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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Margherita Heyer-Caput Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. x, 294 p. University of Oregon 2010 De Staël, Germaine. “The Spirit of Translation.” Intro. and trans. Joseph Luzzi. Romanic Review 97.3 –4 ( 2006...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
...: the author is interrupted at his desk by the “ghost of Goethe,” who, it had been rumored, was the father of Puhiwahine’s husband. Following other genealogies—especially those connected to the origins of comparative literature—we might say Goethe’s ghost had already “enter[ed]” this place. In 1886, Irish...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ariel Wind Abstract Despite linguistic and cultural divides, the works Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo and Soul by Andrey Platonov parallel each other in their strikingly overlapping literary treatment of the spirit—one in the spectral form of the ghost, and the other in the internal, intangible form...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Václav Paris Abstract This article situates the early novels of Amos Tutuola— The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)—in relation to literary primitivism. The first part outlines the initial misconstrual of Tutuola in the United Kingdom and United States as a “true...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a paradigmatic figure of European modernity, the flâneur , and contemporary Chinese poetry, in particular the poetic prose cycle “Guihua” (“Ghost Speech/Lies”) written by Chinese poet Yang Lian during his exile in Auckland, New Zealand, after June Fourth 1989. Emerging out of the relationship between Europe...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2008
... . Creasy, Matthew. “Shakespeare Burlesque in Ulysses.” Essays in Criticism 55 ( 2005 ): 136 -58. Dibattista, Maria. “Joyce's Ghost: The Bogey of Realism in John McGahern's Amongst Women.” Transcultural Joyce . Ed. Karen Lawrence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 . 21 -37. Ellmann...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 449–452.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with another provides no escape from a realm of phantoms. Moses Mendelssohn’s review faulted the book for leaving “the reader somewhat unsure as to whether Mr. Kant would rather render metaphysics risible or ghost seeing plausible” (17). Nevertheless, Kant attempted to bolster rather than abandon his...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2018
... as the short stories “Vinh L.” and “The Boat,” involves the child’s communion with the mythical figure of the ghost, in the form of compatriots resting in watery graves. A contemporary belief in ghosts in Vietnamese religious and popular culture has nourished this literary leitmotif, as has a multi...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... . Print . Armstrong Nancy . “Emily's Ghost: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Fiction, Folklore, and Photography.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 25 . 3 ( 1992 ): 245 – 67 . Print . Ashcroft Bill Griffiths Gareth Tiffin Helen . The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Esther . London : Penguin , 1999 . 155 – 59 . Print . Botta Anna . “Calvino and the Oulipo: An Italian Ghost in the Combinatory Machine?” MLN 112 . 1 ( 1997 ): 81 – 89 . Print . Calvino Italo . “The Burning of the Abominable House.” Numbers in the Dark and Other...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 March 2023
... reasoning, and the intellectual speculations of a male, religious elite—is perhaps more properly understood as a ghost story. The efforts that began in the middle of the nineteenth century at creating first a modern literary language, and a spoken vernacular about a generation later, involved rummaging...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 220–241.
Published: 01 June 2013
..., for example), what is new in Julius Caesar  is the close relationship between Caesar and the man his ghost now haunts: Brutus was, or at least was believed to be, Caesar’s illegiti- mate son.2 The appearance of Caesar’s ghost in 1599 thus sets the stage for another haunting, one year later, of a tragic...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 214–218.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in these Acknowledgments to “the ghost.” After explaining her sense of the book as “the last gasp of a dying discipline,” she jauntily declares: “Let the ghost dance.” The ghost recurs throughout the book. (I leave to others who know Hamlet better than I to follow through this connection, a connection that un...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Panthers, Mexico 1968, and so on). Indeed, the spirit of that sequence haunts the present; we know, for example, that Posthumous’s ghost accompanied those kids YoSoy132, the striking students in Chile, or the 43 disappeared normalistas —​as they marched in an uncertain unfolding, their readings...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 155–180.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to Rome, he killed him at a bloody banquet . . . . Noron fortified his position in the stolen empire by violence and forsook his own mother, at his pleasure and because she objected to his incestuous marriage. Meanwhile the ghost of Manlius appeared to his son Torquatus, who was studying languages...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 160–175.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Studies , vol. 28 , no. 3 , 2006 , pp. 337 – 60 . Tsagalis Christos . “ The Dynamic Hypertext: Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics .” Trends in Classics , vol. 2 , 2010 , pp. 323 – 47 . Valdes Marcela . “ Introduction: Alone Among the Ghosts .” The Last Interview...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of nearly five hundred Chinese classical tales renowned for its vivid portrayal of ghosts and fox spirits. 1 Three years later, Giles’s annotated English translation of 146 Liaozhai tales, collected in two volumes, was published by Thos. de la Rue and Company in London under the title Strange Stories...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 498–501.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to glorify its work. In Djebar’s literary world, other perspectives are restored, or imagined; the reader is asked “to submit to becoming a vessel for anguished, indecipherable voices that arrive, insistent and disturbing, from another place and another time—like ghosts” (22). Jarvis emphasizes...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 408–426.
Published: 01 December 2016
... are haunted!” DORA: Then I’ll really have a pleasant sleep! I’ll dream about all the English novels I read as a child. Sand, I’m sure you never read ghost stories! . . . . SAND: I can very well imagine: “And at night, when the clock in the tower struck twelve times, and all the inhabitants of the castle...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . Lewis Pericles . “‘The Reality of the Unseen’: Shared Fictions and Religious Experience in the Ghost Stories of Henry James.” The Arizona Quarterly 61 . 2 ( 2005 ): 33 – 66 . Print. Lockhurst Roger . “Knowledge, Belief and the Supernatural at the Imperial Margin.” The Victorian...