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JournalISSN: 1936-9247

Partial Answers 

Johns Hopkins University Press
About: Partial Answers is an academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Narrative & Poetry. It has an ISSN identifier of 1936-9247. Over the lifetime, 423 publications have been published receiving 2150 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of literature and the history of ideas.


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TL;DR: Olson's Maximus poem as discussed by the authors is the signal act of a poet claiming full authority and range and the voicing of romantic yearning cycled directly from letters to Boldereff.
Abstract: letter's language in the poem. Embedded in a text that is both the signal act of a poet claiming full authority and \"range\" and the voicing of romantic yearning cycled directly from letters to Boldereff, Olson's Maximus hovers in what can be read as the poem's trans-subjective borderland. \"Flashing more than a wing, / than any romantic thing, than memory, than place,\" Olson's poetic text blurs the boundaries between the private and the public acknowledgment, the mythic and the ordinary self a shift that, if not carried forward in the life, has clear consequences for the art:

294 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a range of phenomena, which, in the first four sections of the paper, are suggested by some examples, are connected with the thought of Stanley Cavell.
Abstract: I am concerned in this paper with a range of phenomena, which, in the first four sections of the paper, I shall suggest by some examples. In the last three sections, I try to connect the topic thus indicated with the thought of Stanley Cavell.

176 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that stories like Hemingway's are told for particular reasons, in the service of communicative goals about which interpreters are justified in framing at least provisional hypotheses, a primordial basis for making the ascriptions of intentionality that lie at the heart of folk psychology or everyday reasoning concerning one's own and others' minds.
Abstract: Drawing on treatments of the problem of intentionality in fields encompassed by the umbrella discipline of cognitive science, including language theory, psychology, and the philosophy of mind, this paper explores issues underlying recent debates about the role of intentions in narrative contexts To avoid entering the debate on the terms set by antiintentionalists, my analysis shifts the focus away from questions about the boundary for legitimate ascriptions of communicative intention, the tipping-point where those ascriptions become illicit projections of readerly intuitions onto an imagined authorial consciousness Instead, I propose a two-part strategy for examining how storytelling practices are bound up with inferences about intention The first part uses Hemingway's 1927 short story "Hills Like White Elephants" to argue that narrative interpretation requires adopting the heuristic strategy that Daniel Dennett has characterized as "the intentional stance" In other words, it makes sense to assume that stories like Hemingway's are told for particular reasons, in the service of communicative goals about which interpreters are justified in framing at least provisional hypotheses This first part of my analysis is tantamount to grounding stories in intentional systems The second part, which draws on work on folk psychology (and research in the philosophy of mind more generally), describes narrative as a means by which humans learn to take up the intentional stance in the first place, and later practice using it in the safe zone afforded by storyworlds This part of my analysis involves grounding intentional systems in stories Here I argue that narrative constitutes in its own right a discipline for reading for intentions, a primordial basis for making the ascriptions of intentionality that lie at the heart of folk psychology, or everyday reasoning concerning one's own and others' minds

56 citations

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TL;DR: The celebrated ubiquity of narrative in culture is both a fecund premise and, I claim, the bane of narrative theory as mentioned in this paper, which is not necessarily the most promising stance in a collection devoted to narrative as a way of thinking.
Abstract: The celebrated ubiquity of narrative in culture is both a fecund premise and, I claim, the bane of narrative theory today. While not outright against narrative, nor against theorizing about narratives, in this paper I nonetheless aim to remain fairly sceptical towards broad, overly eager uses of the notion: not necessarily the most promising stance in a collection devoted to narrative \"as a way of thinking.\" No less ominously, my paper comes with the subtitle \"A Boring Story\" though this is also the title of the story by Chekhov (\"Skuchnaia istoriia,\" 1889) that I shall use to boost my argument, once we are done with theory. Everybody knows the lure of broad notions. One well remembers such early, once eye-opening statements as those by Roland Barthes (1975: 235): \"Like life itself, narrative is there, international, transhistorical, transcultural.\"1 Or by Hayden White (1987: 1): \"To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture, and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself.\" Hence, obviously, the

41 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored the complex relations between scholars and witnesses of war, taking as a test-case Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, and defined two types of witnesses, which lay claim to two distinct types of authority: eyewitnesses and flesh-witnesses.
Abstract: The article explores the complex relations between scholars and witnesses of war, taking as a test-case Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front . The article defines two types of witnesses, which lay claim to two distinct types of authority: eyewitnesses, who lay claim to the factual authority gained from the objective observation of events; and flesh-witnesses, who lay claim to the experiential authority gained from having personally undergone certain experiences. Eyewitnesses are a valuable and relatively docile source of scholarly information, providing scholars with data about war without challenging the scholars' ability to process this data. The authority of eyewitnesses thereby backs up the authority of scholars. In contrast, flesh-witnesses often challenge the ability of scholars to understand the experience of war. They thereby undermine the authority of scholars, and set themselves up as an alternative and superior authority on war.

37 citations

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202324
202227
20219
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201823