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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Glyn Salton-Cox This essay examines the English Communist novelist, Edward Upward (1903–2009) in a hitherto unexplored comparative frame. Until recently, Upward's authorship was largely dismissed as formally uninspired and dogmatically “Stalinist,” the work, as Samuel Hynes put it, of “a gifted man...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... becomes the figure of the book’s reader, King Shahrayar: he intends to murder the storyteller Shahrazad, his wife for one night that she extends into a thousand and one. Thousand and One Nights Tale of the Hunchback frame narratives estrangement empathy in literature practical jokes...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 June 2022
... that sidelines any actors, actions, or histories that do not ultimately prop up the love story. In so doing, the narratives of a billion other Chinese who are not filthy rich, many more billions of Asians, and centuries of dynamic histories are flattened out of the frame. While for minoritized audiences...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...David Quint Abstract Contrary to the views of Hegelian critics, epic from its Homeric beginnings has projected a future time and future readers beyond its narrative frame. The genre does not close itself off in a heroic past. The episode of the Phaeacian banquet in the Odyssey places a utopian...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of writers such as Orfa Alarcón, Yuri Herrera, Élmer Mendoza, Heriberto Yépez, and Juan Pablo Villalobos—while conceived as critical literary interventions, are in fact marketable commodities reproducing hegemonic discourses that frame the drug trade as a phenomenon operating outside of the state. Mexican...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 January 2002
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to function maieutically for psychological and aesthetic realization in the mid-
nineteenth-century novel. The hero retrospectively revises and looks beyond the
boundaries of not only a fictive life but also the fictional frame. My investigation
counterposes two modes of narrative vision suggested...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
... inheritance encompassing not only the arabesque interlacings and ramblings of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy but also the popularizer of the “fantastique” in France, and consummate master of the frame narrative, E. T. A. Hoffmann. _________ It is the specific characteristic of these squiggles...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the crime does no
more than secondarily (if emphatically) confirm.
The Turn of the Screw combines the narrative tendencies of Guy Domville and The
Other House. Its frame text pointedly evolves towards —and states its preference
for —all-male company and focuses on two figures about whom nothing...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the novel overwhelmingly foregrounds the ethical importance of Elizabeth Costello—her lectures, her thoughts, her experiences, her woundedness—the narrative embeds this singular consciousness within a complex frame of events, situations, and interpersonal interactions. The refusal to isolate ethical...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2000
... his own a divine, atemporal perspective already envisioned by Leibniz
and Laplace, and presented by Goethe’s archangels in the frame narrative that
contains the play-within-a-play of Faust’s career.
Thus, Goethe’s play opens with a vision of unvarying universal harmony, and
this vision repeats...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
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Dinesen’s “The Dreamers” is a frame narrative that alludes ironically to a vari-
ety of other stories, but also includes three extended accounts of the encounters
of four men with a woman they know under different names, but who turns out
to be a famous opera singer who lost her voice in a catastrophic...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., the border-
zone located not at a geographical border, but at an international airport like
Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, with migrants lost in its “entrails” and where “the hours
go by in neutral” (6) —a post-Schengen chronotope.
The frame narrative secures readerly focus on this suspended futurity...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 457–459.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and the “second world” was accompanied by a
near-total erasure of Eastern Europe within current epistemic frames: finding no words to
describe the difference of Eastern Europe, scholarly conversations about it ceased. If the
“prevalent doxa holds that . . . a whole amputated by a third is still a whole...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 291–306.
Published: 01 September 2002
... different his-
torical basis from that of, say, Christopher Columbus or Bernal Díaz, but her
narratives of territorial displacement operate within similar parameters. Her early
novel Fording the Stream of Consciousness is framed by two (ostensibly) autobio-
graphical segments that describe how her...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
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INV 7300. Copyright Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
I. Framing the Past
How should we interpret the inscription “Et in arcadia ego” (“I, too, have lived
in Arcadia”) discovered by Poussin’s Arcadian shepherds? Does the “I” refer to a
dead shepherd speaking from the past...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 339–355.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Jacob Emery This essay examines situations where a single trope is implicated in two traditionally opposed rhetorical structures: mise en abyme , in which an internal text provides a miniature model of the framing text, and allegory, a figure in which the text at hand is only the key to some single...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., or Richardson’s Clarissa, this literature brings us face
to face with the existential problem of suffering; it also produces a multitude of
narrative paradigms and hermeneutic frames that shape how we understand suf-
fering within a life’s narrative. Some of the questions that recur in the context...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Ethics
Inasmuch as it is framed by a beginning and an end, argues Peter Brooks, “all
narrative may be in essence obituary” (95). One can thus say that for Brooks the
connection between narrative and human life is not mimetic, but that of a myse-en-
abyme: the former repeats the subconscious...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 388–399.
Published: 01 September 2009
... by alternating between summaries of stages
of Félicité’s life and detailed elaborations of certain incidents that highlight the
lack of any development from the initial layout of Félicité’s existence (cf. Selvin).
The combination of this strategy with a latent narrative frame of hagiography
COMPARATIVE...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
... by this adjective produce specific, and sometimes contrary, frames
of reference, given the ways both formations labor in the intimately entangled
afterlives of slavery and colonialism. This forum is a listening post to hear the
sometimes-cacophonous echoes resonating out of the space between Comparative...
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