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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 (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 (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
... the green square to the white square of the checkered linoleum lay the black beads—the gold cross framed in the glimmering, wan glaze. Horror magnified the figure on it” (402). Copyright © 2018 by University of Oregon 2018 thing theory Hebrew Yiddish animal studies bricolage EARLY...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Brown, Bill. “Thing Theory.” Critical Inquiry 28 ( 2001 ): 1 -21. Brown, Marshall. “Negative Poetics: On Skepticism and the Lyric Voice.” Representations 86 ( 2004 ): 120 -40. Calvino, Italo. Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il nuovo millennio . Milan: Mondadori, 1993 . Catullus...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 338–340.
Published: 01 September 2017
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To support her claim, Young approaches Catullan translation from a number of direc-
tions: translation theory, thing theory, cultural poetics, deconstruction, and gender theory
(an eclectic methodology, but almost never heavy-handed) —and most of all by way of what
she aptly calls “deep” readings...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 466–486.
Published: 01 December 2013
... M. Reading between the Lines . Madison : U of Wisconsin P , 1993 . Print . Plotz John . “Can the Sofa Speak? A Look at Thing Theory.” Criticism 47 . 1 ( 2005 ): 109 – 18 . Print . Riffaterre Michael . “Prosopopeia.” Yale French Studies 69 ( 1985 ): 107 – 23...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 420–437.
Published: 01 December 2014
... two conflicting
theories about the relation between concepts and things: (1) the objective existent
theory, and (2) the mental act theory (Rayman 296–303). Since Aristotle, the rela-
tion between concepts and things had been thought to involve likeness or similar-
ity, with concepts...
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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 (3): 193–213.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Box, which, like one of Duchamp’s
Readymades, looks very much like the thing itself, but is not. “What in the end
makes the difference between a Brillo Box and a work of art consisting of a Brillo
Box,” Danto says, “is a certain theory of art. It is the theory that takes it up into
the world...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
Published: 01 March 2001
... a phenomenon will act
or react; it has no compelling law to enforce, except for the obvious recommen-
dations, such as the necessity of food and reproduction, which, because of their
generality, do not add up to a theory. Gravity makes sure that every thing acts in
perfect conformity with it, and therefore...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 36–45.
Published: 01 March 2013
... on thinking a field through its methodology
or mode of reading rather than via theoretical “camps” such as Marxism or psy-
choanalysis (Felski 108–16). It is almost always a good thing to discourage students
from “applying” theory while encouraging them instead to think more carefully
about...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 476–502.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Paolo Pellecchia Abstract This article explores the so-far uncharted filiation of Leopardi’s understanding of language from Locke’s linguistic theory outlined in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . In following Kristeva’s belief that language theories are predicated upon theories...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the evocative force of figurative language as similitude of the sensible, which is much more akin to the archaic sense of μιμɛῖσθαι ( mimeīsthai ) as a primary mode of knowledge about things in the world. Working that kinship, al-Fārābī extrapolates a general theory of mimesis—inclusive of Aristotle’s mimesis...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 180–202.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Taylor Schey Abstract Theories of historical and political change often rely on the idea of a breaking point at which radical action becomes a necessity. Theories of impasse—whether historical, political, or linguistic in focus—respond more or less directly to the assumptions behind this idea...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Companion to Descartes . Ed. John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 . 58 -90. Aristotle. The Basic Works of Aristotle . Ed. Richard McKeon. New York: Random House, 1941 . Austin, J.L. How To Do Things With Words . 2nd ed. Ed. J.O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa. Cambridge: Harvard...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): i–xxiv.
Published: 01 June 2001
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ideas for how we can best proceed with these initiatives. Further, what other things
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 244–260.
Published: 01 June 2008
... -112. López de Martínez, Adelaida. “'Las babas del diablo': Teoría y práctica del cuento.” Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese 67 ( 1984 ): 567 -76. Lukács, Georg. The Theory of the Novel . Trans. Anna Bostock. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1971...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 481–488.
Published: 01 December 2014
... whose job it was
merely to try things out or to imagine things otherwise —to act from within the
institution as a site of continual structural experimentation and critique. Institu-
tionalized innovation: it only feels like a contradiction if you have a bad theory of
institutions —if you...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... Bringing together world literature, genre theory, and the philosophy of things, I explore By the Sea ’s circulatory poetics: a language that surges and flows, histories and memories that accumulate, descriptive droplets clinging to the surface of things, including persons treated as things, the thickly...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 241–255.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... Explanation and Understanding . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971 . IN THEORY’S WAKE/241
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In Theory’s Wake
Antoine Compagnon. Literature, Theory, and Common...
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