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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Scott Newman Abstract This article examines the figuring of Black voices in literature, specifically addressing the grotesque sonority of Anglophone and Francophone African writing. The analysis focuses on the Zimbabwean Dambudzo Marechera’s stuttered speech in the semi-autobiographical short...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 312–318.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Jakobson put it (“Clos-
ing Statement” 358), but they do so against different horizons of expectation. If
alliteration is felt as a standing or stuttering on the same linguistic ground, rhyme
offers an arc of distancing and return. As such, rhyme lends itself to the projection
into the future...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 107–115.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the epistemological transparency of the minoritized subject is
forged and honed in the longstanding expression of what Denise Ferreira Da Silva
terms Enlightenment reason’s “raciality”: those moral statements on the contours
of the “human” that oscillate between stuttering denunciation and full-throated...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 46–58.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the 1960s in a more accessible, testimonial style
akin to his last collection (Letters 718–26).
Pilinszky depicts this in/articulate grappling with caesurae and stuttering lines:
twelve out of the sixteen lines end with a full stop. As in “You Have Had to Suf-
fer Wind and Cold” —such as when...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 278–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
... ( or les lettres de mon père ); or, with a stutter: now, the be/being of my father ( or, l’ê/l’être de mon père ). 14 These different directions then unfold throughout the text, which reflects explicitly at times on these different options and unravels the three routes the title harbors: “Nous ne...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2001
... pursuit and the extent
of her dehumanization. Shocked and stuttering, he calls her blood sale an act of
“barbarism” and volunteers his “loads” to buy her the 29" TV and to redeem her
humanity. What he could not have imagined is Ermo’s resolute rejection.
Back at the “Grand International...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
... not.” The fourfold repetition of “I am,” “I am,” “I
am,” “I shall” gives way with nearly imperceptible subtlety to the plaintive abnega-
tion of “I am not,” “I am not,” “I am a mistake,” “I shall not,” challenging the
reader to pause in the fleeting stutter between subjectivity and its erasure. Fur-
thermore...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 430–448.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to convey Aeneas’s sense of having arrived at
the telos of his underworld quest. It should be a scene of homecoming, but it’s not.
The homely iambic thus stutters and fails in the final, estranging four-beat line —
“a breeze between his hands, a dream on wings” — a dissolution of the familiar
iambic...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 19–40.
Published: 01 March 2019
... accumulation of loosely connected word clusters, bringing the narrator face-to-face with a network of texts and contexts so huge the imagination stutters to a halt. Books by Mustafa Sa’eed himself take their place among Western classics, their titles indicating the tenor of the whole. The great works...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 427–447.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of iron” (223). Like Orpheus being torn to pieces by the Maenads, one here witnesses the dismemberment of language, its “folios” scattered and dispersed by the monotonous tolling of church bells whose only figurative edge is that of a stuttering alliteration. If the “fleurs du mal” of Baudelaire heralded...
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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 70–73.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 80–83.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 86–89.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 90–92.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 93.
Published: 01 January 2006
... the standard alliterative pattern of repeating three consonants: “Like cracked
crocks onto kitchen middens.” Thus the moment the poem touches on the greatest terror, its line
comes closest to inarticulate stuttering. (128)
The chapter on The Human Condition that follows focuses on the sections...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 383–407.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to home to hell
always at night Z to A divine forgetting” (101; 2.165−67). Just as the order “to hell
to home” is stuttered over and confused, in terms of the series that this logic
suggests, home is hell: the sorites paradox is often represented as A=B B=C C=D
therefore A=D, which manifests...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 328–351.
Published: 01 September 2005
... year that he published the collection of poems called Die
Niemandsrose, which included “Tübingen, Jänner,” a stuttering commemoration
of an encounter “with” Hölderlin at the Hölderlinturm, and “Die Schleuse” (The
Lock Gate), a poem that includes the lost words Kaddisch and Schwester and that
closes...
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