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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 128–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kir Kuiken Abstract While “impasse” in politics implies deadlock or standstill, this essay examines how a counter-tradition, exemplified by Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community , treats impasse as the condition of possibility of a new form of community. Focusing on Blanchot’s conception...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Audrey Wu Clark Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . 260 p. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... l'Aurore , 1982 . Print . ——. Œuvres autobiographiques . 2 vols . Ed. Lubin Georges , Paris : Gallimard , 1971 . Print . Schor Naomi . George Sand and Idealism . New York : Columbia UP , 1993 . Print . Toscano Alberto . “Destructive Creation, or, The Communism...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Stephen Arata Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvi, 297p. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. By Sara Danius. Ithaca: Cornell University Press...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Bruce Clarke Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. Ed. Timothy Lenoir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xv, 457 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/87...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., a reluctant heir to Heidegger. Approaching Marlovian drama from the perspective of Badiou's meta-ontology of truth-procedures sheds new light on the etiology of dramatic impasse. This perspective exacts the subtraction of a “subject of truth” from every community and from received metaphysical notions...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 130–140.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Therí A. Pickens This essay asks what kinds of theoretical paradigms are possible in a geographical space where the foundational racial split is along the fault lines of Blackness and whiteness. What other relationships are possible between communities of color in this geo-political, socio-cultural...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 272–297.
Published: 01 September 2019
...). Bākīkhānūf’s historical work conceptualizes community outside the framework of the nation, while conjoining distinctive strands of epistemic and cultural cosmopolitanism. As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate literary tradition of which he partakes advance a cosmopolitan...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 476–502.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the subject and Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on the communicative power of the body, the article looks at the reverberations that Leopardi’s teoria del piacere (understood as an anthropological system) exerts on his theory of language and builds a neck-to-neck comparison with Locke’s linguistic functionalism...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and communities living in the shadow of insurgencies and state violence. The Anglophone metropolitan postcolonial critic’s often-shallow knowledge about a region, its literature and deep politics, and their many rationalizations about why it is so, dovetails with the manner in which lies, exaggerated and fake...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Aristotle’s Poetics , focusing on ibn Sīnā’s conception of the role poetic expression’s cognitive as well as affective force plays in the instantiation of what he calls الأمة الشعرية ( al-umma al-sh’irīya ), “the poetic or aesthetic community.” Elaborating how and why the phrase poetic socialities...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the basic components of grammatical address in a vexed, lyric encounter with the colonial reality of Martinique, he gradually recalibrates the relationship between the poem’s speaker and the African-diasporic community of and beyond Martinique as that between a kind of intersubjective voice of négritude...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
...” community, to present the enclave as a contact zone for creolization of cultural materials that converge here through two, overlapping circularities: the transoceanic and the littoral. The specific epistemic structure generated through their intersections, that I call “the archipelago of fragments,” moves...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 312–318.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Haun Saussy Predictions of an age of “secondary orality,” brought on by the diffusion of electronic media, are characteristic of the 1960's version of technological globalization, but draw on earlier accounts of orality as the primordial human communications medium. In these accounts, writing...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 370–388.
Published: 01 December 2016
... studies for the use of certain tropes to legitimize the traffic of political and cultural capital involved in the creation of domestic and transnational literary canons. These tropes include conquest and war, finance and trade, community, and language as currency. The networks throughout which their texts...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 332–350.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., and the poetic communication of an incommunicable beyond within. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Bashō concrete poetry haiku transcreation Zen Works Cited Aguilar Gonzalo . Poesia Concreta Brasileira. As vanguardas na encruzilhada modernista . São Paulo : Edusp , 2005 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and techniques. It argues that Dolly City reflects, thematically and formally, a shift between two biopolitical models of governance: from a welfare model based on a calculable and statistical futurity and on communal sacrifice, to a neoliberal model grounded in a speculative futurity and a zero-risk principle...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 June 2019
... languages by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, and “Lo ferm voler,” a sestina by Arnaut Daniel, are read as experimental compositions that promote the function of lyric forms to provide stability to the vernacular in a fluid oral context by communicating meaning in nondiscursive ways. The influence of these works...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of the law yet underwrite it. Against Voltaire’s cosmopolitanism and Enlightenment-era ideals, Habiby’s humor thus offers a differential and conflictual community that prioritizes a practice of decolonization over ideal solutions and their dichotomous logic. Here, however, Habiby’s criticism does not end...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., the spoken qualities of the Hebrew Bible by allowing the human breath to dictate line divisions. Celan repurposed the breath-unit for his post-Shoah poetics: it registered, for him, a further disruption of the Hebrew-German translational link, following the demise of the Jewish community of readers. Celan’s...
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