...Eleanor Kaufman This essay argues that twentieth- and twenty-first-century French philosophy (“French theory”) is aligned around a theory of difference that would contest many of the “comparative” frameworks of the discipline of Comparative Literature, including the question of original languages...

...Warren Ginsberg The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War . By Butterfield Ardis . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xxx, 444 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS...

... of pathetic fallacies or to overvalue the biological and historical identity of writers over the linguistic content of their texts, written arguments against real oppression and suppression remain powerful precisely when writers use tropes to bestow language, writing, or texts with basic characteristics...

... mythos that locates the sacred in the here-and-now. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Emily Dickinson Rainer Maria Rilke Giovanni Pascoli science and religion poetic modernism and mystical language Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1...

...Alexander Lewis Abstract This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quotation from Wittgenstein: “Can the concept of God exist in a perfectly logical...

...Kevin Mclaughlin Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire. By Susan Bernstein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. ix, 239 p. University of Oregon 2001 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/170...

...Karin Bauer; Bernard Deschamps In the Language of Walter Benjamin. By Carol Jacobs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 136 p. University of Oregon 2002 Adorno, Theodor W. Prisms . Trans. Samuel and Sherry Weber. London: Neville Spearman, 1967 . Bullock, Marcus. Rev...

...Steven Shankman Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Difference in the Comparative Study of China. By Zhang Longxi. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii, 248 p. Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation. By Robert Wardy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000...

... A. Chilton. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984 . Rendall, Steven. “Duction, or the Archaeology of Rape.” Philosophy and Literature 17 ( 1993 ): 118 -28. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/74 STEVEN RENDALL Force and Language: Heptameron 10 HE DISTINCTION BETWEEN seduction...

.... Samlade Verk. Vol. 25 . Stockholm: Norstedt, 1999 . 263 –517. Teilmann, Katja. “Hekseprocess og ægteskabsroman. Om Le Plaidoyer d'un fou.” Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 4 ( 2001 ): 78 –97. ANNA WESTERSTÅHL STENPORT National Betrayal: Language, Location...

...Catherine Toal BOOK REVIEWS / 343 Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language. By Megan Quigley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 224 p. Megan Quigley’s Modernist Fiction and Vagueness...

...Christopher Davis Abstract This article examines three multilingual lyrics from the Middle Ages in which linguistic difference is employed as a strategy for defining the relationship between language and poetic form. Two poems by twelfth-century troubadours, “Eras quan vey,” a descort in five...

... in postcolonial or global Anglophone world literature. Writing by Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie suggests how the appropriation of the language of British colonization has been undercut and abetted by the Anglophone cultural and educational institutions of US empire. Examining...

...Downing A. Thomas Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire. By Susan Bernstein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. ix, 239 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK...

...Lynley Edmeades John Cage's “Empty Words” (1974–75) was designed to collapse the space between music and language. In attempting to do so, the work simultaneously disrupts and depends upon expectations generated by our regular interpretive frameworks. Using contemporary affect theory, I offer a new...

... Jakobson’s classic essay “Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances” (1956). Jakobson makes a number of claims in this essay, the most celebrated of which is his distinction between the two poles of “metaphoric” and “metonymic” language. The motor of metaphor, Jakobson reminds us...

... on World Literature.” New Left Review 1 ( Jan./Feb. 2000 ): 54 – 68 . Print . ———. “The Slaughterhouse of Literature.” MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 61 . 1 ( Mar. 2000 ): 207 – 27 . Print . wa Thiong'o Ngugi . Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African...

...Waïl S. Hassan If reading literature in its original languages has always been the sine qua non of comparative literature, the discipline began to change when the answer to the above question was no longer restricted to European languages. In parallel motion, many efforts, several of which...

...-language American (U.S.) modernism. Jiménez's Diario de un poeta reciencasado ( Diary of a Newlywed Poet , 1917), written during and after his round-trip voyage between Spain and New York, is the basis for what the poet called his “rebirth” in Spanish and American poetry. In this hybrid semi-epic text, he...

...Jerry White Abstract This article posits that Pier Paolo Pasolini’s long engagement with Catalonia offers important insights into his practice as a poet, filmmaker, and thinker about language, as well as explaining the nature of his influence on other European cinemas. The first part of the article...