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{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578569","url":null,"abstract":"Other| September 01 2023 Notes on Contributors Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 503–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578569 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Notes on Contributors. Poetics Today 1 September 2023; 44 (3): 503–504. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578569 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsPoetics Today Search Advanced Search Natalya Bekhta is senior research fellow at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, where she is working on a book project called “After Utopia: A World-Literary Reconstruction of the former ‘Second World.’ ” Her research interests currently combine narratology, world-literary theory, and contemporary Ukrainian fiction. Her previous monograph, We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction (2020), won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for its contribution to the study of narrative.J. H. Crone is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Sydney who teaches literary studies and creative writing. Crone is the author of Our Lady of the Fence Post (2016).Ewan James Jones is associate professor in English at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on prosody, nineteenth-century poetry, and intellectual history. His second monograph, The Turn of Rhythm, is forthcoming.Jeremy Lowenthal writes on the ways twentieth-century developments... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Rhymes with <i>Misogyny</i>? Rossetti, Dickinson, and Plath at Rhyme's Limit","authors":"Chris Townsend","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578471","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Historical poetics often seeks to read “from the inside out,” to understand form's history by starting with the features of form themselves. In that sense, it is uniquely placed to understand the intersections of poetics and politics, and to uncover the places where rhythmic features intersect with issues of power. This essay shows that one particular feature of form—terminal rhyme—has had a peculiar and troubling closeness to strains of critical misogyny: on the one hand, rhyme is sometimes deemed “unmanly” or unserious, yet there is also a history of maligning women poets for being bad rhymers, and not feminine enough. Beginning with what may seem like the opposite school to historical poetics—the contextless “Practical Criticism” exercises of New Criticism—it makes the case for a close attention to rhyme types and rhyme practices within politically aware critical reading and explores unorthodox approaches to rhyme in three exemplary poets: Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative Factuality: A Handbook","authors":"Ansgar Nünning","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578555","url":null,"abstract":"This handbook is the result of an ambitious, interdisciplinary, and pioneering project, in that it not only opens new horizons for the study of the wide field of factual narratives across disciplines and various media, but it also charts important new trajectories for narrative theory at large. Although narratology has branched out in many interesting and new ways during the past two decades or so, it has traditionally been mainly concerned with literary or narrative fiction rather than with manifestations of narrative in nonfictional domains such as historiography, law, medicine, politics, or sociology. While various domains, forms, and functions of factual or reality-focused narratives have recently received some attention, most notably in a volume entitled Wirklichkeitserzählungen (edited by the German narrative theorists Christian Klein and Matías Martinez in 2009), the wide range of uses of narratives to convey facts and true information have still not been studied as comprehensively and systematically as literary narratives, and as they no doubt deserve to be.Although the present volume was originally conceived of as a “reference work for the PhD students of the graduate school” entitled “Factual and Fictional Narration” (which is situated at the University of Freiburg, from which this project originates), the aims and scope of this handbook are so broad that it can indeed “claim a wider audience among narratologists and literary scholars thanks to its topical and innovative focus on factuality” (2), as the two editors observe in their excellent introduction. This impressive tome of a handbook contains no fewer than fifty-one articles or chapters written by a team of fifty-seven researchers from a wide range of disciplines.Since any attempt to provide an overview of such a large number of articles within the constraints of a review is doomed to failure, a reviewer can only be grateful to the editors for the excellent job they have done in their splendid introduction. Their introduction is, arguably, a model to be emulated by editors of other handbooks and collections of essays for at least three reasons. First, the editors manage to discuss and clarify the key concepts around which the articles that follow revolve, providing lucid definitions of such terms as facts and factuality, narrative and narrativity. Second, they explore the reasons for the relative neglect of factual or nonfictional narrative, while also delineating the main developments and interdisciplinary influences that have contributed to the recent emergence of factuality as an innovative focus in narrative studies. Third, they provide a concise overview of both the structure of the volume and the key issues and topics covered in its five main sections. Therefore, readers who lack the time to closely read the 733 densely packed pages are advised to begin by carefully scrutinizing the extremely informative and rich introduction, coauthored by editors Monika Fludernik and Marie","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter","authors":"Marina Tarlinskaja","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578443","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay researches how Robert Frost's poems “are made.” It offers new methodologies of analyzing stressing, the main constituent of poetic rhythm. Frost's iambic tetrameter is the material of analysis. The formula of entropy is used to measure the rhythmical diversity of texts. The essay also follows the distribution of word boundaries and syntactic breaks in poetic texts. Word boundaries and syntactic breaks are two more constituents of poetic rhythm. The conclusions are: (1) Frost's late poems are rhythmically more diverse than his early poems, and (2) the rhythmical structure of lines also depends on the narrative and thematic features of the poems. Similar features had been discovered in Russian poetry. Further research might show if these are poetic universals.