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The Strange and the Familiar in the Thousand and One Nights
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...David Quint Abstract This analysis of the structure and meaning of The Tale of the Hunchback , the most novelistic of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights , shows how the Nights stages the relationship of reader to fiction (the fictitious lives of others) as a power relationship and in terms...
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One of Them: Homosexuality and Anarchism in Wilde and Zola
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 345–365.
Published: 01 December 2011
... : Harper Collins , 1999 . Print . Zola Émile . Œuvres complètes . 20 vols . Paris : Nouveau Monde , 2002 —. Print . ———. Paris . Paris : Gallimard ‘Folio,’ 2002 . Print . ANDREW J. COUNTER
One of Them:
Homosexuality and
Anarchism in Wilde...
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“One Should Finally Learn How to Read This Breath”: Paul Celan and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the first stanza, Celan places the word Hand in a separate line, although previously it was at the end of the second line. Similarly, the final version includes a line break: “in jeder / der Pausen,” whereas the initial draft included these words in one poetic line ( Die Niemandsrose 101 ). 14...
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The One Vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 January 2006
...David A. Brewer The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel. By Alex Woloch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. ix, 391 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/70
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One Third of the Earth? Europe Seen and Unseen in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 313–338.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970 . EUROPE SEEN AND UNSEEN/313
CAROLINE D. ECKHARDT
One Third of the Earth?
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Goethe's Number-One Fan: A Neo-Feminist Reading of Bettina Brentano-von Arnim
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 294–311.
Published: 01 September 2005
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Goethe’s Number-One Fan:
A Neo-Feminist Reading of
Bettina Brentano-von Arnim
“So I pulled over, and as soon as I got out I heard groaning. That was you,
Paul.” She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought...
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Niels Klim falls through a cave and emerges in a subterranean world, becomi...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 September 2022
Figure 1. Niels Klim falls through a cave and emerges in a subterranean world, becoming one of literary history’s first protagonists to explore such an environment. Engraved illustration by Johan Frederik Clemens. Image from The Royal Danish Library.
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Views of workers unloading a Banana Boat using electric conveyors at Pier O...
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in Postindustrial Waterfront Redevelopment and the Politics of Historical Memory
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 2. Views of workers unloading a Banana Boat using electric conveyors at Pier One on Pratt Street, March 5, 1928. Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Print and Negative Collection. Courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Industry Archives.
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The Problem of Look-Alike Characters in the Vulgate Cycle of the Arthurian Romances and Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Laurence de Looze Medieval people knew as well as we do that no two people could look exactly alike. But the question of look-alikes was nevertheless a fascinating one because it opened up a potential gap between external manifestation and deeper identity. What did it mean for the ontology...
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Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Comparison: Toward a Rhetoric of Comparative and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., is similarity (one thing is like another); the motor of metonymy, on the other hand, is contiguity (one thing is next to, or part of another). Jakobson’s distinction, this article suggests, maps instructively onto the mechanisms of comparative and world literature: where the former compares one text to another...
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Figural Interpretation as Modernist Hermeneutics: The Rhetoric of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... remain to be truly read. This essay proposes that there is a complex theory of reading to be found in Mimesis and that it is one of the most exemplary models of literary hermeneutics in modern criticism. To discern this theory of reading, however, one must go against the dominant tendency in recent...
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Born in Translation: Mikhail Chulkov and Charlotte Summers
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Rimma Garn This essay discusses an intriguing literary journey, one in which an anonymous English eighteenth-century novel crossed the channel and, through its translation into French and Russian, became a crucial narrative model for one of the first published Russian fiction writers, Mikhail...
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Impassivities: From Paradise Lost to Hellas
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 114–127.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Brian McGrath Abstract Though the words impasse and impassive come to English from two different etymological sources— impasse from the French, meaning without a pass; impassive from the Latin, meaning without suffering or without feeling—English invites confusion. In part because one cannot write...
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Civilizational Myth and Class Politics: Lenin on China and Racial Revolution
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 140–152.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jinyi Chu Abstract What is the connection between class and race? Socialist revolutionaries in early twentieth-century Russia engaged with this question in their political essays. The imperial partition of China and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway made the China question one...
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Oil, Water, World, Wax, Mind: Jean Rolin’s Ormuz
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Thangam Ravindranathan Abstract This essay considers the unworldly setting of Jean Rolin’s novel Ormuz (2013), composed around the attempt by a shadowy character named Wax to swim across the Strait of Hormuz. This twenty-one-nautical-mile-wide stretch of sea separating Iran from the Arabian...
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Suspicious Gifts and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters between English and Persian
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 395–414.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of exchange, the signifiers used to arrange those forms of exchange are also reshuffled in this context. Evoking different imperial powers and different languages—rather than one particular power or one particular language—this comparative discourse on economic modernity is marked by a palpable sense...
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Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and modernist line breaks through examples from Persian and European literary canons. From Shams-i Qays’s classic treatise on Persian prosody to Arthur Rimbaud and William Carlos Williams to modernist poet Bijan Elahi’s poetic rewriting of One Thousand and One Nights , we explore the options open...
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Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., or plot) through Aristotle’s Poetics reveals a different conception of literature—one that this article argues is not representational but analogical. While Aristotle sees mythos/plot as forming the main vehicle through which mimesis manifests itself in poetry, mythos ( khurāfa ) according...
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“My Most Mature Poèma”: Pushkin's Poltava and the Irony of Russian National Culture
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 97–127.
Published: 01 March 2009
...LINA STEINER Written in 1828, Pushkin's narrative poem Poltava ushered in a new period in the poet's creative life, one in which Pushkin's task was to become a national bard (or, using the romantic terminology of the day, a national “genius”) whose poetry expressed Russia's innermost “spirit...
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The “Alpha and Omega” Of Haitian Literature: Baron de Vastey and the U.s. Audience of Haitian Political Writing
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Marlene L. Daut Given the increasingly fractured interactions between Haiti and the United States in the twentieth century that recently culminated in what one critic has called the “alleged kidnapping of Aristide,” it would be more than tempting to conclude that Haitians have always been...
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