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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2011
... American through a series of
inevitable trials normalizes and obfuscates the pain of immigrant suffering and lays the
blame for failure on the immigrant. She compares this Bildungsroman of acculturation to
the rags-to-riches myth, in which hard work and perseverance in the face of adversity even...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 March 2007
...: The
Literature of Unhappiness
(A Model for Reading
Narratives of Suffering)
HE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING is one of the most pervasive preoccupations
Tof narrative literature, particularly that kind of literature we may heuristi-
cally term “tragic.” The forms in which tragic literature...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Deb Donig Abstract This essay seeks to understand the complexity of a post-Holocaust discourse of comparative suffering in law and literature, focusing on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The essay traces a history of post-1945 discourse about the Holocaust, as the place of Jewish...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
... writers are gazers at nature (in the sense that they situate action in a natural environment that they make visible), by adopting an “affective fallacy” (traditionally called the “pathetic fallacy”) they also convey the “feelings” of the natural world (in this case, its sorrow, suffering, and mourning...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2015
... olvido (1996) by Dominican-American Marisela Rizik expose the sexual violence that women and other persecuted subjects have suffered historically, and which has engendered the idealized mixed-race nation in nationalist narratives. Using several shared motifs, these two novels question the reproductive...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 79–93.
Published: 01 March 2015
... French feminism more generally. Duras's adaptation, grounded in heteronormative assumptions, suffers from a parallel blind spot; James Lord, her collaborator in the project, suggests that she undermined the queer elements in both James's story and his own first draft. This article uses the unexamined...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 46–58.
Published: 01 March 2016
... similar stylistics: Cave Birds , which he started in 1974, and Gaudete , which he worked on intensively in 1975. This synchronicity resulted in two collections that often read as if they were translations. I analyze Pilinszky poems such as “Unfinished Past” and “You Have Had to Suffer Wind and Cold...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of preemption. Dr. Dolly, the narrator of the novel, who suffers from the neoliberal “illness of improbable possibilities,” applies this preemptive principle to language itself, creating what this essay defines as “preemptive poetics:” a literalized and material approach to language that protects it from...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
... a complex dialectical coupling of horror and anticipation. In other words, this article demonstrates that the cultural production of the postwar period (in the exact sense of the term) is characterized, on the one hand, by a sincere depiction of suffering and depravity but, on the other, by an intense...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2011
...) opens the rhetoric of “ordinary” forgiveness to personal and political abuse, to hypocrisy and calculation. Forgiveness might suture a wound, enabling healing and reconciliation, but its closure also ushers in, if not forgetting, an attenuation or weakening of the suffering of victims of unforgiveable...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 114–127.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Brian McGrath Abstract Though the words impasse and impassive come to English from two different etymological sources— impasse from the French, meaning without a pass; impassive from the Latin, meaning without suffering or without feeling—English invites confusion. In part because one cannot write...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to recuperate the perpetually vilified figure of Tituba, whose reputation continues to suffer in scholarship across disciplines even in the present day. While Miller's play positions Proctor and Tituba as opposites in ways that encourage such a perspective, Condé's rewriting uses the form of the Bildungsroman...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 225–227.
Published: 01 June 2011
... American through a series of
inevitable trials normalizes and obfuscates the pain of immigrant suffering and lays the
blame for failure on the immigrant. She compares this Bildungsroman of acculturation to
the rags-to-riches myth, in which hard work and perseverance in the face of adversity even...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
... American through a series of
inevitable trials normalizes and obfuscates the pain of immigrant suffering and lays the
blame for failure on the immigrant. She compares this Bildungsroman of acculturation to
the rags-to-riches myth, in which hard work and perseverance in the face of adversity even...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 315–332.
Published: 01 September 2001
... moving essay “Towards a Third World Utopia,” Ashis Nandy makes a
concerted effort at realizing the Third World both as perspective and as the pos-
sibility of a different vision and content. To quote Nandy: “Thus, no utopia can
be without an implicit or explicit theory of suffering. This is especially...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 214–232.
Published: 01 June 2001
... wounded, tortured, beaten by guards, beaten by the people
when he carried the cross and fell beneath its weight, and who, finally, has suffered the agony of
crucifixion, lasting for six hours (by my calculation at least) . . . the face of the dead man has not
been spared in the least; it is no more...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
... BCE)
painting Marsyas religatus was hung in the temple of Concordia in Rome as a
warning to those who might disturb the concord of the state (Pliny, NH 35.66).4
Only in Hellenistic sculpture, especially in the famous Torso Belvedere, is Marsyas
represented as a tragic sufferer heroically awaiting...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on overcoming suffering and pro-
longing life (122–25). Tolstoy, who had read Etudes sur la Nature Humaine in 1903
(PSS 55: 599), had only spite for this theory, as numerous diary entries attest.
In coming to Iasnaia Poliana, Mechnikov hoped to engage Tolstoy directly
regarding their disagreement about...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (2): 97–126.
Published: 01 March 2002
...—image of distress, becomes the emblem of suffering at
the heart of the epic project. This displacement of loss onto the marginalized
(and once idealized) woman together with the subsequent appropriation of her
mourning role can usefully be understood in terms of the cultural function of
6...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of the absurd situation a few steps further. After establishing the similarities, he turns to point out the differences between the two cases—most notably, that in this analogy, the Palestinians are neither Abares nor Bulgars but rather suffer the terror of both. This is the case of the village of Bartaa...
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