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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., 1989 . Fried, Michael. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980 . Greene, Thomas. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry . London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot Myshkin’s donkey becomes for him “a conduit for how to hear and see other things” (45). Its cry becomes indistinguishable from the intense absorption that opens out to inexplicable wonder. Animals and humans are bonded together by an ethics, defined not as what one ought to do...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the simultaneous absorption and disavowal of historical experience by political actors and social movements, even as it designates a residual surplus, potentiality, even messianic remnant (Agamben) on which the sorrows of globalization are staked. In chapter 1, Tadiar juxtaposes an analysis...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the simultaneous absorption and disavowal of historical experience by political actors and social movements, even as it designates a residual surplus, potentiality, even messianic remnant (Agamben) on which the sorrows of globalization are staked. In chapter 1, Tadiar juxtaposes an analysis...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the simultaneous absorption and disavowal of historical experience by political actors and social movements, even as it designates a residual surplus, potentiality, even messianic remnant (Agamben) on which the sorrows of globalization are staked. In chapter 1, Tadiar juxtaposes an analysis...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 164–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... earnest absorption in the lesson the good doctor pronounces. How- ever, what is initially taken to be—what Rembrandt initially, if ironically, represents as being—the sitters’ rapt absorption in the mysteries of human anatomy that Dr. Tulp expounds turns out—on a closer, more skeptical view of the sort...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... a defenselessness against absorption in the absence of a hard, protective, reflective surface; indeed, they suspend the usual working of the face or a body as a protective barrier and defensive mirror, as if Lucy will be spared, in Judith Butler’s terms, “the projection of a surface, that is, a sexed morphology...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 365–368.
Published: 01 September 2014
... that led to rebellion. Her informed and careful account of Habesha discourse in the Voyage  becomes crucial to her subsequent readings of Johnson’s texts as energumens  that channel his absorption of Habesha culture and self-representation. For example, in a truly original and compelling reading...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 450–453.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in Ghirlandaio’s Santa Maria Novella fresco, the figure of “a black-liver- ied servant” who “appears to be executing a dance step” while ostensibly carrying “a large COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 452 silver tray,” the best illustration of “the unselfconscious absorption —the​ unaffected grace” (26...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 181–200.
Published: 01 June 2017
... a complication of the sort often found in Benja­ min’s work, arising here because the historian writing of allegory applies to his own discourse the double gesture of revolt and absorption. Consider the gestural sequence. The first gesture of the Baroque painter is to gather “all worldly events...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 201–206.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in generating them. Known for “theory,” at least since the glory days of decon- struction, Comp Lit has been usurped by the national literature departments, its theories absorbed into the mainstream, its singular raison d’être dissipated. Saussy also sees as a problem for Comp Lit’s future its absorption...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
... between the defining stylistic method of James’s fiction and his recurrent thematic preoccupations. The frame’s homo- erotic mutual appreciation presents us with the epitome of “point of view” —​the narrative absorption of an alternate “perspective” —​while the document, the arc of the drive...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting.” Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969 . 59 -67. Bernstein, Charles. “Artifice of Absorption.” A Poetics . Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1992 . Breton, André. Nadja . Trans. Richard Howard. New York...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 199–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
... itself” (35–36). Brazil is presented as a nation where a superior identity was able to develop after the Brazil- ians had “cannibalized” Europe and Africa, preserving their most useful parts only. This anthropophagic act, in the sense of the violent absorption of the other, followed a Nietzschean...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and techniques by ideological apparatuses in addition to literature’s absorption of ideological structures. In this regard, the novel points to a broader applicability for the work of literary critique. The second narrative is an academic article by Rey, the ethnobotanist, about tadek, a “rudimentary...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 233–261.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of the early twentieth-century’s fascination with somnolent states as for a subtle differentia- tion from the era’s norms. As for Proust and other giants of the period, dor- mancy for Bishop is often a pretext for a shift of consciousness from absorption in diurnal routines into a private world...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and also a threat to their own eminent domains. In the sudden rediscovery and subsequent absorption of paradigms led by the voice, one loses (it seems) the capacity for traditional positive scientificity; yet the opulence, mechanisms, and complexity of oral particularity have commanded these “new” sciences...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
... that the relationship betweenThe Butcher Boy  and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  offers what Julie Sanders calls a “dynamic intersection of textual surfaces” and corroborates Julia Kristeva’s by now well- rehearsed observation that “tout texte est absorption et transformation d’un autre texte...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 63–89.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., but also vigorous cross-fertil- ization. The Russian-Georgian dialogue intensified in the aftermath of the revo- lutions of 1917, particularly after Georgia’s absorption into the Soviet Union in 1921, which ended her short-lived political independence but arguably strength- ened her sense of cultural...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 220–230.
Published: 01 June 2009
... and Romanian (6). Saussy further applauds Meltzl’s strategic inclusion of Hungarian on his list of ten as “an irreducible philological exception” that enabled comparative literature to resist absorption into “one or another existing branch of the historical sciences” (9).5 More recently, David Damrosch...