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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 (2018) 70 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 June 2018
... himself was deeply influenced by Jean Paulhan, and the problem of rhythm and speech traverses his own anthropological and autobiographical writings (see Yvert ). 5 See my Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Stanford University Press, 2017), ch.19. I completed...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
...). In chapter 6 of Aspects of the Novel , “Pattern and Rhythm,” Forster, via musical analogy, tries to express the idea of a “sensory” sense of unity, the presence of a rationally inexplicable “tempo” in a novel. According to him, a pattern implies a “unity” that, however, should not come at the expense...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as the effect of a notion of rhythm that is bound neither to the imperial authority of history nor to mathematical measures, but rather emerges in the variety and contradictoriness of traces that language impresses upon itself, through the play of shifting economies of meaning, changing image patterns...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 430–448.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to draw the traditional rhythm of English blank verse into uneasy relation with the sound of classical epic (traditionally composed in dactylic hexameter). Concomitant with this rhythmic counterpoint is a contrast of voices in the translation, varying between a hard-edged, consonantal “Anglo-Saxon” sound...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 194–212.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Boris Maslov; Tatiana Nikitina Abstract Building on statistical approaches to poetic meter, this article puts forward a new quantitative method for exploring syllabo-accentual verse that takes into account several formal properties, including rhythm, rhyming, and stanzaic architecture. Against...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... influences and inflections, an implicit poetics that stands in opposition to his explicit pronouncements. Over the course of his long career, Shlonsky and his critics largely erased from his canonical image the Yiddish resonances and rhythms that surface in his early poetry, as well as the affiliations...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Ada Smailbegović Abstract This article theorizes the edge between the land and the sea in Marianne Moore’s poetry and in Jeff Wall’s photograph “The Flooded Grave.” For these artists, the edge is constituted as an array of fluctuating temporal rhythms created by living organisms and dynamic abiotic...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
... dreamscapes of carbon-based capitalism—but they are also potential commons in which different rhythms of existence come into view. 32 As Crimp puts it: “the complexity of Baltrop’s legacy resides not only in the record his photographs provide of utopian and dystopian occurrences, but also...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 72–86.
Published: 01 January 2000
... in the Late Romantic Lied.” Musical Quarterly 59.4 ( 1973 ): 497 -518. ____. The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 . Lahey, G.F. Gerard Manley Hopkins . London: Oxford University Press, 1931 . Leech, G.N. “Music in Metre: “Sprung Rhythm...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 170–173.
Published: 01 March 2006
... (Vrin, 2000), dissected the limits of Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s philosophies of
language for exploring the linguistic diversity of historical communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2006
... communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing transformations in our globalized world.
Michon begins with an overview of theories of globalization, concluding that although
there is general consensus...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 175–177.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of historical communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing transformations in our globalized world.
Michon begins with an overview of theories of globalization, concluding that although
there is general...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2006
... communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing transformations in our globalized world.
Michon begins with an overview of theories of globalization, concluding that although
there is general consensus...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the linguistic diversity of historical communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing transformations in our globalized world.
Michon begins with an overview of theories of globalization, concluding...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2006
... (Vrin, 2000), dissected the limits of Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s philosophies of
language for exploring the linguistic diversity of historical communities. His new book
introduces the idea of rhythm—social, corporeal, and linguistic—in order to give us new
ways to articulate the ongoing...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2002
... socially, determined. For al-
though Whybrow consistently argues for a biological origin of mood, based on
strictly biological rhythms, his case studies always seem to suggest that these moods
must to some extent be determined by others; the narratives often begin, for ex-
ample, with the testimony...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 312–318.
Published: 01 September 2015
...).
The rhythm of media history, then, is the long arc of the exile of orality and its
triumphant return. Homeric song and television may not be identical, but they
rhyme across the ages. The long period of the mind’s alienation in manuscript
and print culture —in forms of objectification, mechanization...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 436–454.
Published: 01 December 2019
... on this notion to suggest that the poem is an instantiation of the individual rhythms of human speech. Even more so, in his reworking of terms drawn from the Bible translation, poetry not only gives one a measure of breath but also indicates the places where the breath might become obstructed, where...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 182–202.
Published: 01 June 2011
... deconstructs mimetic representation and the
modes of subjective self-reflection associated with it. He also suggests that rhythm,
as a dynamic auditory presence, is prior to the emergence of any kind of visual
representation or figure. The emergence and (inevitable) disappearance of rhythm
from...
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