...Elana Gomel; Vered Karti Shemtov This article analyzes a new form of historical representation that we term “limbotopia” (by analogy with utopia and dystopia). Limbotopia is a genre of the “broad present,” in which history seems to come to a standstill and characters inhabit a changeless—and often...

... .” In The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia , edited by Bagchi Barnita , 95 – 105 . New Delhi : Sage , 2012 . Fogel Motti , “ Prophets on the Speed Train: Jerusalem by Dror Burstein .” Haaretz , March 1 , 2016 . www.haaretz.co.il/literature/prose/.premium-1.2867346...

... . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983 . ____. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992 . New Left Review 1/238 ( Nov./Dec. 1999 ), and 2/4 (July/Aug. 2000). Radhakrishnan, R. Diasporic Mediations . Minneapolis...

... the system’s base through the symbols and myths of the world of fiction, from literature itself. 30 In Soul , spectral melancholy and its flirtation with death yields a distinct possibility of imagining a socialist, humanist, and positivist Utopia even after the 1922 consolidation of monolithic Soviet...

...Stephen Arata Imaginary Communities: Utopia, The Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xxvi, 297p. The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. By Sara Danius. Ithaca: Cornell University Press...

...Zhang Longxi Early China/Ancient Greece; Thinking through Comparisons. Edited by Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 320 p. University of Oregon 2005 Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature...

...David Mikics The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. x, 299 p. University of Oregon 2005 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS...

... of Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 . Rutherford, R.B. The Art of Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE: AN AESTHETICS...

...Raphael Lyne Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets. By Lisa Freinkel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 384 p. University of Oregon 2005 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS...

...: “Les écrivains ne peignent pas le monde tel qu’il est, mais le monde tel que les hommes pourraient le faire” (267; Writers do not depict the world as it is, but as people could make it). Literature here conveys the imaginary power of the possible that Michel Déguy identifies with utopia...

... must be maintained: “Killing was justice when everybody joined in” (548). Another part of Delblanc’s unifying strategy is to settle on a common founda- tional narrative for his utopia. According to Jimmy, formerly the ship’s translator, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 138 now turned teacher, “He...

... and the Possibility of Philosophy,” “Trying to Understand Endgame.” Adorno Reader . Ed. Brian O'Connor. Malden: Blackwell, 2000 . 54 -78. ____. “Titles.” Notes to Literature . Vol. 2 . Trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen. New York: Columbia UP, 1992 . 3 -12. Augustine. Confessions . Trans. Edward Pusey. New...

... of literature. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 clarity obscurity aesthetics and deconstruction literature and utopia attention CRITICS SHALL BE CLEAR. Few demands in literary scholarship seem as self-evident and, indeed, clear as such a call for clarity. Yet some of the most...

... Levitas is not the only one to use this term, although it is central to her work in utopia as method. There is an extensive literature on the education of desire in utopian studies, which spills over to queer theory as well in the work of José Muñoz, who also takes Bloch as his starting point. 6...

... that, before and during the interventions of cultural studies and postcolonialism, we were simply unable to notice” ( Age of Utopia 96). Reconstructing the thought of relationality through a reassessment of the shortcomings of some of our foremost thinkers of difference in literature can illuminate new...

..., utopia is also present in Chinese literature, and Longxi locates utopian tendencies in both Confucianism and classical Chinese poetry. Tao Yuanming’s famous Peach Blossom Spring is one such example, and Longxi finds other literary variations on recurring themes such as a faraway, timeless...

..., utopia is also present in Chinese literature, and Longxi locates utopian tendencies in both Confucianism and classical Chinese poetry. Tao Yuanming’s famous Peach Blossom Spring is one such example, and Longxi finds other literary variations on recurring themes such as a faraway, timeless...

... as to the contemporary era of globalization. In Chapter 4, “The Utopian Vision, East and West,” Longxi considers utopia to be a unique mode of allegory, one that articulates a human desire for a better life. Long asso- ciated with Western literary tradition, utopia is also present in Chinese literature...

... as to the contemporary era of globalization. In Chapter 4, “The Utopian Vision, East and West,” Longxi considers utopia to be a unique mode of allegory, one that articulates a human desire for a better life. Long asso- ciated with Western literary tradition, utopia is also present in Chinese literature...

... . Brodsky, Joseph. Less Than One: Selected Essays . New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986 . Dällenbach, Lucien. The Mirror in the Text . Oxford: Polity Press, 1989 . Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986...