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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 153–169.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... Such contrasting notions of the fanatic provide a context for the debate about clothing, manners, and decorum. Friedrich Nietzsche had contrasted the “free- dom of spirit” to “fanaticism.” For Nietzsche the fanatic is consumed by the de- sire to have and hold a single truth beyond anything. His free spirit...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 267–286.
Published: 01 September 2015
... space. Approaching the European question from borderline areas, Magris, Kundera, and Schmitt elaborate a politics of home transcending fanatic closure and absolute drifting. Their odysseys enact what I call critical nóstoi , ironic homecomings that undermine Husserl's “spiritual telos of European man...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 128–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the titular character’s revolt in terms of his fanatical adherence to the universality of law, the essay argues that Kohlhaas’s insurrection is predicated on the death of his wife, Lisbeth, whose post-mortem appearance in the novella introduces a promise that is structurally prior to the state’s constitution...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 158–176.
Published: 01 March 2007
... perfect holiday resort—one that caters to sexual tourists —is literally exploded by religious fanatics, the narrator offers some observa- tions about Alex Garland’s book and the difference between its beach and the tourist platform Michel has been developing with his compatriots Valérie and Jean-Yves...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and militant religious fanatics who rule over Jerusalem and who “speak in loud voices. . . blast the streets with their black clothes, and their loudspeakers blast from the synagogues like the tam tam drums of African Savages” (259, 260). A much more complex vision and treatment of the political anxieties...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 September 2013
... a Muslim majority bent upon excoriating Christian doctrine and practice. Many believed that Azazeel  was simply a literary version of sermons delivered by fanatical Muslim preachers who attack the truth of the Bible and the divinity of Christ in the Egyptian media.8 (Muslims believe that, like...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
... assumed, by his fanatical adherence to either the universality of the law or the principle of jus talionis , but by the impossibility of restitution for the death of his wife Lisbeth, whose postmortem appearance introduces a promise that is structurally prior to the state’s constitution. According...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., anarchic transportation systems, social inequality, and urban warfare. In the first chapter of the novel, Dr. Dolly, a fanatical physician who maintains a collection of extinct viruses in her apartment and a lab full of animals that she “cut[s] for the sake of cutting” (28), takes a newborn baby into her...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 89–92.
Published: 01 January 2010
... hypocritical and shallow while his opponent seems naïve, dog- matic, and fanatical. The achievement of this study lies mainly in its pursuit of these authors’ self-awareness and the related unfolding of their thought, as stimulated by the relation to their intimate other. This occasions much illuminating...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
... hypocritical and shallow while his opponent seems naïve, dog- matic, and fanatical. The achievement of this study lies mainly in its pursuit of these authors’ self-awareness and the related unfolding of their thought, as stimulated by the relation to their intimate other. This occasions much illuminating...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 January 2010
... hypocritical and shallow while his opponent seems naïve, dog- matic, and fanatical. The achievement of this study lies mainly in its pursuit of these authors’ self-awareness and the related unfolding of their thought, as stimulated by the relation to their intimate other. This occasions much illuminating...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2010
... hypocritical and shallow while his opponent seems naïve, dog- matic, and fanatical. The achievement of this study lies mainly in its pursuit of these authors’ self-awareness and the related unfolding of their thought, as stimulated by the relation to their intimate other. This occasions much illuminating...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2010
... hypocritical and shallow while his opponent seems naïve, dog- matic, and fanatical. The achievement of this study lies mainly in its pursuit of these authors’ self-awareness and the related unfolding of their thought, as stimulated by the relation to their intimate other. This occasions much illuminating...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 325–356.
Published: 01 September 2002
... sisters, brutal and fanatical. They gathered around me. I opened my eyes wide and recognized my own sisters . . . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/342 “We have come, five fingers of one hand, to put an end to a situation of usurpation and theft . . .” “Remember, you are nothing but a hole between two...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of modernist literature was more ambivalent than others, but nonetheless he saw in it, particularly in Joyce’s Ulysses , “a hatred of culture and civilization, brought out by means of the subtlest stylistic devices which culture and civilization have developed, and often a radical and fanatical urge...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2010
... him from his admirers, who pretend that he was not. His Catholic devotees are legion and fanatic . . . but not always helpful to his non-cult reputation . . . . his most strenuous advocates are mainly conservative pre-Vatican II types who are indignant about his neglect without stopping to refl...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 429–444.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with Boseina’s father and a human-rights lawyer, determined to bring those responsible to justice. “It’s your obsession, this girl,” Ofri warns her, while Sarah’s husband questions the effectiveness of her fanatical focus on the girl:  What’s important in political action is its effectiveness. You cannot...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 251–270.
Published: 01 September 2017
... alike. (154) Wilde and Chesterton are no doubt hyperbolic about the extent to which mystery —​captured by nonsense —​reflects the ultimate ontological character of real- ity. As Benjamin cautions, “histrionic or fanatical stress of the mysterious side of the mysterious takes us no further; we...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 December 2022
... relations with rich and respectable people. It was through such connections that Vico, talented and fanatically industrious, secured a position as a private tutor in one of the great families of the city at about eighteen years of age, and thereby gained almost a decade of peace during which he pursued his...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 117–134.
Published: 01 March 2005
... itself, a monism proceeding from a “mystical-real- istic insight”: . . . [S]ubjects completely fi ll the writer; he forgets himself, his heart no longer serves him save to feel the hearts of others, and when, by fanatical patience, this condition is achieved, the perfect expression, which at once...