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Papers

(The median citation count 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry	31
Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives	19
Visual Metaphors: On the Linguistic Structure of Hybrid Creatures in Art	17
Narratology Talks to the Talking Cure in Persuasion	9
The Aesthetics of Aging: Visual Strategies and Narrative Form in Tanizaki'sDiary of a Mad Old Man	6
Decentering Formalism: Social Lives of a Literary Theory	6
Making Known Again: The Rhetorical Function of Anagnorisis in Georges Perec'sLa disparition	5
Rhetorical Narrative Theory and the Act of Telling: Reflections on the Search for a New Paradigm	5
What Is Philology? From Crises of Reading to Comparative Reflections	5
Intentionally Signaled Lying or Tenorless Metaphor? Comparing Two Rhetorical Conceptions of Fictionality through Lauren Slater's Lying	4
Notes on Contributors	4
So Typical! Philip Roth's Age Stereotypes	3
On the Origin of Postimperial Formalism: Revolutionary Populist Ethnographers, Poetic Language, and the Energy of Liberation	3
The Circumstantial View of Life: Narrative and the Novelistic Peripeteia	3
Dementia, Language, and Performative Force: The Case of Laughter	2
Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather	2
What Rhymes withMisogyny? Rossetti, Dickinson, and Plath at Rhyme's Limit	2
Are Large Language Models Literary Critics?	2
Modes of Intelligence	2
How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism	2
Holding Hands: Intergenerational Desire in Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Ali Smith's Autumn	2
Robert Frost: Rhythmical Structure of His Iambic Tetrameter	2
“Piers Plowman” and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages	2
LLMs and the Amazing Shrinking University	2
“Probably Not Book Learned at All”: The Gender of Attentive Reading in Woolf and Lispector	2

Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology	2
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel	2
Forms of Poetic AttentionPoetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida	1
Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups	1
Rhythm: Form and DispossessionModernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics	1
“Don't Ban AI from Your Writing Classroom; Require It!”	1
Introduction	1
What Science Can't Know: On Scientific Objectivity and the Human Subject	1
Attention and the Aesthetics of Microaggression in Citizen and The White Album	1
Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies	1
Picking Your Professor: Bridging Scholarly and Popular Bookish Publics in the Digital Age	1
A Rending and a Raising: Ecstatic Religiosity and Textual Renewal in J. M. Coetzee's Jesus Trilogy	1
Narrative as Social Action: Making Rhetorical Narrative Theory Accountable to Context	1
From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall: Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Another Look at Retrospection: The Backward Movement of the Narrative Unconscious	1
AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent MachinesImagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines	1
Literary Attention: From the Twentieth Century to the Present	1
The Literature of Absolute War: Transnationalism and World War II	1
Poetics of Cohabitation: An Ecosemiotic Theory of Oral Poiesis	1
The Haunting Poetics of May Ayim's “die zeit danach” (1995) and Ada Diagne's “Der Sturm” (2021)	1
World Literature in the Soviet Union	1
ChatGPT and the Territory of Contemporary Narratology; or, A Rhetorical River Runs through It	1
Rereading Russian Formalism at the End of the Soviet Union: An Ethnography of a Literary Theory	1
Shklovsky's Theory of Parody?	1
Queer Futures for an Aging Planet	1
The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary, and the Form of Environment	1
The Humanistic Case for AI Optimism	0
New Towers of Babel: Faith and Doubt in the Future of Translation	0
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 Pano	0
Gendered, National, and Conscripted: The Policing of Attention in Anna Burns's Milkman	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Visual Hybrids as Constitutive Rhetorical Acts: Rhetorical Interplay between Unity and Difference	0
Playful Poetics: Metareferential Interfaces in Recent Indie Games	0
Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster	0
Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition	0
Cinema of Senescence: Old Age, Slow Cinema, and Form	0
Ieremiah Aizenshtok Between OPOIAZ and Ukrainian Formalism: “Ten Years of ‘OPOIAZ’ ” (1927)	0
A Postcritical Approach to Literary Aging Studies: Older Women's Responses to Dimitri Verhulst's NovellaMadame Verona Comes Down the Hill	0
When the Adaptation Reveals the Original: Comparative Analysis of Series and National Ethos	0
Do Poems about Guns Make Guns Poetic?	0
Making Sense of the Past Together: Collaborative Remembering in Cry, Mother Spain	0
Serial Time and Finance Capital in Anthony Trollope and HBO's Succession	0
Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom	0
On the Theory of Prose	0
Assessing Narrative Space: From Setting to Narrative Environments	0
United We ’Gram: Scrolling through the Assimilated Aesthetics of Instapoetry	0
Introduction: Forms of Aging	0
“To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson'sThe Beauty of the Husband	0
How Two Distant Strangers Exposes the Racial Blind Spots of the Involuntary Time Loop	0

Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Thought Experiments, Literary Fiction, and Science Fiction: The Example of Isaac Asimov's Robot Cycle	0
Russian Formalism and Trajectories of Evolution: How Viktor Shklovsky Challenged the Boundaries of Historicism	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Visual Hybrids and Nonconceptual Aesthetic Perception	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Co-opting Small Stories on Social Media: A Narrative Analysis of the Directive of Authenticity	0
L'idée de la littérature. De l'art pour l'art aux écritures d'intervention	0
Contradictory Late Styles in Djuna Barnes's Poetic Cycles, 1969–82	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Looking Through the Eyes of the Other: Sartrean Reader Consciousness	0
Only Persons Intend	0
Lists, Vignettes, Enumerations: Contemporary Life Writing and the Gesture of Refusal toward Narrative	0
What Is an Artificial Author?	0
AI Comes for the Author	0
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis	0
Borges and AI	0
Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Writing as Deletion, Erasure as Inscription: Life, Death, and Afterlife in Sayed Kashua's Track Changes	0
Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age	0
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Facsimile Machines	0
Ron Silliman's Universe: Aging, Epic Poetry, and Everyday Life	0
“The Utter Blankness Found Within”: Epigenetic Formalism in House of Leaves	0
How to Build a Hybrid: The Structure of Imagination	0
The AI Revolution: Speculations on Authorship, Pedagogy, and the Future of the Profession	0
Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times	0
Russian Quantitative Formalism and Modern-Day Digital Corpora	0
Kakokairos: A Not-Altogether-Unserious Theory of Time, Language, and Autism	0
Reversing the Oedipal Reading Practice: Interpellation, Enigmas of Reading, and John Barth's The Floating Opera	0
Attention or Interpretation: Pierre Bonnard, Virginia Woolf, and the Proverbial Table of Philosophy	0
The Sound of the Reel in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters	0
The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds	0
Telling Time: A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Order	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Introduction: Serial Television in the Age of Streaming	0
The Detached Self	0
Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative	0
Amid Journalists, Communists, and a Russian Countess: Viktor Shklovsky's Italian Journey (1964–1969)	0
An Unreality Effect: Simile in Flaubert's Madame Bovary	0
“You Go First, You Kaza!”: Using Casting and Intertextuality to Rewrite Myth in the Miniseries Eagles	0
We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction	0
Slow Narrative across Media	0
Narrating the Future: A World-Literary Take on the Crisis of Imagination and the Novel	0
Narrative Factuality: A Handbook	0
Phantasmal Intersubjectivity: Co-Presence and the Emersivity of Literary Characters	0
Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility	0
Notes on Contributors	0
The Author's Second Death	0
Magical Monsters: Hybrids and Witchcraft in Early Modern Art	0
Hybridity and the Unifying Space of Painting: Larry Abramson in Conversation with Theolonius Marx	0
Applied Poetics	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Small Stories in Charity Fundraising Letters and the Ethics of Interwoven Individualism	0
Social Networking Sites as Contexts for Uses of Narrative: Toward a Story-Critical Approach to Digital Environments	0
Phantoms of Citation: AI and the Death of the Author-Function	0
At War with Stories: A Vernacular Critique of the Storytelling Boom from American Military Veterans	0
Mixing Comics and Literature in Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies	0
Conversations with No One	0
Free Verse and Prose Rhythm	0
Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction	0
On Artificial and Post-artificial Texts: Machine Learning and the Reader's Expectations of Literary and Non-literary Writing	0
The Endless Hustle; or, Saul Goodman Out of Time	0
Russian Formalism and Modernist Formalesque: Radical Linguistic Aesthetics of Kazimir Malevich and Velimir Khlebnikov	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Why Monsters Are Dangerous	0
Down in the Metamodernist Plain: Tracing a Twenty-First-Century Structure of Feeling in the Reception of NW and How to Be Both	0
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film	0
Fictionality and Infrastructure	0
Tropes of Jewish Humor in Women-Led Digital Streaming Productions (2010 – 2019)	0
Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions	0
Making TV in the Age of Streaming: An Interview with Hagai Levi	0