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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 44–64.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Timothy DeMay Abstract In 1961, the poet Jacques Roubaud was dismissed by the French military in Algeria after undergoing a series of “clandestine hunger strikes,” an act he later referred to as his “very first constraint.” By using a term that at once refers to a particular and increasingly...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
...
The OuLiPoe, or
Constraint and (Contre-)
Performance: “The
Philosophy of Composition”
and the Oulipian Manifestos
“I kept steadily in view the design of rendering...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 303–314.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Disparition and Abish's Alphabetical Africa , focusing on the alphabetical constraint that structures Abish's novel. It demonstrates how, in true Oulipian style, the constraint goes well beyond the ludic or arbitrary imposition of a structural rule and examines how, set against the backdrops of colonial...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 481–488.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Eric Hayot Do we think that ideas only come in a limited number of sizes? Obviously not. And yet … it would be perfectly reasonable for someone from the outside to accuse us of so thinking. These are the constraints of the institution, and we reinforce them constantly: in, for instance, our...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with regard to the perceived relationship between creativity and constraint. The essay makes its case by analogy with two authors often cited by the Oulipo — the medieval theologian Ramón Llull and the Atomist philosopher Lucretius — between whom Calvino draws a parallel in one of his final works...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 297–300.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to the knowl-
edge or to the recognition of codifi ed and shared referents, which may be, but are not
always, constraints.”1 His use of the word “constraints” requires some commentary given
that the OULIPO sets itself the task of researching and creating literary constraints: self-
imposed restrictive...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 288–290.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to the knowl-
edge or to the recognition of codifi ed and shared referents, which may be, but are not
always, constraints.”1 His use of the word “constraints” requires some commentary given
that the OULIPO sets itself the task of researching and creating literary constraints: self-
imposed restrictive...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 290–294.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to the knowl-
edge or to the recognition of codifi ed and shared referents, which may be, but are not
always, constraints.”1 His use of the word “constraints” requires some commentary given
that the OULIPO sets itself the task of researching and creating literary constraints: self-
imposed restrictive...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 295–297.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to the knowl-
edge or to the recognition of codifi ed and shared referents, which may be, but are not
always, constraints.”1 His use of the word “constraints” requires some commentary given
that the OULIPO sets itself the task of researching and creating literary constraints: self-
imposed restrictive...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 437–475.
Published: 01 December 2023
...” ( Brainard, I Remember 3 ). The form of “I remember” is so monotonous that it is hard to read; one easily skips over an individual line, lets one memory blend into the next. While in theory, these memories are limited to short, declarative one-offs, Brainard feels no shame in straying from the constraints...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 233–235.
Published: 01 June 2023
... contemporaries, reflect on the way that the interplay between maʿnā and lafẓ makes prose poetry stand out as a genre that allows creativity in composing and interpreting texts. These new possibilities set the stage to liberate poetry from form constraints, as exemplified in both the qaṣīdah and qasīdat al...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 246–254.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., imposes an existential limit, and theory alone
can liberate us from systemic constraints (Fluck, “Literature, Liberalism” 216).
Curiously missing from the discussion is any serious questioning of how the text’s
appearance as a network of hegemonic or subversive gestures suits the state of
literary...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., everyone proceeds from a
model that recognizes only two possible states of linguistic knowledge: mastery
or ignorance.
No doubt this tendency toward bifurcation stems at least in part from the prag-
matic constraints imposed by a need to certify “expertise” within an educational
system organized...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 250–252.
Published: 01 June 2014
... a champion of realist
fiction. Aravamudan contends that Bakhtin never defined “the Novel” as a fixed, timeless
genre wedded to national realism but rather as a dynamic literary form that produces new
fiction, something novel, by transgressing generic constraints. Novelness belongs not only to
Defoe’s...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 97–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
... widespread resistance in the humanities (and the
social sciences) to accepting biological constraints on human thought and behavior. However, this
resistance is now under increasing pressure from such fields as evolutionary psychology, linguistics,
sociobiology, and, most recently, literary theory...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... affordances and constraints of the media of digital literary production, can help us frame these questions and venture some answers while enriching critical projects in both disciplines. 2 The argument that electronic literature has something to teach comparative literature about textual materiality...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 158–176.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., streamlined through media channels, upsets the former
dialectic and imposes derogatory ideas of the Third World onto the initial uto-
pian vision of the beach. This superimposition turns the beach into a different
kind of playground where deeper layers of civil constraint can be shed to expose
a heart...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
... not reflect their spoken dialect. What did this dialect sound like? The truth is that we don’t know—and for me this was a blessing since it set me free to improvise, within certain self-imposed constraints. In terms of vocabulary, for example, I limited myself to words that were actually in circulation...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
...” as a fixed, timeless
genre wedded to national realism but rather as a dynamic literary form that produces new
fiction, something novel, by transgressing generic constraints. Novelness belongs not only to
Defoe’s and Richardson’s realist fiction but also to the oriental tales that were their inspira- ...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 252–271.
Published: 01 September 2019
... is functionally opposite to and’ s semantic meaning of conjoining or stringing together. In translation, then, the and s become equivocations: equal-voiced in two opposite directions at once. Even (and especially) if this is just a language constraint of Chinese that Chang had to work with while translating...
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