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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Shu-Mei Shih This essay deploys “relational comparison” to address the ways in which texts from different parts of the world are related to each other through their partaking and representation of world historical events. It constructs an arc of literary texts that are not distinguished...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Yang's walker in the city in relation to the figure of the flâneur , I show how his exilic writing dramatizes the problem of spatial, temporal, and linguistic dislocation in exile, modernity, and comparison. Whether in Benjamin's reading of Baudelaire, Duoduo's encounter with Baudelaire, Yang's exilic...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
...David Palumbo-Liu Abstract Palumbo-Liu explores the relation of literature and ethics, noting that literature is always about “something else.” Drawing from a number of specific cases, including the Rohingya refugee crisis, he connects material histories with cultural practices that defy simple...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 270–288.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., with a presidential plenary session entitled “Geopolitics of Comparison.” 1 In view of this growing interest, it seems timely to ask what comparatists understand “geopolitics” to mean in relation to their field. To come back to the most thorough discussion on this issue at this time, Trumpener relates...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lara Harb Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... news, shape and produce what counts as knowledge in these Indian Anglophone novels. Both works evoke the failure of a poetics and politics of familial and extrafamilial relations to underline how death and the disappearance of women from families, from society, and from the news enable a comparison...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 427–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
... repeatedly in private to the experience of “losing” his native tongue—this article has two aims. One is to show that de Man’s later works bear witness to this ongoing experience of native-linguistic loss; the other is to relate this experience to the theory of deconstruction that de Man had espoused...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of “relational comparison” ( Shih )—of bringing into relation seemingly distant entities, issues, terms, or (con)texts for comparison—becomes a more pressing methodological issue. Appanah’s use of “comparable” crises to invoke empathy and her presentation of migration as essential to humanity’s story comes...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
... P , 2012 . Print . ———. “University.” Critical Ethnic Studies 1 . 1 ( 2015 ): 43 – 55 . Print . Glissant Èdouard . Poetics of Relation . Trans. Wing Betsy . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P , 1997 . Print . Goldberg David Theo . “Racial Comparisons...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
...).” Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works . Ed. Kirkham Victoria Sherberg Michael Smarr Janet Levarie . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2013 . 195 – 212 . Print . Shih Shu-mei . “Comparison as Relation.” Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses . Ed. Felski Rita...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... : Stanford University Press , 2009 . Serpell Namwali . “ The Banality of Empathy .” New York Review , March 2 , 2019 . www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/02/the-banality-of-empathy . Shih Shu-mei . “ Comparison as Relation .” In Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses , edited...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... It makes the domain of comparison a space of
potential relations, and a multi-dimensional one at that, instead of an indiffer-
entiable accumulation of atomistic discontinuities. In doing so, the gradient en-
ables nothing less than a reconfiguration of the very conditions of possibility for
the act...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 36–45.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . . . . It is then
legitimate to counter democratic materialism . . . with a materialist dialectic . . . . There are only bodies
and languages, except that there are truths. (Logics of Worlds 1–4)
3 See Apter for a discussion of Badiou’s vexed relation to the question of literary comparison and
his statement “I do...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
... within U.S. higher
education’s evacuating (if not vacuous) embrace of “diversity” as a guiding prin-
ciple of legitimation, this multiculturalism names the uneasy compromise that
enables these challenges to its own modes of comparison.
It is my contention, then, that these tendencies are related...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
... unapprehended relations of things and perpetuates their apprehension” (482). This “relation of things” is, of course, precisely what the comparative critic sets out to apprehend, seeking to defamiliarize literature through fresh comparisons just as the Romantic poet seeks to defamiliarize life through fresh...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... how these imbalanced relations of cultural production in turn reflect what Pheng Cheah identifies as the “fundamental processes of comparison that create the material conditions of the capacity for ethical comparison” ( 536 ). According to Cheah, these are “material processes in several senses,” which...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Annette Damayanti Lienau Abstract This essay introduces the American Comparative Literature Association Forum “Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone.” Characterizing the Europhone “vernacular” as a protean term of diverse application, the essay highlights the paradoxes associated with its use...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 492–511.
Published: 01 December 2024
... comparisons of Plato and Zhuangzi hope to combat ( 22 ). In service of such aims, these efforts cast Greece and Rome, China and Japan as analogous to one another, with, in Denecke’s case, the Japanese relationship to China being comparable to the Roman relation to Greece. 3 For Denecke, the lack of ancient...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 294–335.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Pollock’s essay “Conundrums of Comparison” has, for example, differentiated between classical (Western) comparativism, in which foreign cultures are often seen as differing from, and therefore as being deficient in relation to, a normative Western standard (283). By contrast, a truly cosmopolitan mode...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... comparisons based on the representation of the New World chiefly derived from the supposed characteristics of its “nature.” This article will identify traces of the demand made by Ferdinand Denis (1798–1890) that the intellectual production of the Americas must reflect the effect of the nature that inspires...
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