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Papers

(The TQCC of Poetics Today is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry	27
The Affective Dominant: Affective Crisis and Contemporary Fiction	16
Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives	13
Visual Metaphors: On the Linguistic Structure of Hybrid Creatures in Art	9
Narratology Talks to the Talking Cure in Persuasion	6
Rhetorical Narrative Theory and the Act of Telling: Reflections on the Search for a New Paradigm	5
The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki'sDiary of a Mad Old Man	5
Intentionally Signaled Lying or Tenorless Metaphor? Comparing Two Rhetorical Conceptions of Fictionality through Lauren Slater's Lying	3
Making Known Again: The Rhetorical Function of Anagnorisis in Georges Perec'sLa disparition	3
What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections	3
So Typical! Philip Roth's Age Stereotypes	2
Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter	2
“Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages	2
Notes on Contributors	2
Are Large Language Models Literary Critics?	2
Fictitious Meals, Culinary Constraints: The Recipe Form in Four Oulipian Texts	2
The Circumstantial View of Life: Narrative and the Novelistic Peripeteia	2
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel	2
What Rhymes withMisogyny? Rossetti, Dickinson, and Plath at Rhyme's Limit	1
A Rending and a Raising: Ecstatic Religiosity and Textual Renewal in J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Trilogy	1
Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups	1
“Don't Ban AI from Your Writing Classroom; Require It!”	1
ChatGPT and the Territory of Contemporary Narratology; or, A Rhetorical River Runs through It	1
Dementia, Language, and Performative Force: The Case of Laughter	1
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology	1

How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism	1
Rhythm: Form and DispossessionModernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics	1
The Haunting Poetics of May Ayim's “die zeit danach” (1995) and Ada Diagne's “Der Sturm” (2021)	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Introduction	1
Notes on Contributors	1
LLMs and the Amazing Shrinking University	1
Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather	1
Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn	1
Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis	1
From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views	1
Canon Studies in China: Traditions, Modernization, and Revisions in the Global Context	1
Narrative as Social Action: Making Rhetorical Narrative Theory Accountable to Context	1
Forms of Poetic AttentionPoetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida	1
Modes of Intelligence	1