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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and bodily containment, the nightingale’s song mediates between sound and space. This article builds on Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, who use the bird to think about enclosure (sonic, spatial) and territorial possession. Nesting T. S. Eliot’s nightingales within a wider context clarifies...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 366–382.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Antony Rowland This article examines the categories of victim and perpetrator testimony in relation to the writing contained in the Salamander Oasis Trust archive in the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. In Dimensions of the Holocaust , Elie Wiesel famously commented that the Holocaust produced...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... furioso , Os Lusíadas , Gerusalemme liberata , The Faerie Queene , Paradise Lost —measure a modern, critical distance, fed by science and a commercial economy, upon epic and its heroic values. The genre contains a historical dialectic of past and present from its outset. Spenser wickedly parodies...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 46–58.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Antony Rowland János Pilinszky's ruminations about trauma and memory struck a particular chord with Ted Hughes. At the same time as the Yorkshire poet was working on translations of Pilinszky's poetry with János Csokits in the early 1970s, he was writing two of his own collections that contain...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 429–444.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., tragic literature has the capacity to engender a non-utopian, engaged political critique that is truer to experience and less vulnerable to disintegration or attack than most modes of polemic political critique. As a dialectic, morally flexible form, it is able to contain its own contradictions...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 427–449.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to define and contain criminal traces, arguing that Roberto Bolaño's and Teresa Margolles's works point, rather, to the potentiality of criminal space to project itself onto other locations. Their diffuse and globalized crime scenes have structural similarities with what Giorgio Agamben terms generalized...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 235–252.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to Laura, as the poems' object of desire, a rarely acknowledged agency and power, and thus produces an inversion of traditional hierarchies against which the poems struggle but finally fail to contain. © 2011 by University of Oregon 2011 Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy, II...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 356–381.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to represent a key resource both for the ideal of lyric propagated in Germany in the Geniezeit and (more unexpectedly) for Tiutchev's lyric practice. The first two sections of the article contain an overview of the chief temporal categories that occur in Pindar's corpus (and, more generally, in Ancient Greek...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... important legacy avoids the real work of reading Mimesis and the interpretive strategies it contains, and that such a reading requires bracketing the historical conditions of his work's composition, a story with an easy appeal to pathos. To truly discern the significance of Auerbach's contribution to our...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2002
... want to suggest, is the affective experience we
know as mood.
Because it is usually understood as a temporary state of being, and as a self-
contained one at that, mood seems to resist the kind of political and cultural
reading that individual emotions call for. Yet I would argue...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
... exploration of social and political forces that mediate communicative practices. Consider two selections from this wide body of scholarship that show how epistolary narrative inspires reading not only for the textual content contained in fictional letters but also for the larger, metafictional moments...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., critique, and irony, which contest the unity of the book as a single container of voices and forces. The audiobook Infinite Jest , with its (initial) omission and (later) detachment of the notes from the remainder of the text, tearing the print book up as it were, instills a desire to follow the endnote...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2010
... as “strategies
of localization” that serve to bound and contain the local culture under the seemingly stable gaze of
a (Western) observing subject (“Traveling Cultures” 97). In his movement from dwelling to travel,
Clifford attempts to address the various displacements that lead to and constitute...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 264–277.
Published: 01 September 2018
... with any certainty that things on the dockside were what they seemed? Like people, objects too could dissemble. Might a walking stick in fact be a lethal weapon ( Trade Board )? Could a shaving brush contain anthrax ( Customs and Excise 203 )? Was a coin fashioned into a brooch real or not, and which...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 209–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
....” The poem formally enacts such a process in its five stanzas, each of which contains five successively longer lines—a layering of poetic deposits that parallels the accumulative sedimentary layering that created Dover’s chalk. 17 This parallel also extends to the poem’s intertextual relationship with its...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 345–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in reverberation with
the material it contains might be said to repeat the incursion of “science” that her conclud-
ing chapter condemns. While deconstruction —for which the book seems to seek a viable
successor methodology —tended to subjugate literature to the relentless test of an inevita-
bly failing...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
... by reflecting on the space in-between humans and
machines. Such reflections have led to the idea that the self is not given, is not
contained, and has no exclusive interiority from which to start: rather, the self is
an exteriority (what Stiegler calls “technics”) that acts as an original incursion...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...” ( Mah o sāl 5 ). But obliging “Moscow” in this way was not the most natural undertaking for the poet, and the resulting text bears the trace of these complex forces. Much of what is said is said earnestly, but contained in the short volume (just shy of 140 pages in all, some 40 of those taken up...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 331–346.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in the simple form. This passage also contains several small
grammatical errors (3:216).
Based on this evidence, it seems highly unlikely that Woolf would have appre-
ciated Proust in French in 1922. Furthermore, Woolf ’s unpublished reading notes
in the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection contain...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., expression by language, and conceptualization by
philosophy, but the encounter itself, the presence to presence of the senses and a work of
art, needs ex hypothesi to contain a kernel of unmediated contact.
Focusing on the commonality of aesthetic experience as revealed in the use of terms like...
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