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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...David Quint Abstract This analysis of the structure and meaning of The Tale of the Hunchback , the most novelistic of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights , shows how the Nights stages the relationship of reader to fiction (the fictitious lives of others) as a power relationship and in terms...
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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
... is how little they have to do
with the Scandinavian contexts of the tales. As McCarthy herself points out, the
most folkloric essay in Men in Dark Times is the portrait of Walter Benjamin, which
draws on German-Jewish folklore—he is dogged by “Mr. Bungle,” as well as a
hunchback —to explain...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 194–217.
Published: 01 June 2018
... deprives the tale he is about to relate—and the act of telling itself—of any claim to the respectability of “literature.” He likens opening his narrative to opening a tawdry shop. Boris, he tells us, is at once his customer (in need of a narrator) and “une marchandise” (10; “an item of merchandise,” 12...
