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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and fiction ( 275 ). In opening up history and fiction to each other, such historical fiction unsettles both the formal autonomy of the literary text on the one hand and the epistemological grounding of historical representation on the other. Even in formally realist novels like Sea of Poppies and Paradise...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 263–265.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Charles Forsdick Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory, and the Work of Fiction. By Nicholas Harrison. London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/256
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Maarten van Delden The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii, 257 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/179...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 307–327.
Published: 01 September 2011
... show how the literary consensus about the history of white slavery emerges as a consistent set of narrative tropes; then I discuss how in several contemporary historical novels the admixture of history and fiction seems to allow anti-Semitism to be both omnipresent and depoliticized — simultaneously...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
... remarkable and extraordinary in itself. It must, furthermore, be
entered as a key episode in the history of the development of Russian prose fiction, an episode in which
Chulkov the parodist emphatically and cleverly highlighted the major constituent features of Russian
prose culture in its early...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by University of Oregon 2020 family novel genre domestic fiction novel history women writers Russian literature English literature One is sometimes inclined to regret the invention of the “family” novel; that is to say, the novel which chronicles the fortunes of each individual member...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... their visions of a communist future in which the very character of labor is transformed. In showing how Sand and Marx place the development and emancipation of sensuous life at the heart of their humanist projects, this discussion attends to the place of Sand's fiction in a wider history of ideas and argues...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 60–71.
Published: 01 March 2018
... . The End of History and the Last Man . Free Press , 1992 . Fulda Daniel . “ Historiographic Narration .” 25 March 2014 . The Living Handbook of Narratology http://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/article/historiographic-narration . 15 May 2016 . Gomel Elana . Postmodern Science Fiction...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... through fiction’s ability to retrieve and valorize the hidden, lost, or marginalized histories that crystallize in them. The coastal enclave instigates both a particular history of encounter and literary reactivation of memories around that encounter and its consequences. This twofold approach...
FIGURES
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
...John Hoffmeyer Abstract This essay develops a comparative account of Walter Benjamin’s and Hart Crane’s architectonic metaphors for text, culture, and history. I argue that theorist and poet alike employ parallel conceptual frameworks that analogize the “building” of the text to the condensation...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... postcolonial world literature are coupled with anthropologist Engseng Ho's distinction between the colonial and the imperial. I argue that the respective aesthetic priorities of these authors, and their fictional use of the histories of slavery and indenture in Mauritius, are best understood by means...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Katharina N. Piechocki Renaissance poet and physician Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) coined the neologism “syphilis” in the first poem that fictionalizes Columbus's voyage to the New World. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus (1530) captures, as this article shows, the bonds among poetic, philological...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . “Postcolonial Remains.” New Literary History 43 ( 2012 ): 19 – 42 . Print . MAUREEN MOYNAGH
The War Machine
as Chronotope:
Temporality in
Child-Soldier Fiction
L’enfant-soldat est le personnage le plus célèbre de cette fin du...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... how Suite française engages creatively with War and Peace and its reception. Building on archival material and close textual analysis, the article unravels the complex relation between the two novels by exploring questions of structure, the connections between history and fiction, and the use of music...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
...” — and especially in The Turn of the Screw — is the kind of female protagonist scrutinized by the Goncourts' novel. I argue that the structure of The Turn of the Screw — and the critical controversies that have beset its reception history — can be explained by linking it to the two failed texts that constituted...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 162–181.
Published: 01 June 2013
... that it tends to deploy the notion of sleepwalking with a minimum of reflection on its theoretical ramifications. To evoke some of the complexities of this matter, I first offer a brief cultural history of sleepwalking, as well as a brief account of the topic of uncertainty in Sebald criticism. Most of my...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 276–278.
Published: 01 June 2004
...), it still resides in a critical environment of high French liter-
ary theory. For all its gestures toward religious history, Fiction and Incarnation is a story of
rhetoric, an account of figurative language from Cicero to the French fourteenth cen-
tury. Readings of classical rhetorical works are pressed...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 262–266.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of this material. As a work now ten years old (and barely
updated bibliographically), it still resides in a critical environment of high French liter-
ary theory. For all its gestures toward religious history, Fiction and Incarnation is a story of
rhetoric, an account of figurative language from Cicero...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 279–281.
Published: 01 June 2004
... history, Fiction and Incarnation is a story of
rhetoric, an account of figurative language from Cicero to the French fourteenth cen-
tury. Readings of classical rhetorical works are pressed into the service of an argument
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2004
... history, Fiction and Incarnation is a story of
rhetoric, an account of figurative language from Cicero to the French fourteenth cen-
tury. Readings of classical rhetorical works are pressed into the service of an argument
BOOK REVIEWS/263...
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