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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... flattened, in Bakhtin’s ultramodernist idea of the epic world “walled off from all subsequent times” ( 6 )—that is, as good as dead. 6 But it is not the case. Beginning with the Odyssey looking back on the Iliad , epic poems of the Western tradition look back from a later moment...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 415–428.
Published: 01 December 2015
... traditionally U.S. nationalist paradigms. THE POE TRADITION AND AMERICAN AFRICANISM / 425 doror” (66). The comparison to Vautrin parallels the equally anachronistic asso- ciation European surrealists drew between Lautréamont and Lenin, but neither exactly qualify as “dehistoricizing...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 235–245.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Stefanos Geroulanos Saussy opens chapter 2 with a debate that has had Homer’s epics and Milman Parry’s The Making of Homeric Verse (57–59) at its center: the question of whether oral tradition is more “mechanical” or, conversely, more “alive, organic” than written texts (58) was sustained...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Patrice D. Rankine African American Writers and Classical Tradition . By Cook William W. and Tatum James . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2010 . 454 p. © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2016
...John T. Hamilton Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge . By Pfau Thomas . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 . 673 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Adorno Theodor W. Minima Moralia...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 142–163.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in the Eighteenth Century . Ed. Larry S. Champion. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1974 . 33 -51. Conn, Robert. The Politics of Philology. Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition . Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002 . Connolly, Cyril. The Unquiet Grave...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Guido Herzovich Abstract “Spanish American modernismo,” wrote Octavio Paz in 1972, “has no connection to what in English is called ‘modernism.’” Indeed, for a long time there was consensus in both critical traditions that “despite some parallels,” as Astradur Eysteinsson put it, “the differences...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 399–419.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Revathi Krishnaswamy While the literatures of the (third) world are being rapidly curricularized in revamped Comparative/World or Postcolonial literature classes, the theories and methodologies used to interpret and evaluate these texts are still drawn primarily from the Western tradition...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 289–292.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Aruni Kashyap Abstract What does it mean to be a writer from Northeast India? What does it mean to write from the margins of India? What are the limitations of Indian English writing when it comes to depicting marginal, radical literary traditions that question the idea of India? The author...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... he writes of “Democritus, qui genuit Epicurus (via his disciple Nausiphanes) qui genuit Lucretius,” he is parroting Old Testament language to ironize the idea that ancient materialism is a traditionally filiated tradition (358). It is not. It is a tradition built on deviations and swerves...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
... typically mobilized in discussions of works from non-major traditions, coupled with dominant theories of the development of the novel, serve to occlude the formal innovations of both texts. Attending to their complex work of worlding yields new critical insights, revealing how these works anticipate...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 194–212.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the background of a broad typology of European verse, it argues that a basic compensatory mechanism balancing different levels of organization of verse is complicated by the interaction between different national traditions. As a particularly complex case the article investigates the introduction of syllabo...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... into the richly ambiguous Indo-Persian literary and cultural idiom. The article examines the ambiguities introduced into Faiz’s text through intertextuality with this idiom derived from the Persian dastān and Urdu ghazel traditions. With the help of both direct and indirect allusion to those traditions, Faiz’s...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 25–51.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sara Hakeem Grewal Abstract While the ghazal has appeared in many linguistic traditions, its diversity is undermined by the imposition of a singular definition of this genre, which is further compounded by the overly simplistic identification of ghazal as lyric; these lyricized readings...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 160–176.
Published: 01 March 2009
... account of, and response to, some recent scholarship in the field of postcolonial medieval studies. It is suggested that postcolonial medieval studies requires 1) working outside the framework of a single literary tradition, since few texts in the Middle Ages were produced solely within such a limited...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 306–325.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the ways in which a contemporary engagement with the myths of the sea transforms and translates understandings not only of the present moment but also of traditional ideas of linear time. Specific myths of the sea become a tool with which to mine the past and present as they allow these poets to reflect...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Natasha Tanna Abstract This article analyzes queer literary politics and the engagement with cultural precursors in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century in works by Cuban writer Ena Lucía Portela and Argentine writer María Moreno. The lack of a clearly defined tradition of lesbian/queer...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 264–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of Michel Foucault’s view of history careening toward the vanishing point of the human as well as a powerful echo of traditional Hindu cultural beliefs about the continuum between human and animal life-forms, about rebirth and regeneration. For Édouard Maunick, the island itself is the site of a creative...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 18–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... established at the extreme limit of separation. Rather than thinking of intimacy and distance in a traditional manner, as fundamentally at odds with one another, Blanchot insists that the most profound intimacy occurs only when separation has been experienced, and affirmed, in its most radical form. © 2016...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 274–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... mulieribus and Cité , Boccaccio and Christine struggle to develop narratives of marital affection distinct from courtly love traditions, even as they repeatedly draw on courtly love to establish emotional authenticity. As a result, narrative cruxes and inconsistencies in De mulieribus and Cité point...