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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the very heart of the practice of comparison in an unequally globalized world. 4 Drawing from Glissant, Jean-François argues that such opacity co-constitutes rather than opposes the project of empathy—one should not have to completely penetrate the other’s mind in order to empathize with them ( 125...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the latter situates one text within the global field of others. For comparison to be possible, initially, the things being compared must stand apart; to claim the status of world literature for a given work, conversely, is to make it part of a broader whole. Comparative and world literature may thus be said...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
... thematization. With reference to Anton Shammas, Bessie Head, and John Berger, he reflects critically on the practice of comparison as embedded in the ethics of knowledge production. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 ethics comparison Rohingya Anton Shammas TWO YEARS AGO, then ACLA...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 255–269.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of “all literature,” before the concepts of Weltliteratur and comparative literature gained currency. The divergence of the two genesis stories is the result of competing geopolitical interests, which determine which literatures enter into the sphere of comparison, on what terms, within which paradigms...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 446–461.
Published: 01 December 2012
... . 2012 ACLA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Françoise Lionnet
Shipwrecks, Slavery,
and the Challenge
of Global Comparison:
From Fiction to Archive in
the Colonial Indian Ocean
he Indian Ocean has always been the most “global” of all oceans...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of literary comparison that alternately analyzes the similarities and differences between texts rather than attempting to maintain a balanced view of both at once, this essay also hopes to contribute to recent discussions within the field of comparative literature on how to treat textual convergences...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., 1994 . Yao, Steven G. Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/246
STEVEN G. YAO
The Unheimlich Maneuver;
or the Gap, the Gradient, and
the Spaces of Comparison...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
... about comparison, especially in response to the argument by late Banaban scholar Teresia Teaiwa that Pacific studies is shaped by three strands: it is interdisciplinary, it is Indigenous-centered and—yes—it is comparative ( “For or Before ” ). Beyond Teaiwa’s direct treatments of the comparative nature...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Vince Schleitwiler This essay connects recent academic debates over antiblackness and the rise of new theories and methods of comparison to the movements against police violence that are gaining visibility after the protests in Ferguson, MO, arguing that they all demonstrate the fracturing...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 185–192.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Zhang Longxi Early China/Ancient Greece; Thinking through Comparisons. Edited by Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 320 p. University of Oregon 2005 Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Annette Damayanti Lienau Abstract This essay introduces the American Comparative Literature Association Forum “Vernacular Comparisons beyond the Europhone.” Characterizing the Europhone “vernacular” as a protean term of diverse application, the essay highlights the paradoxes associated with its use...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the suffering of the transatlantic slave trade and the simultaneous tendency for such comparisons to occlude the very subject that such a comparison seeks to articulate, the argument identifies the tensions that inevitably emerge out of a discourse of comparative memory. Moving outside of Zong! , the essay...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 360–381.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as a parallel “literature of resistance.” Taking the Vietnam-Palestine comparison as a focal point, this article illuminates a transnational Arab network of avant-garde literary production that corresponded with, translated, and published each other’s work in Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and the United States...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and non-Europe and associated with Walter Benjamin's dialectical image, the figure of the flâneur furnishes a comparative approach based on collision, encounter, and touch, rather than the mimetic, vision-based models of comparison that claim equivalence or commensurability. I detect a similar...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... news, shape and produce what counts as knowledge in these Indian Anglophone novels. Both works evoke the failure of a poetics and politics of familial and extrafamilial relations to underline how death and the disappearance of women from families, from society, and from the news enable a comparison...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 427–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by then. To this latter end, the essay establishes a comparison between de Man’s later works, from Allegories of Reading (1979) onward, and Jacques Derrida’s 1996 autobiographical essay Monolingualism of the Other in order to show how the deconstructive theory conception of language-as-other is rooted in these two...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as a philosophical category. Hyperion 's figurations share the theoretical horizon of Keats's contemporaries in post-Kantian philosophy and betray a concern with one of the formative impulses behind Hegel's system-building: the interplay of myth and rationality. Reading Hyperion in comparison with a line...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 141–154.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Shu-Mei Shih This essay deploys “relational comparison” to address the ways in which texts from different parts of the world are related to each other through their partaking and representation of world historical events. It constructs an arc of literary texts that are not distinguished...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
...) and Field Work (1979). His view of Miłosz, however, is affected by associations against which Miłosz himself rebels. Most notable for this comparison is Miłosz's insistence that “noble feelings” are dangerous for literature and — in spite of his avowed anti-Romanticism — his bardic aura. Heaney's experience...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... comparisons based on the representation of the New World chiefly derived from the supposed characteristics of its “nature.” This article will identify traces of the demand made by Ferdinand Denis (1798–1890) that the intellectual production of the Americas must reflect the effect of the nature that inspires...
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