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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of distance and familiarity. Through its juxtaposition of stories, the tale anatomizes fortunate and unfortunate human lives; it dramatizes the latter through the practical joke. The tale and its storyteller, Shahrazad, try to teach brotherhood and compassion for human weakness to a reader figured as an all...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 68–88.
Published: 01 January 2010
...&sid=119&id=50288&ar >. [Arabic] Bhabha, Homi. “Joking Aside: The Idea of a Self-Critical Community.” Modernity, Culture, and “the Jew.” Ed. Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998 . xv -xx. ———. “Minority Maneuvers and Unsettled Negotiations.” Front Lines...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 366–369.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Timothy Peltason The Practice of Reading. By Denis Donoghue. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 307 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/363
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 363–366.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Dionysian rites at center stage. Such rituals,
of course, allow for Wise’s titular pun.
Theories that link Greek theatre’s origins to ritual are difficult to refute, at least in any
categorical sense, especially if ritualistic practice is allowed sufficiently broad definition.
Even if one rejects...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 369–372.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Dionysian rites at center stage. Such rituals,
of course, allow for Wise’s titular pun.
Theories that link Greek theatre’s origins to ritual are difficult to refute, at least in any
categorical sense, especially if ritualistic practice is allowed sufficiently broad definition.
Even if one rejects...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 372–376.
Published: 01 September 2000
... if ritualistic practice is allowed sufficiently broad definition.
Even if one rejects the (now widely discounted) ideas of the Cambridge anthropologists
in this regard, including Gilbert Murray’s suggested alignment of ritual sequence and
dramaturgical structure in tragedy, there remains plenty of ritual...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 97–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
... at stake, both theoretically
and practically, in whether or not we understand “literature” as an essentialist or
a relativist concept. Indeed, one could argue that a significant part of the history
of European and American twentieth-century literary theory traces a shift from
one to the other. Russian...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 383–401.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and perception is “a theme which embraces both literature and politics in
our time . . . . At stake is the historic result of our thinking; . . . our traditional
way of seeing. . . . Masters must learn to read the meaning contained in the signa-
tures of their former slaves” (63). The practice of reading...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and artifice, spontaneous outcry and practiced imitation, between speech and lyric. The nightingale is animate, while the reed’s vacuity requires breath. People speak, but the lyric needs a reader, a voice to inhabit. It begins to make sense, then, why the nightingale has been historically associated...
