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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 2. Niels Klim tries to impress the tree-creatures with his European manners, but they find that he and his civilization fall woefully short compared to their own rule of reason. Illustration from an American 1845 edition, publisher Saxton & Miles. Image from Project Gutenberg.
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2013
...). In doing so, they become co-partners, even “co-sufferers” or mourners, in the feelings of natural phenomena. The elegy for the trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer provides a pointed example of how the intertwining of thinking and feeling that poetry makes possible allows the authors to enter...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (3): 193–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... . Bottéro, Jean. L'Epopée de Gilgamesh: Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir. Paris: Gallimard, 1992 . Butler, Sally A. Mesopotamian Conceptions of Dreams and Dream Rituals. Munich: Ugarit-Verlag, 1992 . Butterworth, E.A.S. The Tree at the Navel of the Earth. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2016
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their origins in and circulate across the oikoumene’s three continents —Europe,
Asia, and Africa —already known to the ancients.
Book 3, on the other hand, leads readers to the sites of transatlantic voyages and
to the New World’s botanic world of such healing herbs and plants as the guaiacum
tree...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 415–436.
Published: 01 December 2023
... colors gain preeminence: the purple haze of the titular “fuqahāʾ al-ẓalām” (sages of darkness); the gleaming amber into which a tree transforms; and the blue of a sinister grain ledger. Snow, in other words, is the stage for the injection of strange new energies, manifest in mutations and leaps...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 142–160.
Published: 01 June 2011
... with reality or the total-
ity of “things” —realia. Heidegger’s notion of mathesis derives from an ancient
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 146
Greek conception of everyday objects. Whereas ta physika are “physical” phenom-
ena that exist on their own (a tree, a rock, a mountain), ta poioumena designates...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 418–435.
Published: 01 September 2006
... . Moretti, Franco. Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 . London and New York: Verso, 1999 . ____. “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review 1 ( January /February 2000 ): 54 -68. ____. Graphs, Maps, Trees. Absract Models for a Literary History . London and New York: Verso, 2005...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 240–257.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Paul . Allegories of Reading . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1979 . Derrida Jacques . On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy , translated by Irizarry Christine . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2005 . Dunn David . The Sound of Light in Trees (compact disc...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 June 2024
... 21 ) and “a fascinating cul-de-sac” ( Moore 57 ), or he is “cast in the oxymoronic role of a parent with no offspring on the family tree of African letters” ( Kalliney 166 ). Although The Palm-Wine Drinkard is sometimes introduced as the first African novel by an African to be published...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
... granted victory to the god
mocno przywia˛zany do drzewa tightly fastened to the tree
dokl/adnie odarty ze skóry thoroughly stripped of his skin
Marsjasz Marsyas
krzyczy screams
zanim krzyk...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 244–255.
Published: 01 June 2009
... socio-historical project that radically and devastatingly alters the commu-
nal ecology. Its concluding sequence describes with a rhetoric bristling with bib-
lical apocalypse the destruction of a sacred tree as willed self-immolation: “and i
beheld the cotton tree / guardian of graves rise upward...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 269–293.
Published: 01 September 2007
... to an intermediate caste
such as a mestizo, mulato, or zambo, just as mixto designated an offspring of two
different species of birds (2:580), and mestizo a mixed-breed dog (Herrera passim)
or even a hybrid tree (Monardes 228). Thus, Valle y Caviedes manages to convert
even dietary staples into sexual and caste...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., and an object-intensive grasp close at hand, we might consider again the trees and waves that Moretti’s world-systems thinking adopts as metaphors for the flows of literary form. Trees, which describe “the passage from unity to diversity: one tree, with many branches,” are “what nation states cling...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of Lyric Reading . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2005 . Jackson Virginia . “ Spectres of the Ballad .” Nineteenth-Century Literature 72 , no. 2 ( 2016 ): 176 – 96 . Jacobus Mary . Romantic Things: A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
... account of the “trees and waves” that respectively explain patterns of literary distribution and circulation. Gurnah’s By the Sea provides a model for literary studies by its very grafting and intermeshing of spoken languages, family histories, individual lives, and goods (rhizomatic trees...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
...
amongst the trees
and in the nest
she has three eggs.
And in each egg —
Hush, don’t disturb!—
There lies asleep
a baby chick.
I can still remember...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 58–73.
Published: 01 January 2008
... correspond to those of
Táng dynasty Chinese poetry. A poem by Miyako Yoshika (837-79) evokes the
6 On the “tree cricket” or cicada as an archetype of timelessness see Reckert and Centeno 17-43. It
is impossible to say whether Sol Son’s crickets and those in the Man‘yôshû are in fact cicadas...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Figure 2. Niels Klim tries to impress the tree-creatures with his European manners, but they find that he and his civilization fall woefully short compared to their own rule of reason. Illustration from an American 1845 edition, publisher Saxton & Miles. Image from Project Gutenberg. ...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (4): 430–448.
Published: 01 December 2017
... translation, the initial stresses on “Hidden” and
“Plucked,” along with the compound “golden-fledged,” anchor this passage in a
dactylic rhythm:
Hidden in the thick of a tree is a bough made of gold 14.6
And its leaves and pliable twigs are made of it too 13.5...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Deeps Shallows weeds ships Boats ( at a distance ) Carrots turnips sun moon and stars . . . † [. . .] Here I am among Colleges, halls, Stalls, Plenty of Trees, thank God . . . Plenty of water, thank heaven—Plenty of Books, thank the Muses—Plenty of Snuff, thank Sir Walter Raleigh. [. . .] But you...
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