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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 449–452.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Frederick Burwick Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media . By Andriopoulos Stefan . Brooklyn : Zone Books , 2013 . 256 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 BOOK REVIEWS / 449...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 408–426.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Karen Grumberg This essay argues that the gothicism of Lea Goldberg's play ba'alat ha-armon ( The Lady of the Castle , 1956) undergirds its key concern: the role time plays in the encounter between art and reality, poetry and ideology. I compare key signifiers of gothic spatiality and temporality...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that undermine the claims of modern Hebrew literature as a foundational cultural production for the Zionist movement, she demonstrates how nonmimetic aesthetics in Hebrew function to critique Zionist assertions, even among writers who in historical terms affiliated explicitly with Zionism. Hebrew Gothic crests...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
... literary techniques associated with globalization. This suggests, more broadly, a need for a more robust formalism in world literature studies, particularly in discussions of works from non-major traditions. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 World literature Jan Potocki Charles Maturin Gothic...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 446–449.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media. By Stefan Andriopoulos. Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2013. 256 p. While not among the Gothic novels discussed by Stefan Andriopoulos, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is worth considering in terms...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 December 2015
... on dreams, by Kluge and Hufeland on animal magnetism, by Reil, Dendy, and Ferrier on hallucinations, also exerted a profound impact on the Gothic novel. What precipitated the rise of Gothic novels and melodrama? Previous critics have found the impetus in the secularization of religious spiritualism...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and the Bildungsroman . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2012 . Print . Botting Fred . Gothic . London : Routledge , 1996 . Print . Castañeda Claudia . Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds . Durham : Duke UP , 2003 . Print . Cazenave Odile Célérier Patricia . Contemporary Francophone...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 246–261.
Published: 01 June 2010
... about the peninsula — ​thinking that parted company with the romantic conceptions of the country formed by poets such as Byron and Gothic novelists such as Ann Radcliffe and Horace Walpole. By virtue of its more subtle appreciation of history and poli- tics, this “new” literary depiction of Italy...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and 1961. New York: Vintage International, 1989 . ____. Seven Gothic Tales . 1934. London: Penguin Classics, 2002 . Disch, Lisa Jane. Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994 . Henriksen, Liselotte. Karen Blixen. En håndbog . København...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
... writers. Balzac’s references to Hoffmann in his correspondence are largely ambiguous, ranging between praise and outright dismissal ( Lewis 58–70 ). His one explicit claim to have been directly inspired by Hoffmann in the preface to his Gothic tale L’Élixir de longue vie (1830)—that “c’est une fantaisie...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
...” of the novel’s title. Aware of Pierre’s reputation as a fine craftsman, the comte de Vil- lepreux a liberal Orleanist conspiring against the Restoration government (the main action takes place in 1823) commissions father and son to restore the woodwork of the Gothic chapel that is adjoined to his chateau...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and Application . Ed. Tötösy de Zepetnek Steven Sywenky Irene . Edmonton : University of Alberta; and Siegen: Siegen University , 1997 . 51 – 65 . Print . Hillard Tom J. “’Deep into that Darkness Peering’: An Essay on Gothic Nature.” ISLE 16 . 4 ( 2009 ): 685 – 95 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 241–268.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in gold gothic or Deutsche Schrift (sometimes called Fraktur) print appear on the cover; below the lettering is a postcard image of Berchtes- gaden. Most of the photographs, which are black and white with a zig-zag edg- ing, are pasted into the book, some with traces of glue on the image; the postcards...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 96–106.
Published: 01 January 2008
... example is Casa Amatller in Barcelona’s “mansana de la dis- cordia,” a building radically remodeled by Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1898-1900.9 Casa Amatller has a number of medieval elements, notably the Flemish-inspired roofline. Gaudí’s famed Sagrada Família church is often seen as a basically Gothic...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Love drawn from the lexicon of gothic fiction. Indeed, the tale is referred to by the marked term “zhutkii” (“uncanny”) by the listeners, operates under the shadow of the possibility of incest, invokes the image of the accursedness or pollution of a certain space, contains mysterious encounters...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... It is also known for the enigmatic black-and-white photographs that he places in the text without explanation or caption. As Michael Hofmann noted, “Sebald’s books have something Gothic about them, a chilly extravagance, a numbed obsessiveness. Even their placidness and vagueness are Gothic” ( 90...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 3–24.
Published: 01 January 2011
...: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.2 ( 2003 ): 196 -211. Print. Gibbons, Luke. “Ireland, America, and Gothic Memory: Transatlantic Terror in the Early Republic.” boundary 2 31.1 ( 2004 ): 25 -47. Print. Goddu, Teresa A. “Letters Turned to Gold: Hawthorne, Authorship, and Slavery.” Studies...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . University Park : Pennsylvania State UP , 1991 . Print . ———. “Romantic Supernaturalism: The Case Study as Gothic Tale.” The Wordsworth Circle 34 . 2 ( 2003 ): 73 – 81 . Print . ———. “Science and Supernaturalism: Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott.” Comparative Criticism 13 ( 1991...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 415–428.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Frederickson George . The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 . Middletown : Wesleyan UP , 1987 . Print . Goddu Teresa A. “The Ghost of Race: Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern Gothic.” Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., the background behind Italia suggests rural and pastoral simplicity, complete with a small church, whereas the landscape behind Germania is urban and gothic, with an enormous cathedral spire and complex city. If the Old Testament Sulamith gives way to the New Tes- tament Maria in Pforr’s work, the genius...