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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 361–363.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Seth Kimmel Conversion and Narrative: Reading Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic . By Szpiech Ryan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 311 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 455–456.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Alex J. Novikoff Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain . By Kimmel Seth . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 . 239 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 489–505.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Chenxin Jiang Kierkegaard defines conversion as the ultimate use of freedom, as in the following excerpt from his journal: “Freedom really is freedom only when in the same moment, the same second, it is (freedom of choice), it rushes with infinite speed to bind itself unconditionally...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (1): 84–99.
Published: 01 January 2005
... . Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2003 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/84
ANASTASIA GRAF
Representing the Other:
A Conversation among
Mikhail Bakhtin,
Elizabeth Bishop, and
Wisl/ awa Szymborska...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in the context of other recent Ukrainian poems and songs, the author argues that this “civic turn” in Ukrainian identity formation is both a direct response to conversations taking place about the meaning of the Maidan, and part of a global conversation about privilege, erasure, and culpability. Kiyanovska’s...
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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 (2019) 71 (3): 314–332.
Published: 01 September 2019
... has long served as a test case for Iberian history as a whole. Putting early modern literary theorists and musicians into conversation with late modern scholars influenced by Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the broad argument that emerges from this particular account of the romance is that the printed...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is crucially important in Baraka’s narration of his conversion from Beat bohemianism to Black nationalism. Baraka’s argument with Wittgenstein anticipates the concerns of a debate that occurred several years later between Hans Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas. Reading...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Firat Oruc Abstract Although the study of Indian Ocean literary circularities is a relatively new and dynamic field, it calls for alternative paradigms for global literary history in light of the nascent conversation between comparative world literature and oceanic studies. Following the creative...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 429–449.
Published: 01 December 2013
.../o communities. Significantly (and tragically), Letters ' Chicana protagonist, Teresa, envisions her recovery of a cohesive cultural identity as a return to a distant indigenous past (via traveling from the U.S. to Mexico) — which, I demonstrate, places Letters in conversation with Mexican...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... have practical value. Such inscriptions can create new constellations between the present and the past, and they can make visible continuities (or, conversely, discontinuities or misrecognitions) between desired and actual worlds. It is in this sense that remediation may aid in the work of remedy. ©...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
... adulterous affair with Lancelot. Conversely, Juan Manuel poses the question of identity as one of context: when the king is deprived of the trappings of his kingship, no one recognizes him. Both texts point up the problems of signification and identity that haunted medieval thinking. What is the relationship...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in any conversation about the nature of humanity or society,” the article considers how, and on what terms, Te Hurinui’s reckonings with Goethe might be held alongside Posnett’s. Ultimately, drawing attention to these two very different “entries” of Goethe provides an opportunity to reckon...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 395–414.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Niloofar Sarlati Abstract This essay studies an emerging discourse on forms of exchange in mid- to late nineteenth-century Iran, both in national economic practices and international concessions. As the system of economic exchange is transforming in conversation with “foreign” forms and terms...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 March 2024
... intergroup identification in a space of historic Palestinian triumph. Conversely, in positing the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of all Palestinians from Historic Palestine, set against the backdrop of a troubled friendship and a searching soul, Azem’s speculative work offers a Fanonian critique...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 336–354.
Published: 01 September 2024
... on the temporal dimensions of these mechanisms. In conversation with these theories, Du Bois illustrates in “The Coming of John” a stickiness of time—reiteration rather than reconciliation—arising from the reciprocally reinforcing functions of loyalty and ignorance of the past. While Du Bois here also employs...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 June 2024
... category encompassing both exile and primitivism. It concludes with a case study of painter Dimitri Ismailovitch, born in Kyiv and active in Rio de Janeiro, whose work straddles the borderline between cultural appropriation and transculturation. The role of emulation, conversion, and the carnivalesque...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 299–319.
Published: 01 September 2021
... poet Nâzım Hikmet, Vâlâ was educated at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East from 1922 to 1924. Returning to Turkey in 1925, he launched his career in the daily Akşam ( Evening ), bringing Soviet and Turkish literature into conversation in his serialized translations and literary...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 472–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
... readings of Alexander Pushkin, which recast the canonical poet as a photographer. This anachronistic move—which puts Bitov in conversation with Jeff Wall, Walter Benjamin, and Henri Bergson—turns photography into a transhistorical instrument for exploring literature’s relationship with extralinguistic...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in conversation with a contemporaneous Arabic novelization of the event. Reading across these divergent texts, the author investigates how translation shaped Dinshaway, and how Dinshaway might yet reshape conceptions of justice. In the archive, British officials use untranslatability to justify delay, absence...
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