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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and bodily containment, the nightingale’s song mediates between sound and space. This article builds on Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, who use the bird to think about enclosure (sonic, spatial) and territorial possession. Nesting T. S. Eliot’s nightingales within a wider context clarifies...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Lenora Hanson Abstract This article proposes that eighteenth-century and Romantic-era accounts of dreams offer a useful model for understanding the phenomenon of enclosure, or what Marx famously labeled “so-called primitive accumulation.” Rather than a historical event or a set of particular laws...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... found in ecological relations. Rather than accept the strict dichotomies of the logic of enclosure, the essay explores how these poets enact and theorize modes of passing in order to renew attention to temporary and seasonally determined forms of impasse and passage. Copyright © 2020 by University...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., such figuration reiterates the logic of enclosure whereby previously used wastes and woodlands are externalized as unmarked “nature” in order to insist on their disposability to capitalist inscription and exchange. “Passing Impasse” seeks to thread a way out of this impasse. The opening sections of the essay...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2015
...-endedness, of ethical existence “that breaks every rhythm and offers a loophole through every enclosure” (132). “[I]t is precisely this state of metaphysical exile,” Erdinast-Vulcan concludes, “that enables our ethical mode of being, our living on borderlines, always yet-to-be” (134). The obvious...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 238–240.
Published: 01 June 2015
... it in ourselves to give up the illusory enclosure of self-identity and sameness and live on our own borderlines; or if, rather than severing all links with the sacred, we could recognize the sacredness of the profane” (206). Bakhtin’s work seems to suggest that meeting this challenge may be a matter...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 316–326.
Published: 01 June 2009
... in a sanitarium that bears a striking resemblance to a dirty war detention center), and he hears an Irish band, The Hunger, playing a song called “The Reptile Enclo- sure” (76). In this case, however, The Hunger is not an actual band and “The Rep- tile Enclosure” is not an actual song; rather, it is the title...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 112–129.
Published: 01 March 2003
... that it is not an enclosure of words whose messages are finite and limited, but a hermeneutic space whose verbal signs are capable of generating unlimited interpretations. It means that a literary text has no “correct” interpretation, or has multiple interpretations. This theoretical concept is perhaps most often...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... by the Plantation model of social control persist. In Poetics of Relation Édouard Glissant succinctly describes the Plantation as “an organization formed in a social pyramid, confi ned within an enclosure, function- ing apparently as an autarky but actually dependent, and with a technical mode of production...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2014
... . “‘Infinite Riches in a Little Room’: Closure and Enclosure in Marlowe.” Two Renaissance Mythmakers: Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson . Ed. Kernan Alvin . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1977 . 3 – 21 . Print . García Düttmann Alex . “What Remains of Fidelity after Serious Thought...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... with its isolation and enclosure of laws and traditions, yet the novel is nevertheless set in Tel Aviv, Israel. The only way Adaf can locate his Jewish dystopia in Tel Aviv, and yet center the narrative on the faith of Judaism, without once engaging with the presence of Palestinians (in the past, present...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 131–144.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the world (1: 418). These acts of territorial enclosure are politically founda- tional and confirm that Felsenburg depends for its moral purity on the severance of all bonds with wicked Europe. However, such absolute and unthreatened virtue 2 MacKenzie quotes George II’s vagrancy law from 1741...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... that the bourgeois “institution of art,” an inherently modern phenomenon, interposed between the aesthetic experience and everyday life. Rather than radicalizing art’s internal logic, they tried to release art’s liberating power from institutional enclosure. That is why their legacy is not one of “artworks...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the water, descendants of Indigenous and Portuguese people. In its origins, it also has a spatial meaning: referring to an enclosure or fence of branches. It can possess yet another meaning in informal Portuguese: the hustler or the vagrant. The caiçaras are those who live on the water’s edge, inhabit...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 78–81.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the aesthetic,” he writes at one point, “or will the aesthetic in its unruly materiality and resistance to all enclosure con- stantly ‘spill out (pp. 39-40). At another point, he notes that he has been treating the “interplay of the ethical and the aesthetic as a series of envelopments and overlappings...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 81–84.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the aesthetic,” he writes at one point, “or will the aesthetic in its unruly materiality and resistance to all enclosure con- stantly ‘spill out (pp. 39-40). At another point, he notes that he has been treating the “interplay of the ethical and the aesthetic as a series of envelopments and overlappings...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 84–86.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the aesthetic,” he writes at one point, “or will the aesthetic in its unruly materiality and resistance to all enclosure con- stantly ‘spill out (pp. 39-40). At another point, he notes that he has been treating the “interplay of the ethical and the aesthetic as a series of envelopments and overlappings...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the aesthetic,” he writes at one point, “or will the aesthetic in its unruly materiality and resistance to all enclosure con- stantly ‘spill out (pp. 39-40). At another point, he notes that he has been treating the “interplay of the ethical and the aesthetic as a series of envelopments and overlappings...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the aesthetic,” he writes at one point, “or will the aesthetic in its unruly materiality and resistance to all enclosure con- stantly ‘spill out (pp. 39-40). At another point, he notes that he has been treating the “interplay of the ethical and the aesthetic as a series of envelopments and overlappings...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
... enclosure underground resembles not just any architectural space but specifically a cultic one. This is the result not of the anthropocentric imagination of myth but a belated one, which has already seen both the ascription of human form to natu- ral objects and their transformation into works...