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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 101–105.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Joshua S. Mostow The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature . By Emmerich Michael . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 494 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 BOOK REVIEWS / 101...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 220–230.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., and Selfish Genes.” Saussy 3 -42. Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction . London: Blackwell, 2001 . ALFRED J. LÓPEZ Hugo Meltzl and That Dangerous American Supplement; or, A Tale of Two 1877s The task...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 242–255.
Published: 01 June 2002
...: Kraus Reprint, 1967 . Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Folklore Casebook . New York: Garland Publications, 1982 . Gough, John. “Rivalry, Rejection, and Recovery.” Children's Literature in Education 21.2 (June 1990 ): 99 -107. Haviland, Virginia, ed. “Twelve Months.” Favorite Fairy Tales...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 191–216.
Published: 01 June 2003
...EMMA CAMPBELL University of Oregon 2003 Althusser, Louis. “Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d'état.” Positions . Paris: Éditions Sociales, 1976 . 67 -126. Ashton, Gayle. “Patient Mimesis: Griselda and the Clerk's Tale.” The Chaucer Review 32 ( 1998 ): 232 -38. Bakhtin...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 130–146.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Sonderband 29 , 1992 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/130 LINA STEINER Pushkin’s Parable of the Prodigal Daughter: The Evolution of the Prose Tale from Aestheticism to Historicism INCE THEIR PUBLICATION in 1831, Pushkin’s The Tales of the Late...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of nearly five hundred Chinese classical tales renowned for its vivid portrayal of ghosts and fox spirits. 1 Three years later, Giles’s annotated English translation of 146 Liaozhai tales, collected in two volumes, was published by Thos. de la Rue and Company in London under the title Strange Stories...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. By Christi Merrill. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xiv, 380 p. University of Oregon 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Se c u r i n g...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2021
...David Quint Abstract This analysis of the structure and meaning of The Tale of the Hunchback , the most novelistic of the tales of the Thousand and One Nights , shows how the Nights stages the relationship of reader to fiction (the fictitious lives of others) as a power relationship and in terms...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 143–159.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the veneration of saintly relics in Christianity, was secularized in the tale of Lemminkäinen in the Finnlandic epic Kalevala . In the biblical tale of the Levite of Ephraim, in contrast, the dismembered parts of the protagonist's violated spouse are sent to the tribes of Israel to unite them against a common...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the paradigm shift from the Classic to the Romantic. As in his other tales with delusional protagonists, Hoffmann draws from contemporary mental pathology, not just in constructing character but also in adapting medical case studies as narrative models. The revival of commedia dell'arte and the staging...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
... on a circular concept of time, the Zimbabwean novels are based on a view of time as linear progress. The article argues that these concepts of time are determined by the genre conventions of the novel and the tale and that the adoption and hybridization of these genres has been decisively impacted by the state...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
... tale of competitive and desiring socialization), enters the force field of a state-oriented social imaginary and becomes warped within it? With these questions in mind, the essay takes up First Love , interpreting it as a political allegorization of an ostensibly straightforward coming-of-age story...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Barbara E. Mann Abstract This essay analyzes the depiction of “things” in three modernist novels: Dovid Bergelson’s The End of Everything (Yiddish, 1913), a tale of ennui set in a provincial town outside Kiev, where faded fabrics and cherished ornaments in drawing rooms emblematize the end...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that meets the often implied and expressed aspirations and obligations of such formations. Central to Robbins's work is an embrace of professional work and social place. He finds the stories of upward mobility essential both to organizing his own tale of developing modern forms of relation and state power...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Tales (1766). This essay argues that Chulkov was inspired by at least one of these versions of Charlotte Summers when he developed his own self-conscious, self-mocking narrator and mock(ed) readers and listeners. The essay focuses on the self-conscious narrator and mock readers in the English original...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Brenda Deen Schildgen The essay examines a specific case of “wood-stripping” that occurs in three related texts: one ancient, Statius's Thebaid , and two medieval romance versions of Statius's poem, Giovanni Boccaccio's La Teseida and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale . It argues that all three...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
... clothes, leaving him only a pauper's vestments. In the Arthurian tale, the problem posed is how to know the true inner self when two identical-looking women both claim to be the “true” queen — a question that is complicated by the fact that the “true” Guenevere has been “false” for many years due to her...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., technologically advanced and wealthy mercantile society side by side with its heroic world. The Phaeacians who listen to Odysseus’s wanderings and tales of Troy at their banquet figure a future, nonheroic audience for the poem itself. Subsequent imitations of this episode in major epics—the Aeneid , Orlando...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 January 2004
...: Michael Joseph, 1958 . ____. The Angelic Avengers. By Pierre Andrézel . New York: Random House, 1947 . ____. Gengældelsens Veje. Paa dansk ved Clara Svendsen . Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1944 . ____. Last Tales . London: Putnam, 1957 . ____. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass . 1934...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 250–252.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of the sophis- ticated narrative techniques deployed by British and French oriental tales launches a polemical assault against Ian Watt, Michael McKeon, Catherine Gallagher, and other critics who have seen in national realism the teleological unfolding of a singular modernity in which the rational...