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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... through the lens of Chilean-Argentine author Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden , its staging and reception in Johannesburg and its inscription into the 1998 Final Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). By juxtaposing a case of literary remediation (TRC Chairperson...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2010
... it as a straightforward, culturally reactionary “anti-anarchist romance,” and thereby precluding other, more politicized, readings. By staging a creative betrayal of the novel in 1920s Moscow, Tairov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, who was commissioned to write the script, reactivate certain elements of the work obscured...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 47–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Glenn A. Odom This article examines Yael Farber's Molora , an adaptation of The Oresteia , in the context of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a narrative form. I argue that, in performance, the play prevents the culmination of both reconciliation and the tragic form, leaving...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Commission . Higher Education for American Democracy: A Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education . Vol. 1 . Establishing the Goals . New York : Harper , 1947 . Print . Williams Jeffrey J. “The Pedagogy of Debt.” College Literature 33 ( 2006 ): 155 – 69 . Print...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 164–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
...—the altar, the church or chapel interior, the ritual activity taking place in the vicinity
of the artwork, the wealth, piety, and importance of the patrons who commissioned it. (42)
The focus of this mode falls on the work’s “liturgical” role in the service of
“ritual practices believed to solicit...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 370–388.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Commission (collection) — Catalogue for the sixth Duke of Northumberland , 1867 (published as the Appendix to the Third Report of the Historic Manuscript Commission in 1872). Print . Percy Thomas , ed. and trans. Five Pieces of Runic Poetry Translated from the Islandic Language . London...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2014
... these questions in “Literature, Remediation, Remedy (The Case of Tran-
sitional Justice Comparing the “drama” of the South African Truth and Recon-
ciliation Commission with the play Death and the Maiden, which was referenced in
Desmond Tutu’s foreword to the final commission report, Bystrom turns to reme...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 45–57.
Published: 01 January 2008
...
Brendan (sometimes characterized as a hagiographical romance), was originally
written in Latin by the poet Benedeit and dedicated to Henry’s first wife, Queen
Matilda. Whether she personally commissioned the Latin text we do not know
(although she did commission two other Latin works: a life of her...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
... . Wallerstein, Immanuel, et al., eds. Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/234
HAUN SAUSSY
Chiasmus
In Comparative Literature’s way of looking...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 189–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Bridge and
the Bay Bridge, two Mexican artists —Diego Rivera (1886–1957) and Miguel Cova-
rrubias (1904–57)— were commissioned to celebrate this engineering achieve-
ment. Both chose to depict much more than the bridges, indeed nothing less than
the entire hemisphere in Rivera’s mural Pan...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 184–208.
Published: 01 June 2021
... hypothesize that one of the postindustrial waterfront’s sensibilities can be located in a loose network of comic tableaux, including apparently dissimilar works such as the documentaries of Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens , the sitcom Arrested Development , and a recent mural commission at Baltimore’s National...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 283–301.
Published: 01 June 2010
...,” Michael Nathan, while not specifically commissioned
by the French, becomes an intermediary between the Haitian slave leader Toussaint L’Ouverture and
the French government. Beauvais and Berenger, the protagonists of Seghers’s “Wiedereinführung
der Sklaverei auf Guadeloupe,” are initially ordered...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 213–225.
Published: 01 September 2019
...” (which began its life under the title “Literary Theory: Aims and Methods”) is exemplary in this regard. It begins with the story of its commission as a contribution to an MLA-sponsored Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures and its rejection by the editorial committee: I...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 201–206.
Published: 01 June 2005
... for this non-nation-
ally marked linguistic pluralism.
If Damrosch is the pragmatist and Weber the nominalist, Haun Saussy is argu-
ably the discipline’s economist of symbolic capital. In his draft report on the
state of the discipline, commissioned by the American Comparative Literature
Association...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of Strassburg in 1890. There, he founded the Historical Commission
for Jews in Germany (Historische Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutsch-
land), a commission which he headed from 1885 to 1902 (Peters, forthcoming).
Under its auspices, the Berlin scholar Julius Aronius began to work...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 276–282.
Published: 01 September 2020
... were commissioned to discover and explore for Thomas Jefferson, the Osages were in fact well-known and well documented as a people, having first met Europeans in the 1670s when Father Marquette and Louis Joliet came south from Quebec, eventually floating down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to suspect that she is teasing when she tells Giglio that
Bescapi has had her imprisoned for the damage to the expensive dress she was
commissioned to make for him (Werke 5: 638; “Brambilla” 149). Because, in the
very opening of the tale, we witness the final preparations of the dress...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 288–302.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of Yeats's Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2008 . Print . Davies Celia Roulston Carmel . Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2000 . Print . Duffy Aoife . “A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 481–488.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to like it
more than regular class, which is not, I suppose, nothing.
Siebers’s essay appeared in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism, the
third major report on the state of the discipline commissioned by the ACLA, pub-
lished as a collection edited by Charles Bernheimer...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
...” of the
novel’s title. Aware of Pierre’s reputation as a fine craftsman, the comte de Vil-
lepreux a liberal Orleanist conspiring against the Restoration government (the
main action takes place in 1823) commissions father and son to restore the
woodwork of the Gothic chapel that is adjoined to his chateau...
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