...Eric Naiman Another Freedom. The Alternative History of an Idea . By Boym Svetlana . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . 360 p. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Another Freedom. The Alternative...

...Stanley Corngold Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe. By Charles Bernheimer. Edited by T. Jefferson Kline and Naomi Schor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 228 p. University of Oregon 2004...

... . 1881. New York: Knopf, 1991 . Mann, Thomas. Doctor Faustus . Trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Modern Library, 1948 . Sontag, Susan. “Answers to a Questionnaire.” 1997. Where the Stress Falls: Essays . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001 . 294 -98. ____. “The Idea of Europe (One...

... Donauraum . Graz: Boehlau, 1960 . Wolff, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/360 JOHN NEUBAUER The Idea of Europe– Treading on Native Ground...

... . fall 2008 Volume 60, Number 4 JACQUES LEZRA The Indecisive Muse: Ethics in Translation and the Idea of History I. Two Dogmas of Translation...

... undoubtedly familiar with Friedrich Engels’s Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) and The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884). The former text was responsible for turning utopian into a dirty word among orthodox Marxists and the latter for popularizing the idea of primitive...

...Timothy Wright [email protected] The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing , by Jeanne-Marie Jackson . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 223 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023...

...Michael P. Steinberg Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas. By Lionel Gossman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii, 608 p. University of Oregon 2002 BOOK REVIEWS/357...

...Helmut Illbruck This essay reexamines Johann Gottfried Herder's theoretical import for the idea and practice of comparative literature. To that end, it contextualizes Herder's defense of poetry within the historical debate between Kant and Herder over the genesis, cast, and practical value...

...Taylor Schey Abstract Theories of historical and political change often rely on the idea of a breaking point at which radical action becomes a necessity. Theories of impasse—whether historical, political, or linguistic in focus—respond more or less directly to the assumptions behind this idea...

..., the clergyman had invited men and women to his bedroom, read them the novel, and showed its illustrations. Beristain's story offers a rare glimpse into readership practices and the transmission of ideas in the eighteenth-century Spanish world. Le Portier was not just pornographic; it also had a philosophical...

... spot in most theories of poetry, because it undermines the pervasive idea of a monolingual idiom independent from social developments, but that Roman Jakobson's theory of equational relations may be valuable if applied with substantial readjustments to account for the fact that different languages...

... is compared in Women in Love and Anna Karenina , with which Lawrence was preoccupied when he wrote Women in Love . The article discusses ideas on consciousness in the novels' own terms, its interpretative goal being comparative rather than thematic. Its method is to compare the states of consciousness...

... the victims of an unequivocally “bad press” which they were powerless to influence. However, an examination of the complicated interactions between early Haitian political writers and the northern U.S. newspaper press in the first two decades of Haitian independence suggests that the idea of Haiti...

... and cultural assets, and therefore its general educational employment within public institutions, as opposed to its religious or liturgical use, causes no offense to anyone's freedom of conscience guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Confidence in this idea, however, set in only after...

...JAMES RAMEY Although the vast differences in scale, style, economy, and subject between Borges's and Joyce's work argue against a positive flow of Joycean ideas through Borges's work—Borges was no parasite of Joyce—in this essay I argue that the “death of the novel” theme Borges seems to have...

... Comment c'est as, on the one hand, a literalization of Adorno's ideas in Aesthetic Theory (in other words, as a kind of meta-text) and, on the other, as an exemplum of his views on the new, on unity and meaning, and on mimesis and expression. In doing so, I hope to deepen our understanding of the special...

..., and to defending the idea that the professions are perhaps the key mode of rising in the stories and worlds he discusses. Robbins does not work comparatively, even though he treats the literatures of several nations and periods. Rather, the materials he gathers and analyzes illustrate a very complicated set...

... auf dem Galgen” (“Light on the Gallows”) and Carpentier's El siglo de las luces ( Explosion in a Cathedral ), revolutionary agents of the French government face the question of whether to prioritize official policy or solidarity with the oppressed in their work to advance emancipatory ideas. In light...

..., homosexuality in opposition to the idea of the family, which represents for Zola the only conceivable foundation of human happiness and social progress, and for Wilde's Nihilists an oppressive structure to be resisted or destroyed. Wilde's play is shown to offer an exploration of the tension between family...