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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 455–457.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Mike Chasar Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres . By Ramazani Jahan . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . 285 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 BOOK REVIEWS / 455...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 213–231.
Published: 01 June 2025
...Charline Jao Abstract Looking at two of American abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet’s orations, one to the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840 (which references Ebenezer Elliott’s “Jacobin’s Prayer” from Corn Law Rhymes) and another to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in 1843 (which...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in a coat of many colors And with the dawn lead me to toil. My land is wrapped in light like a prayer shawl, Houses stand like frontlets Roads stream like phylactery straps, paved by many palms. Here the lovely...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 215–228.
Published: 01 June 2002
... is settled on the island. Within hours of landing on the island, Alter-Leb is outwardly transforming into a devout Jew: he chants Hebrew prayers (1:26), manifesting for the first time that he practices Judaism. His prayers bring comfort and give him strength. In- wardly the tie with Jewishness may...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 203–223.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Testament ( Matthew 3 :33–34) to emphasize this connection between Johannes and the preacher of the desert, before suggesting that the feminine image of cloth that arises in Johannes’s prayer suggests the longing for a matriarchal rather than a patriarchal God (42). This reading presupposes, however...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 82–116.
Published: 01 March 2025
... necessary to properly handle the exigencies of either profession is shown by his prayer to Venus, the richness of his interior monologues, and the care with which he creates, dresses, “adorns,” and reveres the statue. Another major modification of Ovid’s tale is that the statue is directly granted...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 91–110.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Law . London : Macmillan , 1910 . Print . ———. Dante: Six Sermons . 2nd ed. London : Elkin Mathews , 1890 . Print . ———. Is Christianity Practical? London : William Reeves , 1884 . Print . ———. Our Prayer and Our Politics . London : Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... uses the Latinate Vigilie instead of the more common German Vigil . This word recalls infrequent nighttime ceremonies, such as the prayer before Christmas or the watch over the dead prior to burial. The vigilance of the poem is a linguistic one, a “word vigil,” and it alludes to the traveling...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... “Prayer” is one translation of the Hawaiian word pule ; in their entry for pupule in the Hawaiian Dictionary , Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Ebert speculate that pupule is derived from pule ( 367 ). 8 I thank Richard Hamasaki for pointing out the influence of Ram Dass on Westlake’s practice...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 348–350.
Published: 01 September 2017
... less surprising is the fact that Yeshurun’s poem echoes the only Hassidic Yiddish prayer to have entered the canon of Jewish liturgy: “Gott fon Abram,” by Rabbi Levy Yitshak of Berditshev. Yeshurun demonstrates the “un-cleanness” of his Hebrew by using expressions such as “hap lap” (un-serious...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on the Left who have failed to “grasp the deep affective practices and meanings that underlie mere statistics on subur- ban demographics or school prayer. Between Jesus and the Market does supply empirical data on these issues, but its unwavering focus is the emotional terrain between—between absolutist...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 182–184.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on the Left who have failed to “grasp the deep affective practices and meanings that underlie mere statistics on subur- ban demographics or school prayer. Between Jesus and the Market does supply empirical data on these issues, but its unwavering focus is the emotional terrain between—between absolutist...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 184–185.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on the Left who have failed to “grasp the deep affective practices and meanings that underlie mere statistics on subur- ban demographics or school prayer. Between Jesus and the Market does supply empirical data on these issues, but its unwavering focus is the emotional terrain between—between absolutist...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on the Left who have failed to “grasp the deep affective practices and meanings that underlie mere statistics on subur- ban demographics or school prayer. Between Jesus and the Market does supply empirical data on these issues, but its unwavering focus is the emotional terrain between—between absolutist...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 188–192.
Published: 01 March 2000
... on the Left who have failed to “grasp the deep affective practices and meanings that underlie mere statistics on subur- ban demographics or school prayer. Between Jesus and the Market does supply empirical data on these issues, but its unwavering focus is the emotional terrain between—between absolutist...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
... ) Césaire’s “prière virile” ( Césaire, Journal 128 ; “robust prayer,” Césaire, Journal 129) is directed not to God, but to himself. It resists the stultifying effects of both a transcendental solution and the spectacle. And what Césaire asks of himself—of his “body” and “soul,” as well as his “heart...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on the sea for all the remainder of her days. Notably here, in contrast to the facial scar, eye patch, and ma‘unat al-muḥtājīn prayers of Hlehel’s Au Revoir Acre , all crafted as facile loci of empathic identification, Ala and Ariel possess no sites of memory in common. What they do share...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 248–252.
Published: 01 June 2025
... David . “ Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils .” Public Culture 12 , no. 2 (2000): 529 – 64 . Jao Charline . “ Jacobin Prayers and Byronic Blows: The Black Romanticism of Henry Highland Garnet’s Orations .” Comparative Literature 77 , no. 2 (2025): 213 – 231...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 14–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
... prayer, he tailors the experience to his own tastes and talents, elevating literary concerns above all others: Sed quid horum omnium scire, quid ve de his loqui possum, peccator infelix et peccati mei pondus ac vincula circumferens, qui vel amore literarum amicum otio et literis locum amo, vel fortasse...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 81–95.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... Cervantes ingeniously incorporates the prayer to Saint Apollonia from Celes- tina’s act 4 on different occasions, but particularly in Part Two of the Quijote (chapters 4, 7, and 15), framing the episode in which Sansón Carrasco appears as el Caballero de la Blanca Luna (“the Knight of the White Moon...