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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... mythos that locates the sacred in the here-and-now. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Emily Dickinson Rainer Maria Rilke Giovanni Pascoli science and religion poetic modernism and mystical language Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 228–240.
Published: 01 June 2007
... authentically poetic
uses of language (321-22).
II. Valente and Late Modernism in Spain
What, then, is Valente’s place in literary history? More specifically, what does
his example teach us about the reception of this Beckett-inspired late modern-
ism in the Spanish context? The most obvious...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 345–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Literature in the Twentieth Century. New
York: Oxford UP, 2012. Print.
“Modernist Indexicality: The Language of Gender, Race, and Domesticity in Hebrew and
Yiddish Modernism.” MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 72.4 (2011): 493–520. Print.
Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 463–488.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the four “blessed” types of madness: prophecy, mystical revelation, poetic inspiration, and lovesickness. . . . Christianity derived the concept of the melancholic holy man from Aristotle, who linked creative genius with the state of enthousiastikon , meaning to be possessed or inspired. (31) “Il...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 March 2014
... that existed between
languages and between places, between his Spanish roots, the success of the
poetic-prose simplicity of his popular works such as Platero y yo (1914), and his
English-language and “universal” preoccupations. The result was multigeneric
and anthological.
JIMÉNEZ, MODERNISM/O...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 421–441.
Published: 01 December 2021
... that of the mystical love poem, that supplants an earthly union with a transcendental one. In bringing the legend into Spanish, the resonances and affordances of the language become apparent, and the translation as part of the poetic act encourages transformation: a lament becomes a ghazal, a description turns...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 83–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of his triad of clarity, life, and attention. In their stead, Blanchot’s texts are marked by a fatigue that corresponds to the obscurity of the other night. It is tempting at first to read Blanchot’s fatigue as a version of a common critique of language’s exhaustion in modernity that often comes...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 369–391.
Published: 01 December 2018
... a Wunderblock remembers, inscribes, and disinscribes memory in an allegory of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious apparatuses and their interplay through a pre-conscious level of language. Freud’s mystic writing pad is an adjoining synecdoche for his system of Pcpt.-Cs (Perception...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Nicholas Rennie The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel. By Michel Chaouli. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 290 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/192...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 192–197.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in speculative philosophy, their technical language about form and formation in
organic life did not conform sufficiently to the mechanics of natural selection. So by this
measure, studies in morphology remained not so much a “backwater” (xix) as a curiosity
with possible value for a poetics of nature...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 198–201.
Published: 01 March 2004
... the economic conditions of the
early modern English printing trade. Loewenstein’s aim is not to contest more familiar
definitions that associate authorship with literary ideals such as originality and creative
imitation, with cultural notions of auctoritas, with sociological phenomena like print cir...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2004
... the economic conditions of the
early modern English printing trade. Loewenstein’s aim is not to contest more familiar
definitions that associate authorship with literary ideals such as originality and creative
imitation, with cultural notions of auctoritas, with sociological phenomena like print cir...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 2003
... as through its reinvention of a unique lan-
guage, Sanskrit, the foundational mother tongue of what would subsequently become
known as the “Indo-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2003
... subsequently become
known as the “Indo-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced
from first “races,” emanating from diverse Persian, Greek, and Roman branches. The
author also shows how...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 354–355.
Published: 01 September 2003
...-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced
from first “races,” emanating from diverse Persian, Greek, and Roman branches. The
author also shows how, throughout the nineteenth...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 355–358.
Published: 01 September 2003
... as through its reinvention of a unique lan-
guage, Sanskrit, the foundational mother tongue of what would subsequently become
known as the “Indo-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 358–360.
Published: 01 September 2003
... subsequently become
known as the “Indo-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced
from first “races,” emanating from diverse Persian, Greek, and Roman branches. The
author also shows how...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 360–363.
Published: 01 September 2003
...-European” language family. This “golden age” myth led modern Euro-
pean nations to fabricate fictitious and prestigious origins. A line of descent was traced
from first “races,” emanating from diverse Persian, Greek, and Roman branches. The
author also shows how, throughout the nineteenth...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to the Scene of the Modern . New York : Oxford UP , 1999 . 31 – 64 . Print . Perloff Marjorie . Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary . Chicago and London : U of Chicago P , 1996 . Print . Read Rupert Lavery Matthew A. . Beyond...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
... language that bridged the gap between (Muslim/Pakistani) Urdu and (Hindu/Indian) Hindi and deemphasized Persian. These critics opposed modernism ( jadidiyat ), a movement associated with Rashed and with Indo-Muslim identitarianism, as socially regressive. By setting the poem in Iran and using modern...
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