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Published: 01 September 2020
Figure 1. “This graphic shows the uneven numbers of speakers of languages in the world. Nearly 80% of the world’s population speaks only 83 (1.1%) of the world’s languages. The 3,586 (51.2%) smallest languages are spoken by only 0.2% of the world’s population.” Source: Gregory Anderson and K More
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the basic components of grammatical address in a vexed, lyric encounter with the colonial reality of Martinique, he gradually recalibrates the relationship between the poem’s speaker and the African-diasporic community of and beyond Martinique as that between a kind of intersubjective voice of négritude...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... is mentioned in scenes located in-between, when the narrative comes to a halt. The prose rhythm demanded by the ancient rhetoricians is structured by intervals that should be marked by a breathing pause. Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian discuss breathing in the context of speech’s oral delivery, the speaker’s...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Gregory Goulding Abstract The long poems of the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–64) present a series of fantastic narratives, in which a nameless speaker journeys through a fantastic landscape. These works, often analyzed solely in terms of a supposed mythic, romantic structure, should...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 407–428.
Published: 01 December 2012
... that “The Swan” is no less a thesis on the concept of history and affords rather more stunning illuminations of the modern condition. Both the poem and the aphorism feature incapacitated winged creatures, debris, bad weather, and, most strikingly, a speaker who stands in the present, considers the past...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (1): 84–99.
Published: 01 January 2005
... life is sometimes the product of the speaker’s fantasy (as in “Interview with a Child and sometimes a claim made for or by objects themselves but simultaneously undermined in the poem. In different ways and with different levels of ethical anxiety, Szymborska’s and Bishop’s poetry asks: Does...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of that difference are then subtly expounded upon in the final stanza with reference to Eliot’s 1919 work “Gerontion.” While his wife is away, Glatshteyn’s speaker further accomplishes two activities that elude Prufrock. First, he sleeps with his maid, not once but twice. Over and against the sexual frustration...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (4): 275–290.
Published: 01 September 2002
... served his King, Henry II, as a “king’s justice” (Rigg, History 88). His book appears to have been a private manuscript, what has been aptly termed “the commonplace book of a great after-dinner speaker” (Brooke-Mynors xlv). The Cistercian order targeted in Distinctio 1:25 of De Nugis is one...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... object whose otherness, if recognized as such, holds the key to a shared reality, and a mind whose fear, denial, and ambivalence make the work of acknowledging that otherness especially hard. Between a rock and a hard place is exactly where the speaker of Wisława Szym- borska’s “Rozmowa z...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 140–157.
Published: 01 March 2007
... poems on ruins also differ from their baroque and romantic counterparts both in their reading of history and in their representa- tion of the poetic self. The speakers in these poems are not fixed or stable; they can be both melancholic and nostalgic, humorous and ironic. Charles Baudelaire (1821...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the “kitchen,” with feet threshing, stomping, dancing: “di mame kokht varenikes — un​ ikh bin fleyshig” (“Mama’s cooking dumplings —​but I ate meat Shlonsky establishes himself as a pioneering modernist in this short collage of images and words. As his speaker huddles in his tent in the cold rain...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 176–193.
Published: 01 June 2018
... a gateway into gendered literary history by way of the trope of petrification, which the speaker’s voice and the poet harness as a linguistic effect of transformation capable of bending and unbending according to their will. The speaker’s final words continue to unfold even as the landscape’s wheeling...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... is reflected in Goodison’s early poem “On Becoming a Mermaid.” The speaker of Ní Chuilleanáin’s poem, links her life cycles to the ebb and flow of the tide. In Goodison’s poem, the speaker imagines the sea as a regenerative space, allowing for transformation in the face of death. If the mythic sea represents...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
...]” (Metafizycna Pauza [A Metaphysical Pause] 246; my translation). COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 166 This broad-range perspective confers an authority upon the lyric speaker that Heaney clearly finds desirable. It makes central what may otherwise be relegated to the sidelines and ostentatiously opposes...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 400–415.
Published: 01 September 2009
... with a great deal of allusive material (Poems 504). As in many of Merrill’s poems, the speaker is viewing his face in a mirror. Like the split I of Proust’s novel, or the older versions of those characters that appear at the Guermantes’s final reception, the mirrored face is unrecognizable; its...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., a poetics epitomized by Celan, apparently leaves nothing more to be said about the subject. The result is a self-conscious scholarly literature in which some lament, like the speaker of Ecclesiastes, that there is nothing new under the desiccative sun of Holocaust literary criticism. Perhaps, however...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 348–372.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that the poem commands, both independently of and in relation to the poet’s biography. The speaker’s spiritual and artistic journey speak to a dynamic compositional logic of poem and bridge alike, the radical discontinuities of which are offensive to ears that listen for the effortless harmonies of choirs...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 246–266.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and how to do it. These words broaden choice rather than narrow it by generating an anti-Homeric perspective temporally and aes- thetically distant from the ancient epic. As an advocate, the speaker seeks to persuade by making the weaker position (a late contender) into the stronger (a superior...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
... feeble tongue / Would come in these like accents (Oh, how frail / To that large utterance of the early gods (1: 47–51). In the subsequent Fall of Hyperion it is Moneta, the speaker’s divine guide, who performs this translation: “Mortal, that thou may’st understand aright, / I humanize my sayings...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
... with the poet in participating similarly (or rather identically) in the described experience. (Krieger 94) The salient point here, for our purposes, is that desire in the speaker/poet is a precondition of successful enargeia, and that the criterion of such success is the transfer of desire to the audience...