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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...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., versus a semiotic philosophy that would potentially circumscribe all discourses including discourse on systems. The cybernetic categories of matter/energy, information, and organization in forms of relative openness and closure are used to offer a counter-reading of Derrida's concepts of writing (gramme...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 January 2009
... between text and context by analyzing the capacity of anachronistic discourse to collapse the boundaries between a literary work's internal means of reference and its external referential compass. Because the aesthetically productive temporal fissures that anachronism produces are not limited to any...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... this deepening itself be a form of communication, so that difficulty might
possess its own meanings? I refer here not to poems that take difficulty as an end
in itself, but to those that communicate the difficulty of their material, be that
the nature of poetry and poetic language or any matter or entity...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 298–313.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Christopher Peterson Abstract This article explores the unstable distinction between “who” and “what” in Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who! The story’s moral that “a person’s a person no matter how small” has often been read as atoning for the racist cartoons that Geisel drew of the Japanese during World...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection,
matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined
as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply
what we perceive. Rather, there is a close, and costly, link...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on demand. At the same time, these new means of circulation ignited novel ways of telling stories, forging poetry, blending the arts, and creating fresh combinations out of apparently separate media forms. In this introduction, I briefly sketch the eternal return of matter and materiality in the humanities...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 330–334.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection,
matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined
as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply
what we perceive. Rather, there is a close, and costly, link...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 334–337.
Published: 01 September 2012
... be carefully distinguished;
for many of the materialist or quasi-materialist theories that buttress ancient reflection,
matter is not “merely” matter. It is, rather, always and unavoidably aesthetic: it is defined
as an object of perception or aisthesis. Porter does not mean by this that matter is simply...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... not engage with the concepts in meaningful ways. On the contrary, I argue, they develop them in unique and illuminating ways that can expand the meanings of mimesis and mythos instead of being excluded from them. Not only does this divergent understanding of mimesis help us identify key aspects...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 117–136.
Published: 01 March 2025
... 129, 140; Moral 20–39). __________ Let’s start by observing that the key term reason is not as perspicuous as philosophers imagine. Derek Parfit opens his three-volume On What Matters with a widely shared assumption: since morality is about ought , deciding what to do means...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 213–225.
Published: 01 September 2019
... consists”) and the obsolete (“substance without form”) meanings of matter, I claim a radical praxis of refusal to contain blackness in the dialectical form. Though Frantz Fanon’s refusal of dialectics is the most celebrated, I find this refusal also in Cedric Robinson’s tracing of the black radical...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 188–192.
Published: 01 March 2000
... with particu-
lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the
Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to
present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It
explains the sense...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 224–239.
Published: 01 June 2020
... but ephemeral or short-lived, anything, that is, but passing. Throughout Heidegger’s oeuvre, Cartesianism is an abiding preoccupation; there is certainly never any suggestion that it can be dealt with quickly and easily. Whatever sending Descartes away in passing means, it is not a matter of undercutting his...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2000
... features of the last two centuries of the French Middle Ages with particu-
lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the
Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to
present a contemporary view of literary vernacular...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 182–184.
Published: 01 March 2000
... with particu-
lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the
Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to
present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It
explains the sense...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 184–185.
Published: 01 March 2000
... with particu-
lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the
Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to
present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It
explains the sense...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2000
... with particu-
lar focus on forms and their meaning” (p. 152). The short first chapter, “Through the
Eyes of a Monk,” leads into the subject matter by using the words of a Benedictine to
present a contemporary view of literary vernacular culture in the fourteenth century. It
explains the sense...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2021
... this example in the spirit of so dwelling with Alford, which means finding pleasure and meaningful distinction in the small. Simply note how description shifts registers here, from sound to sight, and from declension to resignation. Language is given its body back, its charged movements felt in one’s own...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 219–226.
Published: 01 June 2005
...ERIC HAYOT University of Oregon 2005 Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 . Derrida, Jacques. Le monolinguisme de l'autre: ou la prothèse d'origine . Paris: Galilée, 1996 . ____. Monolingualism...
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