...Aruni Kashyap Abstract What does it mean to be a writer from Northeast India? What does it mean to write from the margins of India? What are the limitations of Indian English writing when it comes to depicting marginal, radical literary traditions that question the idea of India? The author...

...James Watt Islam and the English Enlightenment . By Garcia Humberto . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 . xviii, 346 p © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 book reviews / 363 pia it can produce...

...Tara Ghoshal Wallace Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author . By Belcher Wendy Laura . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 285 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 book...

...José María Pérez Fernández This essay focuses on two early English Hispanists, James Mabbe (1571/2–1642?) and Thomas Percy (1729–1811), who exemplify different stages in the pre-history of Comparative and World Literature. It explores their appropriation of La Celestina and Don Quijote as case...

... the specific rules of the literary game and that respond to cultural dynamics, political pressures, and colonial histories. Consider Farah’s decision to adopt English as his main language of literary expression. After a period of bilingual writing, he stopped using Somali in 1973. On the one hand, this choice...

... of nearly five hundred Chinese classical tales renowned for its vivid portrayal of ghosts and fox spirits. 1 Three years later, Giles’s annotated English translation of 146 Liaozhai tales, collected in two volumes, was published by Thos. de la Rue and Company in London under the title Strange Stories...

... this long held piety. I argue that reading in translation can be a valuable practice for scholars of English and comparative literature alike because it demands that we reconsider the link between the commitment to original languages and the promotion of theories of culture that prize alterity...

... Persianate world—that was just encountering other rising global languages, by the end of the century, Persian has lost its currency. Sayyid Jamal’s world is certainly a world in which Persian is grappling to find its position in the face of global languages of French and English. The problem, as Burke...

...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan Abstract This essay examines the rise of Chetan Bhagat, an icon of the New India “after English” who ironically writes his best-selling popular fictions in English. When Bhagat’s demotic English travels outside India, it is taken up by readers and critics whose responses...

..., 1960 . ____. Europa: Ein Uberblick über die Zeugnisse des Mythos in der Antiken Literatur und Kunst . Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1968 . Castleford's Chronicle, or, The Boke of Brut . Ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt. Early English Text Society O.S. 305, 306. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996...

...Stephen Arata Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde: Nation and Empire, 1901-1918. By Paul Peppis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. x, 236p. University of Oregon 2002 BOOK REVIEWS/187...

.... Hall, 1977 . Biswas, Robindra Kumar. Arthur Hugh Clough: Toward a Reconsideration . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972 . Blackie, J.S. “A Few Remarks on English Hexameters.” Classical Museum 4 ( 1847 ): 319 -30. ____. Homer and the Iliad . 4 vols. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866...

...Patrick Brantlinger Dissenters and Mavericks: Writing about India in English, 1765-2000. By Margery Sabin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 239 p. University of Oregon 2004 BOOK REVIEWS/99...

...Karen Newman This essay considers cultural translation and exchange between England and France from the publication of Randle Cotgrave's important Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611) to Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus (1649–1653) to the Soame/Dryden translation...

...Rimma Garn This essay discusses an intriguing literary journey, one in which an anonymous English eighteenth-century novel crossed the channel and, through its translation into French and Russian, became a crucial narrative model for one of the first published Russian fiction writers, Mikhail...

...Brian McGrath Abstract Though the words impasse and impassive come to English from two different etymological sources— impasse from the French, meaning without a pass; impassive from the Latin, meaning without suffering or without feeling—English invites confusion. In part because one cannot write...

...Glyn Salton-Cox This essay examines the English Communist novelist, Edward Upward (1903–2009) in a hitherto unexplored comparative frame. Until recently, Upward's authorship was largely dismissed as formally uninspired and dogmatically “Stalinist,” the work, as Samuel Hynes put it, of “a gifted man...

... for, English dramatic works. This essay introduces Brandt and his intellectual milieu, demonstrating how and why he turned to Hamlet in an early investigation of revenge tragedy and political realism. From the dynamic plots to the histrionic style of performance, English drama offered Brandt a vision...

... for “vernacularization” as a process of opening spaces for “the local,” vernacular languages, ontologies, and epistemologies are paradoxically oriented towards English/the West. What happens if the word, term, concept, process “vernacular” loses this purchase? What might we notice if we refused to rehabilitate...