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Is Rewilding Twenty-First-Century Primitivism?

Ben Etherington
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11052901
Published: 01 June 2024
... in these novels the narration of a process by which scientific reason transcends the study of wild things to itself become the wild. 20 Others among the plethora of trade books premised on the hunter-gatherer ideal are Rutger Bregman ’s Humankind and Christopher Ryan ’s Civilized to Death . 21...
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Primitivism Now, Primitivism Again: Introduction

Ben Etherington, Samuel J. Spinner
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11060583
Published: 01 June 2024
... preoccupied with nature, rewilding has also renewed human-centric primitivism by drawing on conceptions of hunter-gatherer societies as it projects itself toward a speculative “wild” condition. In the afterword, Simon Gikandi reflects on each of the essays in detail while also making his own robust...
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A Loose Yet Effective Link: Some Creative Aspects of Comparative Literature

Paelabang Danapan
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 298–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475419
Published: 01 September 2023
.... It was a gathering to remember. Two weeks later (September 20), an essay by Professor Chiu Kuei-fen, titled “ Do Indigenous People Need Creative Writing? ,” and written for a general readership, was published in the Liberty Times literary supplement; it was an extension of her previous essay, “ Can Taiwan Literary...
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Race, Tone, and Ha Jin’s “Documentary Manner”

Sunny Xiang
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 72–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-4344086
Published: 01 March 2018
... , 2007 . Guo Xiaolu . I Am China . Vintage , 2014 . Hunter Edward . Brainwashing in Red China . Vanguard , 1953 . Hunter Edward . Brainwashing: The Story of Men Who Defied It . Farrar, Straus & Cudahy , 1956 . “ Indoctrination of US POWs by Chinese Communist...
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Can We Believe Darwin?

DIDIER MALEUVRE
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-2-117
Published: 01 March 2001
... things that are beneficial for us to notice. Insomuch as the mind is encased in a brain and the brain in a living body, says the Darwinist, cognition is a map of living interests written, not by Plato’s recording angel, but by the practical hunter and gatherer in each of us. This restriction...
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Paul de Man’s Flemish

Birger Vanwesenbeeck
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 427–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9989230
Published: 01 December 2022
... the theorist to transform herself from homo faber into homesteader. In short: (deconstructive) theory constitutes the moment when criticism at long last becomes sedentary, when theory is no longer a hunter-gathering “method” applied to texts from the outside in but rather when it makes its home within...
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Jug Songs: Acoustic Enclosure from Ovid to Eliot

Hunter Dukes
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8537753
Published: 01 December 2020
...Hunter Dukes Abstract Philomela holds a privileged place in Euro-American poetry. Tracking the nightingales in Ovid, Marie de France, Gascoigne, Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning reveals a new dimension of an old trope. Frequently paired with images of architectural...
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The Other Latin

STEPHEN RECKERT
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 58–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-60-1-58
Published: 01 January 2008
...: University of California Press, 1990 . Whinnom, Keith. “Spanish Literary Historiography: Three Forms of Distortion.” Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature . Ed. Alan Deyermond, W.F. Hunter, and Joseph T. Snow. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1994 . 96 -113. Wieger, L. Chinese Characters...
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Scenarios of Power in Turgenev’s First Love : Russian Realism and the Allegory of the State

Ilya Kliger
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-4344056
Published: 01 March 2018
... – 68 . Psomiades Kathy Alexis . “ The Marriage Plot in Theory .” Novel: A Forum on Fiction , vol. 43 , no. 1 , 2010 , pp. 53 – 59 . Ripp Victor . Turgenev’s Russia: From ’‘Notes of a Hunter’ to‘Fathers and Sons . Cornell UP , 1980 . Schönle Andreas . The Ruler...
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Literary Praxis Beyond the Melodramas of Commitment: Edward Upward, Soviet Aesthetics, and Leftist Self-Fashioning

