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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 267–286.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nicoletta Pireddu Within the context of the divisive intellectual debate on the cultural legacy of ancient Greece in the development of Europeanness, this essay focuses on three contemporary writers—Magris, Kundera, and Schmitt—who engage with a seminal European humanistic text, Homer's Odyssey...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 95–99.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Anna A. Berman Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel . By Kuzmic Tatiana . Northwestern University Press , 2016 . 248 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
... happened. By characterizing the immediate postwar European culture this way, this article hopes to offer some initial insights for deepening the discussion of European culture in the period after the end of the war. For, indeed, there is remarkably limited scholarship on this immensely important moment...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 194–212.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the background of a broad typology of European verse, it argues that a basic compensatory mechanism balancing different levels of organization of verse is complicated by the interaction between different national traditions. As a particularly complex case the article investigates the introduction of syllabo...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 468–470.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jeff Love The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature . By Kliger Ilya . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2011 . ix, 245 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 462...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2. Niels Klim tries to impress the tree-creatures with his European manners, but they find that he and his civilization fall woefully short compared to their own rule of reason. Illustration from an American 1845 edition, publisher Saxton & Miles. Image from Project Gutenberg.
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 84–86.
Published: 01 January 2003
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... >. Sauvy, Alfred. “Trois mondes, une planète.” L'Observateur 118 ( 14 August 1952 ): 14 . Stråth, Bo. “The Concept of Work in the Construction of Community.” After Full Employment: European Discourses on Work and Flexibility . Ed. Bo Stråth. Brussels: PIE Lang, 2000 . 65 -106. Turner...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2009
... moves from a definition of the European Baroque, including a detailed discussion of its various possible etymologies, to the American Baroque and places Carpentier, Sarduy, and de Campos in the company of a number of European theorists to test their American arguments and applications. Mikhail Bakhtin...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 291–306.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Enrique Lima The European Bildungsroman since its emergence at the end of the eighteenth century has been the great genre of socialization. Beginning with Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre , the Bildungsroman has narrated the story of a protagonist willingly or unwillingly renouncing his or her...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., in Hebrew. By analyzing these parallel events, the article suggests that the matsav ruah of the early 1900s was a new form of self-experience and that this new form stimulated original poetic language created by a cohort of Hebrew, East European writers, including Yosef Hayim Brenner, Uri Nissan Gnessin...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Figure 2. Niels Klim tries to impress the tree-creatures with his European manners, but they find that he and his civilization fall woefully short compared to their own rule of reason. Illustration from an American 1845 edition, publisher Saxton & Miles. Image from Project Gutenberg. ...
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The Hikayat Abdullah , the Missionary Press, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century “World Literature”
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 451–471.
Published: 01 December 2024
... represents an attempt to present Malay writing to European audiences as a coherent national and, by extrapolation, world literature. Retracing Abdullah’s strategic textual work is important not only because it helps explain his status as the “Father of Modern Malay Literature,” but also because it exposes...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 360–381.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... As such, rather than an example of direct South-South comparison, cross-revolutionary Arab writing via Vietnam triangulated its critiques through the United States and European leftist movements, producing a model of literary production and revolutionary vision that was distinct from and critical of those...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Neta Stahl The train had a remarkable and meaningful role in the process of modernization and secularization within European Jewish society during the nineteenth century. Not surprisingly, this central role is reflected in the literature of the period, in what I would like to call “the train genre...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 25–31.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in the North Atlantic echoes the history of European colonialism, and suggesting that one particular element of the Pacific Ocean is ongoing and diverse Indigenous presence, it reflects on the lack of engagement with Pacific scholarship in academic work globally. Rather than Ocean Studies turning its attention...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-Europhone literatures and literary histories? If we displace Europhone terms of analysis as conceptual categories, what alternatives emerge in their stead from non-European languages, lineages, and source materials? In pursuing lateral comparisons within the Global South, how can the risks of anachronism...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... vernacularization in this fashion and mobilized instead an accounting of the brutalist colonial histories where it was deployed for colonial transformation? The Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–1949), eschewing the term “vernacular,” mined English and European languages, and other Asian and Indian literary lineages...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 145–159.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ভাষা) maps intriguingly onto early twentieth-century Chinese vernacularization debates and offers a transnational method for the study of vernacularization that decenters European models. Tagore was, at once, the first Asian winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and a leading opponent...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 272–297.
Published: 01 September 2019
... conception of community that contrasts with and occasionally contests the nationalist histories promulgated by modern European nations. As a scientific and literary project, Bākīkhānūf’s cosmological cosmopolitanism shows how epistemic openness advances cultural inclusivity, in part by recognizing...
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