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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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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and modernist line breaks through examples from Persian and European literary canons. From Shams-i Qays’s classic treatise on Persian prosody to Arthur Rimbaud and William Carlos Williams to modernist poet Bijan Elahi’s poetic rewriting of One Thousand and One Nights , we explore the options open...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 58–73.
Published: 01 January 2008
... missed. (Satô 20)
On another quiet night she reads the Tale of Genji:
Who is this woman who took up her red lacquer brush to paint life
and for a thousand years has enchanted the hearts of her readers?
Because yes: this analyst of subtleties is a woman...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and thousands of other traders from Arabia, the Gulf, India and Sind, and the Horn of Africa . . . every year for at least a thousand years,” bearing “their goods and their God . . . their stories and their songs . . . their hungers and greeds, their fantasies and lies and hatreds, leaving some among...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., in particular, comes so close to Doyle in her deconstructive critique of lazy globalisms that it is disappointing not to see more of her work engaged with, even if agonistically. A second reservation lies in Doyle’s choice of texts—in particular, her central use of the Arabian Nights/Thousand and One...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., in the midst of the unfolding horror of modern trench warfare. At the same time, he and Jean Morris are the legendary figures of A Thousand and One Nights , Shahrayar and Shahrazad, impoverished and debased in the ruins of a plague-ridden city. The world is that city, and the city is the bedroom: so larger...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... curieux Recueil de Contes de Fées” (xn1; a curious collection of fairy tales), which “doivent être lus en Chine avec autant d’avidité et d’intérêt que le sont chez nous les Mille et une Nuits” ( x ; should be read in China with as avid an interest as t he Thousand and One Nights are read here...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2021
... with frozen wreaths. The girl full of tears was bathing in flames, and the nightingale wept with its wings burnt. ( Lorca 59 ) The two poems echo one another not only in their use of similar images: Lorca’s “immaculate dawn,” Ibn al-Rūmī’s dawn that “pours out”; Lorca’s “thousand bovine faces...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... The song is like a rough sketch of a calming and stabilizing, calm and stable, center in the heart of chaos” (311). The refrain, here a hummed melody, has the capacity to create shelter, acoustic rather than architectonic, and order too. Exactly one nightingale appears in A Thousand Plateaus...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... thousand and the Atlantic’s brief five
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hundred years of repeated passages” (Gillis 41, 42). The predictable winds and
lengthy layovers imposed by the “monsoon regime” (Pearson, Indian 47) enabled
early sail travel across and around its basin while fostering deep...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., Mus-
lim rule in Iberia had a direct and lasting impact on the cultures of Spain and
Portugal, and through them on Latin America, with important implications for
literature —from Borges’s writings on Averroes and The Thousand and One Nights
to the flying carpets in García Márquez’s One...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... (“Farewell” [1972])
addresses the Cultural Revolution’s rustication campaign, which sent thousands
of urban youths, including Duoduo himself, into the countryside. The “city lights”
which “stretch out in loneliness” contrast with the “dark
night” of the countryside.7 As Van Crevel suggests...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of The House with a Thousand Stories and There Is No Good Time for Bad News , Aruni Kashyap, shares his formative experiences as a writer, including the influences of Indian writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Assamese literary culture, and Indigenous oral storytelling traditions. I wrote in Assamese, so I...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 408–426.
Published: 01 December 2016
... by specifying that
the Red Death wrought its fatal horrific suffering in the span of half an hour. The
narrator relates that the plague had “long devastated the country,” prompting the
happy Prince Prospero to seclude himself, together with one thousand of his “hale
and light-hearted friends,” deep...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the eastern coast of Africa, thousands of people have lost their lives to the seventy-kilometer clandestine sea crossing from the Comoros, one of the poorest nations in the world, to the French island-territory of Mayotte. Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah’s 2016 novel Tropique de la violence ( Tropic...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
... -96. ____. The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt . Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996 . Benjamin, Walter. lluminations: Essays and Reflections . Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. and intro. Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken, 1969 . ____. The Origin of German Tragic Drama . Trans. John Osborne. London...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to break with a classical literary and linguistic tradition that for thousands of years had largely been the purview of the ruling scholar-official class. Western realism had according to Jacques Rancière led the way in breaking down a system of representation in which the dignity of a genre had to match...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 42–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
... York: Viking, 1999 . ____. Seven Nights . Trans. Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions, 1984 . Calasso, Roberto. Literature and the Gods . Trans. Tim Parks. New York: Knopf, 2001 . Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Trans. Brian...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., the Soviet KGB and MVD placed the city into a state of martial law, deploying thousands of policemen, members of voluntary militia, soldiers, and security operatives on the streets and in the Olympic village; at the same time, under the mandate of purging “unreliable elements,” ethnically suspect non-Russian...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
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a more than thousand-page appeal entitled El primer nueva corónica [sic] y buen gobi-
erno (1600–1615) and written in a Quechua- and Aymara-infl ected broken Spanish
that only enhances its rhetorical force.
In its own claim to uniqueness, the Mesoamerican counterpart of the Andean
Tahuantinsuyu...
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