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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... neologisms, archaic terminology, and typographic wordplay; however, less attention has been given to the implications this poem’s tortuous shifts in address have as a radical critique of the formal desires and ontological exclusions of Enlightenment universalism. Through the way Césaire rearticulates...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Katharina N. Piechocki Renaissance poet and physician Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) coined the neologism “syphilis” in the first poem that fictionalizes Columbus's voyage to the New World. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus (1530) captures, as this article shows, the bonds among poetic, philological...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2022
...: “The [Left] deplores globalization; the [Right] detests globalist; yet both insist on terming their worldwide organizations ‘international’” (167). She further posits that the internet age, with its rapid proliferation of Anglophone neologism, will renew the urgency and the multiplicity of print...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... donkey’s speech, in Numbers 22, Buber and Rosenzweig introduced a cola break after the colon punctuation: “Er sprach: / Nein” (“He said: no”). The word Nein receives its own cola, enhancing the drama of this negation ( Buber and Rosenzweig 433 ). 18 James Lyon translates the neologism...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 404–425.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the subject “women” became onto-
logical or experientially possible and valid in the modern era.
Since “women” in modern Chinese was simultaneously a neologism, a catach-
resis (a term I will discuss at length in a moment), and a singularly modernist
social category, my task was simplified. I developed...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in which to cast these themes, and indeed to think across
them, is the neologism “hydro-colonial.” The possible meanings of the term could
include (1) colonization by means of water (various forms of maritime imperialism);
(2) colonization of water (occupation of land with water resources...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
... contradicts personal identity that to reckon with it the survivor-poet
is compelled to invent a new grammar not only replete with neologisms, but also
rooted in nonsensical subjectivity. “Nothing we were” coheres in this postlapsarian
idiolect as an identifier for the victims who were, are, and ever...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 26–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
... by people like Makina. In opting for phrases such as “a cardinal point” or the neologism jarchar instead of migrar , Herrera asserts that migration stories have existed and will continue to exist regardless of the present political tension that burdens these words. These formal and stylistic choices...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2009
... is Baroque (or Neobaroque?)
because of its continual inventions of words, its innovative syntactical features,
its lexical hybridity that goes from archaisms to neologisms and verbal montages,
its oxymoronic confrontation between savagery and refi nement, its trope of “for-
bidden” or “perverse love...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... the brilliant deployment of a neologism— ethnopoetics —that came to stand in for primitivism. In short, under the label of ethnopoetics, the project of primitivism would be deployed otherwise, without conceptual baggage. And while on the surface it might appear that giving primitivism a new label was merely...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 299–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... no te comparas con sus víctimas It’s impossible to write about The Base Without comparing yourself to its victims 1 —José Ramón Sánchez, “Los quilos” (61) THE “WAR ON TERROR,” declared in its sui generis way in September 2001, generated a well-documented stream of neologisms within which...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 291–320.
Published: 01 September 2000
... fantastique, ou dix femmes sous une ombrelle (Ten Women in One
Umbrella, 1903); Karl Freund’s 1935 Hollywood horror film Mad Love; and François
Truffaut’s penultimate and most somber film, La Chambre verte (The Green Room,
1978).
1 I use the neologism “gynomorphic,” which is the specifically female...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and neologistic elements of Shlonsky’s early poem, it does
not eschew lexical signification completely; as Chana Kronfeld argues, Shlon-
sky’s lexical innovations are less radical than his futurist counterparts’ because
his neologisms are motivated by an attempt to revitalize the Hebrew language...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
... hallucinates screaming voices and fixates on his own stuttering, Sony Labou Tansi collapses le cri and l’écriture by way of neologism and wordplay, as in the preface to Les septs solitudes . That same preface underlines the power of naming too: “Dans ce livre, j’exige un autre centre du monde, d’autres...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 246–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
... as the German root fremd also designates the “foreign” or cultur-
ally distant, as in Fremdsprächig, it might also be instructive to render Verfremdung into English with
the neologism “foreignization” in order to convey Spivak’s particular conception of the power of the
unheimlich. Thanks to Verena...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 357–359.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., with reference to his home town, was Luebeck als geistige Lebensform, Lubeck
as a spiritual way of life, the title of an address he gave on the Hanseatic city’s seven-
hundredth anniversary in 1927). The paradigm recalls as well the Berlin-born historian
Hans Baron’s neologism “civic humanism,” through which...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 463–466.
Published: 01 December 2012
... study is the concept of
veridiction. Unlovely as it might well be for those who prefer their language “plain,” this
neologism addresses the fundamental issue admirably: how might one speak or tell the
truth? Or put more incisively: how can there be a truth that is not spoken or told? Veridic...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 462–463.
Published: 01 December 2012
... study is the concept of
veridiction. Unlovely as it might well be for those who prefer their language “plain,” this
neologism addresses the fundamental issue admirably: how might one speak or tell the
truth? Or put more incisively: how can there be a truth that is not spoken or told? Veridic...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 466–468.
Published: 01 December 2012
... study is the concept of
veridiction. Unlovely as it might well be for those who prefer their language “plain,” this
neologism addresses the fundamental issue admirably: how might one speak or tell the
truth? Or put more incisively: how can there be a truth that is not spoken or told? Veridic...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 359–362.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., with reference to his home town, was Luebeck als geistige Lebensform, Lubeck
as a spiritual way of life, the title of an address he gave on the Hanseatic city’s seven-
hundredth anniversary in 1927). The paradigm recalls as well the Berlin-born historian
Hans Baron’s neologism “civic humanism,” through which...
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