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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 457–459.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Ania Spyra Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference . By Starosta Anita . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 2015 . 222 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 451–452.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Craig Cravens THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945. By Harold B. Segel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 424 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS ON DIALOGUE. By Dmitri Nikulin. Lanham...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 367–370.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Caryl Emerson The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. By Harold B. Segel. Chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2002; List of Journals, Newspapers, and Other Periodical Literature; Introduction; Bibliography; Author and Nation Index. New York: Columbia University...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 376–386.
Published: 01 September 2006
.../376 MONICA SPIRIDON Identity Discourses on Borders in Eastern Europe Europe and Its Limits In European usage, the meaning of the word border has progressively changed from a fact of nature to a cultural, political, and ideological product of human will (Power 6-13...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 153–171.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Margaret Litvin Abstract Visualizing Soviet internationalism as a student dormitory, this essay identifies a new transnational subgenre, the Soviet dormitory novel, and analyzes four examples: Nazim Hikmet’s Life’s Good, Brother (Turkish, 1964); Ismail Kadare’s Twilight of the Eastern Gods...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 September 2014
... three writers use the train to represent a common experience in pre-World War I Eastern Europe. However, Agnon, who published his story decades later, assumed that his audience would be unfamiliar with this experience and even with the language of his protagonists. This distance both in time...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
... with Miłosz must be seen in the cultural context with which each poet was associated and in the context of Heaney's desire at the time to attune himself to Eastern European poetry in general and to his “Master” in particular. This article first situates Heaney's encounter with Miłosz in literary-historical...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... fellow staunch Zionists, he argued passionately that Hebrew should be the language of the emerging national culture and that Yiddish, the language of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, should be abandoned to the Diaspora. But, strangely enough, Shlonsky's early poetry and manifestoes are infused with Yiddish...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
... up in the Eastern borderlands of the Habsburg Empire, in the Crownland of Galicia, which was inhabited by Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles. A third figure with a distinctly Habsburg imperial biography, Sigmund Freud, provides both techniques for reading and serves as a subject of analysis in his own right...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 492–511.
Published: 01 December 2024
... comparisons between an imagined shared antiquity. Yet less work has been done comparing Eastern and Western ways of conceiving this analogy with current work in comparative literature. This essay considers late nineteenth- through early twentieth-century East Asian and Western analogies between classical East...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 360–375.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Donauraum . Graz: Boehlau, 1960 . Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/360 JOHN NEUBAUER The Idea of Europe– Treading on Native Ground...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 345–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of the Christ: The Controversy over Cecil B. De Mille's The King of Kings.” Jewish History 19 . 2 ( 2005 ): 189 – 210 . Print . Parush Iris . Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society . Waltham : Brandeis UP , 2004 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 193–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of W.W. Hallo . Ed. Mark E. Cohen et al. Bethesda: CDL Press, 1993 . 1 -14. ____. “Gilgamesh's Request and Siduri's Denial. (Part II): An Analysis and Interpretation of an Old Babylonian Fragment about Mourning and Celebration.” Journal of the Ancient Near...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 September 2006
... sheep, Breuer studied Yiddish, perfected his knowledge of Eastern European klezmer songs, and began composing klezmer music himself.1 Attired in a shepherd’s felt hat and with a knobby walking stick, he crosses the Alps like a latter-day, lower class von Trapp. Instead of Austrian folk songs...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
...: Stanford University Press, 1983 . Greenblatt, Stephen J. Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture . New York: Routledge, 1980 . ____. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980 . Hobson, John M. The Eastern Origins of Western...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of its narrator-protagonist, can be accessed only in an abridged version that was published, tellingly, in an online journal called Friendship of the Peoples ( Druzhba narodov )—an online platform bearing the stock phrase of the second Eastern International. It was published in full for the first...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 250–252.
Published: 01 June 2014
... especially the nation-centered novel after the middle of the eighteenth century” (111). Fabulous Eastern narratives moved their readers by defamiliarizing empirical claims, subject positions, and regimes of truth to generate new cosmopolitan knowledge from discredited falsehoods. Parodying...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 46–58.
Published: 01 March 2016
... poetry influence Eastern European poetry Works Cited Ann Skea Papers, Add. 88978/3/6 , British Library . Bassnett Susan . “Travelling Through Translation.” Comparative Critical Studies 6 . 1 ( 2009 ): 7 – 19 . Print . Begin Tara . “Ted Hughes and the Literal...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 447–448.
Published: 01 September 2009
... 10.1215/00104124-2009-027 THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945. By Harold B. Segel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 424 p. Literary histories are odd things: too broad for the typical literature specialist yet too specialized for the lay reader...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 449–451.
Published: 01 September 2009
... College DOI 10.1215/00104124-2009-027 THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945. By Harold B. Segel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 424 p. Literary histories are odd things: too broad for the typical...