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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2016
...John T. Hamilton Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge . By Pfau Thomas . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 . 673 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 372–375.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Jean-Louis Pautrot Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative. By Eric Prieto. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xiii + 322 p. University of Oregon 2004 Arroyas, Frédérique. La Lecture musico-littéraire . Montreal: Presses de l'Université de...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Frederick Luis Aldama The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 302 p. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanities. By Patrick Colm Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2003. 244 p...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . Verne Jules . Le Tour du monde en 80 jours . Paris : Garnier-Flammarion , 1978 . Wagner Stephen L. “ Descartes’ Wax: Discovering the Nature of Mind .” History of Philosophy Quarterly 12 , no. 2 ( 1995 ): 165 – 83...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 476–502.
Published: 01 December 2023
... not exist as immaterial products of the mind but rather are always incarnate in the physicality of language. In defining this kind of language as analogical, the article argues that for Leopardi the linguistic act takes the shape of a bodily gesture: language, then, is not just the concrete translation...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the human mind. Psychological and social theories that form part of the amalgam designated “poststructuralism” identify important areas of human concern but can now be replaced with empirically grounded concepts that are more complete, more correct, more nuanced. The most important elements in biocultural...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
... tale of competitive and desiring socialization), enters the force field of a state-oriented social imaginary and becomes warped within it? With these questions in mind, the essay takes up First Love , interpreting it as a political allegorization of an ostensibly straightforward coming-of-age story...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2009
...MICHELLE L. ZERBA Doubt is intrinsic to our situation as beings immersed in a world that connects us to people at the same time that it renders impossible the certainty of knowing their minds. It has both an affective side that is linked with such kindred emotions as fear, anxiety, and suspicion...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
...,” that represents the inherent parasitism of every conscious mind's continuous, groping efforts to apprehend a vast unitary “whole” that comprises my Reality, Borges's Reality, and your Reality. Far from being a “literature of exhaustion,” then, Borges's parasitism is at once a new classicism, an old idealism...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., by considering the logic of another discipline: in this case, media studies. The defining works I have in mind include “The Rhetoric of Temporality” by Paul de Man and, perhaps more controversially, the contemporaneous work of Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck . What we find...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the Western intellectual out- look. The view that the world hinges, not on divine consciousness, but on mecha- nistic processes, instincts, and chance; the notion that matter, not mind, rules life, and that consciousness is only a random offshoot of natural evolution rather than its planning center—all...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and I can’t dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it; and in writing...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., and “awakening.” Trauma originates, first of all, in a psychic splitting. Classified as “post-trau- matic stress disorder” (PTSD) in contemporary medical discourse, trauma denotes a “disorder of memory,” a disorder of the mind’s conscious apprehension and orientation of an event in time. Ruth Leys...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the word resist conveys the mind’s insistent “grasping motion” at the same time as it turns that resistance into the experience’s only “graspable meaning.” As this meaning, resistance proves “healing” partly because it provides the kind of palpability that Graham initially sought through “reach...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 235–252.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of egoism and self-effacement. Greene considers Petrarch’s concern with the influence of the beloved, the out- ward direction of his attention, to itself be evidence of egoism: “To the degree that the objective Laura, possessing a certain kind of mind and appearance, becomes a subversive psychic...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and the Subversion of Identity . New York: Routledge, 1999 . Print. Burroughs, William. Nova Express . 1964. New York: grove Press, 1992 . Print. ———. The Ticket that Exploded . 1962. new York: grove Press, 1967 . Print. Clark, Andy. Natural Born Cyborgs. Mind, Technology, and the Future of Human...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Although Tartt appears to be mindful of her debt to Dostoevsky, she makes no explicit argument about his notion of trauma in her novel and quite possibly had no conscious intention to reconsider his legacy in adapting his work. My purpose in what follows will be to draw out the implications of her creative...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 14–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of the University of North Carolina and The Newberry Library, 1975 . 236 -48. Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought . New York: Harper, 1960 . Thesaurus Linguae Latinae . Leipzig: B.G. Teubneri, 1990 . 9 : 2 , fasc. 8 . Trinkaus, Charles. The Poet...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... reality. The tale’s center of gravity is thus not a particular set of ideas, but rather a constantly developing relationship between the ideas that form in readers’ minds as they read the story and those more familiar and au- thoritative beliefs that they have acquired as part of their cultural...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 267–270.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., with their endless fascination for the encounter between American naiveté and the wiles as well as the charms of “old” Europe, must have been somewhere in my mind, as was, no doubt, Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus, which I had first read around the same time as Portrait of a Lady. What could be thought of as mere...