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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 427–449.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Sharon Larisch In traditional crime literature, the cordoned-off crime scene functions as a spatialized representation, fixing the now-absent crime in preparation for a subsequent interpretative process. This article questions such spatial stasis as well as the pretension of the crime scene...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2010
...ILYA KLIGER This essay studies a crucial feature of Dostoevsky's novelistic poetics, and the poetics of Crime and Punishment (1866) in particular, in light of contemporaneous debates regarding the historical fate of Russia. The novel, I argue, is a thought experiment exploring the emerging...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... Whitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World . New York: Macmillan, 1926 . Print. Wolff, Christian. Mathematisches Lexicon. Ed. J.E. Hofmann. Gesammelte Werke , 1 ,2. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1965 . Print. Sean Ireton
Lines and Crimes...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 2014
...César Braga-Pinto Given the growing concern with urban crime and the fate of the black man in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888, it is not surprising that the figure of Othello in its various versions, appropriations, and adaptations would become emblematic. In this essay...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2011
... crime and the silencing or appropriation of their voices. Contra critics who argue that Schlink offers an exculpatory, because explanatory, portrayal of his Nazi protagonist and second-generation German narrator, I argue that The Reader exposes the potential for abuse that characterizes the rhetoric...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... accumulation, must not go. At the same time, the more fungible the differences between ecological spheres, the more rigid the enforcement of state and private property lines, so that the discourse of trespass whereby one might hope to prosecute environmental crime in fact criminalizes once permitted commoning...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 285–305.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and religious reformers defended the authority of civic tribunals to regulate the social conditions of faith. This attempt to secularize the crime of heresy was not simply a call for the Crown to execute a coercive religious agenda. On the contrary, by turning late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oregon 2024 crimes against humanity comparative genocide studies Holocaust transatlantic slave trade law and literature “IT IS A TESTAMENT to many things that my first exposure to racial tyranny and genocide was an imaginative one...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of Internal Affairs. General Directorate for State Security. Directive on the organization of operational evidence by the organs of State Security, of inimical elements from the People's Republic of Romania.] Bucureşti, 1951 . Olcott, Anthony. Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and The Russian Way of Crime...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
... a Spanish Best-Seller Was Written about Mexican Narcocorridos.” Crime, Media, Culture 1 . 2 ( 2005 ): 209 – 13 . Print . Molloy Molly Bowden Charles , eds. El Sicario. The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin . New York : Nation Books , 2011 . Print . Mutis Ana María . “La...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 316–326.
Published: 01 June 2009
... by Roberto Arlt. See McCracken’s article for a description and excellent analysis of Piglia’s
exploits.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 322
cinematic scenery of the ride out of town, Junior decides to accompany the ver-
bal and visual with the auditory, putting on his headphones to listen to Crime...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in Israel” (Judges 20:6). The last two chapters depict the war in which
the other eleven tribes unite to punish the tribe of Benjamin for “the wanton
crime which they have committed in Israel” (Judges 20:10), annihilating them
down to the last six hundred men and then taking measures to insure...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2002
... being murdered is accorded little significance ex-
cept as objective proof of a crime having been committed; its subjective content,
what it might mean as anything but a bare event, is outlawed, and its relevance
confined to a single objective (and seemingly redundant) category: “un crime...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 54–68.
Published: 01 January 2009
... Literature . Ed.Victor Terras. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985 . 160 . Priestman, Martin. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction . New York: Cambridge UP, 2003 . Proffer, Carl. “From Otchayanie to Despair.” Slavic Review 27 ( 1968 ): 258 -67. Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel, ed. Russian Literature...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... guilt may produce crime in order to assure punish-
ment as the only satisfaction of the guilt” (p. 21) to interpret Rousseau’s famous account
of the stolen ribbon. Rousseau’s speech act, “I confess to stealing the ribbon,” is at once a
constative (it describes something) and a performative...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2002
... guilt may produce crime in order to assure punish-
ment as the only satisfaction of the guilt” (p. 21) to interpret Rousseau’s famous account
of the stolen ribbon. Rousseau’s speech act, “I confess to stealing the ribbon,” is at once a
constative (it describes something) and a performative...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2002
... guilt may produce crime in order to assure punish-
ment as the only satisfaction of the guilt” (p. 21) to interpret Rousseau’s famous account
of the stolen ribbon. Rousseau’s speech act, “I confess to stealing the ribbon,” is at once a
constative (it describes something) and a performative...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 160–175.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to publish each part as an individual volume, hoping that this arrangement would be financially lucrative for his family after his death. Had this scheme been carried out (it was later rejected by his executors), “The Part About the Crimes” would have been even more striking, offering readers a single volume...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Yu Dafu Fyodor Dostoevsky peripheral realism flâneur space “And did you know, Sonia, that low ceilings and cramped ( tesnye ) rooms cramp ( tesniat) the soul and mind?” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prestuplenie i nakazanie ( Crime and Punishment ) 1 “Sir, all I have to live...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of interpersonal relations: according to him Raskol-
nikov’s only willful act is to surrender to “that artificial, interhuman, mirrored
conscience as if it were his rightful conscience” (2: 162). Neither Bakhtin nor
Gombrowicz, however, seems to recognize that Crime and Punishment’s epilogue
reconstitutes...
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