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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., J.A. “The Political Significance of Gulliver's Travels.” Swift and His Contexts . Ed. John Irwin Fischer, Hermann J. Real, and James Woolley. New York: Ams Press, 1989 . 1 -19. Fletcher, Angus. Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990 . Jacobs, J.U...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Klim , Holberg borrows heavily from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), copying structure and motifs but without pursuing Gulliver ’s misanthropy ( Sejersted, “Reise” ). The eponymous protagonist embarks on a fantastic voyage across diverse lands that make obvious how nations are products...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 250–252.
Published: 01 June 2014
... works that appropriated the bizarre oriental narratives pub- lished in Britain and France. Chapter 3 focuses on Eastern pseudoethnographies written as interplanetary and interspecies tales by Bernard Fontenelle, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Voltaire. Aravamudan aligns cosmological speculation...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 142–163.
Published: 01 March 2008
... . Montag, Warren. The Unthinkable Swift. The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man . Londres: Verso, 1994 . Montemayor, Carlos. “El helenismo de Alfonso Reyes.” Pineda Franco 335 -46. Moraña, Mabel. “Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity.” Hispanic...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 257–276.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Oldenbourg , 1973 . Print . Swift Simon . “Kant, Herder, Gayatri Spivak and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology.” Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy: Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory . London : Continuum , 2006 . 77 – 97 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 59–69.
Published: 01 January 2006
... that there was no one in the world worthy of hearing him play. Not only is playing the harp like this—worthy people are also so. Even though there is a worthy person, if you do not have the means to treat him well, then how will the worthy one be loyal to the fullest for you? The reason why swift horses do...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... 24 , no. 1 ( 1993 ): 17 – 43 . Strathern Marilyn . “ No Nature, No Culture: The Hagen Case .” In Nature, Culture, and Gender , edited by MacCormack Carol P. and Strathern Marilyn , 174 – 222 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1980 . Swift Simon...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... . Serres Michel . The Birth of Physics . Ed. Webb David . Trans. Hawkes Jack . Manchester : Clinamen , 2000 . Print . Swift Jonathan . Gulliver's Travels . Ed. Turner Paul . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1986 . Print . Yates Frances . The Art of Memory . London...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
... zur Forschung bis 1993 . 7 . Sonderheft, Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995 . Gannon, Charles E. “'One swift, conclusive smashing and an End': Wells, War and the Collapse of Civilisation.” Foundation 28 . 77 ( 1999 ): 35 -46...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 301–330.
Published: 01 September 2008
... 11/3/08 7:59:50 PM the indecisive muse / 321 This way and that dividing the swift mind, In act to throw. (437) Or one might take a more ploddingly historical...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 June 2019
... of justice, revolt, and individuality; it may be that weaving a Joban thread deep within the fabric of his poem allowed Pushkin to simultaneously explore and conceal these subversive ideas within his work. (207) During the Stalinist era, what Megan Swift calls “an astonishingly sanitized and bland...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . ———. “Persuasive Ironies: Utopian Readings of Swift and Krasicki.” Comparative Literature Studies 50 . 4 ( 2013 ): 618 – 42 . Print . Beecroft Alexander . An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day . Brooklyn : Verso , 2015 . Print . Białas Zbigniew . “Fabula...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
... by a faulty film projector, . . . flicker[ing] in and out of focus [and] ‘illuminating’ what is ‘submerged,’” an effect that is created in part through the description of the “shafts of the // sun” as moving with “spotlike swift- / ness” (69). This movement of the sun, like that of the jellyfish...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of [ . . . ] blossoms” is “noiseless,” and that movement is arrested: “no leaf stirred.” Hand in hand with the narrative pause the scene represents, time stands still. At the same time, and somewhat paradoxically, the blossoms are “streaming.” In contrast, Woolf’s scenes are determined by swift movement and sound...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 42–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
.... Rather than either impartial judge or exuberant fan, I admit myself as promoter, an opportunist who likes a good show. But my agenda is ultimately corrupt, for, as I will detail in the pages ahead, this “fight” is not a metaphor for dialogue; rather, it is what Swift meant by his “battle” between...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 326–344.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in their swift movement, rendering the artist incapable of recognizing the exact form of the objects. An accidental distortion of the observed object is caused by the instantaneity of inspiration; this instantaneity, I argue, is based on the artist’s dilemma that I described earlier: the inability to see...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... not even pay attention to them—not even “one single glance.” Being “a gifted poor devil with the faculty of swift and forestalling vision,” he takes pleasure in the idea of “the suspended menace discovered in the midst of the most perfect security” (70). But Conrad’s vision of the sublime can no longer...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2000
...: He fell upon them as upon a swift ship falls a wave, huge, wind-reared by the clouds. The ship is curtained in foam, a hideous blast of wind roars in the sail. The sailors shudder in terror: they are carried away from under death, but only...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 375–393.
Published: 01 December 2015
... spirit which so long Darkened this swift stream of song, Interpenetrated lie By the glory of the sky: Be it love, light, harmony, Odour, or the soul of all Which from...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... within the paths. But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other’s song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug[.] (1: 265) The halting rhyme...