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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 455–458.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Patrick Collier Little Magazine, World Form . By Eric Bulson . New York and Chichester : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 333 pages. Copyright © 2019 by University of Oregon 2019 It has been more than two decades now since modernism returned to the foreground of literary...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 43–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
...NINA PELIKAN STRAUS What does W.G. Sebald mean by the doubling of his character Jacques Austerlitz with Ludwig Wittgenstein, a “poetic” philosopher who, although of Jewish ancestry, had little to say about the fate of the Jews during the Nazi period? Sebald's initiation of the reader...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... project that reflects the story's ambivalent cultural status, celebrating the novel even while unraveling its narrative threads. While Hughes's introduction to the 1952 edition is often cited by scholars, there has been little sustained consideration of the multiple layers of critical interpretation...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 36–45.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., analogy, opposition, and similitude, on which “difference is crucified”). Thus, Richard Rorty's claim that philosophy / “theory” and literature have very little to do with each other is refined to suggest that one of the few unifying threads of contemporary French philosophy is precisely its foundational...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of a Badiou perspective five major points are advanced: in Marlovian drama 1) there is little room for the “inconsistent multiplicity” of the ontological that is nonetheless implied in it; 2) there are no subjects and no truths, but only abject individuals and self-destructive communities, which...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 251–270.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Alan Levinovitz This article explores the meaning of “nonsense” as it is typically employed in discussions of nonsense literature. Definitions of nonsense vary widely and often pay little attention to cultural context or the phenomenology of reading. After surveying the problems...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Marta Laura Cenedese Abstract Published in 2004, Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française is a historical novel set during the French debacle and the German Occupation of France (1940–42). Scholars have studied it in relation to other French novels that touch upon similar issues; however, little...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Polly Dickson Abstract This article examines the figure of an undulating line, or “squiggle,” printed initially in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and copied by two nineteenth-century writers: first, by the German E. T. A. Hoffmann, in a little-known fragment, and, second, more famously...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Olivia Loksing Moy Abstract In the 1950s, the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar (1914–84) composed Imagen de John Keats , a little-known work that merges his own life with that of the British Romantics. Part biography and part autobiography, it includes personal essays and literary criticism...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Lusia Zaitseva Abstract This article expands our understanding of cultural exchange between the Soviet Union and writers from the third world during the eras of Thaw and Stagnation. It examines Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s little-known Urdu-language travelogue about his time in the USSR, Mah o...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 420–437.
Published: 01 December 2014
... by closely examining Eco's novel as an illustrative specimen of this subgenre. In doing so, the essay details crucial semiotic teachings, notably by Roger Bacon and William of Ockham, embedded in the novel, in order to qualify what thus far has received little critical notice beyond more or less rough...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 199–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
... multiracial identity has received little attention. This article shows that Cendrars introduced a different approach to racial mixture in Brazil that was influenced by the work of Nietzsche. A connection to Cendrars's role in the construction of Brazil's multiracial national identity allows for a better...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the focus of
a philosophical investigation. Its consummation is accompanied by the appearance
in his lover’s pupil of a homunculus who is a materialized diminutive doppelganger
of the narrator. One day the narrator observes “the little man”—as the narrator
calls his double—vanishing in the depths...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 450–465.
Published: 01 December 2013
... whether other schoolmates also call him
“zwartzakske” (M 77; little black bag). While the novel does not elaborate on the
processes of social stigmatization, the remark illustrates how the stain of the past
is easily transferred from one generation to the next, even if the latter does...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 331–346.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and
shadowy background, like the panels which a Bengal fire or some electric sign will illuminate and
dissect from the front of a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness: broad
enough at its base, the little parlour, the dining-room...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Print . ———. Interim. The Little Review 6.2 (June 1919) to 7.1 (May-June 1920) . Modjourn . Web. Dec. 2014/ Mar. 2015 . ———. Interim. Pilgrimage . Intro. Hanscombe Gillian . Vol. 2 . London : Virago , 2002 . Print . ———. The Quakers Past and Present . London : Constable...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 September 2017
... literary complexity or radical innova-
tion, and the Basic translation was solicited by Joyce himself. Contrary to Quigley’s conclu-
sions about one of the phrases she cites from the juxtaposed texts (“She’s dead, little Eve,
little Eve she’s dead” for FW’s “Die eve, little eve, die Ogden’s rendering...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in common, can merge herself with
little more than the awareness of his absence. The third excerpt takes all of this
still further by accentuating even more explicitly the tireless movement of attrac-
tion and elision through which intimacy and inaccessibility, when taken to their
respective limits...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... little more than continuous action). Freq. preceding a prepositional phrase; cf. senses B. 1. a., B. 2. 14 For a reconsideration of “close reading” as the delicate practice of following the shoreline, attending to its minute, regularly reoccurring shifts and disturbances, see Hannah...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 153–169.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Fiction: Jewish Writers, and Black Characters: The Return of `The Human Negro' in Philip Roth.” MELUS 11 ( 1984 ): 5 -22. Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People . Boston: Little, Brown, 1951 . Harris, Chrissi. “Insiders/Outsiders...
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