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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 313–338.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970 . EUROPE SEEN AND UNSEEN/313
CAROLINE D. ECKHARDT
One Third of the Earth?
Europe Seen and Unseen...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 502–505.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan [email protected] World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics . By J. Daniel Elam . New York : Fordham University Press , 2021 . 192 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 What...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Frédéric Neyrat [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oregon 2024 The earth is not a planet. This is the strange denial that runs through a good deal of ecological thinking and, more generally, culturally dominant representations of the earth. I use the term denial...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
... likewise considers “the wild as a qualitative effect felt in the mode of relationship rather than as an identifiable space or place.” 26 The catastrophe-to-hopeful-future arc is common across popular conservation writing more broadly. Edward O. Wilson ’s Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 26–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
... 02r English Translation of levels of Mictlan in Codex Vaticanus A-3738 1 Chapter tiles in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán el fin del mundo Chapter titles in Lisa Dillman’s translation Signs Preceding the End of the World Tlaltipac The earth La tierra The earth...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 426–443.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Africa of the 1980s, the question imposes itself as to why K, despite the incessant provocations of the state’s various institutions, never takes up arms (like Kohlhaas) and joins the guerrillas in the mountains. 9 Instead, he attempts to cultivate an inconspicuous patch of earth in the midst...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
...). Santa Fe, NM : Earth/Ear/Ecology Institute , 2006 . Edelman Lee . “ The De/Ontology of the Future .” Paper presented at the conference “Political Futures,” Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL , October 12–13, 2018 . Eltringham Daniel...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
... “canals” cut by intelligent Martians prompted two writers—one
English, the other German—to explore at the end of the century what it would
be like if Martians were to land on Earth. In 1897 Herbert George Wells pub-
lished his famous newspaper serial The War of the Worlds, which describes the
invasion...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... on the tension between faith and skepticism. On the one hand, con-
ceptions of an impersonal universe, in which Earth is one of myriad celestial
bodies and the sun just an average star, seem to discredit earlier religious narra-
tives of human genesis and destiny. On the other hand, the inscrutability...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 273–293.
Published: 01 September 2005
... conform to God’s territorial commands. And it does. The
Son takes out a set of golden compasses and begins to create the cosmos by
drawing the boundaries of Heaven and Earth, the Universe, the World, and “all
created things”:
He took the golden Compasses, prepar’d...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 357–380.
Published: 01 December 2019
... enveloped, if never finally, within a field of terms that its mere existence places in question. Kanafani’s Men in the Sun opens in relation to this juridical-colonial rescoring of the social: Abu Qais rested on the damp ground, and the earth began to throb under him with tired heartbeats, which...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 January 2006
... of the German and the Jew.” Artforum International ( Sept. 1985 ): 106 -110. Frank, Mitchell Benjamin. German Romantic Painting Redefined: Nazarene Tradition and the Narratives of Romanticism . Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001 . Gilmour, John C. Fire on the Earth: Anselm Kiefer...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
... conquérant) travel adventurously, around the entire world and beyond: the
bottom of the sea, the center of the earth, the moon, Mars, and the sun. In Holm-
berg’s Viaje Maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte (1875), however, the social
position of the Argentine (and Latin American) bourgeoisie...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... their unshorn summits, and elms that give friendly shelter to the vines. The earth groans:
not so are the woods of Ismarus swept away uprooted, when Boreas breaks his prison cave and rears his
head, no swifter does the nightly flame tear through the forest before the south wind’s onset; hoar
Pales...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
... projections through Google Maps, Google Earth, Facebook, Netflix, Zoom, VR, CGI, and countless other cyber-/neuronal pathways—are we not repeatedly clicking on the invitation ici manque un je (here is missing an I) which we eagerly supply? So we travel the unending roads of a map and a world that can...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 438–447.
Published: 01 December 2011
... by Heinrich Hertz; those who today listen for hints of intelligence in the skies
do so through radio antennas.) Since a light will be used as the signal, we will have
to ensure that it is intense and focused enough to carry across the millions of kilo-
meters separating the Earth from its nearest...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
...,” Notebook 12 ); or, especially, a kind of oceanic lover who—as an embodiment of the shared, ancestral trauma and ontological revisions of the Middle Passage—addresses, variously, the corrupted geography of Martinique in extension of an uncorrupted Mother Earth as its intimate other and promise of renewal...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 445–446.
Published: 01 December 2015
... but traversable distances
of some of the most forbidding terrain on earth, were the dark foundations for the light-as-
air tales of romance.
In the second part the scene shifts south to the Indian Ocean with an account of the
romance of Huon of Bordeaux, and once again the most fantastic episodes...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... . New York: Pantheon Books, 1990 . ____. Once in Europa . New York: Pantheon Books, 1987 . ____. Pig Earth . New York: Pantheon Books, 1979 . Berger, John, and Nella Bielski. A Question of Geography . London: Faber, 1987 . Bruckner, Pascal. La Mélancholie démocratique . Paris...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): i–xxiv.
Published: 01 June 2001
... in some way, as if the burden of this apostrophic event were to make some-
thing happen.
Be thou [the addressee is Shelley’s wild west wind] spirit fierce, my spirit,
Be thou me, impetuous one . . .
Be through my lips to unawakened earth the trumpet of a prophecy...
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