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Free Verse and Prose Rhythm","authors":"J. H. Crone","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578457","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Free verse and prose rhythms, by definition, do not have metrical organizing schemes, but does this mean that rhythm in free verse or prose poems is like speech or prose rhythm? Taking up these questions debated since the advent of modernist free verse more than one hundred years ago, this essay draws on recent critical literary and linguistic findings to formulate a new method for scanning and comparing rhythm in English-language free verse and prose genres. The comparison of six texts suggests that in poetic free verse or prose texts rhythm constructs information-rich, multilevel, context-specific semantic systems in a way that does not occur in the nonpoetic texts. These results contest persisting prosodic theories that free verse and prose poetry are largely written in prose, and suggest that rhythm is a more important generic marker of the poetic function than lineation is.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in <i>House of Leaves</i>","authors":"T. J. Martinson","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578513","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines epigenetic relations through the study of “blankness” in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000). The novel's experimental form, as well as the eponymous House on Ash Tree Lane, provide particularly productive models for envisioning the structural and mutative agency of immaterial relations responsible for epigenesis, or the molecular signals that alter genetic expression. To examine the agency of blankness as it applies across literary theory and epigenesis, this essay borrows from science studies, new materialisms, biosemiotics, new formalisms, and Derridean deconstruction to offer an interdisciplinary hermeneutics deemed “epigenetic formalism” by which to better conceive of a network—whether biological or literary—whose form absorbs its environmental milieu via the agency of blankness. In this way, examining epigenesis alongside House of Leaves allows for crucial insight into the relationality and formal composition of the human genome, as well as insight into the relationality and composition of forms in a literary text.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Rending and a Raising: Ecstatic Religiosity and Textual Renewal in J. M. Coetzee's <i>Jesus</i> Trilogy","authors":"Ian Tan","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578499","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay considers the abstract aesthetics of J. M. Coetzee's Jesus trilogy—The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus, and The Death of Jesus—as emphasizing the pertinence of the religious in terms of a rupturing of an ontotheological vision of the world. It analyzes Coetzee's employment of religious allegory in the trilogy as a commentary on the birth of religious consciousness that finds its ultimate meaning in an opening out of hermetic experience toward social community and unthematizable singularity. Using Jean-Luc Nancy's ideas of Christianity as a deconstructive event and the ecstatic sense of the world, this essay traces the thematic cohesion of the trilogy in terms of an understanding of divinity that provides an atheological grounding of phenomenological sense. This reading not only emphasizes Coetzee's turn toward a “leaner” style in his late writing as the mark of a unique novelistic outlook toward the pertinence of transcendence in a postsecular world, but also engages with previous readings of allegory in Coetzee's work to posit a different understanding of allegory to be a conscious textual choice that both separates and ties together “fallen” temporality and the redemptive potentialities of literature, resulting in a sense of reality that stubbornly leads outside of it.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel","authors":"Natalya Bekhta","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578527","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article intervenes in the current debates that revolve around the possibility of imagining and narrating utopian projects and alternative futures. Very often these debates culminate in the diagnosis that the future is too complex to be adequately represented in narrative form and that the imagination more generally is in crisis. To move beyond what increasingly seems like an impasse in this theoretical discourse, the author suggests that the inquiry should take into account the heterogeneity of futural visions across the world-literary field by shifting the focus from its core regions to the semi-periphery. Reframing the problem of the future as that of collective action rather than of complexity, the author proposes that the perceived failure of narrative imagination is, in fact, an expression of the generic limits of the novel, limits that are particularly visible on the world-literary semi-periphery. To illustrate these points, the author offers an analysis of Taras Antypovych's Khronos (2011) and discusses how the pervasive concern with the future structurally manifests itself in the contemporary Ukrainian novel as a lack of transformative collective agency.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sound of the Reel in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters","authors":"Jeremy Lowenthal","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10578485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10578485","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents a mediacentric reading of the autobiographical-lyric (auto-lyric) sound structures of Ted Hughes's 1998 poetry collection Birthday Letters, which broke his decades-long silence on the controversies surrounding his life with and after Sylvia Plath. It explores how Hughes's poems of bereavement adapt the media logics of film, tape, record, and radio not only to understand trauma's complex psychology but also to textually remediate his lost connection with his beloved dead. Rendering Hughes's traumas audible by way of phonotextual analysis, this essay ultimately forwards an ear-sighted approach to poetry of trauma, wherein traumatic memories are often written down to be sounded out by the reading voice and heard—not seen—accordingly.","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135346634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age","authors":"Nathaniel A. Windon","doi":"10.1215/03335372-10342211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10342211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46669,"journal":{"name":"POETICS TODAY","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66134022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}