... from Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and Weber down to Benjamin's rivals and epigones, Adorno, Schmitt, and Agamben. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 Christopher Braider Talking Like a Book: Exception and the State of Nature in Benjamin and Molière...

...Boris Wolfson The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture. By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi, 484 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/78...

...Paul A. Bové Since Bruce Robbins's Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State deals with the novel, readers will rightly place it next to Lukacs and more recent historians and theoreticians of the genre. Critically, however, I believe it is also important...

... realist text turns out to be oriented not to the problematics of civil society (contractarian) aggregation but rather, like tragic drama, to the coercive logics of the state? Put another way, what happens when a realist narrative, with all of its inherited civil-society paraphernalia (as an ostensible...

...: Verso, 1983 . Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Altered States.” In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture . New York: Oxford University Press, 1992 . 158 -72. ____. “Cosmopolitan Patriots.” For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism . Ed. Joshua Cohen. Boston: Beacon Press...

... Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States . Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1995 . O'Gorman, Edmundo. The Invention of America: An Inquiry into the Historical Nature of the New World and the Meaning of Its History . 1948. Bloomington: Greenwood...

...Ania Loomba A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 212 p. University of Oregon 2009 BOOK REVIEWS THE QUEST FOR EPIC: FROM ARIOSTO...

... Translated (Again): Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in the United States When they asked him how he would like to be remembered, he answered: “That’s a future battle.” To remember someone is to allow him to keep...

...Timothy J. Van Compernolle The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States. By Rebecca Suter. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. x, 236 p. University of Oregon 2010 BOOK REVIEWS CAN...

... , and the end of the Bismarckian system, a period that John Agnew , in turn, has roughly identified as “the first global geopolitical order . . . [when] the norms and practices of liberal capitalism [were] carried into the rest of the world” (67). The worldwide expansion of the territorial nation-state...

... and cultural institutions. In Achebe’s, anticolonial needs were addressed through the support of these same institutions. A literary orientation toward the United States might be understood as symptomatic not only of US imperial hegemony but also of anticolonial sentiment. This reading has implications...

..., the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kulʹturnoi sviazi s zagranitsei; VOKS), and local actors in Turkey, the first represents the official exchange of propaganda publications and films about the modernizing, secularist agenda of each state during...

... are deprived of their world. Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François Pennsylvania State University DOI 10.1215/00104124-4260465...

..., for it was in the cultural state (Kulturstaat) of Germany, when it was an amalgam of loosely confederated states, that Goethe launched the world literature paradigm in 1827. While there are many studies of Weltliteratur as a uniquely German concept, B. Venkat Mani’s monograph adds a valuable contribution to this body...

... and Fall of a Cultural Network invigorates the burgeoning study of early Asian American literature in the pre–civil rights era with its dazzling conceptualization of a transpacific community among American and Chinese writers and musicians during the interwar years. Focusing on the United States during...

... is that this alterity was continuously undermined, first, by the format of the festival where so-called competitors discuss the state of the field and, second, in an attitude of disavowal shown by the participants and actors who were beyond the control of the festival and its organizers. The disavowal is not some kind...

... on the literary-historical map and revealing the aesthetic and political debates essential to them. Thus, in recent years we have seen essays and monographs on magazines in places like eastern Europe or the southwestern United States and work tracing the networks of affiliation and rivalry that linked modernist...

... .” State of the Discipline Report 28 June 2014 < https://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/electronic-literature-comparative-literature-0 >. Pressman Jessica . “ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes : Memorial, Fetish, Bookishness .” ASAP Journal 3.1 ( 2018 ): 97 – 120...