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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Amir Engel Abstract While there is growing interest in the postwar era, the cultural characteristics of the period after World War II and the period’s historical scope are still largely underdetermined. The purpose of this article is to offer a more nuanced use of the term postwar and insights...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., pattern-based,
and dependent on reductive models of the texts they treat. If you argue, for
instance (and as I have), that certain late modernist novels use allegory and ency-
clopedism to respond to the untenability of high modernist representational tech-
niques in a postwar cultural environment...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the preparatory “Meridian” materials, in which the term Kolen recurs in the explicit context of mass death in Auschwitz and Treblinka. German postwar culture embraced the image of the beautiful Jew, as Celan well noted. He responded to this phenomenon through a reappropriation of anti-Semitic discourse: Deine...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2004 . Print . Bhabha Homi K. “Sly Civility.” The Location of Culture . New York : Routledge , 1994 . 132 – 44 . Print . Bowen-Struyk Heather . “Postwar Anthologies Remember the Prewar: Censorship and the Textual Condition of ‘The Family...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 101–105.
Published: 01 March 2016
... willing participant.
The final chapter, “The Postwar and Beyond,” looks at the role of Genji as “embodying a
quintessentially postwar need to reimagine Japan as a ‘country of culture’ (bunkakoku)
whose truest traditions were rooted in peace” (364) and Hakuchō’s somewhat quixotic
resistance...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Michael Cronin Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory. By Bella Brodzki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS
CAN THESE BONES LIVE? TRANSLATION...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2010
... THESE BONES LIVE? TRANSLATION, SURVIVAL, AND CULTURAL MEMORY. By Bella Brodzki.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p.
There is a cartoon from the New Yorker reproduced in this book that shows a man stand-
ing by his telephone. His fi ngers mark the page in a book that he has clearly been...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., SURVIVAL, AND CULTURAL MEMORY. By Bella Brodzki.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p.
There is a cartoon from the New Yorker reproduced in this book that shows a man stand-
ing by his telephone. His fi ngers mark the page in a book that he has clearly been inter-
rupted in reading...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., AND CULTURAL MEMORY. By Bella Brodzki.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p.
There is a cartoon from the New Yorker reproduced in this book that shows a man stand-
ing by his telephone. His fi ngers mark the page in a book that he has clearly been inter-
rupted in reading...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
... THESE BONES LIVE? TRANSLATION, SURVIVAL, AND CULTURAL MEMORY. By Bella Brodzki.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 272 p.
There is a cartoon from the New Yorker reproduced in this book that shows a man stand-
ing by his telephone. His fi ngers mark the page in a book that he has clearly been...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 March 2000
... . 3 ( 1989 ): 329 -48. Finn, Richard B. Winners in Peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 . Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents . Trans. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1962 . Gailey, Harry A. Bougainville 1943-1945...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of psychoanalysis as a discipline in postwar France. Lacan’s (post)-structuralist neo-Freudianism electrified the French scene and made psychoanalysis an unavoidable touchstone for postwar French thinkers. Additionally, psychoanalysis—with its focus on sexuality, the family, and gender—offered Derrida terms helpful...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 316–324.
Published: 01 September 2012
...-1672970 © 2012 by University of Oregon
CAMUS, OUR CONTEMPORARY / 317
Today, the life and work of Albert Camus appear to have regained a significant,
if not a crucial, place in our intellectual and cultural landscape. To be sure, Camus
had already “resurfaced...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 456–459.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Mark Whalan The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution . By Lee Steven S. . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . 285 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 456
While Holub’s book is able to give a clear voice...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
...HAUN SAUSSY University of Oregon 2005 Chomsky, Noam, et al., eds. The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years. New York: New Press, 1997 . H.R. 3077. “Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute.” 18 Mar. 2004 < http://edworkforce.house.gov...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 408–426.
Published: 01 December 2016
... that he shares with a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl named Lena, whom
he has continued to hide even after the war ended —one within the castle and its
trappings of beauty, art, and culture from bygone days, a bulwark against the ugli-
ness of postwar Europe and its new reigning ideologies positioned...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of the Postwar Years . By Chomsky Noam . New York : New Press , 1997 . 1 – 34 . Print . Ohmann Richard . “A Kinder, Gentler Nation: Education and Rhetoric in the Bush Era.” JAC 10 . 2 ( 1990 ): 215 – 30 . Print . Reed Adolph Jr. “A GI Bill for Everybody.” Dissent...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 437–475.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., memory 52) or celluloid wrapping that protected car windshields from bugs (71, memory 271). 23 Much like Barthes’s Mythologies (1957), Perec’s Je me souviens provides a historical record of everyday life and popular culture in postwar France, albeit without analytical commentary. Perec must...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 June 2024
... European Jewish culture (especially Hasidism) was not Rothenberg’s innovation, but it was even more unexpected in 1970s America than it was in early twentieth-century Europe. In postwar America, the chronologically and geographically distant culture of eastern European Jews was recalled only by way...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... I also gave her peculiar piece called Expressive Language, which I hope you dig if you even get the chance. A hopeful addition to semantic philosophy but taken from attitude to of [sic] seeking to weight cultural references by the meanings specific cultures give to words, &c. Very short...
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