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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 315–331.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) . New York: Random House, 1999 . Urban, Thomas. Vladimir Nabokov. Blaue Abende in Berlin . Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1999 . Zimmer, Dieter E. Nabokovs Berlin . Berlin: Nicolai Verlag, 2001 . KAFKA’S REALITY & NABOKOV’S FANTASY...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 333–353.
Published: 01 September 2001
...-SPAN . 27 Apr. 2000 . PERFORMING VIRTUAL WHITENESS/333
LINDA KINTZ
Performing Virtual
Whiteness: The Psychic
Fantasy of Globalization
N THE GLOBAL EXPANSION of cyberspace, the complex mixture of high
Itechnology...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 103–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
... fantasies that the novel, a genre associated with the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie and its values, weaves around the eroticized figure of the aristocrat. It documents, in Madame Bovary , the gradual replacement of the nobleman-rake in Emma Bovary's fantasies and love-affairs with substitutes produced...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... Drawing on a psychoanalytic toolbox, this essay develops a provincial reading of psychosexual and geopolitical fantasies in these writers' work within the context of Austrian culture after Austria's defeat to Prussia (1866) and subsequent German unification (1871). The analysis devotes special attention...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 346–365.
Published: 01 June 2009
... work ostensibly realigns the coordinates of the Latin American novel, breaking with the model of magical realism, it too foments a (pre)conception of alterity that satisfies the fantasies and collective imagination of U.S. cultural consumers. Citing the extremely low numbers of Latin American works...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 459–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in mimesis, which operates not only in the (very real) fantasy of the “life and work” continuum but also in the sensual experience of the text as the Other's life-words , an important aspect of Uno's authorial actuality. It is the body that finally brings these disparate modalities of mimesis...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to his work reveal the persistence of the fantasy of accessing India’s unmediated voice. The essay reads the extant Anglo-American critical discourse on Bhagat, with special attention to the postcritical and post-postcolonial turns in contemporary literary scholarship. It argues that Bhagat’s anointment...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2006
... translation (2004).
VIDAL IN FURS/97
phies. Alternatively, Deleuze, Masoch, and the biographies can all be read as
efforts to make sense of fantasy, exemplified here by Peire Vidal’s poetry.
Deleuze intended in his essay both to correct the usual...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 January 2006
... Calvino is almost certainly the most discussed Italian writer of the latter
twentieth century, having fared particularly well in the English-speaking world.
Calvino criticism in English typically produces a monograph and a couple dozen
articles per year, covering discussions of utopia, fantasy...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the twentieth century has since returned to what Timothy Snyder calls the “politics of eternity” dominant in Russia today ( 8 ). Preoccupied with looking backward at timeless, homogenous narratives of ethnic origins, it has simultaneously spread outward to fuel white supremacist fantasies across Europe...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 90–93.
Published: 01 January 2007
... is through the analytic patient, or analysand,
experiencing the analyst as embodying his or her otherwise unconscious hallucinations
and fantasies. Freud called this transference. Some analysands may actually seek to force
their analysts to personify their hallucinations and fantasies. For example...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 January 2007
..., or analysand,
experiencing the analyst as embodying his or her otherwise unconscious hallucinations
and fantasies. Freud called this transference. Some analysands may actually seek to force
their analysts to personify their hallucinations and fantasies. For example, Joan Riviere,
whose letters Jacobus...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 23–32.
Published: 01 January 2007
... translations are cited from Don Quijote, trans. Starkie. I cite page numbers from the Spanish
text first, and then page numbers from the English translation.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/24
count in chapter 31 of his imaginary meeting with Aldonza. In her stead, Don
Quijote’s other fantasy damsel—the royal...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 246–254.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 . Durham: Duke University Press, 1997 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/246
REVIEW ESSAY
DOROTHY FIGUEIRA
The Profits of Postcolonialism
One of the causes...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 180–202.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... Like the idea of a breaking point, the idea of impasse may be a fantasy that manifests the desire for the end of things as they are, or at least for their momentary cessation. Put somewhat differently, an impasse may be an essential and yet surprisingly thin theoretical construct that is best grasped...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of it written in collaboration with his close friend
Christopher Isherwood, often took the form of surreal fantasy, set in an imaginary
world known as “Mortmere.” Upward’s later commitment to Communism caused
him to reevaluate his literary style, and throughout the thirties he published little,
instead...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 182–199.
Published: 01 June 2013
... as value. . . . This shouldn’t be understood in the petty sense of mere reserve. Nietzsche
considers distance to be a strong and rare value. . . . The utopian tension —which is at the heart of
the idiorrhythmic fantasy —is this: what is desired is a distance which does not remove affect...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... into the fantasies of Coetzee’s Colonel and his men as “the barbarians.” In other words, one could expect to find in contemporary Israeli dystopias similar concerns with an unknown future, loss of privilege, domination, and control, and similar fears of revenge. And yet, the Palestinians, who appear in both...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 445–446.
Published: 01 December 2015
... objective status for what we could consider
fantasy” and “has located fairyland in a definite place” (135, 144). What a shock. It is a
simplification of the argument to say that Murrin located Fairy Land somewhere in Cen-
tral Asia, but not a great simplification. So striking was the claim that rumors...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 415–428.
Published: 01 December 2015
... : Marcus Weiner , 2003 . Print . Rowe John Carlos . “Edgar Allan Poe's Imperial Fantasy and the American Frontier.” Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race . Ed. Gerald Kennedy J. Weissberg Liliane . New York : Oxford UP , 2001 . Print . Said Edward . Orientalism . New...
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