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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 March 2021
... within originary reading practices that are invariably European and British, thus condemned to emulate Victorian novel readers; they are assumed to read like a Victorian reader, learning the proper way to be in the world. My article perforates this narrative by examining an alternate reading practice...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
... . Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1973 . Print . Williams Bernard . Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2002 . Print . Christopher Braider
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 20–43.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Anglophone, which are rival strategies for the teaching of non-Western literatures in English in US academe. In its concluding sections, the essay considers whether it is possible to teach Bhagat’s “English like Hindi” without allowing it to masquerade as a conduit to a supposedly authentic Indian vernacular...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
... context, the festival reinforced a national, linguistic, and religious division between India and Pakistan. It produced a category like “Moonlight’s Children” as an “other” to an imagined Indian literature that is confused with a post–Salman Rushdie postcolonial and global anglophone canon. However...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., and Imaginism to create his own idiosyncratic Hebrew modernism. At the center of his modernist poetry and manifestoes is a chameleon-like lyrical “I” that dominates the text as it unfolds. Shlonsky brilliantly used a new literary Hebrew to create himself as a revolutionary modernist poet. Like many of his...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-metaphysical scenario focused on presentation rather than representation and on truth as propitious event rather than individual property can we grasp the limitations of a metaphysical paradigm that writers like Marlowe unwittingly helped consolidate. Today, this scenario is best promoted by Badiou...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 437–475.
Published: 01 December 2023
... altered by one of its adopters, Georges Perec, who eradicated themes based in individuated memory, like Brainard’s sexual confession, transforming the genre exclusively into a document of generational and cultural identity. This foundational split—between the sexual-social and the generational—dictated...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., is similarity (one thing is like another); the motor of metonymy, on the other hand, is contiguity (one thing is next to, or part of another). Jakobson’s distinction, this article suggests, maps instructively onto the mechanisms of comparative and world literature: where the former compares one text to another...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Lara Norgaard Abstract This essay analyzes representations of Asia in the satirical 1911 short story “O homem que sabia javanês” (“The Man Who Knew Javanese”) by Brazilian author Lima Barreto. Like much of Barreto’s work, the short story critiques the deterministic categories of scientific racism...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... literary critical methods to illuminate how, and why, fiction such as Gautier’s reactivates memory of Creole Indias. This reading reveals his privileged trope of the “thinnai,” a veranda-like architectural element of Tamil homes, as working together with the embodied culture of Pondicherry’s “Bas Créole...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Neta Stahl The train had a remarkable and meaningful role in the process of modernization and secularization within European Jewish society during the nineteenth century. Not surprisingly, this central role is reflected in the literature of the period, in what I would like to call “the train genre...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., this essay traces the structures of trauma across Shelley's and Artaud's Cenci plays, showing that, like a trauma, what resists representation in Shelley's nineteenth-century drama recurs embodied on Artaud's twentieth-century stage. In so doing, the essay illuminates less a straightforward shift than...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 160–180.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Timothy D. Arner The life and work of the Roman poet Lucan functions as an important intertext for Chaucer's Legend of Good Women . It demonstrates that the vita Lucani and the Bellum Civile were widely available in medieval Europe and that Chaucer likely used both sources in both the Prologue...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
... realist text turns out to be oriented not to the problematics of civil society (contractarian) aggregation but rather, like tragic drama, to the coercive logics of the state? Put another way, what happens when a realist narrative, with all of its inherited civil-society paraphernalia (as an ostensible...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 381–407.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the portrayal of education in the dedicatory letter and the novel, readers learn that the structures that might have upheld the bildungsroman’s implicit promise are in short supply. The same dynamic is reiterated through classical topoi like the stories of Pygmalion and Zeuxis. These artistically grounded...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and authenticity associated with a “human” selfhood. Selfhood, like text, here becomes assemblage: an assemblage of borrowed words. Focusing on Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts and Graham Rawle's Woman's World , I show how writing, text, and self are inextricably intertwined, and how this reinvigorates...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., like the work of historical poetics as a methodology, honors the history of the form’s travel through its appearance in contemporary American English. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 world literature historical poetics lyric Persian Urdu SINCE...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... oceanic space that has mediated a dynamic cross-cultural traffic across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In response to the territorial logic of old and new comparative literature, the polysemic nature of the Indian Ocean invites the following the question: what would world literature look like when...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of creating a post-Joycean literature of erudition. Likewise, although the drafts of Menard's Quixote are, like Joyce's novel, parasitic on an earlier text, they are, unlike Ulysses , parasitic directly on the “universal Form” of the earlier text rather than (in Menard's case) the actual novel written...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 416–431.
Published: 01 September 2009
... (or So-und-nicht-anders-Seins ) to So ist es (with some other variations: for example, the “Here I am” or “This is what I am” of Etruscan vases), and finally to “Comment c'est,” which Adorno equates with “that's what it's like out there” (“so geht es zu, so ist es draussen”) as well as with “how...
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