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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Andrew Ford The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p. Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. viii...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 March 2025
... during which, the masks of status, law, and moral stricture laid aside, the characters join together in shared community. We mustn’t exaggerate. The triumph of equity does little to mitigate the social inequities that characterize the social order: though the stage directions for the final act...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of the self if one person could be substituted for another with nobody being the wiser? This article examines two medieval reflections on the possibility of an absolute resemblance that enables one character to be substituted for another. The first is the case of the “False Guenevere” in the Lancelot section...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 January 2006
...David A. Brewer The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel. By Alex Woloch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. ix, 391 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 375–393.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Rosa Mucignat This article considers how the concept of national character changed in post-revolutionary Europe by examining how Italians are depicted in Madame de Staël's Corinne , Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Lines Written among the Euganean Hills,” and Giacomo Leopardi's “La ginestra.” I show how...
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Literary Trespassing in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 222–237.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Maurice Ebileeni This article focuses on a rare leitmotif in literary productions by Palestinians. Both Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular present Arab characters who, under unusual circumstances, impersonate or literally acquire the identity of the Israeli...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
..., and ideas on consciousness, of several characters from each novel, focusing particularly on Levin and Birkin, who resemble their authors more than any other characters in their novels. Birkin is found to be less self-contradictory than Levin, since he is less anti-intellectual and more aware...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 388–399.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and at the same time makes use of stereotypes and cliché
in order to mark its analytical distance from the character. While Un Cœur simple
is characterized by narrational duplicity, narration in The Good Anna constantly
shifts between proximity and detachment:
The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Desmond Tutu's curious insertion of a character from Dorfman's play into his Foreword to the Final Report) with contemporary manifestations of an older understanding of remediation as a process of medical healing or legal redress (ongoing campaigns by apartheid victims regarding their right to remedy...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
... modern tragedy, a theatrical form that cannot be read only for plot, character, and imagery. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 Works Cited Abrams M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1953 . Print . Addison Joseph...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to conceive of a perfect man-made language, Chinese seemed a likely model. However, Leibniz's dream of a Universal Character relied on a combination of competing semiotic and systemic requirements that only the misguided view of sinographs and hexagrams as an integral part of one Chinese script system could...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to deconstruct this oppositional relationship, imbuing Tituba with precisely the characteristics that make Proctor's character so compelling in The Crucible . The ultimate result is not just to critique Miller's representation of Tituba but also to challenge her treatment both at the hands of the Salem community...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 406–417.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Rodríguez; the novel El hombre de hierro ( The Iron Man ; 1907) by Rufino Blanco Fombona, which was interpreted as a copy of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary but justified by its local character; and the very curious case of Rafael Bolívar Coronado, whose writing implodes the category of authorship that underlies...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2010
... condition of multi-historicity—that is, a simultaneity of multiple emplotment possibilities for the Russian state. In order to bring these possibilities to light, I read the novel with an eye on Dostoevsky's journalism from the early- to mid-sixties, a period characterized by an urgent recognition...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lara Harb Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on the location of the so-called cosmopolitan in queer literary genealogies and on power dynamics and hierarchies among both authors and characters and different creative forms, including academic writing. The article argues that while the diegesis of their texts is largely set outside their local contexts, both...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the paradigm shift from the Classic to the Romantic. As in his other tales with delusional protagonists, Hoffmann draws from contemporary mental pathology, not just in constructing character but also in adapting medical case studies as narrative models. The revival of commedia dell'arte and the staging...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 312–331.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... The representation of diva culture in Luigi Pirandello's 1916 film novel Si gira … ( Shoot! ) and the dynamics of the “test performance” in his play Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore ( Six Characters in Search of an Author , 1921, 1925) enable us to revise our sense of how film interacts with older media...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Thangam Ravindranathan Abstract This essay considers the unworldly setting of Jean Rolin’s novel Ormuz (2013), composed around the attempt by a shadowy character named Wax to swim across the Strait of Hormuz. This twenty-one-nautical-mile-wide stretch of sea separating Iran from the Arabian...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 43–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
...NINA PELIKAN STRAUS What does W.G. Sebald mean by the doubling of his character Jacques Austerlitz with Ludwig Wittgenstein, a “poetic” philosopher who, although of Jewish ancestry, had little to say about the fate of the Jews during the Nazi period? Sebald's initiation of the reader...
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