...James Dawes Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature . By Goldberg Elizabeth and Moore Alexandra Schultheis . New York : Routledge , 2012 . 302 p. Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins . By Fradinger Moira . Stanford : Stanford...

..., 1947 . ____. Using Biography . London: Chatto and Windus, 1984 . Fan, Wenlan. Wenxin diaolong zhu (Notes on Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons) . Hong Kong: Shangwu, 1960 . Fang, Xuanling et al. Jinshu (Historical Records of the Jin) . Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974 . He, Wenhuan...

..., Lucretius: Two Models of Literary Combinatorics IVEN THE INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS of Invisible Cities and If on a Win- Gter’s Night a Traveler, it is perhaps surprising to learn that the output of Italo Calvino’s late period — after his move to Paris in the mid-1960s...

... import of a story or joke and not getting it in the context of an examination of the relationship (or lack thereof) between the activities and difficulties of everyday life, on the one hand, and those of literary expression and/or spiritual or philosophical teaching, on the other. Both strive to open...

... from the mystery of its origin to issues in the ontology and ethics of literary translation as adaptation. The present study of one such work establishes that Nabokov's experiments in literary adaptation, their questionable proprietorship notwithstanding, afford a unique perspective not only...

..., I show how Upward's work was centrally shaped by Soviet aesthetics, a reception which led him to an innovative conception of literary commitment, surprisingly resistant to the powerful critiques later offered by Theodor Adorno and Raymond Williams. This conception of commitment emerges through...

...Gerald Gillespie The Implications of Literary Criticism . By Levin Harry . Bibliothèque de Littérature Générale et Comparée, 96 . Edited by Hart Jonathan . Paris : Honoré Champion , 2011 . 492 p. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013...

... with the reality of modern movement control. Taking a first step towards a literary history of movement control, this comparative study identifies three successive modalities of the novel/passport interface via readings of exemplary literary works: Schnabel's Insel Felsenburg (1731–43), Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters...

...Salvador J. Fajardo Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . By Rogers Gayle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 283 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 232 In either case, Baroque Sovereignty...

... . Derrida, Jacques. “Faith and Knowledge.” Religion: Cultural Memory in the Present . Ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998 . 1 -78. ____. “How to Avoid Speaking: Denials.” Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory...

...Boris Wolfson The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi, 484 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/78...

...GABRIELLA SAFRAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/246 GABRIELLA SAFRAN Andrei Makine’s Literary Bilingualism and the Critics NDREI MAKINE’S LE TESTAMENT FRANÇAIS (1995), an evocation of a A Russian childhood and youth spent under the influence of a French grand- mother...

...Shari Huhndorf Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. By Chadwick Allen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 308 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/262...

... Echoes: “Old” and “New” Worlds as Reciprocal Literary Mirrorings Preamble Current efforts by the élites of many European states and populaces to collab- orate ever more closely have called forth a wave of commentary on the possible kinds of union they may...

...) . Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz, 1973 . Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy . Trans. Peter Dale. London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1996 . Anderson, Danny J. “Cultural Conversation and Constructions of Reality: Mexican Narrative and Literary Theories after 1968.” Siglo XX/XXth Century 8 . 1/2 ( 1990...

... for the discipline of literary studies at one time or another, but, like all heu- ristic indulgences, they have a way of ossifying into critical impediments. In the field of eighteenth-century studies, the work of re-examining and judiciously clearing away suspect...

... associated with the baroque style of Ulysses did help to elucidate for him a set of literary problems involving the relation of erudition to art. Indeed, Joyce may have revealed to Borges the possibility of uniting two schismatic impulses: the avant-garde desire to “make it new” in the modernist spirit...

...Craig Cravens THE COLUMBIA LITERARY HISTORY OF EASTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945. By Harold B. Segel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 424 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS ON DIALOGUE. By Dmitri Nikulin. Lanham...

.... The field of literary theory remains a resolutely Eurocentric high ground relatively untouched by the rising tide of globalization reshaping American academia. Neither the marginalized subdiscipline of Comparative Poetics nor the more influential field of Postcolonial Studies has managed to challenge...

...Maurice Ebileeni This article focuses on a rare leitmotif in literary productions by Palestinians. Both Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin and Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular present Arab characters who, under unusual circumstances, impersonate or literally acquire the identity of the Israeli...