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Poetics Today 21.4 (2000) 783-784



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Lubomír Dolezel is a professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. He has written many articles about stylistics, poetics, mathematical linguistics, cybernetics, semiotics, and narratology. His books include Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress (1990) and Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (1998) and have been translated into several languages. He is currently working on a reexamination of the relationship between fictional and historical narrative in the framework of possible-worlds semantics.

Harai Golomb is associate professor in the Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University. He teaches in the departments of Theater Studies and Musicology and in the Program for Multi-Disciplinary (Interart) Studies. The author of Enjambment in Poetry: Language and Verse in Interaction, he is also a music critic, translator, and editor. He has published extensively on Chekhov’s plays and other topics in drama, prosody, poetry, prose fiction, the structural analysis of drama, literature and music, and translation studies. He is currently writing a book, Presence through Absence: Towards a Poetics of Chekhov’s Later Plays.

Siegfried J. Schmidt currently holds the Chair of Communication Theory and Media Culture at the University of Münster. He has published books and articles on philosophy of language, text theory, aesthetics, theory of literature, empirical science of literature, media and communication, and concrete and conceptual poetry. His recent publications include Grundri� der empirischen Literaturwissenschaft, mit einem Nachwort zur Taschenbuchausgabe (1991), Kognitive Autonomie und soziale Orientierung (1994), Die Kommerzialisierung der Kommunikation with B. Spiess (1996), Die Welten der Medien. Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Medienbeobachtung (1996), Die Z�hmung des Blicks: Konstruktivismus—Empirie—Wissenschaft (1998), and edited, with B. Spiess, Werbung, Medien und Kultur (1995).

Peter Steiner is professor of Slavic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His article “Tropos Kynikos: Jaroslav Hasek’s The Good Soldier Svejk” appeared in Poetics Today 19:4 (1998).

Reuven Tsur is professor of Hebrew literature, Tel Aviv University, and Middle East vice president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. He has developed a theory of cognitive poetics and applied it to rhyme, sound symbolism, poetic rhythm, metaphor, poetry and altered states of consciousness, period style, genre, archetypal patterns, translation theory, and critical activities. His recent books include What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive: The Poetic Mode of Speech-Perception (1992), Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992), and Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance—An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics (1998).

Tamar Yacobi teaches in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include studies in ekphrasis, narrative theory, and the (un)reliability of communicators.

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