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Postdeconstructive Necrophilia : Grave Spaces in Aristotle, Augustine, and Blanchot and the Question of the Decision
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 147–167.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of decisionism deconstructs
any modernist notions of what it would mean to be political, or even how one
would legislate such ethical activity.
On the basis of this account of the decision, Critchley argues for a non-state
based democratization, or, to put it differently, a globally deconstructed politics...
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Reasoning the Need: Reasons, Ethics, and Character in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 March 2025
... within the faculty of reason as such. The reading of Shakespeare’s play is framed by analysis of the debate between Derek Parfit and Bernard Williams on the relative importance of “internal” and “external” reasons for moral action and choice. Parfit argues that moral decisions are ultimately dictated...
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Introduction
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
... justice protests in the summer of 2020 and completed amid the invasion of Ukraine in 2022—two events with global reverberations that decisively punctured the illusions of a post-imperial, post-socialist, and post-racial world order homogenized by the unfettered spread of neoliberal capitalism—the articles...
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Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Kayvan Tahmasebian; Rebecca Ruth Gould Abstract Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued...
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“Que de fame ait cors, ame et vie”: Authorial Manipulation and the Matter of Pygmalion in the Roman de la Rose and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 82–116.
Published: 01 March 2025
... section of the Rose , which deals explicitly with the Ovidian example, granting the myth a central and decisive function. Offering an intertextual critique that removes many of the more overtly negative valences found in the classical text, Jean de Meun’s treatment of the Pygmalion myth provides...
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The Russian Betrayal of G.k. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., decisive cooperation in an ethico-political sphere that is incurably undecidable. University of Oregon 2010 Attridge, Derek. “The Art of the Impossible?” The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy . Ed. Martin McQuillan. London: Pluto, 2007 . 54 -65...
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The Maximalist Novel
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 241–256.
Published: 01 September 2012
... are not all present in the same form or intensity in each of these texts, they are decisive in defining them as maximalist novels, insofar as they are systematically co-present . These elements can individually be found in modernist and postmodern novels that are not maximalist; however, it is their co...
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Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War)
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
... on a circular concept of time, the Zimbabwean novels are based on a view of time as linear progress. The article argues that these concepts of time are determined by the genre conventions of the novel and the tale and that the adoption and hybridization of these genres has been decisively impacted by the state...
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Crowdsourcing Penelope: Margaret Atwood, the Coen Brothers, Richard Linklater
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 319–332.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Wai Chee Dimock Beginning with Margaret Atwood's novella The Penelopiad and its staging in regional and experimental theaters in Canada, the U.K., and around the world, this essay traces a long history of network mediation for the Odyssey , beginning with the performative decisions made...
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The Instance of the Veil: Bourdieu's Flaubert and the Textuality of Social Science
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 275–292.
Published: 01 September 2003
... together to produce a near-perfect indirectness of discourse that serves “to
maintain a distance even in the decisive identification of true understanding”
(Rules 31, trans. modified; Les règles 58). In this way, no single unitary (social)
position amongst those presented in the text is capable...
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The Bible as Literature? — Note on a Litigious Ferment of the Concept
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (New York) , dispatch dated “Cincinnati , December 1 , 1869 . The Bible in the Public Schools: Opinions of Individuals and of the Press, and Judicial Decisions. New York: J.W. Schermerhorn, 1870. 62–71. Print . Michaelsen Robert . “Constitutions, Courts and the Study of Religion...
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Of No Moment
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 203–223.
Published: 01 June 2020
...-être ma décision de marcher droit sur cette figure avait-elle été si forte qu’elle la rendait impossible” (7–8; “Maybe my decision to walk right up to this face had been so strong that it made it impossible,” When 203 ; translation modified), whereby the last pronoun “la” (“it’) could refer...
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The Indecisive Muse: Ethics in Translation and the Idea of History
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 301–330.
Published: 01 September 2008
... conventionally successful Englishing
does. Improbable —but how would one know? On what grounds would one
make such a decision? What might be at stake in deciding one way or another
2 I say “nameless translator,” but this isn’t true of recent editions of the “Asterix...
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Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Port Cities: Material Histories and Intellectual Property
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 264–277.
Published: 01 September 2018
... functions of customs seem straightforward: to assess cargo in order to determine and collect duty while ensuring that the items complied with laws on food safety, obscenity, intellectual property, and so on. Yet, underlying these procedures is a prior set of decisions about what the object in question...
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Return of Negritude
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
...,
and identity that she associates not only, as we have seen, with the theoretical posi-
tion-takings and the literary practice of the Créolistes, but also with Ngũgῖ wa
Thiong’o and his notorious decision in the 1970s to stop writing the sort of
English-language novels through which he had gained literary...
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Translation as Conversion: Richard Wilhelm’s Bekehrung and the Bekehrter
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 489–505.
Published: 01 December 2021
... at any time. This makes it a “decisively significant” specific moment, a definition Climacus illustrates with the story of a mercenary recruited by armies on both sides of a conflict: his decision as to which side to join is “decisively significant,” since if he were to join the losing side...
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Impasse? What Impasse?: Berlant, de Man, and the Intolerable Present
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 180–202.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., and not just because of one’s lack of deconstructive rigor. As de Man goes on to note, a reader of Keats’s title is “faced with the ineluctable necessity to come to a decision” ( Resistance 16 ). A decision is ineluctable; an impasse must be passed. Given that de Man has just presented the title as though...
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Trials and Tragedies: The Literature of Unhappiness (A Model for Reading Narratives of Suffering)
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 March 2007
... take on such ques-
tions, but that is not my primary concern here. Rather, I want to show how a
subtle and often invisible set of narrative decisions and choices conditions our
thinking about happiness and suffering.
Happiness and suffering are nearly antithetical concepts and would seem to
have...
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So Many Tongues: Cixous and the Matter of Writing
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 278–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
...: graphemes/phonemes) behaves according to the measurement or reading with which it entangles. Working with the peculiar quality of linguistic matter, Cixous shows us that langue “is” not this or that prior to “measurement,” so to speak. What it “is” rather co-depends on the decisions or routes a reading...
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Conversion and Narrative: Reading Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 361–363.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and late medieval adaptations, the first chapter
argues that there are two principle ways to tell the story of conversion to Christianity: as a
sudden and decisive break, such as Paul’s conversion in Acts, or as a long and gradual
transformation, such as Augustine’s conversion in Confessions...
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