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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Christopher Braider Walter Benjamin confides to his friend Hugo von Hofmannsthal that “I sometimes think about writing a book on French tragedy as a counterpart to my Trauerspiel book,” noting that his “plan for the latter had originally been to elucidate both the German Trauerspiel and the French...
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 1. Doug Beube, Cut Shortcomings (2015), altered book, plexiglass, acrylic boxes, wood, 39 × 20 × 6 inches. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.
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Published: 01 December 2018
Figure 2. Page from the Viennese address book of Sigmund Freud, showing Freud’s effacing of Theodor Reik’s contact details. From the archives of the Freud Museum, London. Used by permission.
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Lawrence Manley The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. By Adrian Johns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi, 753 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/87...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 72–75.
Published: 01 January 2002
...William Kumbier Dreaming by the Book. By Elaine Scarry. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. 292 p., index. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/72
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in Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution: Writing across Turkey and the Soviet Union
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Book cover for the 1928 edition of Baltacı and Catherine .
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Rachel Green Abstract This article considers Ala Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance , two Arabic-language novels published in 2014 by Palestinian authors with Israeli citizenship. It argues that both texts thematize empathy, despite its familiar pitfalls...
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Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books by B. Venkat Mani
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...John Pizer Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books . By Mani B. Venkat . Fordham University Press , 2017 . 348 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS / 99...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Barbara K. Altmann The Color of Melancholy: The Uses of Books in the Fourteenth Century. By Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, foreword by Roger Chartier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xxi, 186 p. University of Oregon 2000...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Figure 1. Doug Beube, Cut Shortcomings (2015), altered book, plexiglass, acrylic boxes, wood, 39 × 20 × 6 inches. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist. ...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... to meet the often painful conditions of aspiration within liberal capitalism. Robbins has a substantial political agenda in this book, as he has had through most of his career—to oppose the anarchism that anti-statist politics and critical theory have often advocated. While he makes clear that the welfare...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
... with a growing aloofness and skepticism as he begins to turn against what he believed to be the various avant-garde excesses of Joyce's massive novel. As a result, I argue, the allusion at the end of “Pierre Menard” to a “parasitic book” that is highly reminiscent of Ulysses functions as a key...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... was a complex moment in the cultural reception of the novel, characterized both by public demand for new incarnations of the story and by protests against the book and the performances it inspired. Hughes, who had a long-standing relationship with the story, accepted the invitation and produced an unusual...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... attraction to the Book and book writing as well as by his reading of certain works of literature) are deeply relevant to literary studies, and particularly to our understanding of literary modernism. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 Works Cited Adorno Theodor . “Notes on Kafka.” Prisms...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the practice and criticism of artists’ books; the study of comparative textual media; research in avant-garde poetry; and a line of criticism incorporating memory studies and book as well as paper history. Through an intermedial analysis of Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author,” I show that the material...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
... and olive-wood craft figure as metonymic symbols of a new national self. My comparative reading of these novels highlights a complementary set of conditions—objects in books, and the book as object. I argue that the genre’s engagement with things, and its emergence as a thing, suggests how writing both...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jessica Pressman Abstract Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012) is an augmented-reality book of poetry: a codex filled with Quick Response codes that, when activated by a web-camera connected to the Internet, project the appearance of text between the book’s...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 160–176.
Published: 01 March 2009
...SIMON GAUNT During the course of the last decade here has been sustained reflection on intersections between medieval studies and postcolonial theory, the books reviewed here being just a sample of the scholarship now available. But postcolonial approaches to the Middle Ages have proved...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 246–261.
Published: 01 June 2010
... the anxious negation of the political present performed by Hawthorne in his descriptions of Rome in The Marble Faun to the journalistic record of a tense, divided Venice in Howells's book—challenging the popular Anglo-American notion of an “apolitical,” fantastic Italy. In its conclusion, the essay shows how...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Tomoko Masuzawa The Bible has been considered one of the Great Books of Western Literature, and “the Bible as Literature” is regularly found in the curriculum of English departments in American colleges and universities. An underlying assumption is that the Bible possesses great literary value...
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