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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Sami Shalom Chetrit In this essay I offer a radical Mizrahi reading of the poetry of the Ashkenazi Zionist poet Haim Nahman Bialik—that is, a reading that examines Jewish and Israeli history and culture through the radical Mizrahi discourse that has evolved in Israel during the past generation...
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The Oasis Poets: Perpetrators, Victims, and Soldier Testimony
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 366–382.
Published: 01 December 2011
... ever a victim (a common descriptor of soldiers after Vietnam and the advent of PTSD in 1980) or something between these two testamentary categories? And — most pertinent for this article — is there such a thing as a perpetrator voice, perspective, or aesthetic when the poet dispassionately records...
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Russia’s Radical Byron: Reexamining the “Decembrist Pushkin”
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Emily Wang Abstract Lord Byron’s reputation in Russia’s literary imagination might surprise those who remember him not only as a multifaceted poet or political commentator, but also as a sexual libertine. Following his death in Greece, the tempestuous Byron came to stand for both freedom...
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The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... investigates how contemporary poets from Ireland and from the Anglophone Caribbean engage with the myths of the sea in their work. It examines the poetry of Lorna Goodison (Jamaica), Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Republic of Ireland), and Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia), demonstrating...
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Celestial Asterisks: Referential Openness and the Language of “Transcendence” In Emily Dickinson, Giovanni Pascoli, and Rainer Maria Rilke
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lisa A. Barca This essay explores how the poets Emily Dickinson (American, 1830–1886), Giovanni Pascoli (Italian, 1855–1912), and Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian-Austrian, 1875–1926) each use celestial imagery, such as the sun and stars, to represent the modern mystery ushered in by scientific...
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Dialogues across the Continent: The Influence of Czesław Miłosz on Seamus Heaney
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Magdalena Kay This article analyzes the influence of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz on Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney in reference to two poems — Miłosz's biographical, ethically self-critical “Bypassing Rue Descartes” and Heaney's ethical allegory “From the Republic of Conscience” — which serve...
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Jiménez, Modernism/O, and the Languages of Comparative Modernist Studies
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Gayle Rogers This essay engages several methodological and linguistic quandaries that have arisen in comparative modernist studies since its “transnational” or “global” turn. It does so through the work of the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez and his curious position between modernismo and English...
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“Mine from ’33; Yours from ’41”: Poetic Reinventions in Post-Maidan Ukraine
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 207–226.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of East European borders. In the wake of the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests, poets in Ukraine have sought to correct the failures of both Soviet nationalities policy and post-Soviet Ukrainian national-identity formation by weaving Jewish, Ukrainian, and Crimean Tatar histories of collective trauma...
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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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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
...NAOMI BRENNER From the early years of his long and prolific writing career, Hebrew poet Avraham Shlonsky continually wrote and rewrote himself into the early twentieth-century cultural scene as consummate artist and ideologue. Affiliating his artistic persona with a new Zionist language, ideology...
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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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The Flâneur in Exile
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a paradigmatic figure of European modernity, the flâneur , and contemporary Chinese poetry, in particular the poetic prose cycle “Guihua” (“Ghost Speech/Lies”) written by Chinese poet Yang Lian during his exile in Auckland, New Zealand, after June Fourth 1989. Emerging out of the relationship between Europe...
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Wordsworth, Baudelaire, and the Limits of Poetic Insight
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 150–168.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... The essay argues that it is ultimately in those fleeting moments when the ability of the poet to enter into the lives of others is thwarted that the limits of a Romantic poetics can be established. In particular, the essay focuses on those occasions, in the work of both writers, when the process...
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Amid the Ruins of Time: The Classics as Modernist Project in Gadamer and Seferis
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 166–184.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Ricardo Apostol Both the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Greek poet Giorgos Seferis attempted to solve the problem of classical reception by connecting the modern reader with the poetry of ancient Greece. Read according to Gadamer, Seferis's poetry of the 1930s articulates and enacts...
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Romanticism beyond the Grave: The Exhumation of Jorge Isaacs’s Body and the Political Modernization of the Romantic Hero in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 232–247.
Published: 01 June 2025
...Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez Abstract Two years after a bloody civil war between liberals and conservatives tore apart Colombia between 1899 and 1902, the political leaders of the conservative stronghold of Medellín exhumed the remains of the liberal poet Jorge Isaacs to move them to their city...
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Passing Impasse
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... found in ecological relations. Rather than accept the strict dichotomies of the logic of enclosure, the essay explores how these poets enact and theorize modes of passing in order to renew attention to temporary and seasonally determined forms of impasse and passage. Copyright © 2020 by University...
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Gained in Translation: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Soviet Travels
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Lusia Zaitseva Abstract This article expands our understanding of cultural exchange between the Soviet Union and writers from the third world during the eras of Thaw and Stagnation. It examines Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s little-known Urdu-language travelogue about his time in the USSR, Mah o...
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“My Unwritten Novel”: The Long Poems of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh between Genre and Form
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Gregory Goulding Abstract The long poems of the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–64) present a series of fantastic narratives, in which a nameless speaker journeys through a fantastic landscape. These works, often analyzed solely in terms of a supposed mythic, romantic structure, should...
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Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2022
...—to investigate how a young Yiddish poet textualized old age and age ambiguity in his early work. To do so, the article first investigates the cultural assumptions concerning age in European Yiddish writing circulating toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It then turns...
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Pasolini in/and Catalonia: Translation, Minority Languages, and Internationalism
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Jerry White Abstract This article posits that Pier Paolo Pasolini’s long engagement with Catalonia offers important insights into his practice as a poet, filmmaker, and thinker about language, as well as explaining the nature of his influence on other European cinemas. The first part of the article...
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