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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., adapts, and transforms more and more freely in each of his texts.17
The timing of the writing, translating, and publishing of the three Charlotte
Summers, together with the striking textual similarities between them and Chul
kov’s fiction strongly suggest that one of the threeCharlottes...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... their visions of a communist future in which the very character of labor is transformed. In showing how Sand and Marx place the development and emancipation of sensuous life at the heart of their humanist projects, this discussion attends to the place of Sand's fiction in a wider history of ideas and argues...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Eric Naiman This article explores the role of surveillance in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin both within its contemporary political context and as a response to two earlier examples of American campus fiction: Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution and Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... would choose to transform an architectural element into the governing trope for his work of fiction. In Gautier’s novel, this architectural element, “le thinnai,” is a space which enables travelers and locals to meet and merge. The novel’s blurb, cited as the first epigraph, makes sure we get this point...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Milan Kundera Novel Literary Knowledge Ethical Criticism Transformative Fictions Works Cited Bloom Harold . The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life . New Haven : Yale UP , 2011 . Print . ———. Where Shall Wisdom...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of race and class. The legacy of New Chinese Fiction in the late Qing period deeply impacted the subsequent generation of Chinese writers in the twenties and thirties ( Yeh 354–55 ). Several writers promoted a link between readerly sympathy and social transformation, but Ba Jin (巴金, 1904–2005...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 114–129.
Published: 01 March 2015
... prologue with a difference and taking the position of
Borges while playing with and ultimately transforming the mirror-like intertex-
tual logic at the heart of Borges’s fiction as a prologue to the intermedial remak-
ing he is carrying out in the rest of the book. Thus, while one of the key creative...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 368–370.
Published: 01 September 2014
... studies, intellectual history, and print culture,
Michael Gibbs Hill’s striking new book Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern
Chinese Culture traces the life of Lin Shu (1852–1924), early twentieth-century China’s most
prominent translator of Western fiction —with over 180...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... these fictional works alongside their historical sources, I ask: what role do language and translation play in the process of narrativizing communities of the past for the present? And how does the turn to linguistically plural archives transform the form of the novel as a genre of fiction? Critical...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Catherine Toal Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language . By Quigley Megan . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 224 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS / 343...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 131–144.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Ulrich . “The Roads of the Novel.” The Novel . Ed. Moretti Franco . Vol. 2 . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2006 . 611 – 46 . Print . Higgins Lesley Leps Marie-Christine . “‘Passport please.’ Legal, Literary, and Critical Fictions of Identity.” Un-Disciplining Literature...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
... literaturnoe obozrenie , 2008 . McHale Brian . Postmodernist Fiction . Methuen , 1987 . Plato . The Republic . Translated by Lee Desmond , Penguin Books , 2003 . Plato . Alcibiades I . Translated by Jowett Benjamin , www.online-literature.com/plato/alcibiades-i/5...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and the Transformation of Genre.”
Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco. Ed. Jorge Gracia, Rodolphe Gasché, and Carolyn Kors-
meyer. New York: Routledge, 2002. 47–84.
The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
2006. ...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., “the condition of so much contemporary fiction and poetry, accordingly, involves a kind of cartographic crisis, an emergency in the map room” ( 520 ). To delineate this crisis, locate it historically, and analyze how contemporary literature has engaged with it, this article turns to the literature of the Somali...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... envision another kind of polity as well as new methods for critique in an era of conspiracy-driven public discourse that echoes what Richard Hofstadter in 1964 called “the paranoid style” of American Cold War politics ( 77 ), now transformed into an almost unrecognizable present-day manifestation fueled...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Joan Marris Peter . London : Routledge , 1991 . 33 – 51 . Print . Armstrong Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1987 . Print . Aronowitz Stanley . “The Politics of the Science Wars.” Social Text 46–47...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., the pictured line interrupts and transforms the narrative. Hoffmann’s squiggle may in this sense, like Sterne’s, be drawn into dialogue with some of the textual lines and flourishes he casts through his fiction and that trace a persistent concern for text-image entanglements. Hoffmann’s frequent recourse...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 241–255.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Lind, Judith Butler, and Donna
Haraway). His main sources of evidence concerning causal conceptions of iden-
tity are science fiction and images of perverse violence in novels. In sci-fi, viruses,
genes, or computer programs invade life forms, cross boundaries between spe-
cies, and transform...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 503–505.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of marginal people to remake their communities. The Angolan film O herói points back to a revolutionary style of filmmaking by asking collective participation from the audience. In Pepetela’s crime fiction novels, the exoticized feminine narrative voice breaks up the hegemonic viewpoint of the other...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 383–401.
Published: 01 December 2011
... migrants into what Jean-Luc Nancy calls a communité desouvré , a precarious collectivity that is never completely enclosed or stabilized, always safeguarding a discrepancy among members. By doing so, these novels work to transform what Lamming calls “ways of seeing.” Works Cited Adorno Theodor W...
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