Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578569
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578471
Chris Townsend
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578555
Ansgar Nünning
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
这本手册是一个雄心勃勃的、跨学科的、开拓性的项目的结果，因为它不仅为跨学科和各种媒体的事实叙事的广泛领域的研究开辟了新的视野，而且还为整个叙事理论绘制了重要的新轨迹。尽管叙事学在过去二十年左右的时间里以许多有趣的新方式分支出来，但它传统上主要关注文学或叙事小说，而不是在史学、法律、医学、政治或社会学等非虚构领域的叙事表现。虽然事实或以现实为中心的叙事的各种领域、形式和功能最近受到了一些关注，最引人注目的是题为Wirklichkeitserzählungen的一卷(由德国叙事理论家克里斯蒂安·克莱因和Matías马丁内斯于2009年编辑)，但叙事传达事实和真实信息的广泛用途仍然没有像文学叙事那样得到全面和系统的研究，毫无疑问，它们应该得到这样的研究。虽然本卷最初被设想为“研究生院博士生的参考书”，题为“事实和虚构的叙述”(该项目起源于弗赖堡大学)，但这本手册的目的和范围是如此广泛，以至于它确实可以“在叙事学家和文学学者中拥有更广泛的受众，这要归功于它对事实的主题和创新关注”(2)。正如两位编辑在他们精彩的介绍中所指出的那样。这本令人印象深刻的大部头手册包含不少于51篇文章或章节，由来自广泛学科的57名研究人员组成的团队编写。由于任何试图在审稿的限制下提供如此大量文章的概览都注定要失败，审稿人只能感谢编辑在精彩的介绍中所做的出色工作。可以说，它们的介绍是其他手册和文集编辑效仿的一个模式，原因至少有三个。首先，编辑们设法讨论和澄清了接下来文章所围绕的关键概念，对事实和事实性、叙事和叙事等术语给出了清晰的定义。其次，他们探讨了事实或非虚构叙事被相对忽视的原因，同时也描述了导致事实作为叙事研究创新焦点最近出现的主要发展和跨学科影响。第三，它们提供了本卷结构和五个主要部分所涵盖的关键问题和主题的简明概述。因此，如果读者没有时间仔细阅读这本733页的密密的书，建议他们在按照自己的兴趣选择那些吸引他们各自研究领域的文章之前，先仔细阅读由Monika Fludernik和Marie-Laure Ryan编辑共同撰写的内容丰富的介绍。这本手册的结构非常清晰，对那些想要选择他们最感兴趣的主题和文章的读者非常有帮助。全集分为五个主要部分，分别由七章、十章或多达十五章组成。考虑到大多数文章令人印象深刻的质量，其中许多值得更广泛的审查，只挑出几篇来特别表扬可能是不公平的。但是，由于篇幅的限制，不可能对所有这些章节都给予适当的注意，因此，在这种情况下，只提到一些最突出的章节并集中讨论它们开辟的一些新的研究方向可能是合理的。题为“基本问题:事实和虚构”的第一部分包含十篇文章，这些文章对涉及到的术语问题进行了细致入微的讨论，这些术语涉及到事实及其与虚构叙事的复杂关系。虽然第一部分的所有章节都非常高质量，但值得特别表扬的文章包括Irina Rajewsky题为“虚构性理论及其真实他者”的讨论;Monika Fludernik权威地概述了事实叙事是如何被系统地描述和探索叙事学范畴的;Marie-Laure Ryan从术语上对事实与虚构之间的区别进行了精确的讨论，她认为这种区别“并不同样适用于所有媒体”(75);马可·卡拉乔洛对事实是否可以被视为规范问题的认知-叙事学探索;多萝西·伯克(Dorothee Birke)对读者在决定叙事是否真实方面的作用的研究。 第2节的标题“真理与参考:哲学与语言学方法”恰如其分地表明了它所关注的内容。前两章讨论了哲学中事实与真理的关系，正如编辑在引言中所观察到的那样，这“很快就会导致复杂的逻辑、认识论和本体论问题的泥潭”(3)，而第三篇文章则探讨了文学中知识、洞察力和真理概念的问题。本节接下来的三篇文章分别对哲学、文学和文学研究以及语言学中的指称概念和问题进行了详尽的分析。蒂尔曼Köppe从分析哲学的角度出发，对文学中的“参考的扩散”(263)进行了精确的术语探索，这将使从事文学研究的读者特别感兴趣。第3部分包含15篇内容丰富、可读性强的文章，探讨了各种形式和功能的事实性和事实性叙事(在某些部分也是真实性)，涉及广泛的学科和媒体，包括，例如，人类学、精神分析和心理学、社会学、宗教和法律，以及电影、新闻和广告等媒体。就各自主题的详细处理、独创性和洞察力水平而言，Stephan Jaeger对史学和历史研究中的事实性的全面概述，以及Bernhard Kleeberg对经济学事实叙事的系统调查，可以说是这些文章中最突出的。