... prove enabling for a Comparative Affect Studies. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Achebe Comparative Affect Studies song-dance sequences translation as method postcolonial philology Works Cited “20 Best Hindi Film Songs Ever.” Web. 2 June 2013 . < http...

... key differences. I argue above all for the gains to be had in “thinking translation” as we go about our increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary teaching and writing in comparative literature. These gains include a range of new questions affecting what we mean by “text,” and “close reading...

..., medieval literary texts in fact reveal a keen awareness and dedicated study of natural phenomenon. Comparing how the three authors discussed here describe the trees, forest, and defoliation in their elegies highlights their knowledge of the natural environment and their affective response to deforestation...

...) and Field Work (1979). His view of Miłosz, however, is affected by associations against which Miłosz himself rebels. Most notable for this comparison is Miłosz's insistence that “noble feelings” are dangerous for literature and — in spite of his avowed anti-Romanticism — his bardic aura. Heaney's experience...

... of these narrative energies in order to construct an ethical framework within which it hopes to affect the forma- tion of the subjectivity of the reader. Comparative Literature  66:2 DOI 10.1215/00104124-2682191  © 2014 by University of Oregon narrative ethics in dostoevsky & gombrowicz...

..., creative, and open ( Deleuze and Guattari ). This is why animal studies and ecocriticism are integrally part of the material turn, but also—as I will show in more detail below—the complex field of media studies, which posits the human as a node in a web of sensorial extensions that affect and inform...

... was not, however, unidirec- tional: even as a wife was expected to demonstrate her love through performed acts, those acts could be construed as inculcating and constituting the wife’s emo- tional investment in her husband. Marital affection is thus rendered a rhetorical phenomenon comparable to contemporary...

... (white hetero cis) male resentment. For somewhat different reasons, contemporary feminism, literary studies, and affect studies all need a high tolerance for and a strong practice of ambiguity. Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond intervenes at the intersection of these three fields...

... detail and uncompromising thoroughness. Calhoon’s study is itself a virtuoso display of affecting grace: with the fearlessness and nonchalance of a tightrope walker, Calhoon ventures above the most perilous conceptual abysses, and even as the reader may often be afraid that he will lose his...

...David Mikics The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. University of Oregon 2005 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS...

... OF THE AFFECTS. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. My first impulse after finishing The Particulars of Rapture, Charles Altieri’s brilliant ex- amination of affect in literature and visual art, was to try out Altieri’s theory on one of my favorite recent pop songs...

... . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE: AN AESTHETICS OF THE AFFECTS. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. My first impulse after finishing The Particulars of Rapture, Charles...

... THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE: AN AESTHETICS OF THE AFFECTS. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. My first impulse after finishing The Particulars of Rapture, Charles Altieri’s brilliant ex- amination of affect in literature and visual art, was to try out Altieri’s theory...

..., 2002. xi, 247p. University of Oregon 2005 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE: AN AESTHETICS OF THE AFFECTS. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. My first...

..., Simon, ed. The Cultural Studies Reader . London and New York: Routledge, 1993 . Grossberg, Lawrence. “Postmodernity and Affect: All Dressed Up with No Place to Go.” Communication 10 ( 1988 ): 271 -93. Hall, Stuart. “Encoding, Decoding.” During 90 -103. Hebdige, Dick. “From Culture...

... Audience.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 ( 1982 ): 33 – 51 . Print . Saunders Corinne J. “The Affective Body: Love, Virtue and Vision in English Medieval Literature.” The Body and the Arts . Ed. Saunders Corinne J. Maude Ulrika Macnaughton Jane . Basingstoke : Palgrave...

... extended far beyond the specific phenomena of language to the gamut of communication signs, the role of laboratory-based precision measurement would seem to have affected a crucial mediation of modern values” (p. 252). In this context the “materiality of communication” was inscribed directly...

... extended far beyond the specific phenomena of language to the gamut of communication signs, the role of laboratory-based precision measurement would seem to have affected a crucial mediation of modern values” (p. 252). In this context the “materiality of communication” was inscribed directly...

... across national, cultural, racial, and other borders? What different sorts of affect flow differently, and in what kinds of COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 240 directions?” (139). His conclusion, however, is similar to George Eliot’s nineteenth-century notion of sympathy, but perhaps with a little...

... of Aristotle’s Poetics , focusing on ibn Sīnā’s conception of the role poetic expression’s cognitive as well as affective force plays in the instantiation of what he calls الأمة الشعرية ( al-umma al-sh’irīya ), “the poetic or aesthetic community.” Elaborating how and why the phrase poetic socialities...