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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 481–488.
Published: 01 December 2014
... , 2006 . Print . 2014 ACLA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
ERIC HAYOT
On the Lack of
Curiosity Regarding
Institutional Life
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When I was a boy growing up in France my American mother signed me up for
the Cub Scouts. I joined a group of other...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of traditional shtetl life and Reb Gedalya’s bankruptcy and death, to the eventual disappearance of Mirel, the novel’s centerpiece. Indeed, the work of objects in Bergelson’s novel seems linked to Mirel and her growing synonymy with the shtetl itself: both are fated to vanish by the novel’s close. The idea...
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in Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 3. Corporal Trim’s flourish. Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (London: Becket and De Hondt, 1767), 9:17. Courtesy British Library. Shelfmark: C.70.Aa.28.
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 449–451.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Richard Eldridge THE SELF IN MORAL SPACE: LIFE NARRATIVE AND THE GOOD. By David Parker. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. 208 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS
ON DIALOGUE. By Dmitri Nikulin. Lanham: Lexington Books...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 January 2011
... ): 68 -80. Print. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life . 1923 . London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991. Print. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography . New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1968 . Print. Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction . New...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 463–466.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Hillary Gravendyk Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life . By Izenberg Oren . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2011 . 272 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 462
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... apparent with critical attention to the similarities between scenes found in each work. Read together, the two texts expose the limitations that a unilinear model of the colonization process may impose on life for the colonized subject. Whereas Wuthering Heights figures pre-colonial and colonial modes...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
... be imposed onto his life and work for generations to come. The imagistic edifice of White Buildings acts as precursor to what the late Crane accomplishes, but because of the individual strength of each poem in this collection, the overarching structure is often ignored in scholarship. It is this same genus...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 59–69.
Published: 01 January 2006
... . Xiang Zonglu, ed. Liu Xiang, Shuo yuan jiao zheng . Beijing: Zhonghua, 1987 . THE LIFE OF THE PARTY/59
PAUL ROUZER
The Life of the Party:
Theorizing Clients and
Patrons in Early China
HEN THE FIRST...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Thomas R. Hart Borges: A Life. By Edwin Williamson. New York: Viking Penguin, 2004. xviii, 574 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70
BOOK REVIEWS
READING PSYCHOANALYSIS: FREUD, RANK, FERENCZI, GRODDECK...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 332–348.
Published: 01 September 2007
...: Faber and Faber, 1967 . 75 -88. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/332
REVIEW ESSAY
NICHOLAS HARRISON
Life on the Second Floor
Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Edited by Haun Saussy. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Karl Fink The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By Robert J. Richards. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xix, 587 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/192...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 459–480.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Uno Kōji (1891–1961). Uno's case demonstrates not only the humanistic folly and attendant violence that biographical discourse can commit but also the possibility of the writing ( graphia ) of life ( bios ). If there is any conceptual transaction between these two possibilities, it is to be found...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to the fate of the senses under capitalism. Both elaborate a critique of political economy—Sand's voiced by her worker-hero—that demonstrates how the individual's sensuous life is circumscribed by the pressures of material subsistence. The article examines how this attention to the senses inflects...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 155–180.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of political life not unlike the political realism of Tacitus and Machiavelli. While attending to the complexities and problems of establishing its provenance, the essay excavates the tragic vision of political life at work in Torquatus — a version of politics that struck Dutch audiences as prescient in its...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 June 2016
... or object of knowledge, but instead activates the reader's faculty of reflection and self-reflection. Kundera addresses this reflective attitude to the text as maturity and applies it to life at large. Maturity is not about learning correct values or coming to terms with reality; it is not about attaining...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 426–443.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee conceived of Life & Times of Michael K (1983) as an “interpretive translation” of Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1808/10). Drawing on Coetzee’s notes and drafts, this essay explores his attempt to generate the literary and political...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Olivia Loksing Moy Abstract In the 1950s, the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar (1914–84) composed Imagen de John Keats , a little-known work that merges his own life with that of the British Romantics. Part biography and part autobiography, it includes personal essays and literary criticism...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Václav Paris Abstract This article situates the early novels of Amos Tutuola— The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954)—in relation to literary primitivism. The first part outlines the initial misconstrual of Tutuola in the United Kingdom and United States as a “true...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
... livelihoods that trouble narrow definitions of work and its spatial, temporal, and corporeal limits. Through its montage and unusual soundscape, Santos Port presents laboring bodies in excess of their labor in an elusive portrait of both a strike and of work-life relationships. Unwaged, overlooked forms...
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