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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 166–184.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Amid the Ruins of Time: The Classics as Modernist Project in Gadamer and Seferis N THEIR OWN DIFFERENT WAYS and in spite of the thirty-year gap between I their major published works, the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Greek poet Giorgos...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 491–493.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Sebastiaan Faber Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics . By Enjuto-Rangel Cecilia . West Lafayette : Purdue University Press , 2010 . xii, 363 p . © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Another Freedom...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 140–157.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., Janet. “The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity.” Theory, Culture, and Society 2 . 3 ( 1985 ): 37 -46. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/140 CECILIA ENJUTO-RANGEL Broken Presents: The Modern City in Ruins in Baudelaire, Cernuda...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 251–273.
Published: 01 September 2016
... was wrapped up in Orientalist thinking and politics of the time. Modern editions tend to present texts based on twelve tablets found in the ruins of the library of a seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king. Yet this “standard” text incorporates fragments from other places and times, and itself existed...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the special issue: textures, labor, and ruins; social mobility and migration; marine life, geological time, and the history of sensation. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Oregon 2021 beach port architecture labor environmental humanities Around a hundred...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 184–208.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of Benjamin’s dialectical image, these scenes bring together the allegorical ruin of the urban seaport with comic efforts to inaugurate its future as a commercial esplanade, as if virtualizing and intensifying those two phases of Benjaminian historiography (early modern allegory and nineteenth-century commodity...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 487–490.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Eric Naiman University of California, Berkeley DOI 10.1215/00104124-2376651 book reviews / 491 Cities in Ruins: The Politics...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 493–501.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Eric Naiman University of California, Berkeley DOI 10.1215/00104124-2376651 book reviews / 491 Cities in Ruins: The Politics...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 375–393.
Published: 01 December 2015
...: The City-State in Late-Medieval Italy.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 15 ( 1965 ): 71 – 96 . Print . Kroeber Karl . “Experience as History: Shelley's Venice, Turner's Carthage.” ELH 41 . 3 ( 1974 ): 321 – 39 . Print . Kucich Greg . “Eternity and the Ruins...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
... undoes the dangerously absorbing power of enargeia by creating an allegorical image— exemplified here by Hecuba’s distressful face—whose very structure disrupts the unity of signifier and signified. Taking my cue from the poem’s ekphrastic “anatomiz[ation of] Time’s ruin, beauty’s wrack, and grim...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 144–158.
Published: 01 June 2020
... be sorry to see the “common ruin” of the lord and the bondsman, as not everyone has been in contention. The “common ruin” of the parties involved in the impasse reads differently, as Luxemburg momentarily reads it, from elsewhere; while waking up outside the political frame might only be the loss...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... For instance, Kathryn from Texas shares that she “slipped into a deep depression” after having trouble paying. Similarly, Sybil from California divulges that she “sank into depression . . . . My life is ruined and I think of suicide more and more.” Contrary to some claims that students take debt...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and ruin, that Pushkin’s tale is related to the fiction of the age of Enlightenment. By establishing a generic link be- tween his tale and the biblical parable, the author sets up a mechanism for the future interpretation of his work through the continual juxtaposition of biblical truth and historical...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of this issue: how forms of life (and art) might survive within the twenty-first century’s oil-saturated scene, conjuring other possible pathways through the present. Just as Feinsod excavates the ruins of break-bulk piers beneath the touristic harbor, Maxwell Uphaus explores the layers of chalk that make...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., in the midst of the unfolding horror of modern trench warfare. At the same time, he and Jean Morris are the legendary figures of A Thousand and One Nights , Shahrayar and Shahrazad, impoverished and debased in the ruins of a plague-ridden city. The world is that city, and the city is the bedroom: so larger...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 213–225.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of translation, raised up— relevé —on the ruins of apology and defense. An indefensible practice of translation, what Philip Lewis once called “abusive translation,” will be legislated ( 41 ). Derrida, as we know, wrote a lot about justice throughout his career—perhaps most notably in the ground-breaking...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 261–278.
Published: 01 June 2008
... on the reader’s literary competence, a second category of questions arises as to the broader signifi cance of Sebald’s intertextual practice. Is it, as Martin suggests, ultimately conservative —in the mode of Eliot’s “fragments shored against [the] ruins”— a form of homage to models and predecessors...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 321–338.
Published: 01 September 2000
... and difficult epos form, the tragic panegyric, in which a hero is presented as a tragic figure as well as a conquering hero,” and of the historical epitaph in which meditation over a van- ished past “has the same relation to the ruin that the individual epitaph has to the gravestone” (297). This seems...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 32–44.
Published: 01 March 2017
... ): 156 – 69 . Web. ———. The Social Construction of the Ocean . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2001 . Print . Stoler Ann Laura . “Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination.” Cultural Anthropology 23 . 2 ( 2008 ): 191 – 219 . Print . Time and Tide . Dir. Bayer...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 302–305.
Published: 01 June 2010
... entailed. We then travel back in time to Egypt where the Memnon head was procured for England by the former circus strongman Gio­ vanni Belzoni. Colla examines the romance of the ruin in Belzoni’s writings and analyzes different kinds of materiality and motives informing European and Egyptian...