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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
... not so much of mastery, but of pragmatics. With examples drawn from his own works The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide , the author ultimately questions the linguistic determinism of national literary paradigms. Indeed, the uncanniest effect of the Anthropocene is that we are now moving so fast...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 315–332.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Studies , Vol. VI . Ed. Ranajit Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989 . 310 -24. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man . New York: Vintage, 1972 . Ghosh, Amitav. The Shadow Lines . London: Bloomsbury, 1988 . Guinier, Lani. The Tyranny of the Majority . New York: Macmillan Free Press, 1994...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
... who, despite his e orts to move up, falls further and further down the Pla- tonic line: from an original to a copy, from an idea to a material body, from sun to night, descending into the world of shadows whose existence is threatened by the impermanence of memory and which ultimately decompose...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to his carved, painted, inlaid, and shadow-casting sculpture, is structurally linked to Hawai‘i, to Tonga and Samoa, to the West Coast of North America. At line 10, Graham places the set of colons—symbols used in both alphabetic writing and mathematics to denote significant relationships—to explicitly...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 472–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
...: No, there was nothing to reproach Igor for; he had not exposed or erased anything. But only a shadow, like the wing of a bird flying up before the lens, came out. One was struck, however, by the unusual, senseless beauty of individual shots, especially in relation to the notes of the insane time traveler: The storm...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 197–214.
Published: 01 June 2002
... dépendent. Chaque figure repose et s’appuie sur son ombre [cf. “change of shadows ( JFM34-35) I could criticize Martin du Gard for the discursive stride of his narrative [. . .] His novelistic lantern always illuminates the contemplated events from the front [. . .] Their lines never mix...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 246–266.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., but not fully. One of the most striking ways the poem represents this dynamic is the key phrase “Love’s Shades,” which is itself split so that “Love’s” appears in the first half of the divided line and “Shades” in the second: “when come Love’s space] when its Shadows come” (l. 3). The entire poem...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
... their transposition of solid and liquid textures, such complexity-generating poetic seascapes help us to understand the myriad of forces that shape the fluctuating line between the land and the sea. At this edge, as Elizabeth Bishop puts it in “The Map,” it may be difficult to discern “shadows” from “shallows...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
... . Print . “We Charge Genocide U.N. Shadow Report.” We Charge Genocide . 18 Nov. 2014 . Web. 23 Sept. 2015 . Wilderson Frank B. III Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms . Durham : Duke UP , 2010 . Print . Wilkerson Isabel . “Mike Brown's...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . “The Long and the Short of Holocaust Verse.” New Literary History 35 . 3 ( 2004 ): 443 – 68 . Print . Hartman Geoffrey . The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1996 . Print . Heidegger Martin . The Basic Problems of Phenomenology...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
... dirty and dull. —Walter Benjamin, Das Passagen-Werk Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift Unfractioned idiom, immaculate sigh of stars, Beading thy path—condense eternity: And we have seen night lifted in thine arms. Under the shadow by the piers I waited; Only in darkness is thy...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
... very shadow turns my heart to ice and tinges my face with white fear, but her eyes have the power to turn it to marble.” Lauro , the laurel tree, is another recurring Ovidian figure in the Rime sparse : fleet-footed Daphne, whose branches form Apollo’s laurel crown. Just as “Apollo’s rapacious desire...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2000
... Shadows . Trans. Ben Brewster. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 . Calhoon, Kenneth S. “Personal Effects: Rilke, Barthes, and the Matter of Photography.” Modern Language Notes 113 ( 1998 ): 612 -34. Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2008
... life is writ- ten “between the lines” of his works (Ulysses 9.1009–10). But if Borges and Joyce began their speculations on Shakespeare with the central premise that the playwright is “airy nothing”— an unsubstantial ghost or shadow — their expositions gradually suggest that the Bard...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 83–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... itself beyond matter” mentioned in Thomas l’obscur— bears to the deceased: “The cadaver is its own image. It no longer entertains any relation with this world, where it still appears, except that of an image, an obscure possibility, a shadow ever present behind the living form which now, far from...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 200–219.
Published: 01 June 2013
... . ———. “Tatslum.” Zarim ba-bayit: sipurim . Tel Aviv : Ha-kibutz ha-me'uhad , 1992 . 143 – 47 . Print . ———. Zeh ‘im ha-panim eleynu . Sifriyah la-am . Tel Aviv : ‘Am ‘oved , 1995 . Print . Mavor Carol . “Black and Blue: The Shadow of Camera Lucida.” Photography Degree Zero...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... The Mountain in the Sea (2006), dedicated to his Moroccan wife (“my Morita” [1]), openly “fused mestizo human societies, the Caribbean and the Maghreb.” The two books of poems that followed, In the Shadow of Al-Andalus (2011) and Beneath the Spanish (2017), only valorized this shifted worldview further...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 427–449.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in a near whisper [that] has been haunting me or my shadow for years . . . . The killer sleeps as the victim photographs him,” Between 280). The details (at times contra- dictory) then build on this simple narrative sketch. The assassin lies uncovered on a single bed in a room, possibly in a hotel...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., winding turns, and dropped spacing: “These dropped lines create rhythmic cadence and shifts in volume, a small decline in tone, like an echo or afterthought or the sonic equivalent of shadow. Visually, the dropped line appears to have grown tired under its own weight and stepped down” (207). I choose...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 336–354.
Published: 01 September 2024
... . Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . Gooding-Williams Robert . In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-modern Political Thought in America . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 . Hobbes Thomas . Leviathan...