... into Austerlitz's life story through visual and verbal references to the philosopher suggests certain Wittgensteinian themes and problems. These include the relation of ethics to aesthetics and of both to memory, of propositions to truth-making, and of the verbal to the visual arts as exemplified by the eighty-one...

...”) and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . The essay builds upon the so-called resolute program of Wittgenstein interpretation developed by Cora Diamond, James Conant, and others, bringing its insights to bear on Kafka's perplexing work. The essay explores the ethical weight of these two writers' investment...

... from the mystery of its origin to issues in the ontology and ethics of literary translation as adaptation. The present study of one such work establishes that Nabokov's experiments in literary adaptation, their questionable proprietorship notwithstanding, afford a unique perspective not only...

...Alex Spektor The essay offers a comparative study of “narrative ethics” in the prose of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Witold Gombrowicz. Analyzing the relationship between the texts' poetics and moral philosophy, the essay investigates how narrative dynamics of fiction shape the ethical parameters...

...David H. Fleming Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed . By Li David Leiwei . New York : Routledge , 2016 . 229 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS / 351 Economy...

...David Palumbo-Liu Abstract Palumbo-Liu explores the relation of literature and ethics, noting that literature is always about “something else.” Drawing from a number of specific cases, including the Rohingya refugee crisis, he connects material histories with cultural practices that defy simple...

...Yi-Ping Ong Abstract How do we come to share an ethical outlook with others? Is it possible to teach ethics? What does it mean to live with others when we do not (always) inhabit the same world? J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello engages these profound ethical questions in its very form. Whereas...

.... Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973 . Bowlin, John. Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 . Camargo, Martin. “The Consolation of Pandarus.” The Chaucer Review 25 . 3 ( 1991 ): 214 -28. Caputo, John. Against Ethics. Bloomington...

... 90 ( 1972 ): 109 -24. Ciaramelli, Fabio. “Levinas's Ethical Discourse between Individuation and Universality.” Re-Reading Levinas . Ed. Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991 . Colombo, Manuela. Dai mistici a Dante: il linguaggio...

...Wallace Martin Body and Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict. By Richard Terdiman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii, 265 p. University of Oregon 2007 BOOK REVIEWS/177...

..., Language and the Ethics of Translation . Ed. Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005 . 203 -29. Maurer, Christopher. “The Poet's Poets: Borges and Quevedo.” Borges the Poet . Ed. Carlos Cortínez. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1986 . 185 -96...

...LINDA KINTZ University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/338 REVIEW ESSAY LINDA KINTZ Ethically Challenged: The Impasse Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory Beatrice Hanssen. Critique of Violence: Between...

...Terence Cave Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the Essais . By David Quint. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xviii, 172 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/179...

...Anthony J. Cascardi Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society. By Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, p. 282. University of Oregon 2001 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/170 BOOK REVIEWS ON TRUST: ART...

...Claudia Moscovici An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy. By Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 275 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268...

...Michael Lucey Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny. By David Ellison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv, 290 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/78...

... The Ethics of “Writing” Enigma: A Reading of Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal and Lévinas’s Totalité et infini HIS ESSAY IS AN UNUSUAL EXERCISE in comparative studies: a compar- Tison of a twelfth-century text, the Conte du Graal...

..., with ten elements that define and structure it as a highly complex literary form: length, encyclopedic mode, dissonant chorality, diegetic exuberance, completeness, narrratorial omniscience, paranoid imagination, inter-semiocity, ethical commitment, and hybrid realism. These ten categories are common...

...Luke Sunderland This article proposes a comparison between the ethics of rebellion developed in recent publications by Julia Kristeva and in the medieval poetry of Bertran de Born. Both Kristeva and Bertran see revolt as a continuous and crucial process of transformation and questioning, of renewal...

...Magdalena Kay This article analyzes the influence of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz on Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney in reference to two poems — Miłosz's biographical, ethically self-critical “Bypassing Rue Descartes” and Heaney's ethical allegory “From the Republic of Conscience” — which serve...