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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 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 March 2021
... with tensions foreign to the British novel. Exploring this alternative reading practice provides an opportunity to understand how Bengali and Sanskrit—in terms of literature and culture—are part of the lived experience of both Bankim and his nineteenth-century readers, and part of the aesthetic and ethical...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
... what the history of that literature is—is already to engage in an overdetermined practice of reading that is necessarily part of the violent legacy of both colonialism and Orientalism ( Jackson 11 ; Mufti 71–91 ). These same violent legacies have also shaped the movement of the ghazal between...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
... pages and the reader’s computer screen. The work’s title suggests its formal aesthetic and also the type of reading practice it promotes: a comparative textual media approach. This essay uses Between Page and Screen as a case study for considering what new possibilities and orientations are opened up...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 357–380.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., in their opposition, to the terms for literary understanding, and to the Buldung -centric figures for language practice, which Kanafani disorganizes and teaches us to read. Kanafani gives to us a critique of social and linguistic forms, and he does so as his language convolutes those forms and their time. He gives...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
... criticism in  the TRC and the TRC report. Mark Sanders takes this issue even further in his compelling Ambiguities of Wit- nessing, which poses the TRC as a whole as a kind of reading practice. There is also the question of literature and interpretation outside the TRC, and here we come back...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 257–264.
Published: 01 September 2013
... as discussions of alle- gorical versus literal readings of the Bible surely influence how the practice of lit- erary reading has come to be understood. Echoes of these debates can be found here in essays by Saba Mahmood, Tomoko Masuzawa, Jordan Alexander Stein, and Allison Schachter, all of whom point...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 September 2013
... a long series of litigation and legislation. This essay recounts a lawsuit that came before the Supreme Court of Maine in the mid-nineteenth century ( Donahoe v. Richards ) wherein the traditional practice of reading from the Bible in common schools was challenged and, perhaps for the first time...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 355–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and reading practices that foreground failures of translation and uneven transmission of meaning thwart the assumption of “cultural equivalence and substitutability” and introduce generative friction into the “we” of the textual encounter ( Apter, Against 2 ). Attending to the role of the reader thus proves...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and form. The protagonist questions the efficacy of texts and reading practices as he is introduced to a vision of the world promulgated by these men, all against the backdrop of an ongoing refugee crisis in Berlin and under the shadow of the building that once hosted the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazi...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... or the exemplariness of his practice of close reading, but simply because of his contingent position of exile. Because the details of Auerbach’s biography demonstrate for Kadir “an uncanny relationship between the degree of our sensitivity to where things do belong and the knowledge that we do not belong,” he...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in Signifying Nothing (Macmillan, 1987) and Ad Infinitum (Stanford University Press, 1993) by aligning mathematics with the philosophical problematics of semiotics. Rotman textually embodies mathematical practice by delineating a triad of subject-positions. He supplements the Platonically disembodied...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in Signifying Nothing (Macmillan, 1987) and Ad Infinitum (Stanford University Press, 1993) by aligning mathematics with the philosophical problematics of semiotics. Rotman textually embodies mathematical practice by delineating a triad of subject-positions. He supplements the Platonically disembodied...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 449–452.
Published: 01 December 2017
... specific formulation in order to stress the various “possibilities” any given lyric poem might mobilize (6). While Culler does discuss the transformations of lyric tradition, devoting a chapter to the general contours of lyric practice from the ancient Greeks to the present, he is more interested...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 333–356.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the Divide . 22 In The Logic of Practice, Bourdieu writes that “the conditionings associated with a particular class of conditions of existence produce habitus, systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
... this long held piety. I argue that reading in translation can be a valuable practice for scholars of English and comparative literature alike because it demands that we reconsider the link between the commitment to original languages and the promotion of theories of culture that prize alterity...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 86–110.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Bishupal Limbu This article looks at how democracy is figured in Nepali writer Manjushree Thapa's novel The Tutor of History , which I read intertextually with Jacques Derrida's The Politics of Friendship . I begin by examining how Thapa's literary practice disrupts the privileged position...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
... shared ground between al-Jurjani’s theory of nazm , or construction, Frank’s concept of spatial form, and Kristeva’s “spatialization” of the word in the practice of intertextual reading and demonstrates the centrality of spatial concerns to the novel’s critical commentary on the experience of modernity...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
...” and expressing knowledge via the spiral explores ways of reading experimental poetry like Vicuña's and opens experimental poetry as a site for popular readings of democratic language. The experimental politics of Vicuña's Chile, expressed by the spiral at Con-cón, refers to a poetic practice of democratic...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., the clergyman had invited men and women to his bedroom, read them the novel, and showed its illustrations. Beristain's story offers a rare glimpse into readership practices and the transmission of ideas in the eighteenth-century Spanish world. Le Portier was not just pornographic; it also had a philosophical...