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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 June 2024
... magic to name a creative method that circumvents artistic originality and the means-and-end logic of technique. This generalization of magic as aesthetic concept contributed to surrealism’s ethical-political project in the early 1930s, which positioned itself against a bourgeois art complicit...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2000
... . WINTER 2000 Volume 52, NumberON THE SUBLIME/1 1 MATS MALM On the Technique of the Sublime HE SUBLIME IS CLEARLY an inexhaustible source of discussion, although Tthe intensity of interest in the topic may wax and wane. Lately...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
... literary techniques associated with globalization. This suggests, more broadly, a need for a more robust formalism in world literature studies, particularly in discussions of works from non-major traditions. © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 World literature Jan Potocki Charles Maturin Gothic...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 303–314.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., novels such as La Disparition and Alphabetical Africa present powerful examples of “engaged literature,” their constrained writing techniques complementing, and often generating, their novels' themes and motifs and producing highly encoded and richly rewarding texts. © 2017 by University of Oregon...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and techniques. It argues that Dolly City reflects, thematically and formally, a shift between two biopolitical models of governance: from a welfare model based on a calculable and statistical futurity and on communal sacrifice, to a neoliberal model grounded in a speculative futurity and a zero-risk principle...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
... an idiosyncratic practitioner of reading and writing methods that transcend nation and period. Modeling innovative techniques that the author calls “automatic translation” and “global close reading,” Cortázar anticipates some of the problems recently voiced in critical debates surrounding world literature. Imagen...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Sherryl Vint Abstract Using a reading of Hari Kunzru’s novel Red Pill to frame our contemporary political moment, this article asks what techniques of cultural critique are available to the Left today when the strategies of imaginary worldbuilding have become so central to the ethnonationalist...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 327–347.
Published: 01 September 2023
... writers were preoccupied with the alleged material and cultural poverty of China in comparison to the West. To remedy this purported backwardness, Chinese writers appropriated from foreign literatures, especially Russian realism, narrative themes and techniques such as the use of metonymy in the depiction...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 62–84.
Published: 01 March 2013
... a reading of The Turn of the Screw , that James's narrative technique and typical configuration of characters create a mechanism very different from the ethically sensitive portrayal of distinctive “perspectives” enshrined as the Jamesian contribution to a liberal Anglo-American aesthetics of the novel...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 137–161.
Published: 01 June 2013
... up in the Eastern borderlands of the Habsburg Empire, in the Crownland of Galicia, which was inhabited by Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles. A third figure with a distinctly Habsburg imperial biography, Sigmund Freud, provides both techniques for reading and serves as a subject of analysis in his own right...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Antoine Meillet celebrated oral rhythm as “the enabling of content,” and Jousse spent his scholarly career studying different forms and techniques that make it possible. Tradition here became a “vast database or collection . . . of formulas” (40) whose extraction, regeneration, and recombination became...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 449–452.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... This “inductive approach,” which looks closely at recurring techniques in poems of various languages across centuries, is foundational to his larger argument in Theory of the Lyric. Culler approaches lyric as a transhistorical literary cate- gory, eschewing any singular conceptual definition or historically...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 53–71.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984 . Bickerton, Derek. “Modes of Interior Monologue: A Formal Definition.” Modern Language Quarterly 28 ( 1967 ): 229 -39. Bowling, Lawrence Edward. “What is the Stream of Consciousness Technique...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 352–353.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., musician, artist, or film maker. Thanks to the empirical knowledge acquired through cognitive science, we can formulate testable theo- ries about the nature of artistic innovation, the acquisition and display of technical mas- tery, and the socialization of new artistic techniques. (Such techniques...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 354–355.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., musician, artist, or film maker. Thanks to the empirical knowledge acquired through cognitive science, we can formulate testable theo- ries about the nature of artistic innovation, the acquisition and display of technical mas- tery, and the socialization of new artistic techniques. (Such techniques...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 356–358.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the acquisition and display of technical mas- tery, and the socialization of new artistic techniques. (Such techniques, when systematized, become teachable; adroitly conceived in syntony with the cognitive capacities of humans, they “educate” and “form” an audience.) Hogan’s cognitive-based insights...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., musician, artist, or film maker. Thanks to the empirical knowledge acquired through cognitive science, we can formulate testable theo- ries about the nature of artistic innovation, the acquisition and display of technical mas- tery, and the socialization of new artistic techniques. (Such techniques...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (4): 362–364.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the acquisition and display of technical mas- tery, and the socialization of new artistic techniques. (Such techniques, when systematized, become teachable; adroitly conceived in syntony with the cognitive capacities of humans, they “educate” and “form” an audience.) Hogan’s cognitive-based insights...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (1): 72–86.
Published: 01 January 2000
... Dynamik und Agogik . Hamburg: Rahter, 1884 . Rivarde, Achille. The Violin and its Technique . London: Macmillan, 1921 . Stainer and Barrett's Dictionary of Musical Terms . Rev. John Stainer. London: Novello, 1889 . Stevens, John. “Gerard Manley Hopkins as Musician.” The Journals and Papers...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 June 2016
... operation resembles the first, but the roles are reversed. One now becomes the judge of others. Kundera illus­ trates the pervasiveness of this “technique de la culpabilisation” (AR 137; “tech­ nique of culpabilization,” AN 110) with a story about a friend who, when impris­ oned by the communist...