然而，后者本可以从纳入罗伯特·j·希勒(Robert J. Shiller)的开创性著作中受益，尽管这位诺贝尔奖获得者最近的专著《叙事经济学:故事如何传播并推动重大经济变革》(2019)可能出现得太晚，未能引起作者的注意。在这一部分中，我个人最喜欢的是Andreas Musloff对事实叙事和真相在政治话语中的作用的深刻而复杂的探索。Musloff正确地强调了“‘事实’和‘真相’在政治中不是中立的概念”(352)，他在阐述“基于事实的真相推定”(fact-based truth presumption)这一概念方面做得非常出色，它“反映了一种常识假设，即如果听者和听众认为说话者的话语是不正确或不真诚的，那么他们很快就会失去对说话者的注意力或核实其真实性的兴趣”(353)。他还设法对诸如政治事件是如何构建的，以及政治家如何将事件序列转化为主要叙事等复杂问题提供了新的视角。第五部分接着将重点放在文学研究领域，探讨几个关键问题，这些问题对于事实、真相和真实概念在文学和文学研究中所起的作用至关重要。本节以一篇特别令人印象深刻的学术著作开始:迈克尔·麦基恩对叙事理论和实践历史中事实和真实的作用的开创性概述。其他优秀的章节包括，例如，约翰内斯·弗兰岑的文章《事实与惯例》，詹姆斯·费兰的修辞分析《事实叙事的伦理》，斯蒂芬·艾弗森(Stefan Iversen)对最近围绕自述小说的辩论的探索，以及他对不同形式的自述实践的区分，以及莉斯贝斯·科塔尔斯·阿尔特斯(Liesbeth Korthals Altes)关于相互关联的框架行为对叙事是否被归类为事实或虚构的解释性和评估价影响的启发性假设。考虑到第5部分“不同文化和历史时期的事实和虚构”的标题所隐含的雄心勃勃的目标，这本手册的最后一部分似乎是相对折衷和稍微偶然的，特别是关于包括的文化和地区，或者更确切地说是遗漏的，这并不令人惊讶。前三章按时间顺序排列，分别考察了古代、中世纪和近代早期的事实。接下来的章节讨论了前现代中国和日本的事实叙事，古典印度和波斯叙事，中世纪阿拉伯文学，以及东非文学中的事实和虚构叙事。因为我不是这些领域的专家，所以我不愿意冒险发表任何评价性的评论;相反，我感激地承认，最后一节的九篇文章都是值得一读的。本手册结构清晰;恰当地选择撰稿人，他们都是各自领域的专家;编辑和撰稿人煞费苦心地在章节和章节之间提供了大量的交叉参考，所有这些都为这本精心构思和优雅的手册提供了高度的连贯性和统一性，这在类似的散文集中是很少发现的。 编辑们显然花了很多心思使这本书具有结构和连贯性。特别是，他们在章节之间插入的交叉引用，使读者相对容易比较对同一现象的不同方法，并梳理出微妙的共同点和差异。此外，作者还从广泛的不同学科、方法和概念观点出发，探讨了编辑在引言
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578443
Marina Tarlinskaja
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578457
J. H. Crone
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578513
T. J. Martinson
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.
摘要本文通过对Mark Z. Danielewski的《树叶之家》(House of Leaves, 2000)中“空白”一词的研究来考察表观遗传关系。小说的实验形式，以及与之同名的《灰树巷之屋》，提供了特别富有成效的模型，用于设想导致表观发生的非物质关系的结构和突变代理，或改变基因表达的分子信号。为了研究空白在文学理论和表观发生中的作用，本文借鉴了科学研究、新唯物主义、生物符号学、新形式主义和德里德里解构主义，提供了一种被认为是“表观发生形式主义”的跨学科解释学，通过这种解释学，可以更好地理解一个网络——无论是生物的还是文学的——其形式通过空白的作用吸收其环境环境。通过这种方式，与《树叶之屋》一起研究表观遗传学，可以深入了解人类基因组的关系和形式组成，以及文学文本中形式的关系和组成。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578499
Ian Tan
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578527
Natalya Bekhta
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10578485
Jeremy Lowenthal
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1215/03335372-10342211
Nathaniel A. Windon
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