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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 7. The “hot sailors” in the engine room of the Queen Mary. Arrested Development , season 3, episode 13 (2006). More
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 111–129.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of Wisconsin Press, 1984 . West, William N. Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 . Yates, Frances. The Art of Memory . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966 . READINGSPRING ROOMS...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 429–444.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Mikhal Dekel This essay argues that in emotionally and politically fraught terrains tragic literature may offer an embodied, affective critique of the existing political order that is more effective than theoretical-didactic critiques. As a form that makes room for conflict, violence, and desire...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Barbara E. Mann Abstract This essay analyzes the depiction of “things” in three modernist novels: Dovid Bergelson’s The End of Everything (Yiddish, 1913), a tale of ennui set in a provincial town outside Kiev, where faded fabrics and cherished ornaments in drawing rooms emblematize the end...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Adam Spanos Abstract This article tracks the engagement of several twentieth-century writers with a line from Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ( Journal of a Homecoming ): “et il est place pour tous au rendez-vous de la conquête” (and there is room for all at the appointed place...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 400–415.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., The Inner Room and A Scattering of Salts , demand particularly close considerations of the intertextual presence of Proust's novel. Such considerations reveal not only superficial connections between the work of the two authors, but also Merrill's deep engagement with interpretive strategies modeled...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 71–94.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of a Badiou perspective five major points are advanced: in Marlovian drama 1) there is little room for the “inconsistent multiplicity” of the ontological that is nonetheless implied in it; 2) there are no subjects and no truths, but only abject individuals and self-destructive communities, which...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Yu Dafu Fyodor Dostoevsky peripheral realism flâneur space “And did you know, Sonia, that low ceilings and cramped ( tesnye ) rooms cramp ( tesniat) the soul and mind?” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Prestuplenie i nakazanie ( Crime and Punishment ) 1 “Sir, all I have to live...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Calvino, Italo. “Tradurre è il vero modo di leggere un testo.” Saggi 1945-1985 . Vol. 2 . Ed. Mario Barenghi. Milano: Mondadori, 1985 . 1825 -1831. Carpentier, Martha. “Why an Old Shoe? Teaching Jacob's Room as l'écriture féminine.” Re: Reading, Re: Writing, Re: Teaching Virginia Woolf . Eds...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2024
...) because she forgets her lines or routine but because of what she perceives as the incongruity of the room. Prior to her audition, Quin had spent a few weeks as an assistant stage manager for a repertory company, where she haunted the empty stage reciting Shakespeare to herself and stood aloof from...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 153–171.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and tried to rape them both. . . . What happened to Rita and Vera bewildered us. It made us wonder: What was this world really like that it could push a cinematographer like Mr. P., with his refined inner world and luminous cinematic sense, to storm into a room and assault two good young women so violently...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 331–346.
Published: 01 September 2004
... . ____. The Letters of Virginia Woolf . Eds. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. 7 vols. New York: Harcourt, 1976, 1977 . ____. The Moment and Other Essays . London: Hogarth, 1952 . ____. Reading Notebooks . Berg Collection, New York Public Library, Reel 14. ____. A Room of One's Own . New York...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 242–255.
Published: 01 June 2002
...—in the Niger republic, created room for women to seek Islamic knowledge on their own terms (even if still within patriarchal space) as a means of reaching a new understanding of women’s rights within Islam and Islamic socie- ties. Ever since, women have seized the political space of liberalization to assert...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 144–160.
Published: 01 March 2010
... for Strindberg’s international reputa- tion: Fadren (1887; The Father), Fröken Julie (1888; Miss Julie) with its famous mani- festo preface, and Fordringsägare (1888; Creditors). Location is critical in each of these plays: The Father is set in the drawing room of a country manor that fi gura- tively turns...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 214–218.
Published: 01 June 2005
... during Spivak’s reading of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: “Woolf expects this attentive reading but has not received it. We have forgotten how to read with care. This book is taught forever as the call for an- drogyny, a private room, and five hundred pounds” (42). The we who have for- gotten...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 317–330.
Published: 01 September 2004
...- eral scenes of abandonment in Watt, and the aftermath of Watt’s experience of the Galls in particular: such is the “fragility of outer meaning” at Knott’s that “the scene in the music-room . . . ceased very soon to signify for Watt a piano tuned . . . if indeed it had ever signified such things...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 241–268.
Published: 01 June 2007
... a tiny village above the Bavarian town of Berch- tesgaden, Germany, about fifteen miles from Salzburg, Austria. Hitler began fre- 3 The image of the main living room is the same as the one included in the Souvenir of Berchtes- gaden album discussed below. 4 In Benjamin’s words, “all efforts...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the legend of Proust, the mythic narrative of Proust’s neurotic achievement. The now-iconic image of the invalid genius barricaded in his cork-lined room, racing to complete his masterwork before pneumonia could kill him, became in cer- tain circles inseparable from...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
... out flames, I would not have been more terrified. All of a sudden there came to me the ghastly, nightmarish feeling that we—the men grouped together in that room—were not a reality but merely some illusion” (14). This feeling of terror comes from the narrator’s confrontation with his “European ghost...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 200–219.
Published: 01 June 2013
... in the room, lucky, lucky, lucky” (218/144). In the second part of Camera Lucida, Barthes develops the notion that photogra- phy testifies to “the reality of that which has died or is going to die” (Allen 130). He comes to this insight when discussing a photo of his mother at age five in “what...