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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Hannah Freed-Thall Abstract This introduction theorizes the littoral zone as a space for rethinking comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most vexed and polyvalent cultural geographies. The article contends that the tidelands...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the Anthropocene.” Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities; Postcolonial Approaches . Ed. DeLoughrey Elizabeth Didur Jill Carrigan Anthony . New York : Routledge , 2015 . 352 – 72 . Print . ———. Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures . Honolulu...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... or untouched. Yet, despite the absence of an answering authority to lay down the law and cry “halt,” and perhaps because of it, environmental harm continues to be imagined through the figure of trespass and in terms of an invisible line past which human activity, otherwise compelled by capitalism to limitless...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
...). The essays included here explore how engaging with the
“seaness of the sea” in such ways can reshape literary and cultural studies, as well
as connect with such hybrid fields as green postcolonialism or environmental
humanities and interdisciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene.5
Another register...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the Region’s Coastlines .” In The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities , edited by Heise Ursula K. , Christensen Jon , and Niemann Michelle , 278 – 288 . New York : Routledge , 2017 . Pearson Michael . “ Littoral Society: The Concept and the Problems .” Journal...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 45–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
... . RACHEL PRICE
Afterword: The Last
Universal Commons
HIS FORUM’S ESSAYS highlight certain merits and limits of Oceanic Stud-
Ties, often in comparison with such contiguous frames as comparative impe-
rial studies, the environmental humanities, postcolonial studies...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Studies , no. 9 ( 2009 ): 49 – 68 . Wenzel Jennifer . “ How to Read for Oil .” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 1 , no. 3 ( 2014 ): 156 – 61 . Williams Eric . “ Energy Intensity of Computer Manufacturing: Hybrid Assessment Combining Process and Economic...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to the future uncertainties of an industry’s economic
health. In the process, they generate a powerful and highly ambiguous medical
impact on human bodies, alternately curative and toxic.
To be sure, environmental remediation does not work in quite the same way.
To return to the example of oil...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 298–314.
Published: 01 September 2001
....
Military training is increasingly devoted toward the subjugation of civilian popu-
lations, including the suppression of trade union protests and strikes. Human
rights, as well as environmental and indigenous groups, are often labelled sub-
versive and suppressed by the military or by paramilitaries...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in selecting local trees all three authors have cho-
sen to make the deforestation trope reflect their current environmental reality.
Similarly, in imbuing the woods with human feelings, all three authors con-
vey the earth’s emotional response to its violation, thus transfering through the
pathetic...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
... unfortunately, and for some reason this imaginary person has a vision of the sea” ( “Artist Talk” ). The mystical language of vision in Wall’s account of the piece is striking not so much as an allegory for human mortality (although that could certainly be a way to read it) but for the way that it situates...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of the environment that is both mediated and remedying. He
then goes on to show that cultural representations critical of these practices also
involve similar re-presentations, always yearning for, but never attaining, the mag-
ical cure for environmental damage.
Remediation is also a key term in human...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 125–141.
Published: 01 March 2008
... things their bearing upon life” and their contribu-
tion to human experience (Complete Works 22:144). The kind of environmental
deterioration that he witnessed in Switzerland reflected a culture of scientific
thinking that “judged . . . [the worth of a conception of life] by some abstract
standard...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Taylor Schey; Jan Mieszkowski In “Passing Impasse,” the final essay of the issue, Anne-Lise François interrogates how the figure of trespassing has shaped ecological thought. Although environmental harm is often imagined in terms of an invisible line that human activity must not pass...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 283–297.
Published: 01 September 2001
... their
operations to places where corporate taxes were lower and environmental or
human rights regulations were looser, extracting concessions not only from for-
eign governments but also from their own municipal, state, and federal govern-
ments. Corporations thus curbed the regulatory power of the states...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 201–206.
Published: 01 June 2005
... as a provocation, for it contains a key omission—which disci-
pline?—that requires the reader uncertainly to provide the answer: “Comparative
Literature?” Having supplied such an answer, the reader is then invited to draw
the inference that Comparative Literature, as a viable branch of the humanities,
is dead...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... Wilson's pronouncements on literature, which hinder the very mediation between the sciences and the humanities that he promotes. If we are to take seriously the activist goals of ecocriticism, then we need to be earnest about the idea that, as opposing points on a continuum, ecophobia and biophilia can...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... corresponds to the historic insurrection of 1892 and is described
as a metaphoric hurricane in which human and environmental sounds become
impossible to differentiate:
LE CLÉZIO’S AND GHOSH’S INDIAN OCEAN NOVELS / 297
[J]’entends le bruit de l’émeute. . . . C’est une rumeur comme...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... : Polity Press , 2009 . Print . Harvey David . The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Cambridge : Blackwell , 1990 . Print . Heise Ursula K. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global . Oxford...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... These range from environmental degradation to human
enslavement and internecine warfare; they also include genocide, or what was
euphemistically called “Indian removal.”
Late in the novel, Pynchon presents a Native American counter-perspective
on the survey. Mason and Dixon are once again lectured...
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