Mimesis and Motivation
The Two Faces of Fictional Coherence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4747485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meir Sternberg (0000-0001-9762-0350, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 329-483 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-1812153 |
| OpenAlex | W2101534641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 88 |
This paper deals with "motivation" as fiction's twofold logic of patterning and relates it to other concepts or lines of sense-making (e.g., integration, naturalization). The argument is best summarized through the paper's headings.1. Why Is the Discourse Like That? Motivation as Twofold Reason-Giving2. Reality, Artifice, and Motivation: Doctrinal Biases, Variable Products, Universal Modes; 2.1 Aristotle's Mimesis of Nature by Art; or, Why Plot above Character?; 2.2 Viktor Shklovsky and Mimesis Fallen below Art3. How the Extremes Compare: Toward an Alternative Theory4. Conceptualizing Motivation: Basic Requirements5. Motivation and Integration: The Concept of Functional Mediacy; 5.1 Motivation in Tomashevsky's "Thematics": The Shift from Cover to Coherence; 5.2 From Polarity to Threefold: The Typology of Motivation; 5.3 Motivating and Integrating Distinguished in Face of Persistent Mix-Up; 5.4 Naturalization6. Integral and Differential Motivation: The Mimetic Function7. Motivation and Communicative Structure: Point of View as Sense-Making Construct; 7.1 Who Motivates, and from Whose Standpoint?; 7.2 Motivating Fictional as against Factual Discourse: The Difference Made by Quotation; 7.3 Appeal to Existence or to Perspective? Unrealistic World and/or Unreliable Subject?; 7.4 Fictional Motivation under the Proteus Principle; 7.5 Sibling Rivalry and Contingent Resolution within the Family of MimesisI am an art theoretician.... I know what motivation is!Viktor Shklovsky, A Sentimental Journey
Aesthetics · Appeal · Epistemology · Gestalt psychology · Linguistics · Perception · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Entretien avec Hans Färnlöf – La motivation littéraire en débat
A Narrator, But One With Extremely Pressing Personal Needs”
Telling in Time (III)
(Un)Reliability in Narrative Discourse
Interart Narrative
Mimesis and Motivation
Narrativity
Omniscience in Narrative Construction
Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (I)
Time Travel Stories as a Challenge to Narratology
Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (II)
Factives and Perspectives
Intratextuality, Extratextuality, Intertextuality
Authorial Presence in Poetry
Introduction to the Study of Doxa
Fiction and Imitation
Retour à la forme et au fond du récit
Mind the Text! Neurohermeneutics for Suspicious Readers
Communication Technology and Narrative
The Rhetorics of Plot Function
The poetics of biblical narrative
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship
Narratology
Russian formalist criticism
Heterocosmica
Transparent Minds
Basic Elements of Narrative
Structuralist Poetics
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
The Content of the Form
Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology
Aristotle's poetics
Introduction and Notes
Aristotle's Poetics
Morphology of the Folktale
The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
The Poetics of Incomprehensibility
The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Narrative and normative pattern
Aesthetic conception of Russian Formalism
Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences
The Ontology of the Literary Sign
Dostoevsky and Gogol
Narrative and Anti-Narrative Structures in Lev Tolstoj's Early Works
Formalist Theory Revisited
Eisenstein's 'Ivan the Terrible
The Problem of Verse Language
The Classical Hollywood Cinema’
A Sentimental Journey. Memoirs, 1917-1922
Anti-Mimesis
Implied Author, Motivation and Theme and their Problematic Status
The Plot Thickens—or Not
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
Ordering the Unordered
Narrative Humor (II)
Narrative Structure and Fictional Mediation
Narrativity
Reply to Victor Erlich
Fact, Fiction, and Form
On Poetry and Trans-Sense Language
Simile and Figurative Language
Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (II)
An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative
Literature and Cinematography
Telling in Time (II)
Telling in Time (I)
Intratextuality, Extratextuality, Intertextuality
Mimesis and Motivation
Universals of Narrative and Their Cognitivist Fortunes (I)
Interart Narrative
Omniscience in Narrative Construction
Claims of Stable Identity and (Un)reliability in Dissonant Narration
Proteus in Quotation-Land
A Theory of Narrative
Factives and Perspectives
Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives
Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem
Reading Intended Meaning Where None Is Intended
On Being Fair to Viktor Shklovsky or the Act of Hedged Surrender
Boris Eikhenbaum in Opoiaz
Reference, Coreference, Referring, and the Dual Structure of Literary Narrative
Telling in Time (III)
Farce and the Poetics of the 'Vraisemblable
Order and Disorder in Film and Fiction
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |