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Literary Openness: A Bridge across the Divide between Chinese and Western Literary Thought

MING DONG GU
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 112–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-55-2-112
Published: 01 March 2003
..., 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...
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Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins the Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion

James Dawes
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1891450
Published: 01 December 2012
...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...
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Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean

Firat Oruc
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594787
Published: 01 June 2022
...Firat Oruc Abstract Although the study of Indian Ocean literary circularities is a relatively new and dynamic field, it calls for alternative paradigms for global literary history in light of the nascent conversation between comparative world literature and oceanic studies. Following the creative...
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Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance

Ian Almond
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 377–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722415
Published: 01 September 2022
...Ian Almond [email protected] Laura Doyle , Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . 378 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 What would a genuinely global history...
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Northeast Indian or Assamese: Beyond the Confines of the Indian English Literary Conventions

Aruni Kashyap
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9722337
Published: 01 September 2022
...Aruni Kashyap Abstract What does it mean to be a writer from Northeast India? What does it mean to write from the margins of India? What are the limitations of Indian English writing when it comes to depicting marginal, radical literary traditions that question the idea of India? The author...
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Under the Sign of Ariel: Disputed Territories, Rising Tides, and Literary Mauritius

Françoise Lionnet
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-9594891
Published: 01 June 2022
...Françoise Lionnet Abstract The continued strategic importance of the Indian Ocean has led to contests over the sovereignty and integrity of its islands and territorial waters. Francophone Mauritian writers have been vocal about a situation they have denounced as unacceptable. Their literary...
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“Enter Ghost of Goethe”: Comparison and Indigenous Literary Studies in the Pacific

Alice Te Punga Somerville
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475393
Published: 01 September 2023
... with the current and potential relationship between comparative literature, Indigenous literary studies, and the Pacific. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 comparative literature Goethe Indigenous literary studies Pacific Māori disciplinarity THIS ARTICLE, LIKE...
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Three Translations from the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum : “Preliminary Tasks of Comparative Literature, Part III: Decaglotism”; “Laws of Comparative Literary Research”; and “Goethe’s World Literature”

Angus Nicholls
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 285–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11158651
Published: 01 September 2024
... note on any given page, ** designating the second note, and so on. This format has been changed to numbered footnotes to conform with modern methods of electronic publication. __________ The prospectus of our literary journal (provided as an extra-addendum to this issue) is called decaglot...
View articletitled, Three Translations from the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum : “Preliminary Tasks of Comparative Literature, Part III: Decaglotism”; “Laws of Comparative <span class="search-highlight">Literary</span> Research”; and “Goethe’s World Literature” View PDF for article titled, Three Translations from the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum : “Preliminary Tasks of Comparative Literature, Part III: Decaglotism”; “Laws of Comparative <span class="search-highlight">Literary</span> Research”; and “Goethe’s World Literature”
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The Performative Basis of Modern Literary Theory

HENRY McDONALD
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 57–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-55-1-57
Published: 01 January 2003
... . 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...
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The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture

Boris Wolfson
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 81–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-55-1-81
Published: 01 January 2003
...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...
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Andrei Makine's Literary Bilingualism and the Critics

GABRIELLA SAFRAN
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 246–265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-55-3-246
Published: 01 June 2003
...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...
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Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

Shari Huhndorf
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 279–281.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-56-3-279
Published: 01 June 2004
...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...
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Peripheral Echoes: “Old” And “New” Worlds as Reciprocal Literary Mirrorings

GERALD GILLESPIE
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 339–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-58-4-339
Published: 01 September 2006
... 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...
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The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Craig Cravens
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 451–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2009-028
Published: 01 September 2009
...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...
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Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory in the Age of Globalization

Revathi Krishnaswamy
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 399–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2010-024
Published: 01 September 2010
.... 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...
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Calvino, Llull, Lucretius: Two Models of Literary Combinatorics

Dennis Duncan
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1539226
Published: 01 March 2012
... : Routledge &amp; Kegan Paul , 1966 . Print . DENNIS DUNCAN Calvino, Llull, 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...
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The Everyday's Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein

Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-1891423
Published: 01 December 2012
... 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...
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Vladimir Nabokov's “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”: A Study in the Ethics and Effects of Literary Adaptation

Stanislav Shvabrin
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 101–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2019311
Published: 01 March 2013
... 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...
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Literary Praxis Beyond the Melodramas of Commitment: Edward Upward, Soviet Aesthetics, and Leftist Self-Fashioning

Glyn Salton-Cox
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2376615
Published: 01 December 2013
..., 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...
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The Implications of Literary Criticism

Gerald Gillespie
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 242–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-2143192
Published: 01 June 2013
...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...
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