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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2016
...John T. Hamilton Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge . By Pfau Thomas . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 . 673 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
Published: 01 December 2012
...James Dawes Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature . By Goldberg Elizabeth and Moore Alexandra Schultheis . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 302 p. Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins . By Fradinger Moira . Stanford : Stanford...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Frederick Luis Aldama The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 302 p. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanities. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2003. 244 p...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Matthew Wilkens “Digital Humanities and Its Application in the Study of Literature and Culture” examines the relationship between comparative literary and cultural studies, systems theory and model building, and recent work in digital humanities. Areas of specific application include the topology...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Henrik S. Wilberg Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care . By Hamilton John T. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2013 . 336 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. The Jargon of Authenticity . Trans...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 213–225.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Emily Apter Abstract Rather than stand down the naysayers with a nihilistic credo of the humanities for its own sake, this essay examines the apparently weak resources of “justification” as a set of rhetorical procedures that navigate that which is ungrounded or untranslatable. Justification...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of interest, however, but rather by the displacements to which they subjected Césaire’s poem through their linguistic, generic, affective, and semantic translations. The essay concludes that Bandung humanism supposed a contingent and revisable understanding of the human and promoted an aesthetic of reworking...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the transcendental vision implied by a developmental process of world-history, Tagore proposed that literary language generates a notion of time that is radically finite because it is aligned with the human failure to achieve divine transcendence. More specifically, his essays stage truly secular, historical time...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 11–52.
Published: 01 January 2000
.... ____. “Vernacular Humanism in the Sixteenth Century.” The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism . Ed. Jill Kraye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 . 189 -202. Braden, Gordon. The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies . Yale Studies in English 187. New Haven: Yale...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 275–282.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom . New York: Anchor Books, 1999 . Wilson, Rob, and Wimal Dissanayake, eds. Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary . Durham: Duke University Press, 1996 . GLOBALIZATION & THE HUMANITIES/275FALL...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 5. The Norwegian academic becomes a tyrannical ruler for primitive humans, considering himself to be greater than antiquity’s Caesar and Alexander the Great. This frontispiece, which portrays Niels Klim as emperor, is from the novel’s original 1741 Latin edition, publisher Jacob Preuss
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the human mind. Psychological and social theories that form part of the amalgam designated “poststructuralism” identify important areas of human concern but can now be replaced with empirically grounded concepts that are more complete, more correct, more nuanced. The most important elements in biocultural...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Kiene Brillenburg Wurth This essay explores how and why the “old” medium of paper has come to function as the matter of a “new” posthuman subjectivity in contemporary fiction (since 2005). Paper, paper-based writing, and the book have long been involved in the cultural construction of “humanness...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of Michel Foucault’s view of history careening toward the vanishing point of the human as well as a powerful echo of traditional Hindu cultural beliefs about the continuum between human and animal life-forms, about rebirth and regeneration. For Édouard Maunick, the island itself is the site of a creative...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 312–318.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Haun Saussy Predictions of an age of “secondary orality,” brought on by the diffusion of electronic media, are characteristic of the 1960's version of technological globalization, but draw on earlier accounts of orality as the primordial human communications medium. In these accounts, writing...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 415–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
... strange, disquieting occurrences, described as “warps” and “mutations,” to the human and nonhuman, the novel both critiques the ethnic displacement of the Kurdish population and expresses unease over changing relationships to material land. This is rooted in its critique of the structuring frameworks...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 375–393.
Published: 01 December 2015
... national typing based on immutable factors such as climate and physiology was reformulated in a way that foregrounded history and human agency. The old discourse of civic humanism, with its emphasis on virtues and good government, is invoked here both as explanation and remedy for Italy's decline. Staël's...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-edged sword. Hence the double entendre of the title: Humboldt's and Gauss's “surveying” ( Vermessung ) enterprises typify human “arrogance” ( Vermessenheit ) toward nature. The ideas presented in Kehlmann's book were no doubt influenced by Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997), a metafictional...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... or untouched. Yet, despite the absence of an answering authority to lay down the law and cry “halt,” and perhaps because of it, environmental harm continues to be imagined through the figure of trespass and in terms of an invisible line past which human activity, otherwise compelled by capitalism to limitless...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 128–141.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Although in Sacred Hunger Unsworth seems to share much of Delblanc's pessimism about human nature, the hope that is vindicated in Friday and squelched in Speranza is allowed to flicker once more. Resistance to the violence onboard the Liverpool Merchant results in mutiny and change, in contrast...
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