..., and naked of the adornment of music, by force they must alone and with the strength of their own virtue show themselves deserving). 1 Although the introductory text appears under the names of López and Martínez, who for marketing reasons presented the song lyrics as serious literature, it also reflects...

...John Hoffmeyer Abstract This essay develops a comparative account of Walter Benjamin’s and Hart Crane’s architectonic metaphors for text, culture, and history. I argue that theorist and poet alike employ parallel conceptual frameworks that analogize the “building” of the text to the condensation...

... critics argue that the novel either takes up or evades the task of ethical instruction, this article shows that the text disputes the basic assumptions of ethical literary criticism. Elizabeth Costello makes a powerful case for the difference of the novel vis-à-vis other forms of ethical discourse. What...

...: Walter de Gryuter, 1991 . 30 -59. Mailloux, Steven. Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982 . Morgan, Thaïs. “Is There an Intertext in this Text? Literary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Intertextuality.” American...

...Haun Saussy Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant “Other” in Modern Chinese Literature. By Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. viii, 321 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK...

...Erec R. Koch Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2002. 387 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/362...

...K. Maya Larson Abstract Designed to deceive some readers, such as the censor, while inviting others to read “between the lines,” Aesopian texts task their translator with added interpretive complexity. Does a given translation reflect both text and subtext, target audience and hurdle audience...

... and authenticity associated with a “human” selfhood. Selfhood, like text, here becomes assemblage: an assemblage of borrowed words. Focusing on Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts and Graham Rawle's Woman's World , I show how writing, text, and self are inextricably intertwined, and how this reinvigorates...

...Robert Lamberton Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts. By Peter T. Struck. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 316 p. University of Oregon 2006 Atherton, Catherine. The Stoics on Ambiguity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993 . De...

..., 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...

...Laurie K. Vickroy The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification. By Amy Hungerford. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 206 p. University of Oregon 2004 BOOK REVIEWS/99...

...Samuel Perry Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature . By Thornber Karen . Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2009 . 591 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012...

...Bruce Clarke Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. Ed. Timothy Lenoir. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xv, 457 p. University of Oregon 2000 BOOK REVIEWS/87...

... in Italy . London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1990 . ____. A Reconsideration of Aldo Palazzeschi's Poetry (1905-1974) . Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/300 ENRICO CESARETTI Consuming Texts: Creation...

...Shari Huhndorf Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. By Chadwick Allen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. x, 308 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/262...

...Jacob Emery This essay examines situations where a single trope is implicated in two traditionally opposed rhetorical structures: mise en abyme , in which an internal text provides a miniature model of the framing text, and allegory, a figure in which the text at hand is only the key to some single...

... through parody, travesty, and psychoanalytic pastiche. Taking as points of departure Jenefer Shute's framing of Nabokov's conflict with Freud as an attempt to ensure hermeneutic control over his own texts and the cultural fields within which Nabokov's works were written and read, I analyze a literary...

... directors, thinkers, and artists from across the globe. Among these encyclopedic references are allusions to Barthes's writings, most notably A Lover's Discourse: Fragments and The Pleasure of the Text . However, when the narrator of Chu's novel quotes from The Pleasure of the Text , he apparently forgets...