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Figure 1. Book cover for the 1928 edition of Baltacı and Catherine.

Book cover for the 1928 edition of Baltacı and Catherine .

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in Vâlâ Nureddin’s Comic Materialism and the Sexual Revolution: Writing across Turkey and the Soviet Union > Comparative Literature
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Book cover for the 1928 edition of Baltacı and Catherine . More
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Empathy in Post-Oslo Palestinian Literature: Reading between Identification and Recognition in Ala Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance

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Rachel Green
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 65–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10897120
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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Talking Like a Book: Exception and the State of Nature in Benjamin and Molière

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Christopher Braider
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1891405
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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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

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Lawrence Manley
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-52-1-90
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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Figure 1. Doug Beube, Cut Shortcomings (2015), altered book, plexiglass, acrylic boxes, wood, 39 × 20 × 6 inches. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

Doug Beube, Cut Shortcomings (2015), altered book, plexiglass, acrylic bo...

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in Opening the Audiobook > Comparative Literature
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. More
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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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in “Ganz Unmusikalisch”: Freud’s Seconda Prattica > Comparative Literature
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. More
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Dreaming by the Book

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William Kumbier
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 72–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-54-1-72
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 BOOK REVIEWS DREAMING BY THE BOOK. By Elaine Scarry. New...
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The Color of Melancholy: The Uses of Books in the Fourteenth Century

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Barbara K. Altmann
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 179–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-52-2-179
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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Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books by B. Venkat Mani

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John Pizer
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 99–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-4344116
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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Opening the Audiobook

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Sander van Maas
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-6991744
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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The Novel, the State, and the Professions: On Reading Bruce Robbins

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Paul A. Bové
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2010-005
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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Strategies of Visual Intervention: Langston Hughes and Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Rebecca Peabody
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1590128
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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The Everyday's Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein

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Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1891423
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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The Material Turn in Comparative Literature: An Introduction

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Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-6991688
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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“Good to Think With”: The Work of Objects in Three Novels of Modern Jewish Life

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Barbara E. Mann
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7215495
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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Reorienting Ourselves toward the Material: Between Page and Screen as Case Study

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Jessica Pressman
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-6991733
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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Synecdoche and Literary Parasitism in Borges and Joyce

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JAMES RAMEY
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-003
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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The Trans-Indigenous Lens: A Re-recognition

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Chadwick Allen
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475406
Published: 01 September 2023
...,” and/or “global” in the decade since the book’s publication. How have provocations to center the Indigenous as an optics and as a mode of analysis been taken up, extended, critiqued, or reimagined by others? To illustrate the potential limitations of calls to “decolonize” dominant academic institutions, including...
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“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific

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Alice Te Punga Somerville
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475393
Published: 01 September 2023
... scholar Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett arrived in Auckland with his freshly printed book Comparative Literature , drawing on work by, among others, Goethe . Responding to Pacific studies scholar Teresia Teaiwa’s argument that “more often than not … the Pacific is not brought to the table as an equal partner...
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Latinx Cosmopolitanism in the Global South: Víctor Hernández Cruz and the Nostalgia of Egypt

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Sarah M. Quesada
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 429–450.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11316373
Published: 01 December 2024
... that tends to privilege either a Latin American elite or US American mobility. Yet Cruz’s nostalgia for Egyptian antiquity goes as far as to unsettle major conceptions of modernity, especially in his book of poems Beneath the Spanish (2017). By privileging North African epistemologies, Cruz’s poetry...
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