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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 2004
...CRISTINA VATULESCU University of Oregon 2004 Andreevich, E.A. “Structure and Functions of the Soviet Secret Police.” The Soviet Secret Police . Ed. Simon Wolin and Robert M. Slusser. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957 . 96 -152. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argue that such a conception circles around the secret and more sinister global scene at work in Bolaño's texts, understood as the figure of global war, traced from his mourning of the ideals of modernity (the fall of the Spanish Second Republic, the Nazis, the overthrow of Chile's Salvador Allende...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 354–372.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 . Bean, Annemarie. “Disclosures, Silences, Agency: African Female Genital Circumcision.” Women and Performance 7 . 2 -8.1 ( 1995 ): 324 -38. Buckman, Alyson R. “The Body as a Site of Colonization: Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy.” Journal...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... [with his mother], embracing, somewhere in secret, so they wouldn’t be seen. . . . No single attachment could have so . . . overpoweringly acted on his will and on the other dark, uncontrollable attractions of his spirit that pursued him all his life as did this one. (26: 111–12) 1 The ambivalence...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 11–52.
Published: 01 January 2000
... However, when Sir Robert Stapylton published his English translation of this Greek “source” in 1647 he justified his endeavor by explaining to his patron that this “source” had become as elusive as that of the Nile: The secret love of Hero and Leander first brought to light in the pure Greek of divine...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . Pitzer Andrea . The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov . New York : Pegasus Books , 2013 . Print . Rorty Richard . Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity . London : Cambridge UP , 1989 . Print . BOOK REVIEWS / 105...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 277–300.
Published: 01 September 2014
... (or confidante). The chorus places the protagonist under public scrutiny, thereby making him into a public figure. The confidant, by contrast, is a figure who allows the protagonist to confess what is hidden from public view, “opening up the secret, defining the exact status of the hero’s dilemma,” and pro...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 246–261.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., nor look upon the pageantry of her palaces, nor enter into the secrets of her councils; but let him ascend the highest tier of the stern ledges that sweep round the altar of Torcello, and then, looking as the pilot did of old along the marble ribs of the goodly temple-ship, let him re-people its...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to be born but on the ghosts and other specters that refuse to die. Everything that refuses to die stands in the way of something else waiting to be born, and in this way the gothic calls attention to the organic logic of biological time, just as the heretic reveals the ultimate secrets of the religion...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 241–268.
Published: 01 June 2007
... and the Holocaust . Ed. Barbie Zelizer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001 . 214 -46. Hitler, Adolf. Hitler's Secret Conversations . Intro. by H.R. Trevor-Roper. New York: Octagon Books, 1972 . Hoffmann, Heinrich. Hitler in seinen Bergen . Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag, 1935...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 294–314.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in European Culture . London, New York: Verso, 2000 . North, John. The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the World of the Renaissance . London: Hambledon and London, 2002 . Orr, John. Tragic Realism and Modern Society: Studies in the Sociology of the Modern Novel . Pittsburgh: University...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 269–293.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Sciences . Ed. Derek J. Price. Facsimile of 1658 ed. New York: Basic Books, 1959 . Eamon, William. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994 . Essed, Philomena, and David Theo Goldberg, eds. Race Critical...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., secretions of sweat, Chughtai attunes our eye to a lower frequency of affective register, subtle somatic arousals, often barely perceptible, and in so doing opens up a rich and subtle landscape for feminist inquiry. She focuses the dynamics of affective exchange that interanimate bodies inscribed in logics...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 343–345.
Published: 01 September 2017
...” in James and his distaste for “distinct marriages” (as plot endings) goes unremarked. Quigley rejects critical insistence on a “homosexual secret” at BOOK REVIEWS / 345 the heart of “vagueness” in James’s plots. However, it seems more...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 246–265.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., with no forwarding address. Fled, like every summer, to a secret place in the forest . . .” (Van Renterghem 12). Here, Makine’s ability to disappear re- fers first of all to his status as exile: when he asked for asylum in France in 1987, he successfully escaped the Soviet Union. Unlike the majority of Russian...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... The historical secret hidden in plain sight in the title of Kirsten Silva Gruesz’s new book Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons is that for at least part of the period of Cotton Mather’s life during which he was learning Spanish, someone may have been teaching him. To the degree that the Mather of those lessons...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 239–245.
Published: 01 June 2005
... commensurabilité, de symétrie; l’autre, fondée sur l’inégal, l’incommensurabilité ou la dissymétrique. L’une est matérielle, l’autre, spirituelle, même dans la nature et dans la terre. L’une est inanimée, l’autre a le secret de nos morts et de nos vies, de nos enchaînements et de nos libérations, du démoniaque...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 January 2001
...”: 6 For an illustration of Soyinka’s employment of compound nouns in Idanre (1967), see Syal 100. SOYINKA AND SWIFT/35 Indictments flowed at secret sessions The palace deed re-echoed, concluding...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 33–48.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Languages . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1998 . Print . McEachern Claire . Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612 . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1996 . Print . McKeon Michael . Origins of the English Novel . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins UP , 1987 . Print . ———. The Secret...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 March 2022
... The Four Horsemen: Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe . 4 While this era saw many secret societies, the main “Decembrist” groups were the Union of Salvation (formed in 1816), which became the Union of Welfare (1818) and eventually in 1821 split into the constitutional monarchist Northern...