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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Rachel Green Abstract This article considers Ala Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre and Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance , two Arabic-language novels published in 2014 by Palestinian authors with Israeli citizenship. It argues that both texts thematize empathy, despite its familiar pitfalls...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 227–233.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of Araki Yasusada.” Boston Review 22.2 (1997). 15 July 2005 < http://bostonreview.net/BR22.2/BR22.2.html >. ____. “In Search of the Authentic Other: The Poetry of Araki Yasusada.” In Araki, Doubled Flowering 148 -68. Ruthven, K.K. Faking Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Julie Avril Minich This essay considers the role of literature in helping us navigate entrenched social conflicts that do not find resolution in simple notions of resistance. It examines the depiction of disability in one contemporary text as a means of considering the broader capacity...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 226–251.
Published: 01 September 2019
... social change, nayī kahānī empathy captured modern sensibilities such as alienation, disconnection, and disillusionment. It entreated readers to recognize their own circumstances from the position of an “other,” to detachedly relive their individual experiences through the medium of literature (see...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of such a comparative approach: as Appanah’s references to the Mediterranean “migration crisis” foster transnational empathy, do they simultaneously reproduce the colonial gaze? After all, the polyphonic novel does not give a voice to the Comoran migrant herself. Is this a gesture of narrative violence, or a way...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 89–92.
Published: 01 January 2010
... historically
through three treatments of empathy or estrangement as a literary effect and/or a life
experience. Underlying the sequential account are two thematic focal points: engagement
with life and literature as a process mediated by the body (somatics), and the estranged
body politic in late...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
... the “empathy-estrangement dialectic” that lies at the
heart of this chapter and the book.
Robinson fi nds the most satisfactory explanation of self-other, personal-social, and art-
life interactions in Vygotsky’s Psychology of Art: in art, “the melting of [individual] feelings
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 January 2010
...”; and “Verfremdung: Brecht’s Estrangement Theory.” We progress historically
through three treatments of empathy or estrangement as a literary effect and/or a life
experience. Underlying the sequential account are two thematic focal points: engagement
with life and literature as a process mediated by the body...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2010
... treatments of empathy or estrangement as a literary effect and/or a life
experience. Underlying the sequential account are two thematic focal points: engagement
with life and literature as a process mediated by the body (somatics), and the estranged
body politic in late capitalism (Hegelian Marxism...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2010
... Theory.” We progress historically
through three treatments of empathy or estrangement as a literary effect and/or a life
experience. Underlying the sequential account are two thematic focal points: engagement
with life and literature as a process mediated by the body (somatics), and the estranged...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 242–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
... past and
the ethical present.
Gana’s central question is how do we return to empathy, instead of retreating to a blan-
keted “consolation” or the ethical freeze of “petrification” (13)? Literature uses various
tropes of lamentation, ranging far beyond repetition and personification...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 June 2013
... past and
the ethical present.
Gana’s central question is how do we return to empathy, instead of retreating to a blan-
keted “consolation” or the ethical freeze of “petrification” (13)? Literature uses various
tropes of lamentation, ranging far beyond repetition and personification...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 249–251.
Published: 01 June 2013
... past and
the ethical present.
Gana’s central question is how do we return to empathy, instead of retreating to a blan-
keted “consolation” or the ethical freeze of “petrification” (13)? Literature uses various
tropes of lamentation, ranging far beyond repetition and personification...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 251–253.
Published: 01 June 2013
... past and
the ethical present.
Gana’s central question is how do we return to empathy, instead of retreating to a blan-
keted “consolation” or the ethical freeze of “petrification” (13)? Literature uses various
tropes of lamentation, ranging far beyond repetition and personification...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 254–256.
Published: 01 June 2013
... past and
the ethical present.
Gana’s central question is how do we return to empathy, instead of retreating to a blan-
keted “consolation” or the ethical freeze of “petrification” (13)? Literature uses various
tropes of lamentation, ranging far beyond repetition and personification...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 74–90.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Sif Rikhardsdottir This article considers how we can discuss emotions (a human phenomenon) within literature (a discursive construction). The article poses the question of where we can locate this perceived literary emotionality in medieval works and considers the role of the reader in constructing...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Chadwick Allen Abstract Originally part of the 2022 Presidential Roundtable “Comparative Literature and Indigeneity,” this essay meditates on the ACLA president’s call to “decolonize” the field of comparative literature. Beyond providing a catchy slogan, what might “decolonization” mean...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in
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the context of performed spectacles of slavery —may humanize the enslaved at the
cost of a kind of imaginative colonization that, in fact, evacuates subjectivity. As
Hartman explains, “empathy is a projection of oneself into another in order to
better understand...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... becomes the figure of the book’s reader, King Shahrayar: he intends to murder the storyteller Shahrazad, his wife for one night that she extends into a thousand and one. Thousand and One Nights Tale of the Hunchback frame narratives estrangement empathy in literature practical jokes...
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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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