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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 345–374.
Published: 01 December 2015
... on the multilingual north Indian region of Awadh in the early modern period, it argues that an approach to literature and space that takes multilingualism within society and literary culture as a structuring and generative principle and holds both local and cosmopolitan perspectives in view is more productive...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Hebrew literary history. Almost despite himself, Shlonsky demonstrates a multilingualism that exists within the national canon. University of Oregon 2009 Alter, Robert. The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary . New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004 . “Asch ve-Hirshbein...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of the fantasy were always emphatically multilingual and cross-cultural. © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 Works Cited Anderson Mark . Kafka's Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle . Oxford : Clarendon , 1992 . Print . Bach Ulrich . “Sacher-Masoch's...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 283–298.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Amitav Ghosh Abstract Common as it is to map languages as colored patches of a global quilt, this article proposes an understanding of language, dialect, and multilingualism beyond territoriality. The author references different regions where multilingualism and registers of discourse are indices...
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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 (2): 186–201.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Kritish Rajbhandari Abstract This article explores the representation of multilingual Indian Ocean pasts in novels by Amitav Ghosh and Abdulrazak Gurnah, two key contemporary postcolonial writers from the opposite shores of the ocean. It theorizes the historical impulse in the novels as anarchival...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a process of spectral recuperation, these children of survivors employ the figure of the child to tell the event of their own refugee becoming. Former child refugees recently come of writerly age across a multilingual global diaspora are thus reappropriating an in-between generation’s collective postmemory...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and Performance: Orientalism, Race and the Idea of The Arabian Nights . New York : Tauris , 2011 . Print . Salaita Steven . Modern Arab-American Fiction: A Reader's Guide . Syracuse : Syracuse UP , 2011 . Print . Shell Marc Sollors Werner , eds. The Multilingual Anthology...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Imagen de John Keats as a landmark text in the history of world literatures, notable for its transnational, multilingual, and transtemporal methodologies. Presenting key passages in English translation, I frame Imagen de John Keats as a test case for new theories and practices of global reading...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
... (discovery, naming, and debate) functions ( Sapiro 9 ). As a site of struggle, the festival emerges as a space to manage and scope the multilingual and multiregional South Asian literary field and produces a parallel and intersecting field of discourse to professional criticism. 5 The event has literary...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 164–185.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Practice.” Postcolonial Text [online] 3.2 (2007). http://journals.sfu.ca/ ____. Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa . Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2004 . Ahmad, Sa'idu Babura. “From Orality to Mass Media: Hausa Literature in Northern...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... languages, nor that multilingualism, fluency in both speaking and reading, was a conventional skill practiced by the earliest generations of Harvard students like Mather. Mather and all of his peers and closest friends would have known Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, many of them quite well. They learned...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 406–428.
Published: 01 December 2024
... multilingualism For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations The objects of the social world . . . can be perceived and expressed...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and Tuana Nancy , 1 – 10 . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . Vijayan Suchitra . Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India . Brooklyn : Melville House , 2021 . Multilingualism penetrates every page of Kashyap’s novel, The House. Local language...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 160–176.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., nationhood. Indeed, this is crucial in the
medieval literary context, given that most texts were produced in a multilingual,
necessarily multicultural, environment, that most authors read and some wrote
in “foreign” languages, and that texts in some languages (Latin, French, and Ital-
ian for example...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... clear-cut distance separating languages. Even more interestingly,
perhaps, such an all-or-nothing binary seems to haunt the contributions to the
Bernheimer volume as well, in the form of a persistent anxiety over multilingual-
ism as a crucial feature of disciplinary training in Comparative...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 286–299.
Published: 01 September 2012
... criticism known as the literature of
“small” or “private” homelands —were the topic of an important critical debate in
Poland during the 1990s (see Jarze˛bski, W Polsce; Zaleski; and Czaplin´ski).
The ubiquity in Castorp of characters with multilingual, hybrid identities, as
well as the imagery...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Racnāvalī 2:327) 1 THIS ESSAY EXAMINES a key moment in twentieth-century Hindi literature to explore two interrelated issues. First, how can a history of modern Hindi literature take into account both global trends in modernism and realism as well as the particular multilingual circumstances...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 266–282.
Published: 01 September 2023
... with their multilingual literary heritage. What disciplinary and institutional forms might we cocreate? What scholars, what fields, what points of connection—that are currently so far apart—might yet be possible to bring into conversation? What ghosts do we wish to invite through our enthusiastic investigations...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 233–235.
Published: 01 June 2023
... century. In justifying that statement, she argues that “the Arabic poem in the twenty-first century [is] multilingual, exophonic in its motivations and born translated” (226). The Arabic used by those poets is also shaped by and loaded with their experiences of exile and displacement, highlighting...
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