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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 4. The picture of Sophie, port truck driver in Le Havre. Screen capture from JR’s and Agnès Varda’s 2017 documentary Faces Places. More
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 31–45.
Published: 01 March 2016
...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...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Adam Spanos Abstract This article tracks the engagement of several twentieth-century writers with a line from Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ( Journal of a Homecoming ): “et il est place pour tous au rendez-vous de la conquête” (and there is room for all at the appointed place...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 201–227.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... The article compares these images to metaphors of interlinguality used by other poets in exile such as Ovid, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Eva Hoffman. Four images are singled out: the capsule, the mountaintop, the nest, and the abyss. In the case of the capsule, externality is a place of isolation...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Paul A. Bové Since Bruce Robbins's Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State deals with the novel, readers will rightly place it next to Lukacs and more recent historians and theoreticians of the genre. Critically, however, I believe it is also important...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2015
... their visions of a communist future in which the very character of labor is transformed. In showing how Sand and Marx place the development and emancipation of sensuous life at the heart of their humanist projects, this discussion attends to the place of Sand's fiction in a wider history of ideas and argues...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 224–239.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Jan Mieszkowski Abstract This essay seeks to answer a deceptively simple question: what takes place when someone claims to be remarking on something “in passing”? The first part focuses on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas , where the politico-economic order is shaken by challenges...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., and Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories of narrative space, and contemporary theories of world literature, this article argues that Somali diasporic literature places at its imaginative and symbolic core the concept of the border. In so doing, Somali diasporic literature interlocks formal...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 22–40.
Published: 01 January 2010
... envisages a vital and bellicose society in which violent impulses are given free rein. His poems earned him a place in the medieval imagination as a highly dangerous figure bent on provoking uprisings: thus Dante placed him in Hell, carrying his own severed head. Bertran's oeuvre, then, demonstrates...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... writing, or my reading of each through the flâneur , touch stands as a figure for, and embodiment of, a comparative poetics that deploys a flâneur -like hypersensitivity to the duality of language to bring places and times into encounter, acknowledging their mutually constituting and irreconcilable...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... particularities of the time and place of the work's composition. What Auerbach famously called the “incomparable historical vantage point” of his exile in Istanbul, these critics argue, has inextricably shaped the contours of his work as a critic. This essay suggests that focusing on exile as Auerbach's most...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Manisha Basu This article examines a selection of Rabindranath Tagore's essays with a view to demonstrating that the Indian Nobel Laureate was distressed about the fact that in the early twentieth century the modern historical sense was eclipsing the place of poetics in the colonial world. In place...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 220–241.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the dead. It is an emotive experience that, in repressed form, manifests first as identification with the dead. The essay thus documents the complex “working-through” by which, in response to their fathers' deaths, two “tardy sons” finally arrive at a place of self-identification, a site from which...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 406–428.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... To put it differently, it is highly indexical language. This poses problems both for understanding and for translation. How do you talk about sexuality when talking about different times and places in which different languages are spoken and different implicit structures of cultural concepts produce...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...David Quint Abstract Contrary to the views of Hegelian critics, epic from its Homeric beginnings has projected a future time and future readers beyond its narrative frame. The genre does not close itself off in a heroic past. The episode of the Phaeacian banquet in the Odyssey places a utopian...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in the context of other recent Ukrainian poems and songs, the author argues that this “civic turn” in Ukrainian identity formation is both a direct response to conversations taking place about the meaning of the Maidan, and part of a global conversation about privilege, erasure, and culpability. Kiyanovska’s...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 172–187.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-racism at the interface of flesh and place, metaphor and materiality, ecology and affect—contradictions manifested in the ways in which Brown and Black bodies were mapped onto the triumphalist architecture of socialist internationalism. Attending to built infrastructures—metro stations, sports arenas...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 202–218.
Published: 01 June 2022
... thinnai , it demonstrates how creolization theories need to be adjusted to capture and evaluate the cultural transformations which took place in enclaves such as Pondicherry, founded between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries on India’s coasts by a range of European powers. Equally, it deploys...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
...William Coker This essay aims to contribute to a growing body of criticism devoted to the paradox of John Keats's peculiarly political aestheticism. Keats places a seemingly disinterested aestheticism squarely within the matrix of history, at a time when history itself was coming into its own...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 267–286.
Published: 01 September 2015
...” but place a wager, nonetheless, on a European cultural and political project founded upon the value of the temporary as both a promoter of mobility and pluralism and a custodian of limits. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 literary constructions of Europeanness European cultural history exile...