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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 January 2009
... concern the present, however, a practice Morier lists under the category of anachronisme progréssif généralisé (generalized progressive anachronism), this initially playful lit- erary technique becomes much more serious. Morier’s third form of the fi gure, anachronisme régressif or catachronisme...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
... as the “ludicrous anachronisms” of dreams and such forms of “non-work” as they appear in Mary Robinson’s 1791 poem “The Maniac.” Framed as an opium-induced dream that enables Robinson to share a psycho-physiological state akin to the wanderer “mad Jemmy,” Robinson forges relations between the poet and Jemmy...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-Europhone literatures and literary histories? If we displace Europhone terms of analysis as conceptual categories, what alternatives emerge in their stead from non-European languages, lineages, and source materials? In pursuing lateral comparisons within the Global South, how can the risks of anachronism...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 203–223.
Published: 01 June 2020
... to retrace the turns and detours of those writings that are emphatically marked by the errancy, anachronism, and forgetfulness that recurrence and iterability entail. It is in such an attempt that this article offers commentaries upon several passages from the oeuvres of Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, and Robert Musil confront the errancy, anachronism, and forgetfulness that recurrence entails. “There may be no getting beyond recurrence,” as Mendicino explains in her conclusion, “and no end to citing that which will have been said of it.” Nevertheless, her essay suggests...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 228–240.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in fact make a distinctive contri- bution to contemporary Spanish culture, a contribution not reducible to the leyenda negra of failed modernity?6 While such outright anachronism is best avoided, it is still possible to see Valente 5 Silver’s argument is more complex and subtle than this, and I...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., or the cultural enclave of a heterogeneous and different universe whose anachronisms could be dramatized only in fiction. While migration is a major mode of contemporary Indian Ocean circularities, an oft-overlooked aspect of postcoloniality is the resurgence of new, specifically Asian, hegemonic powers...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 96–106.
Published: 01 January 2008
... medieval than all the Renaixença trobes put together (Marfany 152-56). Despite a good number of intentional, and some surely unintentional, linguistic anachronisms, the parody is not unlike a medieval collection of sayings or pieces of advice, complete with an introduction by its purported author (“Fra...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
...,” the photos do not support this assertion. The blatant anachronism of an adult woman in blackface playing a twelve-year-old girl is heightened by the temporal anachronisms of the images Hughes has chosen. Smith’s Topsy, for example, is documented via a photograph of a stage performance from 1944...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... long been “a land of utopias . . . linked to messianism, with all the complex conceptions and connotations of this notion” ( Dayan-Herzburn 95 ). I make a point of highlighting this circular temporal aspect because it underscores the anachronism intrinsic to Zionism, and hence to all Zionist...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
... an allusion-rich coda that can be understood as a critique of the act of allusion itself: Menard has (perhaps unwittingly) enriched the slow and rudimentary art of reading by means of a new technique — the technique of deliberate anachronism and fallacious attribution. That tech- nique, requiring infi...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2001
...) ECENT ATTENTION TO “globalizing literary studies” invites us to consider R some potential theoretical and practical problems inherent in this currently popular idea. Although I shall address here among comparatists only one of these difficulties—a problem of anachronism, or the need to join...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., innovation, anachronism, and modernity. This collection thus celebrates the interdependent roles of readers and writers along both horizontal and vertical axes. From ancient Greece to modern Cata- lunya, the essays demonstrate a conscious sense of tradition and continuity through a variety of fertile...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to the drama of Dido that will soon be played out in the poem with its frequent imitations and references to Greek tragedy. But the theater is also a glaring anachronism in the heroic world of the poem, a further sign that Carthage stands for a later stage of civilization: urbane, scientific, disenchanted...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... anything” (Collected Poetry 69). From his perspective as a poet-historian, Kamau Brathwaite creates imaginary eras out of the colonial past and neocolonial present through a kind of subver- sive anachronism. Historical fi gures, fi gures of speech, tropes, images, and occur- rences drawn from...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
... theories of literary value and linguistic tradition. Tagore’s status as author ren- ders the novel timeless in the sense of a classic; his status as co-translator renders it untimely in the sense of an anachronism. We should use the odd and disjunctive temporality of the translated novel to better...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 377–405.
Published: 01 December 2020
... became, perhaps inevitably, something of a baroque undertaking, both in terms of style and for its embrace of anachronism. Distinguishing, in short, between a diachronic Baroque and a synchronic baroque has always been a vexatious task. For example, to conclude his 1966 essay “D’un récit baroque...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2014
... primary concern was to identify those signs of atavism that in one way or another were transmitted biologically and, moreover, translated into a tendency to commit crime. To put it another way, criminality for Lombroso (as for Caminha) was a sort of anachronism or form of reverse heredity...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 269–293.
Published: 01 September 2007
... impediment is that theorists such as Young, Omi, and Winant do not distin- guish between traditional (cultural, predominantly religious) and modern (ra- cial) hierarchies. However, that anachronism has been partially addressed from within the CRT community: Goldberg demonstrates remarkable clarity...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the sup- posed myth of a Bolaño who cries for redress seems to have been consolidated precisely through a registry of anachronisms: his youthful political and aesthetic commitments as well as his perceived non-renunciation of them, his vices, and his relatively early death. As the novelist Horacio...