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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (1): 111–126.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Ben Hutchinson Abstract This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within the early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand the full normative force of the two terms if we read them rhetorically. In order to do this, the article draws on Roman...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 220–230.
Published: 01 June 2009
... American texts in these languages have been largely excluded from comparative literary studies. A comparative reading of two 1877 texts—Meltzl's “Tasks of Comparative Literature” and José Martí's prospectus for the Revista Guatemalteca —reveals that the literatures of the Americas, and the Caribbean...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with regard to the perceived relationship between creativity and constraint. The essay makes its case by analogy with two authors often cited by the Oulipo — the medieval theologian Ramón Llull and the Atomist philosopher Lucretius — between whom Calvino draws a parallel in one of his final works...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 January 2001
... in the American-Jewish Literary Tradition.” Milbauer and Watson 17 -32. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/42
JEFFERSON CHASE
Two Sons of “Jewish Wit”:
Philip Roth and
Rafael Seligmann
“ HIS IS MY LIFE, my only life, and I’m living it in the middle of a Jewish
T joke...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 273–288.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sangeeta Ray Abstract This article articulates how an epistemology of ignorance structures the postcolonial metropolitan critic’s knowledge about a particular fraught state in India, Assam. Using the term agnotology , coined by Robert Proctor, rather than agniology , it examines two novels, Missing...
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in Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 13. Zeina Abirached, Je me souviens (2008), two-page spread, “Untitled” [48–49]. Used with permission.
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in Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 14. Zeina Abirached, Je me souviens (2008), two-page spread, “Cette année-là . . . ” and “Je me souviens que c’était un très grand bateau. . .” [52–53]. Used with permission.
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in Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 15. Zeina Abirached, Je me souviens (2008), two-page spread, “Je me souviens des bombardements” [82], and “Je me souviens de Juillet 2006. / Je suis à Paris, ils sont tous là-bas, [83]. Used with permission.
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 400–415.
Published: 01 September 2009
...CHRISTOPHER K. COFFMAN One would find it difficult to overstate the importance of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu to James Merrill's work. Although almost any of Merrill's works could be read with an eye to Proustian concerns and motifs, Merrill's final two collections of poems...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 173–185.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Laurence de Looze Medieval people knew as well as we do that no two people could look exactly alike. But the question of look-alikes was nevertheless a fascinating one because it opened up a potential gap between external manifestation and deeper identity. What did it mean for the ontology...
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1. Comparative diagram of classical and modern Persian poetic lines: (a) Regular classical bayt comprising two mesraʿ s of equal length; (b) Line pattern of mostazad with an added shorter line to the end of each mesraʿ ; (c) Line pattern of mokhammas ; (d) a hypothetical tasnif
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (1): 46–58.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Antony Rowland János Pilinszky's ruminations about trauma and memory struck a particular chord with Ted Hughes. At the same time as the Yorkshire poet was working on translations of Pilinszky's poetry with János Csokits in the early 1970s, he was writing two of his own collections that contain...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... between the two concepts are too many to warrant their critical coalescence.” In recent years, however, it has become the rule to discuss Latin American and Spanish modernismos within the Anglo-Germanic notion of modernism, as part of the broader concept of “global modernisms.” But how did two of the most...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (4): 407–428.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Sonam Singh Walter Benjamin's two essays on Charles Baudelaire — “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire” (1938) and “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” (1939) — are regularly taken as profound readings of that poet's work. This essay argues that, whatever claims may be made for Benjamin...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tiffany Tsao This comparative study of Wuthering Heights (a mid-nineteenth-century British novel by Emily Brontë) and Saman (a late-twentieth-century Indonesian novel by Ayu Utami) examines the two novels' respective treatments of internal colonization — a shared thematic concern that only becomes...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 326–344.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Byungsam Jung Abstract This article analyzes two types of visual perception in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955): camera obscura and camera lucida , terms that are taken from photography and painting, respectively. By applying these terms, this article identifies a visual dilemma in how an artist...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 301–321.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Dominic Mastroianni This essay brings together Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emmanuel Levinas, two thinkers who are almost never paired, to examine their shared interest in the political implications of astonishment. The two have in common a way of inviting readers, persistently but enigmatically...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Dixa Ramírez In this article, I argue that two novels by writers from Hispaniola rescript the long-term idealization of heterosexual coupling in both colonial and nationalist narratives from the Caribbean and Latin America. Mère-Solitude (1983) by Haitian-Canadian Émile Ollivier and El tiempo del...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (2): 159–179.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., enclosure can be understood as a process by which gendered labor and criminalized mobility, two forms of what Marxist critics call “non-work,” became integral features of capital accumulation over the course of the Romantic period. This article pursues an analogy between what John Hunter defined...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 161–181.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Magdalena Kay This article analyzes the influence of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz on Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney in reference to two poems — Miłosz's biographical, ethically self-critical “Bypassing Rue Descartes” and Heaney's ethical allegory “From the Republic of Conscience” — which serve...
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