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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 150–165.
Published: 01 June 2021
...,” and sea-stars, which resemble “pink / rice-grains.” Wall’s photograph, in turn, portrays a transposition between an aquatic and a terrestrial environment by placing an intertidal pool filled with star fish and sea anemones into the rectangular space of a grave. This article reads such moments...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... [of the heavenly bodies],” but it was doomed to fall back to Earth ( 1 ). Like Arendt’s The Human Condition , the film Gravity has the great advantage of reminding us of our terrestrial situation, and we need it in these times of accelerated ecocide. However, this reminder comes at the price of repressing any...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... encroachments by colonizing entities. But if Devi, Maunick, and Humbert show a marked fatalism about humanity’s terrestrial future, they also suggest that it is possible to have unwavering confidence in the destructive and reconstructive resources of our ocean, a force more massive and enduring than any...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
.... Gunn, James. “The Man Who Invented Tomorrow.” electronic edition. http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~sfcenter/tomorrow.htm Guthke, Karl S. “Are We Alone? The Idea of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence in Literature and Philosophy from the Scientific Revolution to Modern Science Fiction.” Karl S. Guthke...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 16–24.
Published: 01 March 2017
... routes tend to be baldly contrasted with terrestrial roots, the
coast is alternatively porous, perilous, and patrolled —as much mangrove forest or
rocky headland as sandy harbor, as often immigration control office as open
port —and requires us to think simultaneously in terms of permeability...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 438–447.
Published: 01 December 2011
... for long. Let us imagine, he says, that
the human race has carried out the project: “The inhabitants of Mars or Venus, if
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they have telescopes or lenses to survey the stars, can now perceive, at the dark
edge of the terrestrial disk, a luminous point...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 407–428.
Published: 01 December 2012
... angel, however, does not move between God and man, Paradise and
Earth, desire and actuality. This is a strange angel, indeed: incapacitated by the
force of a transcendental order of which it might, on the one hand, be a part;
and lacking all agency in the terrestrial order, whose activity...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2017
... —for thinking about sur-
faces, depths, and the extra-terrestrial dimensions of planetary resources and rela-
tions” (151), pointing to properties such as “unboundedness,” “drift,” and “sol-
vency” as qualities that, if taken seriously, open into radically different kinds of
reading practices (152...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
... that was semiotically
“lost” because it could no longer count on a consensus regarding signs and signifi-
cation: the readings of terrestrial chivalry were never formally reinstated, while
those of celestial chivalry were never adopted by more than a few knights.
To be sure, the Grail-Prose Cycle is endowed...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 131–149.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Smailbegović’s essay launches the issue, drawing us into an intertidal zone unmoored and disjointed by climate change. Exploring uncanny terrestrial and liquid encounters in the work of photographer Jeff Wall and poet Marianne Moore, Smailbegović notes that these artists are preoccupied by the figure of the sea...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 192–197.
Published: 01 March 2004
...). The last act (chapter
5) entails the return of the seduced, castrated, and dismembered body seen through
Racine’s jeweled Alexandrines both in the early and later tragedies.
Greenberg concludes that the image of the celestial and terrestrial bodies of the mon-
arch was cause for a primitive...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 198–201.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., castrated, and dismembered body seen through
Racine’s jeweled Alexandrines both in the early and later tragedies.
Greenberg concludes that the image of the celestial and terrestrial bodies of the mon-
arch was cause for a primitive fantasy that held the king to be at once a charismatic leader...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., castrated, and dismembered body seen through
Racine’s jeweled Alexandrines both in the early and later tragedies.
Greenberg concludes that the image of the celestial and terrestrial bodies of the mon-
arch was cause for a primitive fantasy that held the king to be at once a charismatic leader...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., castrated, and dismembered body seen through
Racine’s jeweled Alexandrines both in the early and later tragedies.
Greenberg concludes that the image of the celestial and terrestrial bodies of the mon-
arch was cause for a primitive fantasy that held the king to be at once a charismatic leader...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 237–254.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the place-lessness of the ocean, Ada Smailbegović attends in this volume to the overlap between the terrestrial and the maritime in Jeff Wall’s photography, and to the “scales and rhythms” of nonmonumental coastal life in Marianne Moore’s poetry. She hones in on mollusks and jellyfish to theorize...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 463–488.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and terrestrial forces. This failure of physical eroticism contrasts with the “hermosura verdadera” (256; true beauty) projected in the serene beauty of the smile that brings great joy, peace, and a relief from the pain of melancholy. “Ecce homo” suggests that whereas material pleasures fail, perhaps...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to the physical laws that govern them. In contrast to the classical concep-
tion of a variegated yet well-ordered cosmos, Newtonian science does not differen-
tiate between terrestrial and celestial bodies; the theorems of modern physics are
equally applicable to the earth and to the heavens. Moreover...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 June 2014
... within” can thus be read
as the cosmological pattern of antagonisms between evening and morning. This
terrestrial reading is important because it situates the universal experience of liv-
ing on/in earth as a human experience in which “sense” stretches across a vast
horizon within which causality...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 438–458.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
forever,” the speaker simultaneously inhabits the camp’s terrestrial space and
some amorphous cosmic beyond; he inheres in the poetic presence of a textual
“kan” (here), but also aspires to be deleted from the lethal Nazi ledger and thus
permanently blotted out. Writing is arbitrary, erasure...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... As Reyes states, “The flower appears to the poet as the representation of all terrestrial goods” (38). The episode the poet depicts is a lamentation of the present that can’t be escaped by any trick of the mind. The indigenous past persists, but cannot be reconstructed: “Reyes did not read...
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