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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
...
BOOK REVIEWS
TROUBLING CONFESSIONS: SPEAKING GUILT IN LAW AND LITERATURE. By Peter Brooks. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 207 p.
In 1868 a pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked, published by Henry Scott, a
Wolverton metal broker, became the subject of a legal...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 326–344.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of writing in Lolita : Humbert Humbert’s private diary written with his photographic memory and his manuscript for publication, his confession, written with his painterly imagination. This article argues that Humbert’s two ways of inscribing, camera obscura and lucida , fail to capture the full reality...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 437–475.
Published: 01 December 2023
... altered by one of its adopters, Georges Perec, who eradicated themes based in individuated memory, like Brainard’s sexual confession, transforming the genre exclusively into a document of generational and cultural identity. This foundational split—between the sexual-social and the generational—dictated...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2002
...
BOOK REVIEWS
TROUBLING CONFESSIONS: SPEAKING GUILT IN LAW AND LITERATURE. By Peter Brooks. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 207 p.
In 1868 a pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked, published by Henry Scott, a
Wolverton metal broker, became the subject of a legal...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2002
...
BOOK REVIEWS
TROUBLING CONFESSIONS: SPEAKING GUILT IN LAW AND LITERATURE. By Peter Brooks. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 207 p.
In 1868 a pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked, published by Henry Scott, a
Wolverton metal broker, became the subject of a legal...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
... to Confession
The suspect’s synthetic characterization both closed the surveillance file and
served as a basis for arrest. After the arrest the investigation file was opened,
largely as a record of interrogation. According to Grigoriev, “[In] its ‘classic’ form
an interrogation begins by having...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 March 2014
... nullified within the play. To
some extent this is unsurprising, since Tituba’s private life is never made visible
during any of the play’s four acts; Tituba simply appears on stage to mourn the
possible loss of Betty, to confess to having practiced witchcraft, and, finally, to
proclaim...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., of old flesh. “There, there,” he whispers in her ear. “There, there. It will soon be over.” (115) In the last of five turns taken by Elizabeth Costello in the text, she not only turns toward her son but “on him,” as if her confession of estrangement from the world is a betrayal of her relationship...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... This ambiguity, I suggest, reveals a family resemblance
between the voluntary testimonies enabled by American “reeducation” and the
compulsory confessions demanded by Communist “brainwashing.”
Wang shares a similar profile with Jin’s protagonist Yu Yuan. Both are curiously
resistant to Communist...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 321–338.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... The imperial narrative is a special case of this dis-
course in which autobiography, history, and confessional fiction tend to merge.
Indeed the self/other relationship common to all autobiography is compli-
cated in the imperial model by the disparity of power, which is further distorted
by what Fanon...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is foregrounded
whichever reading we choose.
Both narrators obviously attempt to manipulate their fictional interlocutors:
Clamence in order to reduce his own burden of guilt by provoking a confession,
Changez —we assume — with a view to avoiding, or perhaps instigating, a physical
attack...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 294–314.
Published: 01 September 2007
... will love will kill you—there
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is no doubt of it” (117),6 and soon enough, Raphael confesses to her: “You were a
true prophet. Foedora is killing me.” Pauline smiles and asks, “Is there only one
woman in the world?” (130), but, Raphael recalls, “The sound of her words...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 June 2016
... that are utilized in the lyrical attitude to reality, there are essen
tially three types. The first is the imaginary judge for whom we often perform our
actions in order to receive a positive evaluation. As Kundera confesses, even his
celebrated political rebellion in communist Czechoslovakia was not immune...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
...” to the scholar (a response Bennington agreed not to read until the book was published) suggests that it reveals the truth about “Derrida” in a mode of secret confession. The book’s very concept entangles the clear and projected voice of Bennington’s text with Derrida’s deeper and quieter voice ( plus bas[se...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... >. ———. “Confessions of a Xenophile.” Chimurenga 14 ( 2009 ): 35 – 41 . Print . ———. Interview . History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History 2 . 1 ( 2012 ). Web. < http://www.historyofthepresent.org/2.1/interview.html >. ———. In an Antique Land . 1992 . London : Penguin , 2008...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Les confessions . Vol. 14 of Oeuvres complètes . 21 vols. Paris : Chez P. Dupont , 1824 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes , translated...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
... . By Giovanni Verga. Trans. D.H. Lawrence. London: Cape, 1928 . Print. ———. A Confession, What I Believe . Trans. Aylmer Maude. London: Oxford UP, 1921 . Print. ———. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories . Trans. David McDuff. London: Penguin, 1983 . Print. ———. Tolstoy's Letters . Trans. and ed...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 43–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
... as Witt gen-
steinian. Only when Austerlitz is approached as a radically innovative genre — the
philosophical novel/travelogue/photo album/confession — do Wittgenstein’s
descriptions of his own work as album and landscape begin to connect Sebald’s
methods to the philosopher’s.
Wittgenstein...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
...: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , 1967 . Print . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Les confessions . 2 vols . Livre de Poche . Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 1963 . Print . ———. Le Lévite d'Ephraïm . Ed. Labrusse Sébastien . Chatou : Éditions de la Transparence , 2010 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 235–252.
Published: 01 September 2011
....’” Stanford Italian Review 10 ( 1991 ): 5 – 43 . Print . Auerbach Erich . “Passio as Passion.” Trans. Elsky Martin . Criticism 43 ( 2001 ): 288 – 308 . Print . Augustine . Confessions . Trans. Chadwick Henry . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1998 . Print . Bubner...
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