brian McHale Hampton Timothy , Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work . New York : Zone Books , 2019 . 277 pp. Renza Louis , Dylan’s Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965–1967 . New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2017 ; paperback, 2019. xvii + 192...
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My Leader, Myself? Pictorial Estrangement and Aesopian Language in the Late Work of Kazimir Malevich
Poetics Today (2006) 27 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to figuration. My analysis attempts to unpack this about-face and address the many questions that surround it. How does Malevich's late work relate to the regime of Socialist Realism? Was his return to figuration a conversion, an aesthetic rethinking, or a calculated move? I argue that this return was designed...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 697–703.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Tony E. Jackson Ciccoricco David , Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2015 . x + 317 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Stories, New Explanations:
Cognitive Literary Studies at Work
Tony E. Jackson...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (1-2): 89–110.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Katherine Kruger Abstract Changes to working life and retirement are reshaping temporalities of aging. This essay identifies a growing interest by women writers in the narrative possibilities these changes present. Examining the relation between narrative form, aging, and precarious work in Deborah...
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Leona Toker Literary testimony combines the pragmatic function of attesting to historical events with the aesthetic function that becomes marked after their function as testimony has become redundant. Whereas the social identity of the target audience addressed impinges upon the shape of the work...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (3): 473–523.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Daniel Allington Literature has at times been theorized in terms of a message passing from author to reader, and this has often been done by reference to general theories of language use: the work is the vehicle of intentions that are realized (or not) in the reader's responses; the work...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (1): 17–50.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Joseph Tabbi Electronic literature is not just a “thing” or a “medium” or even a body of “works” in various “genres.” It is not poetry, fiction, hypertext, gaming, codework, or some new admixture of all these practices. E-literature is, arguably, an emerging cultural form, as much a collective...
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Poetics Today (2022) 43 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Christopher Patrick Miller Abstract Indeterminacy is a term that has been asked to do a lot of work for literary and cultural criticism. For strictly formalist critics, it might be the quality of a text or artwork that both preserves useful ambiguity and invites participation from respondents...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (4): 735–758.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of the accuracy, structure, and accessibility of his work. Lack of such control was, in a sense, an extension of the Gulag prisoners' inability, despite their best-laid plans, to rule their own fate—a theme explored in Shalamov's story “A Piece of Meat.” One of Shalamov's last acts in the struggle for the control...
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