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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Ashley Barnes How to Do Things with Fictions . By Landy Joshua . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 250 p. © 2014 by University of Oregon 2014 BOOK REVIEWS
How to Do Things with Fictions. By Joshua Landy. New...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 230–234.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., and Roland Tolentino, as well as the author of
Things Fall Away. These praxes are brought to bear on what the author portrays as a nation
in permanent crisis, whose features either resemble or anticipate the consequences of glo-
balization in much of the rest of the world. It is within this apprehension...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., is similarity (one thing is like another); the motor of metonymy, on the other hand, is contiguity (one thing is next to, or part of another). Jakobson’s distinction, this article suggests, maps instructively onto the mechanisms of comparative and world literature: where the former compares one text to another...
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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 (2019) 71 (3): 298–313.
Published: 01 September 2019
... War II. Seussian pedagogy teaches us to hear all persons as whos rather than whats or things. Yet this essay argues that all persons are also things. While this thingliness remains unequally distributed thanks to persistent sociopolitical hierarchies, it also calls on us to think about ethics...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in the text of Lucretius’s De rerum natura ( On the Nature of Things ). Tracing philological debates that have surrounded Lucretius from the Renaissance onward, this article argues that Lucretius’s poetic theory of interlinked atomic and textual swerves and the philological history that has mediated them were...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 319–332.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-ending input from masses of people, is the morphological ground of the epic, an art form energized by its downward percolations. Penelope, that infinitely patient and longsuffering wife, becomes a variety of things as a result, much changed since Homer's times. In the hands of Atwood, she shares...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., and a cognitive side that is engaged with questions about whether the things we perceive can lay claim to being knowledge. As such, it is central to some of the most persistent concerns of Western philosophy. The epistemic and emotional registers of doubt have a long history, but it is also a history that has...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 366–382.
Published: 01 December 2011
... ever a victim (a common descriptor of soldiers after Vietnam and the advent of PTSD in 1980) or something between these two testamentary categories? And — most pertinent for this article — is there such a thing as a perpetrator voice, perspective, or aesthetic when the poet dispassionately records...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... makes the “thing, the human, the poem, and indeed language itself” into metaphors for each other ( Feminist Difference 130), this essay takes the link between poetic difficulty and images of occlusion as a way to broach the difficulties of entering into alien experience by way of lyric poems. More...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 429–445.
Published: 01 December 2012
... readers to experience — as revealed through everyday language — by leading us beyond the dichotomy of facticity and transcendence, away from the urge to transcend the limits of language, and toward a recognition of the possibility of seeing our ordinary dealing with things as presenting a face...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of life as existing on a single chronological continuum, casting the former as an irretrievable thing of the past, Saman conceives of the two co-existing parallel to each other, the former continuing to exist despite the introduction of colonial culture. By proposing and deploying a process-based model...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in these novels the narration of a process by which scientific reason transcends the study of wild things to itself become the wild. 20 Others among the plethora of trade books premised on the hunter-gatherer ideal are Rutger Bregman ’s Humankind and Christopher Ryan ’s Civilized to Death . 21...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2001
... . Paris: Gallimard, 1948 . ____. The Voice of Things . Trans. Beth Archer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972 . Prévert, Jacques. Paroles . Éditions Gallimard, 1949 . ____. Words for All Seasons . Trans. Teo Savory. Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, 1979 . Sartre, Jean-Paul. “L'homme et...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... other narrator, Saleh Omar, a one-time seller of “beautiful, intricate things” to British colonials and European tourists eager to “take them home and possess them” ( Gurnah 20 ). Latif and Saleh are linked by two generations of property dealings encompassing houses and their contents, deathbed quests...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 256–272.
Published: 01 June 2005
... reading these things, but I was so over-
whelmed with gratitude in being read that I couldn’t assess them as responses.
Occasionally I felt that an entire—how shall I put it? “Life’s work” is such a big
phrase—but it’s an idea—the reason why I told that silly story in Budapest—it’s
an idea that has...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 481–488.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... Most of these activities
take place outdoors, near forests and rivers; a good number of others involve
making things out of wood; these in turn require, or seemed to, having a certain
kind of father (the kind with a basement workshop); they also seem to require
living somewhere other than a big...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 247–263.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the humanities as art theory, media studies, sociology, and anthropology. It does not conceive of these ideas and methods as unprecedented. A turn suggests either a circular movement or a shift that sets things in a different direction. Etymologically, the idea of a circular movement rather than a change...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
Published: 01 March 2001
... it. In the fol-
lowing I intend to show that the criticism according to which Darwin saps his
own credibility overlooks the important fact that, along with the fabric of things,
Darwin also revolutionizes the intellectual nature of belief.
Opponents of the Darwinist world view like to point out...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (3): 234–238.
Published: 01 June 2005
... at things, the particulars are often
negotiable—more so than in disciplines focused on specific places, times, or ob-
jects. This makes us seem at times heartless or lacking in loyalty. For us there are
no classics or epics or even authors per se, but chains of events that result in
classicism, local...
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