... 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...

... and affective experience. This special issue focuses on the significance of matter, materiality, and materialization for comparative literary analysis. It posits this significance in the form of a “turn” or a forum of converging ideas and approaches in comparative literature and such related disciplines...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

... . 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...

..., 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...

..., as an emotional phenomenon, thus drawing on and contributing to affect studies. The result is a wealth of insights. Her central historical claim serves as an etiology of ambiguous aggression. Niklas Luhmann taught us that love, as we know it, was forged by the European literature of the long eighteenth...

... 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...

... 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...

...? Embodiment, Affect, and Mediation What is the relation between political and aesthetic mediation? How do dis- cussions of embodiment and affect impact the convergence of religion, secular- ism, and literature? When in Formations of the Secular  Asad asks what an anthropol- ogy of secularism might look...

... 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...