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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 251–273.
Published: 01 September 2016
... was wrapped up in Orientalist thinking and politics of the time. Modern editions tend to present texts based on twelve tablets found in the ruins of the library of a seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king. Yet this “standard” text incorporates fragments from other places and times, and itself existed...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 193–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
...KEITH DICKSON University of Oregon 2007 Abusch, Tzvi. “The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 . 4 ( 2001 ): 614 -22. ____. “Gilgamesh's Request and Siduri's Denial. (Part I).” The Tablet...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 177–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 179–180.
Published: 01 March 2009
...). Medieval writers were aided in the process of composition by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 181–184.
Published: 01 March 2009
... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 184–187.
Published: 01 March 2009
... by the use of reusable wax tablets on which notes or the fi rst draft of a text were inscribed for later transcription onto parchment by a scribe. Wax tablets reappear in Chartier’s second chapter, which begins by considering whether the librillo de memoria that Don Quixote discovers in the Sierra...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 207–213.
Published: 01 June 2005
... much silver; I have conducted your soul, by its familiar name, onto this very tablet here on which I lavish care; But more than this I must not do for you: “To treat the living as dead, what a lack of humanity! To treat the dead as living, what a want...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): i–xxvi.
Published: 01 June 2003
... uncertain communication and violence have marked the return of world attention to the birthplace of Sumerian culture, where the oldest mappa mundi was found on a sixth-century Babylonian tablet. We have had ample occasion to reflect on the complex factors that affect how history is written, and more...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of science studies and literature and science—the body of infor- mation, that is, a materialist critique of the myth of disembodied information. All media, from clay tablets to paperbacks, celluloid to silicon circuits, are situated in physical frames with interlocking technoscientific and cultural...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of science studies and literature and science—the body of infor- mation, that is, a materialist critique of the myth of disembodied information. All media, from clay tablets to paperbacks, celluloid to silicon circuits, are situated in physical frames with interlocking technoscientific and cultural...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., or of cuneiform characters carved on a tablet of stone” (34), to which Santner also refers, the parrot’s words are signs no longer capable of signifying. If they can now address us at all, it is precisely through  their present meaninglessness. Once a mimetic gesture, they now appear as anti-mimetic specter...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 September 2018
... shape of the page was probably a Sumerian clay tablet sized to fit the hand of a child ( 29 ). 7 I thank my undergraduate student at SDSU, Catherine Jagger, for helping me to see the connections between Derrida and remediation. See also Katalin Sándor , who writes that the digital “not only...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 326–344.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in his memory. Moreover, Humbert’s diary represents a palimpsest: “First I jotted down each entry in pencil (with many erasures and corrections) on the leaves of what is commercially known as a ‘typewriter tablet’; then, I copied it out with obvious abbreviations in my smallest, most satanic, hand...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2006
... own internal differences and the con- tradictions brought about by her unnamable desire, all in the figure of a divinely bestowed penis. Thankful for Isis’s bountiful wedding gift, Iphis brings to her temple offerings and a votive tablet on which she has inscribed these words: “These gifts, which...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 320–337.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of reminiscence is an ever-turning tablet. Sigrid Redraws Ilse Koch Semprun records a moment of involuntary memory, ten years after the war, when he dances with Sigrid, a young German woman, in a Paris bistro. Before the memories that wake him out of the “dream” in which he had been living assail him...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 404–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... mémoire, ces vents sans tablette” ( Cahier 194 ; “this land without a stele, these paths without memory, these winds without a tablet,” Notebook 17 )—for sites of meaning and memory beyond the disarticulating, negating, and overdetermining surface of the Enlightenment systems of representation...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 52–72.
Published: 01 March 2023
... stuttering carved on an ancient cuneiform tablet. He lists various historical figures from whom he borrows folk remedies, including Moses, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Prince Battus, Hippocrates, Celsus, Galen, and Francis Bacon. He imagines that his tongue is diagnosed as “abnormally thick and hard...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 315–335.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to my own reflections here, deals withThe Epic of Gilgamesh, found inscribed on ancient cuneiform tablets when Austen Henry Layard and his assistant Hormuzd Rassam uncovered the ancient Assyrian ruins of Nini­veh starting in the mid-1840s. The second reason for beginning with Schiller...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 June 2003
... on the tablets that Nature has prepared for them. Richard of Bury’s Philobiblion (circa 1345) similarly describes the textual encounter in sexualized terms, using metaphors of unveiling to con- vey the experience of textual exegesis and to warn against the dangerous seductions of the text. This presentation...