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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-powerful Caliph-King who demands to be amused by the strange and who laughs at stories of the unfortunate. This reader’s power vis-à-vis the stories presented to him is above all to dismiss them as fictions that do not apply to him, as freakish as the deformed hunchback entertainer for whom the stories...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 415–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
... strange, disquieting occurrences, described as “warps” and “mutations,” to the human and nonhuman, the novel both critiques the ethnic displacement of the Kurdish population and expresses unease over changing relationships to material land. This is rooted in its critique of the structuring frameworks...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
... fellow staunch Zionists, he argued passionately that Hebrew should be the language of the emerging national culture and that Yiddish, the language of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, should be abandoned to the Diaspora. But, strangely enough, Shlonsky's early poetry and manifestoes are infused with Yiddish...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 46–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., and the mobility and textile strangeness of syntactic and accentual imports. In order to elaborate the radically finite temporality of such a literary language, this essay draws on Tagore's formulation of jivalila , or the play of living creation, which he opposes to the Western conceptualization of life...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... up in every page” ( Allen, “Tales” 364 ). 8 The absence of this highly wrought diction and accompanying scholarly commentary in another publication by Giles provides further evidence that Strange Stories was not, as scholars like Chiang believe, intended for women and children ( 71–72...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... rather than certainty or narrative closure. Her attention to the strangeness of these lives constitutes this book’s most profound disciplinary contribution. Her book reflects sensitively and persistently on the contours of Mather’s complicated life—complicated for reasons that also shaped the lives...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 227–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... outages) or a range of attitudes (from ambivalence to animosity) as well as strange new objects (like the bowler hat on a Tokyo street as seen in 1897 actualitiés ). Or they could be distilled by Debashree Mukherjee to capitalist modernity as “speed” and “energy” and dramatized in the encounters between...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 193–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... fleetingly sharp glimpses of a world just as strange as that
of the cedar forest: luminous and brilliant and just as inhospitable. This is no less
true despite the fact that Gilgamesh’s reaction to the jeweled trees (insofar as
can be ascertained from the broken text at hand) is one of amazement and won...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of the scholars pursuing them. The new Hebrew studies that Grumberg’s work represents has decoupled Hebrew from the assumptions of its automatic connection to Zionism, and it is fittingly the work primarily of American-trained Hebraists such as Adrianna X. Jacobs or Shachar Pinsker. Jacobs’s book, Strange...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 262–282.
Published: 01 June 2010
... also found his hope and optimism turning into
feelings of dread and affliction. The city seemed to him like a vast sepulcher
filled with the dead and the dying. It was “infinitely strange and hostile,” a lost
city “rushing like a star out of orbit towards some fearful collapse,” and a year later...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
... and occurrences and strange happenings, which wait only to be
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told, and the reason why they usually remain untold is, according to Isak Dinesen, lack of imagina-
tion—for only if you can imagine what has happened anyhow, repeat it in imagination, will you see
the stories...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to be fused into a new composite, the fragments of which
are strange to one another even as they cohere around something held in com-
mon. The dream-parrot has something of this strange economy of incomparables.
And, indeed, Freud himself appropriated the story of Humboldt’s parrot to
express his...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to the Scene of the Modern . New York : Oxford UP , 1999 . 31 – 64 . Print . Perloff Marjorie . Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary . Chicago and London : U of Chicago P , 1996 . Print . Read Rupert Lavery Matthew A. . Beyond...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the Outside, of strange-
ness, and of désoeuvrement —not of consummation and fulfillment. In contrast to
the work of his friend and contemporary Georges Bataille, there is no sexual licen-
tiousness, no scandal, and no titillation to be found in Blanchot’s texts. There is
no ecstasy. And thus, we...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 March 2021
... this grotesque nightingale pie that causes the mouth to produce strange music and is ultimately responsible for the letter’s hallucinatory tone. The nightingale that Ephraim eats in Rome is the same that was once the symbol of harmony and complete continuum between human music and world music. Clearly, this time...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 430–448.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 . Oxford UP , 1999 . Douglas Gavin . Gavin Douglas’s Translation of the Aeneid , edited by Kendal Gordon , 2 vols , MHRA , 2011 . Dryden John . Virgil’s Aeneid , edited by Eliot Charles W. , P.F...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 89–110.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... Reading Beckett against Rimbaud helps us to see how, with Not I , Beckett appropriates and transforms Rimbaud, paradoxically producing a theatrical mode that is strangely effective in its somatic impact, even as it rejects Symbolist notions of transcendence. The correspondences between Not I...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 165–186.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... When we find our-
selves in a mood that prevents us from laughing at a joke we might otherwise
find funny, for example, we do not simply experience two feelings at once. We
also experience two competing structures of feeling, one of which, strangely
enough, might be said to “contain” the other...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... endeavor is strangely reversed. For it is how the subject of the painting is orchestrating the body of the painter that comes into view. With a characteristic sense of subtle, self-reflexive humor and irony, Chughtai frames her short story with a scene where the very aesthetic project of the bourgeois male...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 328–351.
Published: 01 September 2005
... commemorates, even as it honors what Walter Benjamin calls
“fame.” Sonnet 71 obviously has a strange place in this repertoire, for the poem is
directed at ensuring the life of the living, of making sure that the beloved who
lives on severs her ties to the dead. Yet, the poem, as I have suggested, also regis...
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