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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 25–34.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Kerry Bystrom In part to reflect on a “practical turn” in recent comparative literary criticism, this essay asks what role(s) writing and reading literature can play in the provision of remedy for historical injustice. Specifically, it looks at the case of South Africa's democratic transition...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 295–316.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of remedial education in the medium-specificity of all works of literary art. Indeed, Pressman’s analysis of Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse’s Between Page and Screen in her contribution to this special issue of Comparative Literature provides an object lesson in the challenges comparative textual media...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Leerom Medovoi As an environmental term, “remediation” converges with “sustainability,” “resilience,” and “greening” to evoke an ethically positive resolution to ecological crisis and suggest the restoration of some nearly lost vitality through the neutralization of its afflictions. Although...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of politically engaged literature and literary criticism to remediate (to rectify, to correct inequities) the circumstances that produce loss. The argument unfolds in two parts. The first examines the relationship of literature to two meanings of to remediate : 1) to solve problems; and 2) to cure. Engaging...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jeffrey J. Williams This essay focuses on the remediation of higher education in the U.S. In the period after World War II, higher education was cast as a remediation of social ills, particularly inequality. The period saw the opening of colleges and universities to unprecedented numbers of people...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Peter Hitchcock This article examines how critical concepts interact between disciplines as a measure of their priorities and possibilities. In particular, the critique focuses on the identity and identification processes of comparative literature and how these might be reconfigured, or remediated...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 375–393.
Published: 01 December 2015
... national typing based on immutable factors such as climate and physiology was reformulated in a way that foregrounded history and human agency. The old discourse of civic humanism, with its emphasis on virtues and good government, is invoked here both as explanation and remedy for Italy's decline. Staël's...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... writers were preoccupied with the alleged material and cultural poverty of China in comparison to the West. To remedy this purported backwardness, Chinese writers appropriated from foreign literatures, especially Russian realism, narrative themes and techniques such as the use of metonymy in the depiction...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Sophia A. McClennen © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 Works Cited Bolter J. David Grusin Richard A. . Remediation: Understanding New Media . MIT Press , 2000 . Print . Remak Henry H.H. “Comparative Literature, Its Definition and Function.” Comparative...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to literary modernism in contemporary electronic literature. Works like Pressman’s Digital Modernism constitute the second strand of the material turn: a body of literary critical work that considers, on the one hand, material remediations and innovations of the “analog” medium of the book in a “digital...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and World , 1968 . 69 – 82 . Bolter Jay David , and Grusin Richard . Remediation: Understanding New Media . Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 1999 . Brantley Jessica . Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England . Chicago : U of Chicago...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 351–369.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Video Games Matter . Pantheon , 2010 . Print . Bolter J. David Grusin Richard . Remediation: Understanding New Media . Cambridge : MIT Press , 1999 . Print . Bourdieu Pierre . The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature . New York : Columbia UP , 1993...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 119–141.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the Subject: Remediation in House of Leaves.” American Literature 4 ( 2002 ): 779 -806. Print. ———. “Translating Media: Why We Should Rethink Textuality.” Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 2 ( 2003 ): 263 -90. Print. Heidegger, Martin. Identität und Differenz . 1957...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 438–447.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., we keep our lanterns lit. University of Chicago Works Cited Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Print. Cros, Charles. Œuvres complètes de Charles Cros. Ed. Louis Forestier...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 357–368.
Published: 01 September 2018
... if the outcome of that exercise obliges us to reconsider the history of this material turn. Is this turn, moreover, a rupture or a continuation, a turn or a return (and if so, of what)? Is it an example of remediation or, quite differently, an example of “repurposing,” the way an old form or medium adapts itself...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 450–453.
Published: 01 December 2016
... as collective song” as a remedy to “collective guilt” (219). Calhoon thus shies away, if only for a moment, from the most radical consequence of his discussion: namely, that modern sovereign subjects are as little entitled to claim innocence for themselves, either individually or collectively...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2016
... —​a victory deemed fatal by Sam- uel Taylor Coleridge, whose work aimed to reclaim the purposeful values debased by modernity. Pfau devotes the final two hundred pages of his book to a rich, sophisticated, and highly nuanced reading of Coleridge’s position, which is presented as a much-needed remedy...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 385–402.
Published: 01 December 2021
...) of identities in the 1980s, pithily packaged as “black, blanc, beur.” According to Noiriel, Rouabhi’s play aggravates rather than remedies “les clivages identitaires” ( 150–51 ; identitarian rifts), indulging in the memory of a particular group at the expense of others and, more gravely, at the expense...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 160–175.
Published: 01 June 2018
... pointing out that he tried to brand “the letter M” on the face of his slave creates a macabre reality effect that might be lost in a narrative of violence. Despite these differences, both catalogues emerge through processes of remediation, which amplify the effects of the device. Dickens’s catalogue...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 90–93.
Published: 01 January 2007
...) is to suggest that the politi- cal and material reality of the subaltern can somehow magically be remedied through theoretical interventions. This is a form of critical hubris that risks exploiting the very groups of people progressive forms of criticism seek to champion. Into the breach between purely...