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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 (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...
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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
... : Stanford University Press , 2005 . Dunn David . The Sound of Light in Trees (compact disc). Santa Fe, NM : Earth/Ear/Ecology Institute , 2006 . Edelman Lee . “ The De/Ontology of the Future .” Paper presented at the conference “Political Futures,” Institute for the Humanities...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 171–185.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and the personal. With this kind of looking in mind, 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...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 418–438.
Published: 01 December 2020
... incantations could famously, to quote Robert von Hallberg, “charm leaves off trees” ( 2 ). In this instance, the leaf has already fallen; abscission trumps apostrophe in America. The speaker playfully acknowledges his world’s disenchantment, as he appeals to something no longer vital (contrast this poem...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 147–155.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., Cooppan pushes back against the structuralist study of the Indian Ocean as an integrated totality or as what Prestholdt calls a “meta-culture” ( 26 ). Cooppan responds to the structuralist problem of relationality by repurposing Franco Moretti’s account of the “trees and waves” that respectively...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 439–459.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., Pebbles, Beaches, Cliffs Rocks 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...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 327–334.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... Richard Philcox. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.] ____. Traversée de la mangrove . Paris: Mercure de France, 1989 . [Crossing the Mangrove. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.] ____. La Vie scélérate . Paris: Editions Seghers, 1987 . [Tree of Life. Trans. Victoria Reiter...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (2): 201–221.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of enfranchisement in
the future:
We should have a land of sun,
Of gorgeous sun,
. . .
And not this land where life is cold.
We should have a land of trees,
Of tall thick trees...
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