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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., medieval literary texts in fact reveal a keen awareness and dedicated study of natural phenomenon. Comparing how the three authors discussed here describe the trees, forest, and defoliation in their elegies highlights their knowledge of the natural environment and their affective response to deforestation...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 193–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... Epic.” Melita Theologica 17 ( 1965 ): 1 -19. Shaffer, Aaron. “Gilgamesh, The Cedar Forest and Mesopotamian History.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 ( 1983 ): 307 -13. Tigay, Jeffrey H. The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
...] speeches in the ears of [his] people” State ). His farcical speeches echo throughout the stadium where they are originally delivered, then amplified nationwide, and translated into birdsong by his parrot. Finally, a reading of the episode in the Leopard Forest in La vie et demie demonstrates how...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... Devi and the Spouse Goddess: Women, Sexuality, Marriages in India . Maryland: Riverdale Company, Inc., 1985 . Goethe, J.W. Meisterwerke-Gedichte . Band 1. Frankfurt a. Main: Mundus Verlag, 1999 . Haberman, D.L. Journey Through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna . New York: Oxford...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... As a consequence
of this transformation from a sustainable to a technological mode of existence,
rivers, forests, and the very earth itself become objects of human regulation, result-
ing in dams to run power plants, timber harvests to drive the paper industry, and
coal mining to meet our energy demands...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 415–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and a forest, bordered by barbed wire, separating Turkish land from Syrian,” becomes the site for ever weirder entanglements of human and nonhuman ( Barakāt, Fuqahāʾ 216 ). Undoubtedly, this strange and unsettling literary ecology is reflective of the Kurdishness of Barakāt’s writing and the lack...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
...,
and he was nothing unless a wound; blood flows everywhere;
the sinews, uncovered, lie exposed, trembling veins
quiver without any skin. You could count the pulsing intestines
and gleaming entrails in his breast.
The country dwellers and forest spirits...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 242–255.
Published: 01 June 2002
... from her land and headed
for Masar without notifying her family or any other person.
She walked for a long, long time across forest and bush areas. When she be-
came exhausted, she rested in the shade of a great tree. While resting she over-
heard some birds chatting from the branches of the tree...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... racism (see Kidd ), and his fantastic depiction of them conforms with a long-standing and evolving history of discrimination against the Central African Forest Peoples (see Kenrick ). Tutuola also plays on associations between the bush and categories like the esoteric, the prehistoric...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is set entirely in
the Yorkshire countryside and concentrates on the interaction between two iso-
lated households —the Earnshaws of Wuthering Heights and the Lintons of
Thrushcross Grange. Ayu’s novel centers on Indonesian characters and makes use
of a wide range of locations: the forests...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 233–261.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that were recumbent in the day
rise as the others fall, 5
stand up and make a forest of thick-set trees.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing,
are chugging...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
...—is simply too slow. Temporalities are out of joint. The forest comes apart. The trees are overwhelmed long before they can escape to a place less hospitable to the insects. ( Raffles 325 ) 11 For two sustained readings of the poem in terms consonant with the ones proposed here, see Jacobus 61–78...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): 228–245.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., if only by
a hurricane lamp, but beyond that lighted center is an obscure forest, a swamp,
and a maze of mysterious and menacing paths with connections to the world of
the spirits from which Azaro remembers coming and to which he returns in dreams
and delirium. Azaro’s narrative does not recognize...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 283–299.
Published: 01 September 2004
... moments of elemental happiness are undercut by sharp turns toward alien-
ation and fear. In 20, Olenin, emerging from the stag’s lair, finds the forest spooky,
uncanny (zhutko), and fearful (strashno). In 23, as if to complement this, Olenin’s
imagined communality with Maryana, which he would...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2011
... away like flowers!
So in the forest where my mind sends itself into exile
An old Memory rings out with the resonant breath of a horn!
I think of sailors left and forgotten on an island,
Of the captured, of the vanquished! Of many more others still...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... in Georgia defending the Weelaunee Forest (also known as the South River Forest) from the construction of a police training center and film studios ( Neyrat, “Satellites Signals” ). Yet an overterritorialization of political ecology risks leading to an overvalorization of sedentariness, including under...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the development of Indigenous literature, so her essays provoked much anxiety among Indigenous creative writers. The older generation believed that their forest memories and tribal experiences were deeply felt matters of the heart not to be held back; while the younger generation felt the need to use the tool...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... fishing boats and swimmers in rubber rings on the same plane, and conflates a boardwalk and a sea crest. Narahashi’s art blurs and complicates the contours of the coast, at the risk of erasing it altogether ( fig. 1 ). In this image, built elements surrounded by shadowy hills and dark forests are trapped...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 408–426.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . 136 – 41 . Print . Radcliffe Ann . The Mysteries of Udolpho . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2008 . Print . ———. The Romance of the Forest . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2009 . Print . Raz-Krakotzkin Amnon . “Exile in the Midst of Sovereignty: A Critique of ‘Shlilat HaGalut’ in Israeli...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and nourish the poets who have grown up in the shade of its primitive jungles). Ferdinand Denis lamented the fact that Brazil did not have its own James Fenimore Cooper to provide Europe with a true impression of the Indigenous peoples who were still wandering around the wilderness of the forests...
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