...Dirk de Geest; An Goris This article broadens the concept of “constrained writing” by applying it to a less prestigious domain of literature, namely, popular romance novels. In order to find out how constraints play a role in writing and publishing such commercial texts, a corpus of handbooks...

...Claudine Raynaud © 2001 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2001 Under Scrutiny: Blueprints for Self-Writing Claudine Raynaud English, François-Rabelais, Tours Philippe Lejeune, Pour l’autobiographie. Paris: Seuil, pp. Philippe Lejeune, Les brouillons de soi...

... for such constructions may be not the global literary commerce envisioned by Goethe and adopted by Karl Marx, not the romantic tradition of poets as world legislators, and not the current model of a “world republic of letters.” The model adopted in this essay, rather, is the literary practice of writing under constraint...

... literature. The essay presents, first, some aspects of the genre, which is less simple or homogeneous than may appear. Second, it discusses a seminal article that has opened the mainly form-oriented domain of constrained writing to the broader field of cultural and institutional constraints: R. A. Peterson's...

...Eyal Segal Houen Alex , Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . viii + 282 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in British...

... Palestine Sayed Kashua Athazagoraphobia terror management theory ongoing Nakba Sayed Kashua (b. 1975) belongs to a small group of Palestinian authors who write in Hebrew. Born in the village of Tira located in the central region of Israel, Kashua studied in the local Arabic-speaking Palestinian...

... DOI 10.1215/03335372-4184434 Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten, eds., A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field 1982 – 1998. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. x 1 464 pp. This “guide” is an anthology of texts that were published in the ten issues of Poetics...

...Hana Wirth-Nesher Abraham Cahan's first English novel, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto , is a multilingual narrative whose literary strategies bear the marks of both Yiddish language and literature and American local color writing at the end of the nineteenth century. This article examines two...

.... ). Scott Walter 1994 [1818] The Heart of Midlothian . Edited by Inglis Tony ( Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin ). Crowds in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Historical Writing Alan Palmer Independent Scholar Adam Stier Lake Erie College Abstract An internalist perspective...

...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...

... texts,” which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the essay argues, this standard expectation will shift—first, from the immediate assumption of human authorship to, second, a creeping doubt: did...

... narrativity essayistic life writing story-critical affordances lists enumerations Life resumes when narrativity ceases. Robert Scholes, Semiotics and Interpretation It is especially since the emergence of what has been called a “post-truth mentality” (Mäkelä et al. 2021 : 147) which...

...N. Katherine Hayles [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  ChatGPT writing classroom algorithmic culture requirement The release of OpenAI's ChatGPT is a game changer for college and university teachers worried about...

..., accessible, and sophisticated at the same time. Shteynbarg's Mesholim ( Fables ; 1932) and Manger's Khumesh-lider ( Bible Poems ; 1935) created a sovereign space for spoken Yiddish where all communication occurred in the mother tongue. Even while the oral-based writings of Sholem Aleichem and Peretz were...

...Brian Richardson Birke Dorothee , Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2016 . xi + 256 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 ...

...Galia Yanoshevsky The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it aims to survey the abundant writings on manifesto. The study of existing definitions reflects the diffuse frontiers, even the confusion, among the political, the artistic, and the literary manifesto to a point where, besides...

...Richard Deming This article investigates the philosophical implications intrinsic to writing that expressly uses constraints and that thereby intentionally limits an author's freedom. Constrained writing imposes formal conditions and strictures as a response to the existential angst—aesthetic...

...Jan Baetens; Jean-Jacques Poucel Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 Constrained Writing: An Annotated Bibliography of Research Jan Baetens University of Louvain, Cultural Studies Jean-Jacques Poucel Yale University, French This annotated bibliography...

...Matthew Kirschenbaum [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  AI ChatGPT word processing writing text authorship labor Lately I am reminded of a pen-and-ink drawing tendered by the prolific science fiction author John Varley...

... in the modernist era, for on the margins of mainstream modernism were“alternative” machines, machines of reproduction and simulation—writing-machines, imaging-machines, duplicating-machines—such as those of Alfred Jarry, Marcel Duchamp, Franz Kafka, and,especially, Raymond Roussel. Such machines have proliferated...