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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 278–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Birgit Mara Kaiser Abstract Focusing on Hélène Cixous’s OR les lettres de mon père (1997), the article considers how a prominent work of the “linguistic turn” already works with the entanglement of matter and meaning. Cixous foregrounds the materiality of language, showing it is indispensable...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
... this accumulative logic: in his earliest poems the
tactile material of language is amassed until it creates an orchestra of plops, slaps
and squelches that foregrounds sound and touch, and action serves to ground and
explicate sensory phenomena. In The Haw Lantern the same logic governs symbols...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., is rarely mentioned. Empson’s significant work The Structure of Complex Words , completed in Peking in the early 1950s, remains untranslated and under-studied. Empson’s encounter with China illuminates the material mediation of language, local and global politics, and cultural difference, which have...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of preemption. Dr. Dolly, the narrator of the novel, who suffers from the neoliberal “illness of improbable possibilities,” applies this preemptive principle to language itself, creating what this essay defines as “preemptive poetics:” a literalized and material approach to language that protects it from...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of entering the state archive in Prague and discovering his own origins, he has a dream which implicitly recalls the figure of Humboldt's parrot, a talking animal and the only creature to preserve the sounds of a now extinct language. If this is an image sourced in the literature of eighteenth-century science...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 105–113.
Published: 01 June 2018
...-Europhone literatures and literary histories? If we displace Europhone terms of analysis as conceptual categories, what alternatives emerge in their stead from non-European languages, lineages, and source materials? In pursuing lateral comparisons within the Global South, how can the risks of anachronism...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
... to the linguistic aspects of cross-cultural interactions, the article traces the divergent ways in which the semantic drift among languages stage the materiality and historicity of trans-oceanic encounters. krajbhan@reed.edu Copyright © 2022 by University of Oregon 2022 Indian Ocean literature...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 219–226.
Published: 01 June 2005
... attention in both criticism
and theory to material culture, to its weight and force, to the manner in which it reciprocates its
subjective projections and even precedes them into language. “Projection” and “reciprocation” both
belong to the work of Elaine Scarry; important work on material culture...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 459–461.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., comes
through in the inward-turning jokes, jokes whose import cannot be detached from the
material —swirling language and image —of their construction. The last of these three
chapters, taking its cue from Smithson’s direct invocation of modernist literary inspiration
in the notes for his...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 June 2019
... experiment in linguistic hybridity that ultimately rejects material language altogether as an ideal vehicle for aesthetic experience in favor of an abstract and transcendent vision of lyric form. As I will show, this position is not only consistent with arguments made in De vulgari eloquentia but also...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
Published: 01 September 2018
... media, which by definition resists the idea of a single material location ( Hayles and Pressman ; Brillenburg Wurth, Between Page and Screen ). This new, intermedial configuration of comparative literature no longer is confined to a comparison of languages—as the field has traditionally been defined...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in Inscribing Science treat significant material elements of scientific
communication, the artifactual bases of our thought technologies. Lorraine Daston’s
“The Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Science” presents a short history of
fact-making that details the residual impress of the premodern...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in Inscribing Science treat significant material elements of scientific
communication, the artifactual bases of our thought technologies. Lorraine Daston’s
“The Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Science” presents a short history of
fact-making that details the residual impress of the premodern...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the very different and often opposing materialist systems of his band of philosophers, to Althusser the vast and obvious impact of materialism in the history of Western philosophy, and to Derrida the anachronism of his psychoanalytic language. But the breadth of these polemics had a purpose: to reposition...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 223–240.
Published: 01 June 2006
...). Mercado’s memoir becomes a ruse when, with the change of ge-
stalt from one slope to the other, the signified disappears and the signifier be-
comes a perplexingly opaque material thing. This opacity brings out the desire
in the substance of language, producing an anasemic erotics that designifies sym...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... be seen / but that walks upon its own work
in manuscript” (Arcos 58; my translation) While the bridge may be invisible, the
poet nonetheless deploys repeated images of crossings. Indeed, his “heart feels it
as a great bridge,” and from that sensation to its materialization in language —
“speaking...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of “Murmuring Insects” reminds us that translations move not only from language to language, culture to culture, and period to period but also from surface to surface and from hand to hand. The material circuits through which texts travel may be no more common or universal than the various languages...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 330–334.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... This is, of course, only one possible
approach; another, which Porter himself might well espouse, would be to emphasize that
perception itself is a material process. (This is the Democritean atomistic thesis, and
Porter has explored its implications elsewhere.) In this case, the materialist language...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... This is, of course, only one possible
approach; another, which Porter himself might well espouse, would be to emphasize that
perception itself is a material process. (This is the Democritean atomistic thesis, and
Porter has explored its implications elsewhere.) In this case, the materialist language...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 334–337.
Published: 01 September 2012
....) In this case, the materialist language
that describes aesthetic objects also describes aesthetic perceptions, for the simple reason
that both are material. But it seems unfair to ask a book that comes in at just over 500 pages
to say more than it does. One project for further work inspired...
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