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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
...John Pizer Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books . By Mani B. Venkat . Fordham University Press , 2017 . 348 p. Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 BOOK REVIEWS / 99...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 278–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
... writing in this sense. Cixous also stresses that writing is always done with the many voices of others (of which the father in OR is the prominent one) so that “chaque être est un désaccord . L’accord est le silence d’un désaccord ” ( OR 168; emphasis added; every being is a dissonance/cacophony...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 256–273.
Published: 01 June 2009
...ENRIQUE DUSSEL The present essay offers an interpretation of hispanos (Latin Americans and U.S. latinos) as historically, culturally, and geographically located “in-between” many worlds that combine to constitute an identity on the intercultural “border.” To illustrate how hispanos have navigated...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 January 2006
...David A. Brewer The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel. By Alex Woloch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. ix, 391 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70 BOOK...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 226–251.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Preetha Mani Abstract This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī , or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and communities living in the shadow of insurgencies and state violence. The Anglophone metropolitan postcolonial critic’s often-shallow knowledge about a region, its literature and deep politics, and their many rationalizations about why it is so, dovetails with the manner in which lies, exaggerated and fake...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
...-martiniquais, ce moi-antillais” (translated by Brent Edwards, this reads: “in order to express, let’s say: “this I, this nègre -I, this creole-I, this Martinican-I, this Antillean-I”). Many scholars have read the Cahier ’s inflection of French language and discourse in terms of its elaborate use of Latinate...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Amelia M. Glaser Abstract At many points in modern history, Ukrainian identity has been bound up with the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian forms of Christianity, and specific collective experiences of trauma as Ukrainians. This sense of national identity was particularly felt in the immediate post...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 251–273.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Karen Emmerich Standard texts for many ancient works were established long ago, but The Epic of Gilgamesh is an exception to that rule. Only in the mid-nineteenth century did stories of this ancient king resurface, thanks to pioneering Assyriologists whose project of recovery and decipherment...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 31–45.
Published: 01 March 2016
... with classical tropes in its attempt to circumscribe a world of ever-increasing complexity. Only in recognizing A Small Place as a text that aspires to envision a culture in its totality—that is, as an epic—can we make sense of its pioneering strategies of representation. By showing the many hidden relations...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 351–369.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., Erich Auerbach, and Northrop Frye, arguing that traditional definitions of epic narrative are instead subsets of a greater generic structure. The epic is, following Gregory Nagy and Franco Moretti, among others, a literary “super-genre” that encompasses as many other kinds of narrative as possible...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 238–249.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Chris Bongie Not so long ago, Negritude was an object of scepticism in many postcolonial quarters for its supposed implication in a variety of no-longer respectable patterns of thought: its purportedly essentialist approach to cultural identity seemed dated in relation to the more open-ended...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 299–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Esther Whitfield Abstract Guantánamo as a site whose legal contortions and human rights abuses have global reach and urgency has long been the focus of the many scholars, lawyers, and activists who have fought to keep its detention centers in the public eye. And yet, alongside advocates who have...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... between the two concepts are too many to warrant their critical coalescence.” In recent years, however, it has become the rule to discuss Latin American and Spanish modernismos within the Anglo-Germanic notion of modernism, as part of the broader concept of “global modernisms.” But how did two of the most...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sunny S. Yudkoff Abstract This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue Harrison’s concept of “heterochronicity”—the ability to embody many ages at once...
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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 (2009) 61 (1): 26–42.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to recent work at the intersection of language, translation, and gender: Derrida's The Monolingualism of the Other (1996) and “Shibboleth: For Paul Celan” (2005), and Barbara Johnson's Mother Tongues (2003). I then consider the extent to which many of her key figures—drawn from the work of Novalis...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 43–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
... photographs included in Austerlitz . Indeed, Austerlitz and Wittgenstein mirror each other in so many ways that a reader familiar with Ray Monk's biography of the philosopher and Wittgenstein's own work might suspect that Sebald lifted specific elements from these texts into his own. But Sebald's work also...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the advent of a “new world order,” but also legitimizes this new order by linking it to some prior historic or legendary event. Furthermore, if Poltava seems to “waver,” as many critics have suggested, between the Byronic narrative poem and the historical novel as popularized by Walter Scott, I argue...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 128–141.
Published: 01 March 2009
... reiterated by many postmodern critics who have traced virtually all of the flaws of modernity to the Enlightenment project. Defenders of the Enlightenment have countered that postmodernism has turned the Enlightenment into the Other against which it defines itself. Confirmation that the combination...