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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 449–452.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Margaret Ronda Theory of the Lyric . By Culler Jonathan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 416 p. Copyright © 2017 University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS Theory of the Lyric. By Jonathan Culler. Cambridge...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 408–425.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Klas Molde Abstract This essay addresses the question of lying in the lyric with reference to both canonical and lesser-known works by Rilke, including several of his relatively neglected poems in French. Taking as a point of departure Rilke’s late lyric “Mensonges,” the essay proceeds via a series...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 356–381.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Boris Maslov This article puts forward a genealogy of one of the principal temporalities associated with German (pre-)Romantic lyric, the time of a privileged moment (“ewiger/prägnanter Augenblick”). The same temporality is shown to dominate the lyric oeuvre of Fyodor Tiutchev, a Russian Romantic...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2006
...SIMON PENDER University of Oregon 2006 Alfonsi, Sandra Resnick. Masculine Submission in Troubadour Lyric . New York: Peter Lang, 1986 . Anglade, Joseph, ed. Les poésies de Peire Vidal . Paris: Champion, 1913 . Avalle, D'Arco Silvio, ed. Peire Vidal: Poésie . Milan and Napoli...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 354–355.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Timothy R. Austin Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address. By William Waters. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi, 180 p. University of Oregon 2005 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/352 BOOK REVIEWS LETHE: THE ART...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 268–274.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Rei Terada Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric. By Daniel Tiffany. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. x, 351 p. University of Oregon 2001 Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . 1995. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Christopher Davis Abstract This article examines three multilingual lyrics from the Middle Ages in which linguistic difference is employed as a strategy for defining the relationship between language and poetic form. Two poems by twelfth-century troubadours, “Eras quan vey,” a descort in five...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sara Hakeem Grewal Abstract While the ghazal has appeared in many linguistic traditions, its diversity is undermined by the imposition of a singular definition of this genre, which is further compounded by the overly simplistic identification of ghazal as lyric; these lyricized readings...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 407–428.
Published: 01 December 2012
... methodology and peremptory interpretations in his two essays on Baudelaire. Finally, it offers a close comparative reading of Baudelaire's lyric “The Swan” and Benjamin's ninth aphorism in “On the Concept of History,” staging an unexpected and revealing correspondence between the two works to argue...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the basic components of grammatical address in a vexed, lyric encounter with the colonial reality of Martinique, he gradually recalibrates the relationship between the poem’s speaker and the African-diasporic community of and beyond Martinique as that between a kind of intersubjective voice of négritude...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., to fill Urdu’s possible legacies through translation. Miraji established possible futures for Urdu through bygone chronicles, stories, and lyrical possibilities that were not subservient to the fluctuations of value that vernacularization carried with it. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oregon 2018...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
... poet Louise Bogan’s 1921 lyric “Medusa” with Ovid’s Metamorphoses , this essay asks what modes of women’s engagement with myth have been left out or undertheorized in the wake of feminist critics’ investment in narratives of reclaimed voice. Instead of being a prosopopoeia in which the imagined woman...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and the Lyric Regime , engaging with its revisionist, Adorno-based take on “the Negritude poem” (specifically the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas) and contextualizing her approach in relation to the recent “aesthetic turn” in post colonial studies. Noland Carrie . Voices of Negritude...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... other kinds of containment in “A Game of Chess” from The Waste Land , resolving some of the section’s enduring ambiguity concerning images of vacuity and the disembodied voice. Ultimately, this article contributes to debates in lyric studies, arguing for a reappraisal of the nightingale in comparative...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... be considered as a response to formal problems of the novel and the lyric in midcentury Hindi literature. Despite acknowledging these long poems as his most important contribution, literary critics display a marked discomfort with what they see as their excesses. Muktibodh’s writings, however, reflect his...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., and Imaginism to create his own idiosyncratic Hebrew modernism. At the center of his modernist poetry and manifestoes is a chameleon-like lyrical “I” that dominates the text as it unfolds. Shlonsky brilliantly used a new literary Hebrew to create himself as a revolutionary modernist poet. Like many of his...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... makes the “thing, the human, the poem, and indeed language itself” into metaphors for each other ( Feminist Difference 130), this essay takes the link between poetic difficulty and images of occlusion as a way to broach the difficulties of entering into alien experience by way of lyric poems. More...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): i–xxiv.
Published: 01 June 2001
... others, I allow myself this evening what might have been an inaugural address if there were anything to inaugurate, if I could propose to divert and devote com- parative literature to the study of the lyric. I. When you consider both modern literary theory, which has been my major preoccupation...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 262–265.
Published: 01 June 2001
... occupies a unique position as a world author. If we cast about for “denationalized” figures in the twentieth century who exhibit a comparable will for cultural outreach and a powerful lyrical drive, we can come up with a number of interest- ing, partial analogies (aside from thematics)—for example...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 265–268.
Published: 01 June 2001
... occupies a unique position as a world author. If we cast about for “denationalized” figures in the twentieth century who exhibit a comparable will for cultural outreach and a powerful lyrical drive, we can come up with a number of interest- ing, partial analogies (aside from thematics)—for example...