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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 January 2006
.... “Todesfuge.” Poems of Paul Celan . Trans. Michael Hamburger. London: Anvil Press Poetry Ltd., 1988, 1995 . 62 -64. Champa, Kermit, and Kate Champa. German Painting of the 19th Century . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970 . Colin, Amy. Paul Celan: Holograms of Darkness . Bloomington...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 388–399.
Published: 01 September 2009
...ULLA HASELSTEIN As a seminal work of modernism, Stein's Three Lives has often been discussed in the context of Cézanne and cubist painting, but the intertextual relation to Flaubert has rarely been put under scrutiny, even though it is well known that Stein had translated Flaubert's Trois Contes...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Clarissa Vierke Abstract The Swahili poetry of the master poet Fumo Liyongo, which dates between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, draws much of its imagery from the Indian Ocean, and in a particularly sensuous way: the poems paint baroque tableaux of Swahili material culture, evoking...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 326–344.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Byungsam Jung Abstract This article analyzes two types of visual perception in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955): camera obscura and camera lucida , terms that are taken from photography and painting, respectively. By applying these terms, this article identifies a visual dilemma in how an artist...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 370–393.
Published: 01 December 2017
... ( Mertvye dushi , 1842), the concept of perspective—linear perspective and deviations from it—shapes Gogol’s literary view of the Russian countryside, making possible new ways of seeing rural reality that would impact the rise of realism in literature and painting. The article concludes that Gogol’s...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 189–208.
Published: 01 June 2009
...SILVIA SPITTA; LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA Taking as their point of departure the murals painted by the Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Miguel Covarrubias for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, the editors address the development of comparative literature as an academic...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 164–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is “the Rembrandt look,” a phrase that denotes “both the characteristic appearance of works attributed to (or deattributed from) Rembrandt—the way they look to us—and also the way they ‘look’ at other paint- ings,” that is, “the way they represent their relations to other paintings by con- spicuous allusion...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 23–53.
Published: 01 January 2004
... Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings . New York: Routledge, 2001 . ____. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 . Farrar, Frederic William. The Life of Christ as Represented in Art . New York: Macmillan, 1894 . ____. The Life of Christ . 2...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
... collection and COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/294 voice evoked by the funeral inscription speaks of a world to which the partici- pants in Poussin’s pastoral—and those viewing the painting—no longer have a vital relation. In this respect, “Et in arcadia ego” seems to pay its dues to history rather than...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... mysterious relationship between the protagonist and his painted bird that lies at the center of The Goldfinch . Both novels present the bildungsroman of an adolescent protagonist who possesses, unbeknownst to all but himself, a priceless treasure. In The Adolescent , Arkady Dolgoruky arrives in St...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 233–261.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 . Hunter, Sam. Vincent Desiderio: Recent Paintings . Exhibition Catalog. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1993 . Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham: Duke...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 214–232.
Published: 01 June 2001
... iskustva k deistvitel'nosti.” Izbrannye stat'i . Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1978 . 3 -111. Christensen, Carl C. Art and the Reformation in Germany . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1979 . da Vinci, Leonardo. Treatise on Painting: Codex Urbinas Latinus 1270 . Trans. A. Philip McMahon. Vol...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
...MARION A. WELLS University of Oregon 2002 Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting and on Sculpture . Trans. and ed. Cecil Grayson. London: Phaidon, 1972 . Alpers, Svetlana. “Describe or Narrate? A Problem in Realistic Representation.” New Literary History 8 ( 1975 ): 15 -41...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 122–143.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in turn go Pback to the very beginning of the art of painting.1 If we limit ourselves to West- ern literature of the modern period, however, we can detect a clear watershed in the history of this sub-genre. In narratives from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the portrait appears...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 June 2024
... . Aragon Louis . “ The Challenge to Painting .” In The Surrealist Look at Art , edited by Hulten Pontus , 47 – 74 . Venice, CA : Lapis , 1990 . Aragon Louis . La peinture au défi . Paris : Librairie José Corti , 1930 . Bataille Georges . “ The Academic Horse...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 94–113.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in symbolically oppressive labor when he arrives at the Liberty Paint Company. Wankhade continues, summarizing that famous chapter in greater detail: Nyuyorkamadhye tyala eka rangacya karakhanyat nokari lagte. Tyace kam mhanaje pandhara rang aslelya badalit kalya rangace daha themb takane va te mishran...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 53–67.
Published: 01 March 2020
... down, Sir, paint her to your own mind—” (2:566–67); and a series of horizontal lines which, more explicitly than Trim’s flourish, playfully map the nonlinear narrative development of each volume (2:570–71). These devices are typically seen to contribute to a thickening of the materiality of the page...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Painting.” The Collected Essays and Criticism . Vol. 4 . Ed. John O'Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 . 4 vols. 1986-93. 85 -95. Judd, Donald. “On Installation.” Complete Writings, 1973-1986 . Eindhoven: van Abbemuseum, 1987 . 90 -98. Kosuth, Joseph. “Art after Philosophy...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 294–314.
Published: 01 September 2007
... suggests that the painting was to be hung following precise instructions that would allow it to be experienced in two stages. First, the viewer sees two imposing fig- ures against a background of objects that allegorically represent the Quadrivium of the liberal arts. In the midst of the pomp and luxury...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 450–453.
Published: 01 December 2016
... making. Revealingly, Calhoon discusses Schiller’s poem against the foil of Carl Blechen’s mesmerizing painting The Building of the Devil’s Bridge (1833). While he may be no pontifex (bridge-maker, in Latin) —​and to his credit, Calhoon never pontificates —​ charm is the ultimate virtue of his book...