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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 128–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
... briefly in Blanchot’s treatise, as a paradigmatic case of the literary dimension of impossible community. Focusing on Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas , the essay argues that the novella articulates the episodic and insurrectional element of Blanchot’s conception of community. Rather than understand...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
... for traditional methods (derived from the Greek meta-hodos , the “meta-path”) and methodological paradigms? Mieszkowski’s article begins with a reading of Michael Kohlhaas , the same Kleist novella that informs Kuiken’s discussion of insurrection. While Kuiken’s analysis concentrates on the protagonist’s...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 455–456.
Published: 01 December 2017
... 5 (“War Stories”) focuses on the bloody three-year confrontation (1568–71)
that took place on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains between the forces
of the Castilian Crown and the last Moriscos, an insurrection conventionally known as the
Second Alpujarras War. Kimmel does...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 September 2015
... with his own: “Il n’y a pas de point com-
mun, la pièce de Césaire est une pièce de l’insurrection. Je n’écris pas des livres
politiques. C’est un hommage, une audace” (Devarrieux; There is no common
ground, Césaire’s play is about insurrection. I do not write political books. That is
just a form...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 415–428.
Published: 01 December 2015
... . Chicago : U of Illinois P , 1988 . Print . Thorsson Courtney . Women's Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels . Charlottesville : U of Virginia P , 2013 . Print . Turner Nat . The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in South...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
... or insurrection, from the 1789 Revolution to the 1871 Commune ( Harison 403 ). 20 The grève thus invites us to hold seemingly opposed terms in our minds: festival and death, work and strike, beaches and ports. As the multiple resonances of “grève” make clear, the beach indicates not merely a commodified...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 March 2022
... These parts of Pushkin’s text essentially integrate two separate elements of the poetic introduction in Byron’s Giaour : its sentimental paean to the lost beauties of ancient Greece and a violent but glorious future insurrection against the Ottomans: Arise, and make again your own; Snatch from...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 144–158.
Published: 01 June 2020
... in the concentrated and instantaneous form of an insurrection, did not take place even in the ‘diffused’ and capillary form of indirect pressure—though the latter would have been possible” (110). Since there is no determinate reason why the radical actors could not get the slender possibilities to take place...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 224–239.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the court system, after which he will begin instigating a series of extremely violent acts, terrorizing the ruling classes, starting with the dastardly nobleman who wronged him, to the point that no less than Martin Luther himself intervenes in an effort to stop the insurrection. At the close of the story...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 270–285.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and
mobility of attack if the opportunity to conquer power is not to be missed. Insurrection, Marx and
Engels always emphasized, depends on the art of audacity. (69)
Gramsci’s framing of the problem in these uncertain terms (war of position/war
of maneuver) might best be read as a response to divisions...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
... insurrection against the French, he
took as his analogy the historical Battle of Teutoburg Forest (near Münster) in
which Hermann (known to the Romans as Arminius), chief of the north German
tribe of Cherusci, in 9 CE decisively defeated Varus and his Roman troops.
Hermann thereby became a national...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
...” and the development
of independent aesthetic criteria and artistic institutions for African American
art (Gayle 310).
In his 1971 essay “Marathi Sahityatil Nave Band” (“The New Insurrection of
Marathi Literature Wankhade urges Dalit writers to follow the linguistic
experimentation forged by the new...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): i–xxx.
Published: 01 June 2005
... in 1917 uses call-and-response to voice a critique
of the suffering incurred when the French repressed a Bamako insurrection in
1915. An old woman asks the rebel leader “I e tièou bla mini?/I e kélékè tiòu bla
mini?” (“Where did you leave your men?/Where did you leave your warriors?”
Riesz 199...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 354–372.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., too, he is associated with
armed insurrection, rather like the “Mau Mau” (Kenya Land and Freedom Army)
rebellion that led to Kenya’s independence. Most importantly, the unnamed
leader follows Kenyatta in advocating that clitoridectomy is crucial to the tradi-
tional way of life. In his classic...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of the economic experiment introduced by Mephisto: the empire
has again fallen into “anarchy” (10261) and its ruler faces an insurrection. Evalu-
ating the emperor’s prospects in the impending war, Mephisto comments: “Wer
weiß wie noch die Würfel fallen?” (“Who knows how the dice may yet fall 10295...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 128–152.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of Santa María Tonantzintla, interior, 18th century, Puebla, Mexico
gentine art historian Angel Guido’s 1944 association of tequitqui art with anti-
colonial insurrection: “While Tupac-Amarú made part of America tremble by
rousing his Quechua and Aymara supporters to rebellion, the Quechua José...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
...,
To ask the spotted princess how she fares.
ENARGEIA, EKPHRASIS & MOURNING/109
She says her subjects with foul insurrection
Have batter’d down her consecrated wall,
And by their mortal fault brought...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to the Decembrist insurrection that had shaken
Russian society and had been perceived by most conservatives as a serious threat
to the empire’s stability. Thus, instead of making his “Caesar” forget about his
former status as a politically “unreliable” poet, Pushkin seems to have derived spe-
cial pleasure...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
...
and ocular effects is out of keeping with a poetic art, and many of the attractions
he introduces to tragedy, such as Cretan monodies, are of foreign extraction and
therefore out of step with the Attic spirit. This “insurrection of individual parts
against the unity of the whole is exactly what...
