Leona Toker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 991190 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leona Toker |
| NOMBRES | Leona |
| APELLIDO | Toker |
| FIRMA | TOKER L |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4107-233X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Primo Levi’s “The Last One: A Possible Context
Figures of discourse in prose fiction
The essay demonstrates the relationship between specific figures of discourse dominant in particular novels and the thematic concerns or plot patterns of each individual novel. The figures discussed are (1) enthymeme, prominent in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and important also in Joyce’s Ulysses ; (2) hypallage, part of the rhetoric of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities , reflecting its plot pattern and its cluster of concerns; and (3) blazon, …
The Theme of Poetry Recital in Concentration-Camp Literature: Shalamov, Semprún, and Other Witnesses
A recurrent theme of narratives by concentration-camp survivors is reciting poetry. For intellectuals in the camps, reciting verses was an aid to survival, a loophole of mental freedom, available only when the prisoners were not being driven to depletion at “general works.” Poetry also facilitated genuine human contact, helped the prisoners inscribe themselves into specific historical and cultural traditions, and re-mediated the verses that belon…
The Necessary Dead: A New Literary Topos
Partial Answers is 20 Years Old
Paralipsis and intention(ality)
Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy by Monika Fludernik
Reviewed by: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy by Monika Fludernik Leona Toker Monika Fludernik, Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 804 pp. Despite their belief in the intrinsic value of their work, many literary narratologists eventually come to feel the need to make their research experience relevant to the social problems of their time. Thi…
Literary Stereography: Nabokov Drawing and Reading Maps
According to Vladimir Nabokov, exactness of detail in the composition and the reading of literary texts can yield "the sensual spark without which the book is dead": one needs, for instance, to understand the topography of Mansfield Park in order to respond to Austen's "stereographic charm." Speaking after Stuart Gilbert's chart of the episodes of Joyce's Ulysses but before Gifford and Seidman's maps in Ulysses Annotated , Nabokov protested again…
Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer
Reviewed by: Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer Leona Toker Priscilla Meyer, Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 188 pp. The growing recognition of the thought-suffused texture and artistic excellence of Vladimir Nabokov's work has in recent decades gained expression in books wholly devoted to one of hi…
Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov
The article offers an explanation of Varlam Shalamov's negative attitude to the samizdat in the 1970s, particularly puzzling in view of the samizdat's role in making him unofficially famous in the 1960s. It explains the change in Shalamov's views by his struggle for authorial control of the accuracy, structure, and accessibility of his work. Lack of such control was, in a sense, an extension of the Gulag prisoners' inability, despite their best-l…
Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony
Literary testimony combines the pragmatic function of attesting to historical events with the aesthetic function that becomes marked after their function as testimony has become redundant. Whereas the social identity of the target audience addressed impinges upon the shape of the work, the features of the address may be part of the work's abiding aesthetic value. The shape of the work is also sometimes affected by the need to circumvent the hurdl…
Vocation and Sympathy in Daniel Deronda: The Self and the Larger Whole
T WO CARNIVALESQUE EVENTS are referred to in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda . One is used as an example in a discussion of political expediency: the Archbishop of Naples is said to have sanctioned, in what would now be called a populist gesture, the St. Januarius procession against the plague (1993, 384; bk. 4, ch. 33). The other is embedded in a simile: the attitude of the British mainstream society to Jews is compared with the attitude of the ma…
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Readings and Rereadings
Toward a Poetics of Documentary Prose--From the Perspective of Gulag Testimonies
Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative
Rhetoric and ethical ambiguities in “that evening sun”
(1993). Rhetoric and ethical ambiguities in “that evening sun”. Women's Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 429-439
Nabokov's Otherworld
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Gamesman's Sketches (Found in a Bottle): A Reading of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf
LEONA TOKER GAMESMAN'S S K E T C H E S (FOUND IN A BOTTLE): A READING O F SASHA SOKOLOV'S B E T W E E N DOG AND WOLF I n t h e w o r k of a m a t u r e w r i t e r p o r t r a y e d by C h e k h o v , a " b r o k e n b o t t l e g l i t t e r s on t h e d a
"Self-Conscious Paralepsis in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin and "Recruiting
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin (1957) and short story Recruiting (1935) provide a test for some categories suggested in Genette's Figures III (1972).1 The two works are characterized by a narrative about-face: the narrators begin by seeming omniscient (or, in Genette's terms, extradiegetic) yet eventually turn out to be fleshand-ink inhabitants of the fictional world, that is, (Genette 1972:238) narrators who have boldly overstepped the limits of …
Ganinin Mary-Land: A Retrospect on Nabokov's First Novel
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Toward a Poetics of Documentary Prose--From the Perspective of Gulag Testimonies
Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony
Literary testimony combines the pragmatic function of attesting to historical events with the aesthetic function that becomes marked after their function as testimony has become redundant. Whereas the social identity of the target audience addressed impinges upon the shape of the work, the features of the address may be part of the work's abiding aesthetic value. The shape of the work is also sometimes affected by the need to circumvent the hurdl…
Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov
The article offers an explanation of Varlam Shalamov's negative attitude to the samizdat in the 1970s, particularly puzzling in view of the samizdat's role in making him unofficially famous in the 1960s. It explains the change in Shalamov's views by his struggle for authorial control of the accuracy, structure, and accessibility of his work. Lack of such control was, in a sense, an extension of the Gulag prisoners' inability, despite their best-l…
Ganinin Mary-Land: A Retrospect on Nabokov's First Novel
"Self-Conscious Paralepsis in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin and "Recruiting
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin (1957) and short story Recruiting (1935) provide a test for some categories suggested in Genette's Figures III (1972).1 The two works are characterized by a narrative about-face: the narrators begin by seeming omniscient (or, in Genette's terms, extradiegetic) yet eventually turn out to be fleshand-ink inhabitants of the fictional world, that is, (Genette 1972:238) narrators who have boldly overstepped the limits of …
Gamesman's Sketches (Found in a Bottle): A Reading of Sasha Sokolov's Between Dog and Wolf
LEONA TOKER GAMESMAN'S S K E T C H E S (FOUND IN A BOTTLE): A READING O F SASHA SOKOLOV'S B E T W E E N DOG AND WOLF I n t h e w o r k of a m a t u r e w r i t e r p o r t r a y e d by C h e k h o v , a " b r o k e n b o t t l e g l i t t e r s on t h e d a
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Nabokov's Otherworld
Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative
Rhetoric and ethical ambiguities in “that evening sun”
(1993). Rhetoric and ethical ambiguities in “that evening sun”. Women's Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 429-439
Readings and Rereadings
Toward a Poetics of Documentary Prose--From the Perspective of Gulag Testimonies
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Vocation and Sympathy in Daniel Deronda: The Self and the Larger Whole
T WO CARNIVALESQUE EVENTS are referred to in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda . One is used as an example in a discussion of political expediency: the Archbishop of Naples is said to have sanctioned, in what would now be called a populist gesture, the St. Januarius procession against the plague (1993, 384; bk. 4, ch. 33). The other is embedded in a simile: the attitude of the British mainstream society to Jews is compared with the attitude of the ma…
Target Audience, Hurdle Audience, and the General Reader: Varlam Shalamov's Art of Testimony
Literary testimony combines the pragmatic function of attesting to historical events with the aesthetic function that becomes marked after their function as testimony has become redundant. Whereas the social identity of the target audience addressed impinges upon the shape of the work, the features of the address may be part of the work's abiding aesthetic value. The shape of the work is also sometimes affected by the need to circumvent the hurdl…
Samizdat and the Problem of Authorial Control: The Case of Varlam Shalamov
The article offers an explanation of Varlam Shalamov's negative attitude to the samizdat in the 1970s, particularly puzzling in view of the samizdat's role in making him unofficially famous in the 1960s. It explains the change in Shalamov's views by his struggle for authorial control of the accuracy, structure, and accessibility of his work. Lack of such control was, in a sense, an extension of the Gulag prisoners' inability, despite their best-l…
Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer
Reviewed by: Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer Leona Toker Priscilla Meyer, Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. 188 pp. The growing recognition of the thought-suffused texture and artistic excellence of Vladimir Nabokov's work has in recent decades gained expression in books wholly devoted to one of hi…
Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy by Monika Fludernik
Reviewed by: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy by Monika Fludernik Leona Toker Monika Fludernik, Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 804 pp. Despite their belief in the intrinsic value of their work, many literary narratologists eventually come to feel the need to make their research experience relevant to the social problems of their time. Thi…
Literary Stereography: Nabokov Drawing and Reading Maps
According to Vladimir Nabokov, exactness of detail in the composition and the reading of literary texts can yield "the sensual spark without which the book is dead": one needs, for instance, to understand the topography of Mansfield Park in order to respond to Austen's "stereographic charm." Speaking after Stuart Gilbert's chart of the episodes of Joyce's Ulysses but before Gifford and Seidman's maps in Ulysses Annotated , Nabokov protested again…
Partial Answers is 20 Years Old
Paralipsis and intention(ality)
The Necessary Dead: A New Literary Topos
Figures of discourse in prose fiction
The essay demonstrates the relationship between specific figures of discourse dominant in particular novels and the thematic concerns or plot patterns of each individual novel. The figures discussed are (1) enthymeme, prominent in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and important also in Joyce’s Ulysses ; (2) hypallage, part of the rhetoric of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities , reflecting its plot pattern and its cluster of concerns; and (3) blazon, …
The Theme of Poetry Recital in Concentration-Camp Literature: Shalamov, Semprún, and Other Witnesses
A recurrent theme of narratives by concentration-camp survivors is reciting poetry. For intellectuals in the camps, reciting verses was an aid to survival, a loophole of mental freedom, available only when the prisoners were not being driven to depletion at “general works.” Poetry also facilitated genuine human contact, helped the prisoners inscribe themselves into specific historical and cultural traditions, and re-mediated the verses that belon…
Primo Levi’s “The Last One: A Possible Context
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