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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 7. Ma Loute, with a red pompom on his head and Billie in his arms, crossing the bay. Screen capture from Bruno Dumont’s 2017 film Slack Bay .
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Indian Tradition and Mythology . Vol. 2 . New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass Publishers, 1970 . 4 vols. Shrotri, S.B., and M.M. Mulla. “Karnad's `Hayavadhana' and Mann's `Transposed Heads': A Comparison.” Journal of the Study of Languages ( 1975 -76): 78 -84. Simsar, M.A., trans. & ed...
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in Aesthetics and Anthropology in the Early Years of Comparative Literature: The Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum
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Published: 01 September 2024
Fig. 4. Heading and excerpt from part 3 of the “Vorlaüfige Aufgaben der vergleichenden Litteratur,” ACLU , no. 24, February 28, 1878, 494.
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... us, and formulate local ideas derived from this nature, although from the nineteenth century onwards this opinion was challenged. It will also highlight the importance, for South America, at this moment in history when authoritarianism is rearing its head again, of using comparative approaches...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of conquest; translated by C. L. R. James as “there is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory”). This line came to define an ethics and an aesthetics for the cultural movement that ensued in the wake of the Bandung conference, which brought together heads of state from the third world in pursuit...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 22–40.
Published: 01 January 2010
... envisages a vital and bellicose society in which violent impulses are given free rein. His poems earned him a place in the medieval imagination as a highly dangerous figure bent on provoking uprisings: thus Dante placed him in Hell, carrying his own severed head. Bertran's oeuvre, then, demonstrates...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 54–68.
Published: 01 January 2009
... version vestiges of this originary text. While I do not tackle the larger question of the nature of Nabokov's reliance on Freud head on, my analysis provides some purchase on this fraught relationship, its literary manifestations, and what may be learned by pursuing a line of questioning that Nabokov...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 259–271.
Published: 01 September 2020
... thematization. With reference to Anton Shammas, Bessie Head, and John Berger, he reflects critically on the practice of comparison as embedded in the ethics of knowledge production. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 ethics comparison Rohingya Anton Shammas TWO YEARS AGO, then ACLA...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
...” and related twentieth-century poems by US women writers, this essay identifies alternative modes of feminist revisionist mythmaking. In the Metamorphoses , Medusa’s head functions as both a symbol of horror and of poetic power that emerges directly from the body of a violated woman. After Neptune rapes...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2025
...”: Cho Ki-chon [Russian-born North Korean poet], Han Sorya [Korean writer, head of Korean Writers’ Union], Ri Ki-yong [Korean novelist], Võ Huy Tâm [Vietnamese writer], Tsendiin Damdinsüren [Mongolian writer and linguist], Sengge, Takiji Kobayashi [Japanese writer], Miyamoto Yuriko [Japanese writer...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 135–157.
Published: 01 March 2005
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(“The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round
about, the weeds were wrapped about my head”; Jonah 2:2-5), underscoring the
exquisite poetic sublimity of the canticle in the belly of the fish.4 He urges them
to cling to Jonah’s sea-line, to follow him way down to “the kelpy...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 463–488.
Published: 01 December 2021
...” ( Rubén Darío 7). 9 The Venezuelan artist Tito Salas astutely discerns the relation of Bolívar’s fantasy to melancholic ecstasy. In a painting titled Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo (1929–30), Salas appeals to the traditional melancholic gesture of the head in hand to depict a transfixed...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 302–305.
Published: 01 June 2010
... not distinguish sharply between sacrifice, ritual murder, and
judicial execution. To do so, he claims, would be wrong-headed in a study that is devoted not
to the practice of sacrifice but to its representation or deployment as a symbol. Cannibalism,
torture, vampirism, sadism, suicide bombing, even stem...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 305–307.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., ritual murder, and
judicial execution. To do so, he claims, would be wrong-headed in a study that is devoted not
to the practice of sacrifice but to its representation or deployment as a symbol. Cannibalism,
torture, vampirism, sadism, suicide bombing, even stem cell research may pass as forms...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 308–311.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., ritual murder, and
judicial execution. To do so, he claims, would be wrong-headed in a study that is devoted not
to the practice of sacrifice but to its representation or deployment as a symbol. Cannibalism,
torture, vampirism, sadism, suicide bombing, even stem cell research may pass as forms...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 311–314.
Published: 01 June 2010
... representation of
sacrifice.
Although Hughes defines his subject as “primarily, the literal, ritual religious sacrifice of
a human victim” (2), he does not distinguish sharply between sacrifice, ritual murder, and
judicial execution. To do so, he claims, would be wrong-headed in a study that is devoted...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 194–217.
Published: 01 June 2018
... rouges de foire, dans mon chapeau, et je serai comblé” (279; “I don’t wear a hat. I don’t even own a hat. Nonetheless, I remove it from my bony head and humbly prepare to pass it around. . . . You’re going to toss a few bits of old rubbish into my hat, a few laxative pills, and I’ll be overwhelmed,” 274...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
...—was the story of Ukoni Bai. A hapless female louse, who had lost her host’s head full of thick hair, was in search of her host, or a similar person whose blood would taste equally delicious. As young children, we hated lice, and since it was common for many of us to sleep in big beds with cousins, if one person...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
... know, Disgrace the gray hair on his head!
His wife brimmed over with impatience And who? They’re Iskra, Kochubey!
And urged her wrathful spouse to hurry. I thought they were his age-old friends!”
Concealing lust for blood with tears...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 357–380.
Published: 01 December 2019
... bird tenderly in your hands,” Kanafani wrote, in his time and in our own. 1 Foucault, for his part, registers his anxiety in a striking passage in “Society Must Be Defended,” where he speaks to us of a multiplicity of heads and of multiplying body parts, which in the demise of sovereignty...
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