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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in the text of Lucretius’s De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things ). Tracing philological debates that have surrounded Lucretius from the Renaissance onward, this article argues that Lucretius’s poetic theory of interlinked atomic and textual swerves and the philological history that has mediated them were...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with regard to the perceived relationship between creativity and constraint. The essay makes its case by analogy with two authors often cited by the Oulipo — the medieval theologian Ramón Llull and the Atomist philosopher Lucretius — between whom Calvino draws a parallel in one of his final works...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 463–488.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Writers Rubén Darío, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and José Asunción Silva . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press , 1999 . Lucretius . De rerum natura , translated by Rouse W. H. D. and revised by Smith Martin Ferguson . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1975...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the Empedoclean cosmogonic principles of Love and Strife, as they do at the opening of Lucretius’s De rerum natura , and Virgil himself apparently refers to this allegoresis of Venus and Mars in the song of the nymph Clymene in the Fourth Georgic ( Hardie, Virgil’s 57–66 ; Farrell 270–72 ; Quint, Origin...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1991 . Print . Fletcher Angus . Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1964 . Print . Ford Philip . “Lucretius in Early Modern France.” The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius . Ed. Gillespie Stuart Hardie Philip...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of Narrative Prophylaxis.” Annali d'Italianistica 23 ( 2005 ): 69 – 87 . Print . Maurette Pablo . “De rerum textura: Lucretius, Fracastoro, and the Sense of Touch.” Sixteenth Century Journal 45 . 2 ( 2014 ): 309 – 30 . Print . Mignolo Walter D. The Darker Side...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 32–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., Lucrèce” ( Lycophron 157 ; My masters are . . . Zhuangzi, Lucretius). Petits traités and Dernier royaume also stylistically echo the Zhuangzi, for the Chinese text is a syncretist collection of passages and fragments organized notionally into chapters, encompassing myths, stories, dialogues...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 273–293.
Published: 01 September 2005
... & Maxwell, 1925 . Lauterpacht, Hersch. “The Grotian Tradition in International Law.” The British Yearbook of International Law ( 1946 ): 1 -53. Leonard, John. “Milton, Lucretius, and `the Void of Profund and Unessential Night.'” Living Texts: Interpreting Milton . Ed. Kristin A. Pruit and Charles...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 331–354.
Published: 01 September 2008
... underscores its arbitrariness. Here and
elsewhere, Buchanan graphically describes the moment of blood-sacrifice so as
to emphasize its brutality. In addition, as Peter Sharratt argues, the Latin word
mactatu constitutes an allusion to Lucretius’s famous condemnation...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
...!” (Oh, I
am he! . . . Oh, that I might be parted from my own body!) And it is thanks to a
similar splitting of the self in the surface of the mirror that Lucretius’s lament for
Lucrece clearly turns into a lament for himself: “O from thy cheeks my image
thou hast torn,/And shiver’d all the beauty...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1981 . Zadeh Travis . “ The Wiles of Creation: Philosophy, Fiction, and the ‘Ajāʻib Tradition .” Middle Eastern Literatures 13 , no. 1 ( 2010 ): 21 – 48 . 19 This immunity recalls Lucretius’s beginning of book 2 of the De rerum natura...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 2011
... is briefly alluded to by Sinon in Book 2 (116–19)
and who activates a web of allusions to Aeschylus’s and Lucretius’s versions of her death.
Panoussi’s point in detailing these cycles of perverted human sacrifices or quasi-sacrifices
throughout the Aeneid is to suggest that the reader is led...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 336–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... is briefly alluded to by Sinon in Book 2 (116–19)
and who activates a web of allusions to Aeschylus’s and Lucretius’s versions of her death.
Panoussi’s point in detailing these cycles of perverted human sacrifices or quasi-sacrifices
throughout the Aeneid is to suggest that the reader is led...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 331–335.
Published: 01 September 2011
... is briefly alluded to by Sinon in Book 2 (116–19)
and who activates a web of allusions to Aeschylus’s and Lucretius’s versions of her death.
Panoussi’s point in detailing these cycles of perverted human sacrifices or quasi-sacrifices
throughout the Aeneid is to suggest that the reader is led...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2011
... linking most of the sacrificial deaths
in the Aeneid is Iphigeneia, whose death is briefly alluded to by Sinon in Book 2 (116–19)
and who activates a web of allusions to Aeschylus’s and Lucretius’s versions of her death.
Panoussi’s point in detailing these cycles of perverted human sacrifices...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 351–369.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Latin epics for the Romans of the late Republic and Empire.
Even Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, whose didactic or
anti-heroic styles displayed a certain generic anarchism at the level of content,
aspired to be epics on formal grounds, and —lacking a better category for them...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 January 2009
...” (fi ery bud) fl akes toward its decomposition after erupting
in a “passion” (Choses 39–40). Though less mythically minded than Lucretius,
Ponge follows the Latin poet in emphasizing the shift of matter from one state to
another and the conservation of energy: the candle dies in the name...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2005
... sublime artist ever to write Greek prose. But as long as the terms governing this
discussion were the “philosophical” versus the “literary,” Plato’s irony, imagery, and use
of myths tended to be assigned to ancillary status at best. The general situation could be
summed up in a metaphor Lucretius...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2005
... sublime artist ever to write Greek prose. But as long as the terms governing this
discussion were the “philosophical” versus the “literary,” Plato’s irony, imagery, and use
of myths tended to be assigned to ancillary status at best. The general situation could be
summed up in a metaphor Lucretius...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 185–192.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the “literary,” Plato’s irony, imagery, and use
of myths tended to be assigned to ancillary status at best. The general situation could be
summed up in a metaphor Lucretius used to explain the composition of De rerum narura:
the Epicurean philosopher who composes a Latin poem is acting like a doctor who...
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