Glyn Salton-Cox
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2376615
Published: 01 December 2013
... , 1935 . 27 – 73 . Print . Greenwood Walter . Love on the Dole . 1933 . London : Jonathon Cape , 1966 . Print . Gutkin Irina . The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic, 1890–1934 . Evanston : Northwestern UP , 1999 . Print . Hunter Ian . Malcolm...
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Dying Mirrors, Medieval Moralists, and Tristram Shandies: The Literary Traditions of Fernando Del Paso's Palinuro of Mexico

IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ-PRADO
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 142–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-60-2-142
Published: 01 March 2008
... Press, Feffer and Simmons, 1973 . Hunter, J. Paul. “Gulliver's Travels and the Novel.” The Genres of Gulliver's Travels . Ed. Frederick N. Smith. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990 . 56 -74. Iser, Wolfgang. Sterne: Tristram Shandy . Trans. Henry David Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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From Hampstead to Buenos Aires and Beyond: Anticipating Worlds in Julio Cortázar’s Imagen de John Keats

Olivia Loksing Moy
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8537764
Published: 01 December 2020
... this particular text. Two hundred years later, Keats scholars are eager to look for meaningful afterlives from authors of different traditions, reenergizing the canon of Keats’s writings beyond an Anglocentric world. This was evident in special-issue publications and at international gatherings in London, Rome...
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Seuss and the Swerve of Singularity

Christopher Peterson
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 298–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7546298
Published: 01 September 2019
..., by contrast, names the concept of no-concept. Gathering within itself properties unique to it alone, pure singularity is absolute or not at all. Kamuf’s characterization of singularity recalls Emerson’s “The American Scholar,” which describes books in similar terms: “I had better never see a book, than...
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Vidal in Furs: Lyric Poetry, Narrative, and Masoch(ism)

SIMON PENDER
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 95–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-2-95
Published: 01 March 2006
... edition5), Drogoman senher and Son ben apoderatz, where 5 Avalle believes Peire gathered a proportion of his songs into a single collection himself and organizes the first part of his edition accordingly; the later part of his edition orders the songs according to the now lost early medieval...
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Of Phagocytes and Men: Tolstoy's Response to Mechnikov and the Religious Purpose of Science

Anna A. Berman
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 296–311.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3631577
Published: 01 September 2016
... thousand gathered in one not-large area, though they hammered rocks into the earth so that nothing grew in it, though they cleared away every blade of grass that had broken through, though they filled the air with smoke from coal and petrol, though they cut down the trees and kicked out all...
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The Multilingual Pleasures of Slavic Worlds: Sacher-Masoch, Franzos, Freud

Anne Dwyer
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2143143
Published: 01 June 2013
... gleaming brown hair combed up in front à la Chinoise with her braid in back topped by a white lace bonnet with bright red ribbons —​the Polish colors  a light grey gathered silk dress, and over that a kazabaika with ample sleeves of dark red silk velvet trimmed richly with precious black fur, lined...
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Vladimir Nabokov's “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”: A Study in the Ethics and Effects of Literary Adaptation

Stanislav Shvabrin
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 101–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2019311
Published: 01 March 2013
...: Highmindedness, a jealousy for good . . . Such coincidences baffle and thwart similarity chasers, source hunters, relentless pursuers of paral- lel passages. (Eugene Onegin  2: 235) While one must not oversimplify Nabokov’s accumulated indebtedness...
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On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion

Steven Jaron
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 170–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-2-170
Published: 01 March 2001
... of views with which he appears to disagree, or whose implications he regrets. So one gathers from the critical remarks that pepper his prose, not to mention his celebration, in the conclusion of the book, of the need for a “center” against which critical claims about the margins must be directed...
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Consequences of Enlightenment

Wallace Martin
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 172–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-2-172
Published: 01 March 2001
... of views with which he appears to disagree, or whose implications he regrets. So one gathers from the critical remarks that pepper his prose, not to mention his celebration, in the conclusion of the book, of the need for a “center” against which critical claims about the margins must be directed...
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Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society

Anthony J. Cascardi
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 175–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-53-2-175
Published: 01 March 2001
... of views with which he appears to disagree, or whose implications he regrets. So one gathers from the critical remarks that pepper his prose, not to mention his celebration, in the conclusion of the book, of the need for a “center” against which critical claims about the margins must be directed...
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