Poetics Today

Papers
(The TQCC of Poetics Today is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes on Contributors22
The Literature of Absolute War: Transnationalism and World War II13
Notes on Contributors9
Poiesis as Decision Making: Shklovsky, Tynianov, Bakhtin8
The Rhetorics of Plot Function: Henry James's ficelle, Vladimir Nabokov's “Perry,” and James Phelan's “Synthetic Function” Reconsidered6
Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology6
Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition6
Notes on Contributors5
The Affective Dominant: Affective Crisis and Contemporary Fiction5
Applied Poetics4
Sites of Indeterminacy in Lisa Robertson3
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology3
Notes on Contributors2
Mixing Comics and Literature in Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies2
Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather2
Do Poems about Guns Make Guns Poetic?2
Reading Times: Temporalities and Time Work in Current Everyday Reading Practices2
Hybridity and the Unifying Space of Painting: Larry Abramson in Conversation with Theolonius Marx2
Ron Silliman's Universe: Aging, Epic Poetry, and Everyday Life2
The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds2
Writing as Deletion, Erasure as Inscription: Life, Death, and Afterlife in Sayed Kashua's Track Changes1
Thought Experiments, Literary Fiction, and Science Fiction: The Example of Isaac Asimov's Robot Cycle1
Big Books in Times of Big Data1
Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction1
Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions1
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film1
Picking Your Professor: Bridging Scholarly and Popular Bookish Publics in the Digital Age1
A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies: Older Women's Responses to Dimitri Verhulst's NovellaMadame Verona Comes Down the Hill1
The Double Topology: Reflections on the Function and History of Literary Topoi1
On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing1
Assessing Narrative Space: From Setting to Narrative Environments1
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies1
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry1
Rhetorical Narrative Theory and the Act of Telling: Reflections on the Search for a New Paradigm1
Visual Metaphors: On the Linguistic Structure of Hybrid Creatures in Art1
The Author's Second Death0
Cinema of Senescence: Old Age, Slow Cinema, and Form0
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire0
How to Build a Hybrid: The Structure of Imagination0
Rhythm: Form and DispossessionModernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics0
“Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages0
Hermeneutics after Ricoeur0
Historical Discourse and Narrativity0
Lists, Vignettes, Enumerations: Contemporary Life Writing and the Gesture of Refusal toward Narrative0
Introduction: Time and Narrative, the Missing Link between the “Narrative Turn” and Postclassical Narratology?0
Reading, Fast and Slow0
Notes on Contributors0
Telling Time: A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Order0
AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent MachinesImagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines0
Reading Ambient Literature: Immersion, Distraction, and the Situated Reading Experience0
Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative0
Borges and AI0
Die Geschichte(n) gefalteter Bücher. Leporellos, Livres-accordéon und Folded Panoramas in Literatur und bildender Kunst. [The (Hi)stories of Folded Books. Leporellos, Livres-accordéon, and Folded Pano0
Narratology Talks to the Talking Cure in Persuasion0
Free Verse and Prose Rhythm0
Canon Studies in China: Traditions, Modernization, and Revisions in the Global Context0
A Rending and a Raising: Ecstatic Religiosity and Textual Renewal in J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Trilogy0
“You Go First, You Kaza!”: Using Casting and Intertextuality to Rewrite Myth in the Miniseries Eagles0
The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism0
Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter0
When the Adaptation Reveals the Original: Comparative Analysis of Series and National Ethos0
Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis0
Notes on Contributors0
Conversations with No One0
Intertextuality and Tradition0
Narrative Factuality: A Handbook0
How Two Distant Strangers Exposes the Racial Blind Spots of the Involuntary Time Loop0
Introduction0
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology0
Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age0
Introduction0
What Rhymes withMisogyny? Rossetti, Dickinson, and Plath at Rhyme's Limit0
Notes on Contributors0
Reading in the Age of Compression0
Notes on Contributors0
Wittgenstein's Tractatus as Poetic Philosophy and Philosophical Poetics0
Doing the Reading: The Decline of Long Long-Form Reading in Higher Education0
Facsimile Machines0
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus0
We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction0
Making TV in the Age of Streaming: An Interview with Hagai Levi0
Mimesis and Experience: A Platonic Perspective on Ricoeur'sTime and Narrative0
