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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Glinka, F.N. Izbrannye proizvedeniia . Leningrad: Svetskii Pisatel', 1957 . Greenleaf, Monica. Pushkin and Romantic Fashion: Fragment, Elegy, Orient, Irony . Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 1994 . Gukovskii, G.A. Pushkin i problemy realisticheskogo stilia . Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia Literatura, 1957...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 270–285.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Andrew M. Opitz This article examines the politics of irony and considers the role this ostensibly elitist mode of communication plays in a world characterized by economic inequality and unequal access to educational resources. Its study of the political uses of irony is grounded in an analysis...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 275–290.
Published: 01 September 2002
... . Biblia Vulgata . Ed. Alberto Colunga and Laurentio Turrado. 6th ed. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1977 . Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974 . Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer . Ed. Larry Benson. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1987...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 migration Indian Ocean Nathacha Appanah comparison irony When that Syrian boy was found washed up on a Turkish beach, it gave me hope. I told myself that someone somewhere would remember this French island and would point out that here, too...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to this narrative's hermetic meaning. With sly irony, Borges's story derides the “parasitism” of the mythical method associated with Joyce while eulogizing other modes of literary parasitism. Pierre Menard's description of Joyce's book focuses our attention on both the parasitism of Joyce's mythical method...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
... may be its most comparable trait. This essay explores some of the diverse symptoms and literary manifestations of this perennial hemispheric irony. University of Oregon 2009 Agamben, Giorgio. State of Exception . Trans. Kevin Attell. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005 . Bhabha, Homi K...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the philosophical depth of riddles, irony, and parabolic and nonsensical expression as unorthodox modes of indirect instruction about ordinary language and world, the yearning for transcendence, and the failure to achieve it. Both demanding works deal with the ethical difference between “getting” the philosophical...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 31–45.
Published: 01 March 2016
... between the centers and the peripheral small places of our time, Kincaid maps a new globalized world that we are only beginning to come to terms with. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place Globalization Epic Irony Works Cited Aristotle . Poetics . New...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 187–204.
Published: 01 June 2006
... house. I shall argue that the two correspond to two rhetorical tropes—symbol and irony, respectively —that shape not only Shammas’s novel and its reception but also, ultimately, Israeli political discourse. 1 The clashes between Israelis and Palestinians that followed the opening of the tunnel...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 388–399.
Published: 01 September 2009
... mostly descriptive: In the late phase when he made his last refinements of naturalism, Flaubert had related the life story of Félicité with an astringent, almost clinical irony. With similar types of servants in mind, Gertrude set about to encompass the meanings of the lives of the Gentle Lena...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... that involved irony and parody. There- fore, when I say that in analyzing “The Stationmaster” we must take into account its affiliations with the literary parable, I do not use this generic characteristic in a normative sense. Rather, I suggest that we must approach Pushkin’s work as a text that invites us...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 223–240.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., Paul. “The Concept of Irony.” Aesthetic Ideology . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996 . 163 -84. Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression . Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996 . ____. Given Time I: Counterfeit Money...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 68–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
... . New York: Pantheon, 2002 . Khater, Akram. “Emile Habibi: The Mirror of Irony in Palestinian Literature.” Journal of Arabic Literature 24 .1 ( 1993 ): 75 -94. Livne, Neri. “The Wandering Arab.” Ha'aretz 1 Sep. 2004 . < http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380106...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., Barthes, and Flaubert, allegorized by Hölderlin, and experienced by herself. These strands come together in the discussion of Friedrich Schlegel, at the end of a long chapter on Paul de Man. I found the first twenty-odd pages excellent, and the subsequent close reading of “The Concept of Irony...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . Pitzer Andrea . The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov . New York : Pegasus Books , 2013 . Print . Rorty Richard . Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity . London : Cambridge UP , 1989 . Print . BOOK REVIEWS / 105...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of Nebraska Press , 2008 . Vizenor Gerald . “ Gossip Theory: Native Irony and the Betrayal of Earthdivers .” In Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity , 1 – 20 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . Vizenor Gerald . “ Ishi Obscura .” UC Law Environmental...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 158–176.
Published: 01 March 2007
... results in an ideological equivocation that exposes the consumer and careerist tendencies the slacker stance was intended to obscure. Writing on the threshold of our own Age of Terror, both Garland and Houellebecq seem vaguely aware of a post-millennial irony con- veyed by their respective...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... by J. Hatchard , 1798 . Print . ———. Beobachtungen über den Wahnsinn . Stendal : Franz & Grosse , 1800 . Print . Heimrich Bernhard . “Der Begriff der Parekbase in der Ironie-Terminologie Friedrich Schlegels.” Ironie als literarisches Phänomen . Ed. Hass Hans-Egon...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Function . New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 . Putman, Hilary. Philosophical Papers . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975 . ____. Realism with a Human Face . Ed. James Conant. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1990 . Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): i–xxx.
Published: 01 June 2005
.... While we may recognize the name of Gavrilo Princip and Maria Botchkareva, few of us are familiar with Géza Gyóni or Margit Kaffka. Typical of this region’s writers was an ambivalent or dual identity rich in irony, whose masterpiece was the shaggy dog comedy of Jaroslav Hasˇek’s Good Soldier Schwejk...