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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Sonderband 29 , 1992 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/130 LINA STEINER Pushkin’s Parable of the Prodigal Daughter: The Evolution of the Prose Tale from Aestheticism to Historicism INCE THEIR PUBLICATION in 1831, Pushkin’s The Tales of the Late...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 233–235.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jonas Elbousty [email protected] The Arabic Prose Poem: Theory and Practice , by Huda Fakhreddine . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2021 . 288 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 In her recently published book, The Arabic Prose Poem...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Dina Berdichevsky Abstract This article explores the moment of “invention” of the Hebrew mood. Around the year 1900 a new expression for mood appeared in Hebrew: matsav ruah . The articulation of a new linguistic expression was paralleled by the rise of an original atmospheric prose, mood prose...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Alex Spektor The essay offers a comparative study of “narrative ethics” in the prose of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Witold Gombrowicz. Analyzing the relationship between the texts' poetics and moral philosophy, the essay investigates how narrative dynamics of fiction shape the ethical parameters...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Stefanie Heine This article examines how breathing pauses organize prose rhythm in ancient rhetoric and in modernist texts. In Virginia Woolf’s “Time Passes” and “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” as well as in a late chapter of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities , breath...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Kayvan Tahmasebian; Rebecca Ruth Gould Abstract Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 370–393.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Molly Brunson In fragmented fever dreams of St. Petersburg’s cityscape and during frenzied flights on country roads, Nikolai Gogol represents imperial Russia with a unique, often disorienting descriptive prose, which has been considered both striking in its realism and protomodernist in its...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
...? Is the target audience of the translated text even mappable onto an original text’s schema of hurdle and target audiences? The writings of Varlam Shalamov further complicate the translation of Aesopian texts. Whereas Leona Toker and others identify Aesopian moments in Shalamov’s prose, Svetlana Boym argues...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 408–435.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Irina D. Rasmussen Abstract In the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses , James Joyce dramatizes the evolution of English prose styles by creating a stylistic matrix for gestation. This article links the episode’s stylistic evolution to the historical development of liberal thought about autonomy...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The article pays particular attention to the novelist’s adaptation of two forms of Sanskrit prose, the kathā and the ākhyāyikā , and his exploration of the śṛngāra (erotic) rasa . While the Bengali novel emerges after the introduction of its Victorian counterpart, the former is a product of engagement...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Alexander Lewis Abstract This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quotation from Wittgenstein: “Can the concept of God exist in a perfectly logical...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 416–431.
Published: 01 September 2009
... refers to the French phrase as though it were a theoretical concept instead of the title of a prose work by Beckett published in 1961. In this essay I attempt to rectify that oversight by demonstrating that within Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Beckett's Comment c'est functions not as an artwork...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 144–160.
Published: 01 March 2010
... trajectory for understanding the emergence of European transnational prose modernism. In its conception, publication, and reception, A Madman's Defense straddles both national and linguistic borders; its plot involves travel trajectories that link Sweden with the continent, and Stockholm with Paris...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 376–398.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a paradigmatic figure of European modernity, the flâneur , and contemporary Chinese poetry, in particular the poetic prose cycle “Guihua” (“Ghost Speech/Lies”) written by Chinese poet Yang Lian during his exile in Auckland, New Zealand, after June Fourth 1989. Emerging out of the relationship between Europe...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
... narrators' method of interweaving the narrative with an incessant squabble/dialogue/interaction with their mock readers and listeners. Charlotte Summers offered Chulkov, then a novice fiction writer, ways to undermine the earnest authoritative narrative voice ubiquitous in early Russian prose fiction...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with Haitian authors generally and with the works of the Baron de Vastey (1781–1820) in particular. Vastey composed at least ten prose works, all of which circulated either in the original or in English translation in the Atlantic World. U.S. newspapers in the north that printed or reviewed Vastey's works...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 383–407.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Anthony Cordingley This article elucidates the dialectic between Pythagorean-Platonic and Democritean ideas latent in Beckett's final work of long prose, Comment c'est/How It Is (1961/1964), and measures the importance of Beckett's perception of philosophy gained through his study of Wilhelm...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in the French Prose Lancelot” . Lancelot and Guenevere: A Casebook . Ed. Walters Lori J. . New York : Garland Publishing , 1996 . 247 0– 65 . Print . Colby Alice . Portrait in Twelfth-Century French Literature . Geneva : Droz , 1965 . Print . Davis Natalie Zemon . The Return...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 228–240.
Published: 01 June 2007
...JONATHAN MAYHEW University of Oregon 2007 Beckett, Samuel. Collected Shorter Plays . New York: Grove Press, 1984 . ____. The Complete Short Prose: 1929-1989 . Ed. S.E. Gontarski. New York: Grove Press, 1995 . ____. Nohow On . Ed. S.E. Gontarski. New York: Grove Press, 1996...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
... for the philosophical roots of Russian mod- ernist literature by reading the prose of one of the most recently discovered Rus- sian modernists: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950). Krzhizhanovsky’s posi- tion in Russian literature is at once unique and exemplary in several important ways. Not the least...