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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
...-edged sword. Hence the double entendre of the title: Humboldt's and Gauss's “surveying” ( Vermessung ) enterprises typify human “arrogance” ( Vermessenheit ) toward nature. The ideas presented in Kehlmann's book were no doubt influenced by Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997), a metafictional...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 January 2010
...John Wilkins Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy. By Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 326 p. Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres. By Charles Platter. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 257 p. University of Oregon 2010...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 382–406.
Published: 01 December 2012
... tragic drama in terms of their contrastive nature.” However, to do so “something must be added” that the book he wrote failed to supply. The aim of this essay is twofold: to reconstruct what Benjamin might have said about French classical tragedy and to identify the mysterious addition. Why does...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Lawrence Manley The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. By Adrian Johns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxi, 753 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/87...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... writers are gazers at nature (in the sense that they situate action in a natural environment that they make visible), by adopting an “affective fallacy” (traditionally called the “pathetic fallacy”) they also convey the “feelings” of the natural world (in this case, its sorrow, suffering, and mourning...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 332–350.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Marco Alexandre de Oliveira By exploring the ubiquity of Bashō's frog haiku in Brazil as the naturalization of a poetics of nature and the ideographic sign, this essay traces distinct affinities between the arts of Zen and concrete poetry, in both theory and practice. It begins by observing...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 2021
... comparisons based on the representation of the New World chiefly derived from the supposed characteristics of its “nature.” This article will identify traces of the demand made by Ferdinand Denis (1798–1890) that the intellectual production of the Americas must reflect the effect of the nature that inspires...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 128–141.
Published: 01 March 2009
... intertextual threads connecting these three works that suggest that they might profitably be read as an evolving discussion regarding the opposition of culture and nature, the limits of the scientific perspective, the workings of power, and the viability of utopian visions. All three novels critique...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay considers whether the contemporary rewilding movement is a reincarnation of twentieth-century primitivism. Both reject capitalist modernity’s drive to dominate nature, and both idealize an originary or innate natural condition. Both are also galvanized...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in the text of Lucretius’s De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things ). Tracing philological debates that have surrounded Lucretius from the Renaissance onward, this article argues that Lucretius’s poetic theory of interlinked atomic and textual swerves and the philological history that has mediated them were...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... representations (or non-representations) of nature function systemically, contextual analyses of ecophobia as an often obsolete adaptive survival strategy prove more useful than more myopic analyses that fail to see biophilia as part of a spectrum condition. The article highlights the shortcomings of Edward O...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 59–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
... by the monologic, “terroristic” nature of the narrative. Hamid's Reluctant Fundamentalist , by contrast, has been interpreted predominantly in terms of post-9/11 geopolitical issues articulated within the diegesis: a “reading in” rather than “into.” To redress the critical balance, the article closes...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 312–331.
Published: 01 September 2016
... such as literature and theater. I contend that Pirandello's plays and his vision of stage acting provide an alternative model of subversive performance that challenges Benjamin's assumptions about both the medium-specificity of film's effects and the nature of the new celebrity culture. This alternative further...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
... enemy. The tale was taken up in the eighteenth century by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Bodmer as an occasion to reflect on the differences between a state of nature and civilization and on the morality of vengeance. In Kleist's Hermannsschlacht it was secularized into a purely political exhortation. © 2017...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... body, and composition. In Woolf’s and Musil’s breathing pauses, which are not located between the words, but rather constitute intervals filled with words, orality is shifted to the level of composition: a skillful arrangement of sound structures emphasizes the letters’ tonal nature and a harmonious...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 194–217.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the Nazi genocide. Rawicz rejects moral and historical frameworks because they do not engage the Holocaust on the level he finds most salient: as a terrifying experience of ontological truths about the nature of God, subjectivity, and Being writ large. I situate Rawicz’s novel alongside his pronouncements...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., invites consideration of the invested nature of forgiveness and the “work of mourning” that is reconciliation, and points us towards a better understanding of Derrida's conception of “pure” forgiveness, possible (only) as impossible. University of Oregon 2011 Adorno, Theodor W. Negative...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and narrative strategies to political and literary histories in order to challenge the naturalized perception of linguistic and territorial boundaries. Through the investigation of how processes of border production and contestation define both the narrative geographies and the dynamics of institutional...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jerry White Abstract This article posits that Pier Paolo Pasolini’s long engagement with Catalonia offers important insights into his practice as a poet, filmmaker, and thinker about language, as well as explaining the nature of his influence on other European cinemas. The first part of the article...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... oceanic space that has mediated a dynamic cross-cultural traffic across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In response to the territorial logic of old and new comparative literature, the polysemic nature of the Indian Ocean invites the following the question: what would world literature look like when...