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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 325–344.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Jordan Alexander Stein Borrowing a turn of phrase from Talal Asad, this essay asks: What might an aesthetic study of secularism look like? Examining four case studies between roughly 1880 and 1930 (with attention to the critical writings of Walt Whitman, T.W. Higginson, Matthew Arnold, Barrett...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 285–305.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Seth Kimmel This essay argues that the effort to define and police the shifting boundaries of Christianity in early modern Spain produced a counter-intuitive peninsular logic of secularization. Hoping to stem the extension of ecclesiastical power over everyday cultural life, New Christians...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 345–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Allison Schachter This article examines how Leah Goldberg's modernist novel Avedot , written between 1936 and 1939, but unpublished in her lifetime, theorizes the intersections of gender, Hebrew secularism, and Orientalism. Goldberg's novel dramatizes the crisis of secular European Hebrew through...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the veneration of saintly relics in Christianity, was secularized in the tale of Lemminkäinen in the Finnlandic epic Kalevala . In the biblical tale of the Levite of Ephraim, in contrast, the dismembered parts of the protagonist's violated spouse are sent to the tribes of Israel to unite them against a common...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the transcendental vision implied by a developmental process of world-history, Tagore proposed that literary language generates a notion of time that is radically finite because it is aligned with the human failure to achieve divine transcendence. More specifically, his essays stage truly secular, historical time...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 322–339.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Neta Stahl The train had a remarkable and meaningful role in the process of modernization and secularization within European Jewish society during the nineteenth century. Not surprisingly, this central role is reflected in the literature of the period, in what I would like to call “the train genre...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies , the possibility of a transcendence compatible with secular modernity becomes increasingly evident. Engaging a vocabulary of religious images whose authority has been attenuated but which have not been emptied of significance, the poetry reflects a modern...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... allows both writers to reimagine the concept of the soul in modern secular terms: in Tartt’s conception of post-traumatic “soul loss” as a critical stage in the moral and aesthetic education of the self, and in Dostoevsky’s view of wounded memory as opening up the self to the more expansive, overwhelming...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., dystopias of a circular temporality: emerging from and moving toward (Jewish) dystopia. This recent wave of Israeli dystopian narratives is primarily preoccupied with the past and future of Judaism, the Jewish people, and Israel as a secular-yet - Jewish state. Most interesting, perhaps, is the complete...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 121–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
... for lost absolutes (the “death of God”), a mourning that, as the recent “return of religion” reveals, is far from complete. In the history of the secularization of reason in the West, the rationalist and empiricist traditions constitute the two main (and opposing) forms in which reason attempts to mourn...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in important ways. First, they allow a reconsideration of the progressivist literary historical secularization thesis often claimed for Auerbach’s oeuvre writ large. Second, they display Auerbach’s early aspiration to reach “ein allgemeineres Publikum” (a more general public) through his work...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (4): 451–471.
Published: 01 December 2024
...” status of non-Western texts often played out in colonial microencounters rather than European metropoles. Moreover, Abdullah’s text demonstrates how the secular logics undergirding world literature were significantly produced by missionary institutions, given their involvement in colonial publishing...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 257–264.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Michael Allan © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2003 . Print . Casanova...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 363–381.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Spain.” Jewish Social Studies 3 ( 1996 ): 89 – 157 . Print . ———. “Secularism.” Critical Inquiry 33 ( 2006 ): 52 – 77 . Print . ———. Semites: Race, Religion, Literature . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2008 . Print . Aschheim Steven E. Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 2012
... AND THE MODERNIST NOVEL. By Pericles Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 236 p. Modernist literature has long been understood as a reaction to the Nietzschean death of God and part of an inevitable secularization process that accompanied moderniza- tion. According to this narrative...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to the Nietzschean death of God and part of an inevitable secularization process that accompanied moderniza- tion. According to this narrative, modernist literature either created art out of the result- ing nihilism or created a replacement for religion. While not entirely discredited, this view has shifted...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to the Nietzschean death of God and part of an inevitable secularization process that accompanied moderniza- tion. According to this narrative, modernist literature either created art out of the result- ing nihilism or created a replacement for religion. While not entirely discredited, this view has shifted...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to the Nietzschean death of God and part of an inevitable secularization process that accompanied moderniza- tion. According to this narrative, modernist literature either created art out of the result- ing nihilism or created a replacement for religion. While not entirely discredited, this view has shifted...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., mechanistic causation. For today’s scholars who are enthralled to a secular disposition and its inherent skepticism, suspicion must be cast on what is viewed as blind adherence to superannuated concepts and illusory values. All the same, scholarship —​especially the kind proffered beneath the banner...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 265–284.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Orthodox Church . Cairo : The American U in Cairo P , 2002 . Print . Liqa' al-Youm . Al-Jazeera . 19 April , 2009 . Web. < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaouTMfLeug >. 4 Sept. 2012 . Mahmood Saba . “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?” Critical...