AI Comes for the Author0
Another Way to Tell the News, Another Way to Read the News: Immersion and Information in Narrative Journalism0
On the Theory of Prose0
At War with Stories: A Vernacular Critique of the Storytelling Boom from American Military Veterans0
Notes on Contributors0
Introduction: Serial Television in the Age of Streaming0
Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel0
“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves0
Visual Hybrids as Constitutive Rhetorical Acts: Rhetorical Interplay between Unity and Difference0
The Endless Hustle; or, Saul Goodman Out of Time0
Why Monsters Are Dangerous0
Notes on Contributors0
LLMs and the Amazing Shrinking University0
“To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson'sThe Beauty of the Husband0
Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times0
Modes of Intelligence0
Narrative as Social Action: Making Rhetorical Narrative Theory Accountable to Context0
What Science Can't Know: On Scientific Objectivity and the Human Subject0
Notes on Contributors0
Serial Time and Finance Capital in Anthony Trollope and HBO's Succession0
Playful Poetics: Metareferential Interfaces in Recent Indie Games0
Notes on Contributors0
Another Look at Retrospection: The Backward Movement of the Narrative Unconscious0
Fictitious Meals, Culinary Constraints: The Recipe Form in Four Oulipian Texts0
Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969–820
Notes on Contributors0
The AI Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Profession0
“Don't Ban AI from Your Writing Classroom; Require It!”0
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis0
The Ideal Narratee and the Rhetorical Model of Audiences0
United We ’Gram: Scrolling through the Assimilated Aesthetics of Instapoetry0
The Detached Self0
The Poetics and Politics of Custom: Law, Literature, and Time0
Magical Monsters: Hybrids and Witchcraft in Early Modern Art0
Co-opting Small Stories on Social Media: A Narrative Analysis of the Directive of Authenticity0
Narrative Forms of Adaptation, Retreat, and Mitigation in Richard Ford'sLet Me Be Frank with You0
Only Persons Intend0
Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom0
Forms of Poetic AttentionPoetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida0
Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility0
New Towers of Babel: Faith and Doubt in the Future of Translation0
Reversing the Oedipal Reading Practice: Interpellation, Enigmas of Reading, and John Barth's The Floating Opera0
Poetic Thinking Today: An Essay0
Visual Hybrids and Nonconceptual Aesthetic Perception0
Small Stories in Charity Fundraising Letters and the Ethics of Interwoven Individualism0
Memory Ideologies of Two Presents: Aatami Kuortti's Testimonies of the Gulag and Soviet Terror of Ingrian Finns0
Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups0
L'idée de la littérature. De l'art pour l'art aux écritures d'intervention0
Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn0
Down in the Metamodernist Plain: Tracing a Twenty-First-Century Structure of Feeling in the Reception of NW and How to Be Both0
From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views0
An Unreality Effect: Simile in Flaubert's Madame Bovary0
Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives0
Facilitating Reading Engagement in Shared Reading0
Jan Mukařovský: Écrits 1928–19460
Notes on Contributors0
ChatGPT and the Territory of Contemporary Narratology; or, A Rhetorical River Runs through It0
Making Known Again: The Rhetorical Function of Anagnorisis in Georges Perec'sLa disparition0
A Brief History ofO!0
The Haunting Poetics of May Ayim's “die zeit danach” (1995) and Ada Diagne's “Der Sturm” (2021)0
Toward a Foucauldian Literary Criticism0
Meter and Performance0
Configuration and Emplotment: Converging or Opposite Paradigms for Storytelling?0
The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition0
Tropes of Jewish Humor in Women-Led Digital Streaming Productions (2010 – 2019)0
What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections0
Emplotment beyond the Human Scale: On Deep Time and Narrative Nonlinearity0
Queer Futures for an Aging Planet0
The Sound of the Reel in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters0
Kakokairos: A Not-Altogether-Unserious Theory of Time, Language, and Autism0
Social Reading? On the Rise of a “Bookish” Reading Culture Online0
Phantoms of Citation: AI and the Death of the Author-Function0
Are Large Language Models Literary Critics?0
So Typical! Philip Roth's Age Stereotypes0
Social Networking Sites as Contexts for Uses of Narrative: Toward a Story-Critical Approach to Digital Environments0
The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki'sDiary of a Mad Old Man0
Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster0
Editors’ Note0
Notes on Contributors0
To Move, to Touch, to Listen: Multisensory Aspects of the Digital Reading Condition0
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel0
What Is an Artificial Author?0
Dementia, Language, and Performative Force: The Case of Laughter0
Where Is This Now, Now?: Gertrude Stein's Literary Innovations and New Sound Media0
Introduction: Forms of Aging0
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