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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of their different relations to the law, and specifically, to international law as the guarantor of human rights. Voltaire’s humorous critique is limited to the current content of the law, reflecting his confidence in universalist ideals and rights attainable by legal reform. Habiby’s humor, however, protests...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Peter Goodrich Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender . By Heinzelman Susan Sage . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . xxv, 168 p . © 2011 by University of Oregon 2011 Works Cited Agamben Giorgio , Le Règne et la gloire. Pour un généalogie...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 273–293.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... Milton and the Literature of Travel . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951 . Blake, William. The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake . Ed. David V. Erdman. 2nd ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1988 . Dust, Philip. “Milton's Paradise Lost and Grotius' De Jure Belli Ac Pacis (The Law...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Thomas R. Hart Love and the Law in Cervantes. By Roberto González Echevarría. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005. xx, 292 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/170
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Barbara Leckie Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. By Peter Brooks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 207 p. University of Oregon 2002 BOOK REVIEWS/187...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 285–293.
Published: 01 September 2024
... aesthetics, of literary research, and of criticism, are most closely related to these laws. 3 Very often two poems with the same content have different origins; but with respect to the same form this is never the case, regardless of the content’s makeup. From this there emerges the main law...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 264–277.
Published: 01 September 2018
... responsible for copyright. However, their task was not straightforward since officials faced a tangle of colonial, imperial, and international legislation. Unable to work out which law applied where, customs officials elaborated their own practices, which they generated from their daily routines. Any...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Lenora Hanson Abstract This article proposes that eighteenth-century and Romantic-era accounts of dreams offer a useful model for understanding the phenomenon of enclosure, or what Marx famously labeled “so-called primitive accumulation.” Rather than a historical event or a set of particular laws...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
... our modern technological attitude toward the world, developed as a result of Galilean geometry, Newtonian science, and Cartesian philosophy, all of which conceptualize reality according to purely speculative mathematical laws. This article brings Heidegger, Pynchon, and Kehlmann into dialogue with one...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... or untouched. Yet, despite the absence of an answering authority to lay down the law and cry “halt,” and perhaps because of it, environmental harm continues to be imagined through the figure of trespass and in terms of an invisible line past which human activity, otherwise compelled by capitalism to limitless...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 128–143.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the titular character’s revolt in terms of his fanatical adherence to the universality of law, the essay argues that Kohlhaas’s insurrection is predicated on the death of his wife, Lisbeth, whose post-mortem appearance in the novella introduces a promise that is structurally prior to the state’s constitution...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
... a sovereign law unto itself, whose wider metaphysical as well as historical authority needs no argument. As a result, his interpretation of the nature of French tragedy inevitably would have confirmed his core theses about the German baroque, a fact that in turn draws attention to what Benjamin truly needed...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 285–305.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to trace an alternative genealogy of late modern secularism to the various coercive discourses and practices associated with early modern inquisition. I argue rather that the candidness with which Spanish intellectuals justified the pastoral and disciplinary features of civic law can serve as a guide...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Deb Donig Abstract This essay seeks to understand the complexity of a post-Holocaust discourse of comparative suffering in law and literature, focusing on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The essay traces a history of post-1945 discourse about the Holocaust, as the place of Jewish...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2024
... ). The author ends by asking whether raḥma might inform reparative modes of comparison and translation today. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oregon 2024 translation justice law empire reparation IN THE EARL OF CROMER’S magnum opus Modern Egypt (1908...
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in Under the Sign of Ariel: Disputed Territories, Rising Tides, and Literary Mauritius
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Published: 01 June 2022
Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), which are sea zones whose resources belong to their coastal-lying nations. International law defines these zones as lying within a 200 nautical miles geometrical offsetting of the coast seawards, and, where these geometrical boundaries prove ambiguous, through international
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Abington Township v. Schempp. 374 U.S. 203 ( 1963 ). Allgeyer v. Louisiana. 165 U.S. 578 ( 1897 ). Commonwealth v. Cooke. American Law Register , vol. 7 , no. 7 ( May 1859 ): 417 – 26 . Print . Donahoe v. Richards et al. 38 Me. 376 ( 1854 ). Everson v. Board of Education. 330 U.S...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 213–225.
Published: 01 September 2019
... theses focused on failure, worklessness, inoperativity, stasis, silence, withdrawal, refusal, retreat, and recession? In an ongoing book project on translation and justice, I take up the problem of untranslatability in relation to law by analyzing keywords of legal authority: those that resist...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 2011
... texts, in legal apologia, and in political cartoons in the eigh-
teenth and nineteenth centuries, and then again in 2010 in Susan Sage Heinzelman’s
meticulous study of unruly women and errant literature unsettling the jurisdiction of law.
The persistence of the figure of a woman riding backward...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 336–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... texts, in legal apologia, and in political cartoons in the eigh-
teenth and nineteenth centuries, and then again in 2010 in Susan Sage Heinzelman’s
meticulous study of unruly women and errant literature unsettling the jurisdiction of law.
The persistence of the figure of a woman riding backward...
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