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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Kayvan Tahmasebian; Rebecca Ruth Gould Abstract Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the first stanza, Celan places the word Hand in a separate line, although previously it was at the end of the second line. Similarly, the final version includes a line break: “in jeder / der Pausen,” whereas the initial draft included these words in one poetic line ( Die Niemandsrose 101 ). 16...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 328–351.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is actually an end, or merely an instance of ending. Although each line seems
to force the reader to undergo the experience of misreading or confusion, the
correct readings seem, deceptively, to reveal the accuracy of the misreading. Like
the other breaks in the first quatrain, the break between lines 3...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of either five or six that were neither long nor short, and were distinguished by a light stress at the beginning of the line. The stress—which had no place in any traditional South Asian prosodic systems—would serve to differentiate syllabic feet without the use of a caesura, rhyme, or line break...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... into her new element,” reflecting Goodison’s ambivalent attitude toward nature ( 55 ). Indeed, the sea in this poem is all-encompassing as the space around the mermaid is “always / filled.” Although, the line break between these words tempers the feeling of outright suffocation, this swelling is reflected...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 462–463.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of attending to line-breaks, word choice, rhythm, and so on?
Close reading, after all, isn’t the kind of “intense and deliberated inattention to poems” that
Izenberg advocates. So how do we read poems at all?
Even Izenberg doesn’t totally escape the allure of close reading in his book, although he...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 463–466.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of attending to line-breaks, word choice, rhythm, and so on?
Close reading, after all, isn’t the kind of “intense and deliberated inattention to poems” that
Izenberg advocates. So how do we read poems at all?
Even Izenberg doesn’t totally escape the allure of close reading in his book, although he...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of attending to line-breaks, word choice, rhythm, and so on?
Close reading, after all, isn’t the kind of “intense and deliberated inattention to poems” that
Izenberg advocates. So how do we read poems at all?
Even Izenberg doesn’t totally escape the allure of close reading in his book, although he...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 468–470.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of attending to line-breaks, word choice, rhythm, and so on?
Close reading, after all, isn’t the kind of “intense and deliberated inattention to poems” that
Izenberg advocates. So how do we read poems at all?
Even Izenberg doesn’t totally escape the allure of close reading in his book, although he...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
... russkoe ( Russian ). The em-dash is sometimes marked in Russian poetry, which deploys punctuation, line breaks, and other features that are typically unmarked in prose. Punctuation and other features typically unmarked in Russian prose also stood out to Soviet as well as early nineteenth-century Russian...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of truth through the line break. The
second question, however, implies that pursuing truth in this way — seeking a
point that will define it as “enough”— can only go so far before it expresses some-
thing other than “love,” that is, before its motivations for knowing reveal them-
selves as more...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 79–93.
Published: 01 March 2015
... for the three adaptations included. However, the inter-
nal title page for this play offers a confusing blur of authorial names: “‘The
Beast in the Jungle (line break) by Henry James.’ Theatrical adaptation by James
4 A French-speaking American, Lord was stationed in France during World War II...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of this ghazal’s verses are end-stopped, the grammatical break in verse 4 actually comes in the first line with the conjunction wa (literally “and,” but often used in place of a period to indicate sentence or thought breaks prior to the advent of punctuation). This caesura, then, suggests a reluctance...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to Andromaque Andromaque, je pense à
vous!” —by a dramatic shift to the analogical pattern that also comes to replace it:
“Andromaque, je pense à vous! Ce petit fleuve,/ Pauvre et tristemiroir . . .” The line-
break functions here as a hinge that turns the reflection of an implied simile back
on itself...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 44–64.
Published: 01 March 2024
... pleasure of too much repetition a line breaks through like sunlight, clean and smooth if you can handle that tricky triple L , an alveolar even native English speakers can struggle with. Fortunately, the struggle is brief, and for fifteen lines there is only “viewly” or “in viewly.” Now visit...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 278–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
... lettres de mon père underneath, after a line break. I follow this presentation without period and noncapitalized lettres for reasons that will become apparent later. The text has not been translated into English; all translations are mine. 4 Derrida’s hesitation regarding the term “subject” must...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 430–448.
Published: 01 December 2017
... stress more or less emphati-
cally. Even if stressed in this way, however, the lines don’t conform exactly to Old
English meter rules, since there are more than two stresses per half-line, and the
arrangement of “curved / Sterns” over a line-break introduces a notion of enjamb-
ment that belongs...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
... / to hear / a sound within / An empty furrow / to
receive.” The offset line breaks are dissonant breaths, perhaps even dissonant
speakers. There is also a sense of extension, which is dimensional and voluminous,
implied by indicators like “within” and “empty furrow.” The “ear is a spiral” drawn...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
... meaning “to I.”13
Stripped of its negative prefix, “vernichtet” (annihilate) gives way across the line
break to “ichten,” to I-ilate. Pausing in the caesura of this final poem ofBreathturn ,
the reader transforms the ultimate genocidal negation —the object of the Nazi
“Vernichtungskrieg...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 107–113.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Taylor Schey; Jan Mieszkowski In “Passing Impasse,” the final essay of the issue, Anne-Lise François interrogates how the figure of trespassing has shaped ecological thought. Although environmental harm is often imagined in terms of an invisible line that human activity must not pass...
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