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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John Wilkins Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 257 p. University of Oregon 2010...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to add to both accounts: the perspective of comedy . I propose, then, to counter Benjamin's argument by exploring the ways in which comedy challenges the underlying metaphysics to which tragedy appeals. To this end, I argue that the greatest tragedy of the French classical age is its greatest comedy...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 September 2021
... adaptations of Soviet erotic fiction. In reading Vâlâ’s neglected 1928 erotic historical comedy Baltacı ile Katerina ( Baltacı and Catherine ), unique among Vâlâ’s writings in its direct and explicit imagination and specification of an entangled revolution, this article suggests, by way of specific attention...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 75–95.
Published: 01 March 2016
... by turning it into dark comedy, Pnin transforms the world of Dostoevsky's novels from a forum of ideas into an arena for the struggles of metafiction. At a time when Joseph McCarthy was concerned with the infiltration of American institutions by communist agents, Russian literature, and in particular...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... cosmopolitanism that has reemerged in the past decades. Holberg was Scandinavia’s preeminent Enlightenment figure and is still beloved for his stage comedies. His only European success, Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741), argues for a cosmopolitanism situated in history, geography, and local culture...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 89–92.
Published: 01 January 2010
.../00104124-2009-035 NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK COMEDY. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. ARISTOPHANES AND THE CARNIVAL OF GENRES. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hop- kins University Press, 2007. 257 p. The plays of Greek...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK COMEDY. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. ARISTOPHANES AND THE CARNIVAL OF GENRES. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hop- kins University Press, 2007. 257 p. The plays of Greek Old Comedy are some of the most remarkable...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK COMEDY. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. ARISTOPHANES AND THE CARNIVAL OF GENRES. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hop- kins University Press, 2007. 257 p. The plays of Greek Old Comedy are some of the most remarkable...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2010
.../00104124-2009-035 NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK COMEDY. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. ARISTOPHANES AND THE CARNIVAL OF GENRES. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hop- kins University Press, 2007. 257 p. The plays of Greek...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 March 2017
... . Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy . Trans. and commentary Singleton Charles S. . 3 vols . Princeton : Princeton UP, Bollingen Series 80 , 1973 . Print . Armstrong Guyda . The English Boccaccio: A History in Books . Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2013 . Print . Awdry...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... “In Defense of Philip Roth.” Pinsker 182 -93. Landis, Joseph C. “The Sadness of Philip Roth.” Pinsker 164 -71. Lewis, Anthony. “The Jew in Stand-Up Comedy.” Sarah Blancher Cohen 58 -70. Malin, Irving, ed. Contemporary American-Jewish Literature . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... mythos that locates the sacred in the here-and-now. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Emily Dickinson Rainer Maria Rilke Giovanni Pascoli science and religion poetic modernism and mystical language Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 357–359.
Published: 01 September 2016
... reference to Honoré de Balzac’s representation of communal living space in Père Goriot would have been useful here. Indeed, the nineteenth-century French author’s larger oeuvre, “la Comédie Humaine,” is a point of reference for Confiant’s “Comédie créole Her spatial readings of Creole language...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Carlo Gozzi; with essays on Italian impromptu comedy, Gozzi's life, The Dramatic fables, and Pietro Longhi by the translator; with portrait and six original etchings by Adolphe Lalauze; also eleven subjects illustrating Italian comedy by Maurice Sand engraved on copper by A. Manceau, and coloured...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 362–364.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the questions of literary identity and provenance (a new and different version or a repetition of the model on which it is based?) and of generic identity (tragedy, tragi- comedy, comedy The final doubling is of the nature, or identity, of the “subject” itself: it is uncertain whether the plays dramatize...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 365–367.
Published: 01 September 2004
... identity, all three versions posing but failing to resolve the questions of literary identity and provenance (a new and different version or a repetition of the model on which it is based?) and of generic identity (tragedy, tragi- comedy, comedy The final doubling is of the nature, or identity...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 367–370.
Published: 01 September 2004
... (tragedy, tragi- comedy, comedy The final doubling is of the nature, or identity, of the “subject” itself: it is uncertain whether the plays dramatize the Cartesian essentialist, self-determined subject or the subject as a conventional social (and linguistic) construct, built, as it were, from...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 370–372.
Published: 01 September 2004
... identity and provenance (a new and different version or a repetition of the model on which it is based?) and of generic identity (tragedy, tragi- comedy, comedy The final doubling is of the nature, or identity, of the “subject” itself: it is uncertain whether the plays dramatize the Cartesian...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 372–375.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the questions of literary identity and provenance (a new and different version or a repetition of the model on which it is based?) and of generic identity (tragedy, tragi- comedy, comedy The final doubling is of the nature, or identity, of the “subject” itself: it is uncertain whether the plays dramatize...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 209–227.
Published: 01 June 2007
... eloquentia. Epistolae. Ed. Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo et al. Opere minori . Vol. 5 , tome II. Milan: Ricciardi, 1973 . Barolini, Teodolinda. Dante's Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992 . Bernasconi, Robert, and Simon Critchley, eds. Re-Reading Levinas...