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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 394–412.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Svetlana Boym’s concept of “diasporic intimacy,” the article charts a Russian-Jewish emigrant poetics of home and exile, linking contemporary representations with Soviet-era meditations on Jewish emplacement. At the same time, the fiction is placed in a global context, suggesting that Russian-Jewish...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Forced Intimacies and Murky Genealogies in Hispaniola: Émile Ollivier’s Mère-Solitude and Marisela Rizik’s El tiempo del olvido The legend of Sor Rose or Sister Rose is the story of origins...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... popular in elite circles during the First Brazilian Republic. However, this essay asserts that the references to Java in the story are not arbitrary means through which to carry out that critique. Instead, drawing on Lisa Lowe’s concept of residual intimacies and Bruno Carvalho’s engagement of cartografia...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Joseph D. Kuzma In this article I explore the status of intimate relationality in Maurice Blanchot's fictional writings and critical essays of the 1940s and 1950s. Focusing primarily on his 1951 text When the Time Comes , I show that intimacy in Blanchot's writings is an impersonal covenant...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 194–217.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the Holocaust, arguing that Rawicz brings Heidegger’s anti-humanist ontology and the Nazi genocide into an irreducible intimacy that Heidegger seemed determined to avoid or deny. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oregon 2018 French Holocaust literature ontology Piotr Rawicz Le Sang du ciel Martin...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the law as such, exposing universalist ideals as not merely unhelpful for the Palestinians’ struggle but also as complicit in the oppression and fragmentation of Palestinian society. Habiby therefore redirects the emphasis toward interpersonal manners and intimacies that are external to the realm...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 111–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... novels an alternative is imagined as possible only from a marginal position outside the discourses and spaces of globalization: in intimacy, personal encounters, and gestures of care. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 globalization masculinity space/spatiality Kafka ethics Works Cited...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of hygiene and filth in this moment of female intimacy with Begum Jan depicts the modes through which colonial conditioning is able to control the reflexes of the body that structure the habits of her mind, as she unconsciously equates homoerotic sexual desire with impurity and filthiness and, thus...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... is the intimacy of the stories they reveal, the networked alignments, convergences, and collusions that make one thing almost infinite. In this the table further doubles the Nights ’ frame tale structure, that multiplication table proliferating stories by a “narrative structure by which one tale contains another...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the ocean. The wine, characterized as “from Shiraz,” not only adds another transoceanic link, but also underlines the sense of intimacy, which reaches its conclusion in the betel quid. Taking into account philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s concern with the role of metaphors (not concepts) in the history...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 125–129.
Published: 01 March 2021
... is about. 2 Together with Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Lauren Shizuko Stone, Nagel coedited Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction (2015). Works Cited Bartlett Alison , Clarke Kyra , and Cover Rob . “ Introduction: Flirting, Scandal, Intimacy...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of life’s events” rather than conversations that lead to greater intimacy and under- standing. And since his capacity to speak about his own personality and feelings may be entirely missing, he refers to inanimate objects and places “when we would normally expect to hear of people” (Bion qtd. in Bollas...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 460–461.
Published: 01 December 2017
... position not as merely an ideational process but as a dynamic experiential one, almost like a form of intimacy in which attachment is paradoxically connected to fragility” (45). The first thing to say about Woloch’s thesis is that it differs from Orwell’s own account of how he wrote. In his 1946...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the other” (19). Imagining oneself in the place of another, how- ever, leads to a kind of “facile intimacy” that ultimately forecloses the possibility of otherness and results, not in a greater awareness of the other, but rather in its replacement by the self (19–20). Stowe’s question (and answer...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and synthesis to demonstrate the transmission of influence or else explain such coincidences as a parallel e orescence. The Bond of the Furthest Apart models a transcendentalist approach to comparative literature anchored in Emerson’s notion of impersonal intimacy, its hermeneutics carried over...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 145–159.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the printed page and renders writing anterior to speaking; Tagore, skeptical of the Western progressive narrative, bemoans the publicity of a printed page that can never quite capture the intimacies of human speech. Hu Shi knows that vernacular literature exists, much as Tagore is certain that vernacular...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... This divine mission orders, somewhat peculiarly, Kintz’s table of contents. The first three chapters, “Sacred Intimacy,” “The Heart of the Matter,” and “Kitchen Table Politics: The Folking of America” are devoted to women, the latter five to men. No doubt this makes the argument easier to parse and control...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 182–184.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... This divine mission orders, somewhat peculiarly, Kintz’s table of contents. The first three chapters, “Sacred Intimacy,” “The Heart of the Matter,” and “Kitchen Table Politics: The Folking of America” are devoted to women, the latter five to men. No doubt this makes the argument easier to parse and control...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 184–185.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... This divine mission orders, somewhat peculiarly, Kintz’s table of contents. The first three chapters, “Sacred Intimacy,” “The Heart of the Matter,” and “Kitchen Table Politics: The Folking of America” are devoted to women, the latter five to men. No doubt this makes the argument easier to parse and control...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... This divine mission orders, somewhat peculiarly, Kintz’s table of contents. The first three chapters, “Sacred Intimacy,” “The Heart of the Matter,” and “Kitchen Table Politics: The Folking of America” are devoted to women, the latter five to men. No doubt this makes the argument easier to parse and control...