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Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness: Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Robert A. . Straws in the Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law: The Case of Northern Italy . Boulder : Westview P , 1996 . Print . Brenda Deen Schildgen
Reception, Elegy,
and Eco-Awareness:
Trees in Statius,
Boccaccio...
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Feminist Receptions of Medusa: Rethinking Mythological Figures from Ovid to Louise Bogan
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
... on Medusa as a “divine sculptor” within the poet (231) or Mary DeShazer on Bogan’s “demonic muse” (100)—perhaps hew too closely to the critical agendas of their historical moment. As classical reception theorists Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard warn in their recent volume Laughing with Medusa...
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Putting Foreignness to the Test: Rabindranath Tagore's Babu English
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... To illustrate these claims, this essay turns to the career of Rabindranath Tagore, whose auto-translations of many works, including Gitanjali and The Home and the World, render him a bilingual writer of Bengali and English literature. By close reading Tagore's translations and their receptions among early...
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Pleasure’s Swerve: Philology among Lucretius, Derrida, and Deleuze
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... a philosophical tradition such as materialism refuses to run in a straight, unitary line. This is a question of how to understand reception history: either as an unbroken tradition of faithful imitation and replication (a family genealogy, grouped under the name of the father, “Lucretius” for example), or else...
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Pascal Quignard as Sinophile: Recreating Chinese Antiquity in Contemporary France
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 32–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... classical Chinese language and thought, and his recreation of Chinese antiquity via a radical contemporization of the past. This examination demonstrates that Quignard poses important questions about cultural reception and appropriation, especially as regards the problematic relation between sinophilia...
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Impasse as a Figure of Political Space
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 144–158.
Published: 01 June 2020
... movement is blocked. Focusing on Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and the critical reception of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic among other references, this essay argues that the model of impasse and breakthrough occludes politics’ narrowness as compared with other organizations of collective well-being...
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The Ghazal as “World Poetry”: Between Worlding and Vernacularization
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., particularly in the reception of the ghazals of Agha Shahid Ali, participates in an ongoing imperialism in world literary study. In contrast, we can read the ghazals of Adrienne Rich as exemplifying the tradition of vernacularization that has enabled the ghazal’s movement between languages, such that her work...
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The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 September 2022
...R. A. Judy Abstract Offering an itinerary of the thinking that led to Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black , R. A. Judy explains the concept of “poetic socialities” mentioned in it. This explanation begins with an account of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers’ reception...
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Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 437–475.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and consumer objects common to those born in the same time-space. However, Brainard’s original and subsequent texts continuously subvert this nostalgia by juxtaposing it with hyperpersonal, sexual, or troublingly violent memories. This article argues that the form’s reception and translation was fundamentally...
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Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lara Harb Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story...
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Tutuola in the Bush of Primitivism
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... primitive,” capable of producing authentically what earlier modernist primitivists attempted to produce by simulation. The article then argues that Tutuola anticipated the reception of his texts and himself as primitive, and it describes how he manipulated a binary division in Yoruba folktales between...
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Poetry and the Production of Solidarity: Nazım Hikmet in Beijing, “Asiafrica,” and World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2025) 77 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2025
... explores Hikmet’s reception in China in the context of yafei wenxue , or “Asiafrican literature,” and its significance for literary history (particularly South-South relations) and the role of translation in world literature. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by University of Oregon 2025...
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Latin America Translated (Again): Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives in the United States
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 346–365.
Published: 01 June 2009
...SARAH POLLACK This essay addresses the cultural and political agendas that influence the selection of Latin American novels to be translated by U.S. publishers and the reception of these novels by U.S. readers. Focusing on two Latin American writers who have had enormous success in the U.S...
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National Betrayal: Language, Location, and Lesbianism in August Strindberg's Le Plaidoyer D'un Fou
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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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The Globalization of the Novel and the Novelization of the Global. A Critique of World Literature
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 336–360.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century, of a global system of production, reception, and translation of novels. The second model— the novelization of the global —focuses on the production of images of a globalized world as they are constructed in specific novels. My examples are novels by Jules...
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Who Needs Poetry? Baudelaire, Benjamin, and the Modernity of “Le Cygne”
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kevin Newmark This essay considers Baudelaire's “Le Cygne” in terms of the crucial place the poem should occupy in any theoretical reflection on literary and historical “modernity.” Despite the proliferation in recent years of references to Walter Benjamin in the reception of Baudelaire's poetry...
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Strategies of Visual Intervention: Langston Hughes and Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 169–191.
Published: 01 June 2012
... was a complex moment in the cultural reception of the novel, characterized both by public demand for new incarnations of the story and by protests against the book and the performances it inspired. Hughes, who had a long-standing relationship with the story, accepted the invitation and produced an unusual...
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Murder and “Point of View”
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
...” — and especially in The Turn of the Screw — is the kind of female protagonist scrutinized by the Goncourts' novel. I argue that the structure of The Turn of the Screw — and the critical controversies that have beset its reception history — can be explained by linking it to the two failed texts that constituted...
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Baudelaire without Benjamin: Contingency, History, Modernity
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 407–428.
Published: 01 December 2012
... as a philosopher, mystic, correspondent, revolutionary, martyr, memoirist, or stylist, his readings of Baudelaire are inadequate. The essay, proceeding in three parts, first offers an account of the surprisingly uncritical reception of Benjamin as a reader of Baudelaire. Second, it examines Benjamin's crude...
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Vladimir Nabokov's “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”: A Study in the Ethics and Effects of Literary Adaptation
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Stanislav Shvabrin Overlooked by students of John Keats's reception in Russia and misattributed by scholars researching the earliest stages of the writer's evolution, Vladimir Nabokov's Russian domestication of “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (1921) poses before its interpreter a set of problems ranging...
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