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Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... their internationalist detractors, who favor a morality of states with clearly demarcated state borders” ( Flikschuh and Ypi 7). [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 Enlightenment fantastic voyage conte philosophique Holberg Nordic literature TODAY’S CRISIS...
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Realism, Form, Politics: Reading Connections in Caribbean Migration Narratives
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 383–401.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... The systematic orchestration of two key devices in Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and Lamming's The Emigrants challenges modes of perception, temporality, and history shaping the realist discourses each novel directly or indirectly invokes. Voyage in the Dark responds to Zola's naturalist novel Nana through the use...
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Joyce's and Borges's Afterlives of Shakespeare
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2008
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Joyce’s and Borges’s
Afterlives of Shakespeare
ORGE LUIS BORGES PUBLISHED HIS Antología de la literatura fantástica (1940)
J(Anthology of Fantastic Literature) one year after the publication of Fin negans
Wake (1939) and one year before Joyce’s untimely death in Zurich (1941), a coin...
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The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global. A Critique of World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
...; Voyages et aventures du Capi-
taine Hatteras, 1864–65; and Le tour du monde en 80 jours, 1873). Furthermore, Verne
even dares to send his bourgeois men beyond the surface of the earth into the
unknown: to the moon (De la terre à la lune, 1865; Autour de la lune, 1870), to the
sun (Hector Sevandac...
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Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 462–463.
Published: 01 December 2012
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Alongside Arac’s argumentative rigor, what struck me most in this volume was a curious,
admirable, and probably undervalued aspect of Arac’s writing in an era where every schol-
arly work is appraised scrupulously first and foremost for its unifying argument. This col-
lection was a voyage of discovery...
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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 463–466.
Published: 01 December 2012
....
Alongside Arac’s argumentative rigor, what struck me most in this volume was a curious,
admirable, and probably undervalued aspect of Arac’s writing in an era where every schol-
arly work is appraised scrupulously first and foremost for its unifying argument. This col-
lection was a voyage of discovery...
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Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins the Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
Published: 01 December 2012
....
Alongside Arac’s argumentative rigor, what struck me most in this volume was a curious,
admirable, and probably undervalued aspect of Arac’s writing in an era where every schol-
arly work is appraised scrupulously first and foremost for its unifying argument. This col-
lection was a voyage of discovery...
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The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 468–470.
Published: 01 December 2012
....
Alongside Arac’s argumentative rigor, what struck me most in this volume was a curious,
admirable, and probably undervalued aspect of Arac’s writing in an era where every schol-
arly work is appraised scrupulously first and foremost for its unifying argument. This col-
lection was a voyage of discovery...
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Coastal Form: Amphibian Positions, Wider Worlds, and Planetary Horizons on the African Indian Ocean Littoral
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
...-in teacher narrates the Atlantic crossing of Christo-
pher Columbus while drawing a map on the blackboard to illustrate his story.
Intriguingly, he does not sketch the Atlantic rim or chart a voyage across this body
of water that has in the interim been encoded as a site of racial terror productive...
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Modernism Misunderstood: Anna Banti Translates Virginia Woolf
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 January 2004
... feminist revision of the historical novel. Unlike the new
Woolf who begins her voyage out of the realistic word towards a more symbolic
writing, towards traces and silence, rethinking human life in poetic terms, Banti
still needs the fiction of realism, which she reshapes to give voice to female char...
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The Genealogy of the Novel from the Odyssey to Don Quijote
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 23–32.
Published: 01 January 2007
... that the maritime adventures of
Ulysses resembled and reflected the mercantile voyages of Phoenician traders
who repeatedly appear in the hero’s lying stories (13.225-87, 14.192-359, 15.390-
483), a point that ancient readers had already raised.5 In the fiction of the Odys-
sey it is a gentleman of Scheria...
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From Hampstead to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Anticipating Worlds in Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
... into one effortless current, reveal the critical and creative abilities of Cortázar as a multilingual reader and writer. Thanks to their dreamlike quality, the transitions between Cortázar’s and Keats’s lines sound organic, unlabored, spontaneous. Though Cortázar earned his fame through his fantastic...
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Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the past, about national wars against Islam and Spain, and then about his own relatively uneventful voyage. The storm of book 6 drives da Gama to Calicut much as the storm of book 1 of the Aeneid drives Aeneas to Carthage, and Calicut, too, turns out in book 9 to be a Carthage from which the hero must...
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The Architectonics of Hope: Fragments of Life and Text in Walter Benjamin and Hart Crane
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
...—a crucial word used to describe the dialectical image ( V 595)—that makes possible these “phantastische Verbindungen” ( V 93; fantastical bonds). The flâneur, in his hopeless desire to remain in style, is an ossified and ossifying marker of late capitalist bourgeois desire. He is not seen here as human...
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Indian Ocean Narratives, Tidalectics, and Perth’s Centre for Stories
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
...-time in the Pacific Islands anthologies; he is able to disaggregate aesthetic practices employed by poets past while reaggregating and transplanting them into verse of his own, providing maps and vessels for readers to imagine the Pacific Islands through anthologies that look to the past while voyaging...
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Integration, Subversion, and the Rape of Europa: Heinrich Böll's “Er Kam Als Biefrahrer”
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of a god disguised as a
bull. Enticed by the beast’s brilliant white form, she is first comforted by its ap-
parent gentleness; then suddenly, compelled by violence, she finds herself em-
barking on a maiden voyage that will tear her away from all she has known. Her
individual, ephemeral existence...
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Wordsworth, Baudelaire, and the Limits of Poetic Insight
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 150–168.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., of the possibility of fusion between the sordidly realistic and the phantasmagoric, the possibility
of the juxtaposition of the matter-of-fact and the fantastic. From him, as from Laforgue, I learned
that the sort of material that I had, the sort of experience that an adolescent had had, in an indus-
trial city...
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The Jewish Robinson Crusoe
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 215–228.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and is a practicing Jew from Hamburg; Friday
is renamed Shabes (or Sabbath) and becomes a practicing Jew; and the island is
Judaized by recourse to Jewish iconography. In his version Alter-Leb yearns for
adventure and accidently sets out on a voyage around the world. On the way to
South America, the ship sinks...
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Lines and Crimes of Demarcation: Mathematizing Nature in Heidegger, Pynchon, and Kehlmann
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
... in a man who, as the title of his
major work (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687) attests, interpreted
the natural world according to formal mathematical laws. Pynchon even paro-
dies Newton’s first law of motion. Toward the end of the novel, on his voyage home
from an assignment...
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Transatlantic Irishness: Irish and American Frontiers in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of transnational voyage “known in Latin as circumnavigation” would appear to undercut
his argument, as these crossings surely demonstrate that neither the Irish Sea nor the Atlantic
Ocean was conceived of as “a cordon sanitaire.”
2 The act of mapping the novel onto the national space in this manner does...
