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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lara Harb Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. The various understandings of mythos in Avicenna’s and Averroes’s commentaries on Aristotle’s Poetics .
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... mythos that locates the sacred in the here-and-now. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Emily Dickinson Rainer Maria Rilke Giovanni Pascoli science and religion poetic modernism and mystical language Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 351–369.
Published: 01 December 2016
... individual concerns to those of a community. Although primarily fictive, the
epic’s narrative must draw upon and allude to a greater body of symbolic material,
which might variously be mythic, fictive, or historical. This greater narrative corpus
one might call, extrapolating from Nagy, the mythos...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 333–344.
Published: 01 September 2015
... mytho-logy only has a single very unconvincing manifestation,
that of the “goddess Reason” in the first years of the French Revolution. The
Republic would have wished to follow and confirm this mytho-logy or Word-myth
(logo-mythie). This did not happen.
François Raffoul: In The Forgetting...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of language from God’s divine word,
as Arendt herself took care to emphasize the this-worldly aspects of mythos and
logos, as opposed to nous:7
“This earth of ours has been most dear and precious to me. Even up above there, I certainly could
not help peering out from time to time to find out whether...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 166–184.
Published: 01 June 2015
... project in the postmodern period. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Seferis Gadamer Classical reception Works Cited Beaton Roderick . An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1994 . Print . ———. “From Mythos to Logos: The Poetics of George...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 356–381.
Published: 01 December 2012
... . “Comparative Literature and Revolution, or the Many Arts of (Mis)reading Alexander Veselovsky.” Forthcoming in Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature . Print . ———. “From (Theogonic) Mythos to (Poetic) Logos: Reading Pindar's Genealogical Metaphors after Freidenberg...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 January 2002
... vols. Zimmer, Heinrich. Maya, der indische Mythos . Stuttgart, 1936 . ____. Die indische Weltmutter . Zürich: Eranos Jahrbuch, 1938, 1939 . SWITCHING HEADS & CULTURES/23
ANAND MAHADEVAN
Switching Heads and Cultures...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2006
... re-
demption, its core message, needs to be starkly distinguished from the mytho-
logical mode through which the world first received it. In Bultmann’s argument,
the original cultural context of the New Testament presupposed a mythical view
of the world whereby the earthly realm was perceived...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... by Pike Burton Luft David S. , U of Chicago P , 1990 , pp. 193 – 208 . Salgaro Massimo Vangi Michele , editors. Mythos Rhythmus. Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur um 1900 . Franz Steiner Verlag , 2015 . Sutton Emma . “ ‘Putting Words on the Backs of Rhythm’: Woolf...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
.... Trails in No-Man's Land. Essays in Literary and Cultural History . Columbia: Camden House, 1993 . 152 -71. ____. Der Mythos der Neuzeit. Das Thema der Mehrheit der Welten in der Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte von der kopernikanischen Wende bis zur Science Fiction . Bern/Munich: Francke, 1983...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2011
... desperate state suggests, conflicts with
official and unofficial defenses of the sharecropping system as the magnanimous
gesture of a Southern aristocracy trying to help their poor, unskilled brethren.
This discrepancy between a received mythos and a lived reality fuels the “planta-
tion” scenes...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 313–338.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., 1960 . ____. Europa: Ein Uberblick über die Zeugnisse des Mythos in der Antiken Literatur und Kunst . Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1968 . Castleford's Chronicle, or, The Boke of Brut . Ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt. Early English Text Society O.S. 305, 306. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 58–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
... be politically engaged, but his/her mythos is
virtually pre-ideological if it derives from a creation groaning to be delivered
from futility and bondage. As such, a spiritualized mythology can be connected
to a primary human concern.
Frye’s insistence on the autonomy of culture, a version of Sidney’s...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Exotik und Habsburger Mythos: Leopold von Sacher-Masochs Galizische Erzählungen.” Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 52 . 1 ( 2002 ): 175 – 90 . Print . Kłańska Maria . Problemfeld Galizien in deutschsprachiger Prosa 1846–1914 . Vienna : Böhlau , 1991 . Print . Kobelt-Groch...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., but fascinating, digression on Nietzsche’s well-
known mytho-poetic symbology, there are the following remarks:
Freedom is to God what Ariadne is to Theseus and Dionysus . . . first, it annihilates him, as Ariadne
annihilates Theseus: ‘That is my sign of supreme love, to reduce him to nothing...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... life and
aesthetic possibility. I will also address the tendency to read Bolaño as global lit-
erature’s Latin American mythos, keeping in mind the way in which the critical
discussion of the representation of violence in his works will also have already
served as an implicit engagement...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 241–255.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of a society—or subverting them. Ordinary uses of the word provide
only extrinsic definitions. For theory to gain a foothold, it must posit an intrinsic
definition, attempting to identify invariant features of writing that make it litera-
ture. The traditional conception of literature as mythos or fictional...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... wähnt er ledig zu sein, wenn es nichts Unbekanntes mehr gibt. Das bestimmt die Bahn der Entmythologisierung, der Aufklärung, die das Lebendige mit dem Unlebendigen ineinssetzt wie der Mythos das Unlebendige mit dem Lebendigen. Aufklärung ist die radikal gewordene, mythische Angst. Die reine Immanenz des...
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