...Preetha Mani Abstract This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī , or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which...

...Jeffrey S. Librett This essay provides a new interpretation of the major methodological movements in literary scholarship since World War II, especially in the United States. The overarching claim is that these movements comprise displaced repetitions of moments in the early modern mourning...

...Salvador J. Fajardo Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History . By Rogers Gayle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 283 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 232 In either case, Baroque Sovereignty...

...Morten Hansen This essay argues that we should read Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as part of a larger recurrence and metamorphosis of the epic on a global scale, a new genre that grapples with the economic and spatial conditions of our contemporary age by combining formal innovations...

...Michael Scrivener Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism . By Kuiken Kir . New York : Fordham University Press , 2014 . x, 264 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Habermas Jürgen . “The Horrors of Autonomy: Carl Schmitt in English...

...Elana Gomel; Vered Karti Shemtov This article analyzes a new form of historical representation that we term “limbotopia” (by analogy with utopia and dystopia). Limbotopia is a genre of the “broad present,” in which history seems to come to a standstill and characters inhabit a changeless—and often...

...Bainard Cowan The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxv, 420 p., 108 ills. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS TRANSATLANTIC...

... as an exercise, and allusions to this text can be easily traced throughout Three Lives in general and The Good Anna in particular. The following essay argues that Stein's “new kind of realism” (William James) constitutes a rewriting and a radicalization of Flaubert's decomposition of certain key features...

...Melissa Tandiwe Myambo Exploring the relationship between capitalism and the discourse of multicultural democracy that animates the New South Africa's notion of itself as Rainbow Nation, this article attempts to understand why it is impossible for politically progressive postapartheid South African...

... to place the anthology within what Aníbal Quijano has called the “coloniality of power,” a term deployed to move thinking beyond Western and Eurocentric conceptualizations. This approach provides a new way of framing the issues of cultural production and agency in order to transcend identities originally...

...GERALD GILLESPIE University of Oregon 2006 Barth, John. Giles Goat-Boy; or, The Revised New Syllabus . New York: Doubleday, 1966 . ____. The Sot-Weed Factor . New York: Doubleday, 1960 . Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave: a True History . Ed. Lore Metzger. New York...

...LILIANE WEISSBERG University of Oregon 2006 Apple, Sam. Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepard . New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 . Aschheim, Steven, ed. Arendt in Jerusalem . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001...

... conoscenza da Paracelso a Leibniz . Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1987 . Browne, Sir Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica . Ed. Robin Robbins. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981 . Carrera, Magali M. Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings...

...: Cambridge University Press, 1991 . Braden, Gordon. Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 . British Museum, Department of Manuscripts. Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum . Notes by George F. Warner. London, 1899 . Calin, William...

...CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/58 REVIEW ESSAY CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER Imagined Worlds— New, Old, and “Alternate” Review of Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial...

...Steven Shaviro Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy after the New Media. By David Norman Rodowick. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xviii, 276 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/270 READING THE FIGURAL, OR, PHILOSOPHY AFTER THE NEW MEDIA. By David Norman Rodowick...

...Mike Chasar Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres . By Ramazani Jahan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . 285 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 BOOK REVIEWS / 455...