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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of their plots, and their prophetic visions of colossal destruction that articulate a fear for the future of the Israeli state. Focusing on three texts— The Third , Mud , and Nuntia —my article goes beyond this level of engagement to ask how we should understand the particular linguistic register...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2003
... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 354–355.
Published: 01 September 2003
... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 355–358.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... THOMAS R. HART University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 358–360.
Published: 01 September 2003
... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 360–363.
Published: 01 September 2003
... OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements with numerous other writers and contexts the typically exclusive...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... THOMAS R. HART University of Oregon THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTIC PROPHECY. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. Ian Balfour’s expansive and thorough discussion of a prophetic strain running through Romantic poetry is a work to be welcomed. It complements...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 135–157.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., Gershom. “On Jonah and the Concept of Justice.” Critical Inquiry 25 (Winter 1999 ): 353 -62. Schwartz, Regina M. The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism . Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997 . Sherrill, Rowland, A. The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... Hebrew Poetry] . Tel Aviv: Zemorah-bitan, 1993 . ____. H.N. Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry . Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000 . Perloff, Marjorie. The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986 . Rabinovitsh...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... “ H. N. Bialik and the Prophetic Mode in Modern Hebrew Poetry .” B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Jewish Studies. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000 . Mishani, Dror. There Is Something Absurd about the Whole Mizrahi Thing . Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2006 . [Hebrew] Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 242–255.
Published: 01 June 2002
... in the face of the cruelty of her stepmother and stepsisters. There is a Hadith, a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, that when a Muslim sees a wrong being committed (s)he should stop it with his/her hands; if (s)he cannot, then (s)he should stop it with his/her words; and if (s)he cannot, then (s)he should...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
... and the Fasti . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995 . Potter, David. Prophets and Emperors . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994 . Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine . New York: Abrams, 1991 . Rawson, P.B. The Myth of Marsyas in the Roman Visual Arts...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 2014
... “Islamophilic,” and he emphasizes instead that they were all in different ways drawn to an idea of the prophet Mohammed as a reforming legislator who established a tolerant egalitarian republic. Invoking Derrida’s concept of the supplement, Garcia argues that Islamic republicanism was particularly...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 132–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... encounter with tidbits from Sappho’s corpus is a prophetic scrap, “Prophecy from another time.” 3 “After my life has come and gone, after my death perhaps / In a spring season / When a call returned drifts in / My songs will be heard the world over” ( Miraji 323 ; Patel 252–53 ). Following upon...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 293–312.
Published: 01 September 2006
... from the Alexander Romance.4 In his Islamic manifestation as Iskandar Dhu-l-Qarnayn, Alexander is not only a world conqueror but also a Muslim prophet and something of a messianic fig- ure. The eastern Alexander romance also existed in the less familiar Southeast Asian languages of Thai and Malay...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 26–51.
Published: 01 March 2023
... meaning at length and turned the area into a space of worship. Silko, a Laguna Pueblo writer, visited the site in 1980, and the snake remained on her mind as a symbol with prophetic power, eventually becoming a driving force for Almanac : “I had to write this novel in order to figure out for myself...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
... . Clifford, James. “Traveling Cultures.” Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997 . 17 -46. Kadir, Djelal. Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology . Berkeley: U of California P, 1992...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 162–181.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of this argument is announced in the epigraph Am Anfang Prophet, am Ende Zauberer” (118) —​ for by the end of Sebald’s essay the prophet has been exposed as a mere shell from which the conjuror would inevitably emerge. As strident and even repellent as Broch’s essays on value may sometimes seem, however...
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 June 2025
... , in which they called Mohamed a false prophet and Hinduism “was denounced as a mass of idolatry, superstition and ignorance” (Mukerji 28). Christianity is deeply ingrained in India when it comes to printing: Portuguese missionaries first introduced printing in India in 1556 when a printing press was set up...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 333–353.
Published: 01 September 2001
...LINDA KINTZ University of Oregon 2001 Barbash, Fred. “Market Guru Put Acolytes on a Wild Ride.” Washington Post 5 Mar. 2000 : H01 . Bethell, Tom. “The Prophet of Profits: George Gilder Extends His Seamless Web.” The American Spectator 9 Aug. 2000. 9 Aug. 2000 < http...