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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 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
Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel	2
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
The View from Above in American Literature: Aerial Description, the Imaginary, and the Form of Environment	1
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