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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
... . Bergonzi, Bernard. The Early H.G. Wells . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1961 . Bölsche, Wilhelm. Vom Bazillus zum Affenmenschen . Leipzig: Diederichs, 1900 . Chesney, George Tomkyns. “The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer.” The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 340–360.
Published: 01 September 2014
....” Letras Libres July 2011 : 85 – 86 . Print . Biron Rebecca E. “It's a Living: Hit Men in the Mexican Narco War.” PMLA 127 . 4 ( 2012 ): 820 – 34 . Print . Bolaño Roberto . 2666 . Trans. Wimmer Natasha . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
... ideologies in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 African concept of time Chimurenga Ujamaa war novel Zimbabwean literature Works Cited Adejunmobi Moradewun . “Routes: Language and the Identity of African Literature.” Journal of Modern African Studies 37...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 315–337.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . ———. The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony . New York : Fordham , 2014 . Print . Djian Jean-Michel . Ahmadou Kourouma . Paris : Seuil , 2010 . Print . Dongala Emmanuel . Johnny Mad Dog . Trans. Ascher Marie Louise . New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 2019
... attention has been given to its literary sources and to Némirovsky’s creative process. This article fills this gap by presenting an analysis of the relation between Suite française and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace . It will also show the “creative influence” of the Russian master on Némirovsky, addressing...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 252–271.
Published: 01 September 2019
...L. Maria Bo Abstract This article examines Eileen Chang’s 1953 translation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea into Chinese as Cold War propaganda for the United States Information Service (USIS). It argues that this translation, meant to show the truth of democracy through its high...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Paul K. Saint-Amour News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 . By Rachel Galvin . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . x, 367 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 Rachel Galvin’s News of War is a major study of noncombatant poetry of the Spanish Civil War...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argue that such a conception circles around the secret and more sinister global scene at work in Bolaño's texts, understood as the figure of global war, traced from his mourning of the ideals of modernity (the fall of the Spanish Second Republic, the Nazis, the overthrow of Chile's Salvador Allende...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 403–420.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Eric Morales-Franceschini The cruelest of ironies is that Cubans evidenced strikingly similar tendencies. They, too, villainized their enemy, with most accounts fixated on Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish General assigned to Cuba to wage war “without scruples.” Nearly all accounts animalized Weyler...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 283–301.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of messenger writer. This in turn contributes to a more thorough historicization of the texts and the concerns of iconic leftist writers in the Cold War. University of Oregon 2010 Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” Illuminations . Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 330–334.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Warren Ginsberg The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War . By Butterfield Ardis . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xxx, 444 p . © 2012 by University of Oregon 2012 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 450–465.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jan Lensen This essay examines contemporary rewritings of World War II memory narratives. Drawing on the examples of Flughunde (1995) by German author Marcel Beyer and Marcel (1999) by Flemish author Erwin Mortier, I analyze the ways in which both authors address the complex processes...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 347–361.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Press, 1995 . Niditch, Susan. War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence . New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 . Paley, F.A., ed. Euripides, with an English commentary . Vol. 1 . London: Whittaker & Co., George Bell, 1872 . Pindar. Pindari Carmina cum...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (3): 295–297.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Ursula Tidd Crises of Memory and the Second World War. By Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 286 p. University of Oregon 2008 BOOK REVIEWS SURPRISED IN TRANSLATION. By Mary Ann Caws...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (3): 262–266.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Seth Lerer Fiction and Incarnation: Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages. By Alexandre Leupin. Translated by David Laatsch. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxiv, 256 p. The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (4): 503–505.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Marta Hernández Salván [email protected] Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War . By Lanie Millar . New York : State University of New York Press , 2019 . 262 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 Millar’s Forms...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 373–376.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., more Algerians or fewer had been offered, or subjected to, the educational projects of the ‘civilizing mission?’” (157). This question is linked to the central question of the chapter: whether Feraoun’s decision to continue to work in education in a time of crisis and war was justifiable. Harrison...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 276–282.
Published: 01 September 2020
... admittance into the United States as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise in 1821, five years before Jefferson’s death. Its capital is Jefferson City. A half-century after what had been styled as the necessary compromises around slavery to start the American Revolutionary War, the first state...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Sunny Xiang This essay tracks the discourse of “Oriental writing” in Ha Jin’s fictional Korean War memoir War Trash and the autobiography of Wang Tsun-ming, an actual Korean War POW. “Oriental writing” designates a racialized ambiguity between a self-present subject and an automatized mechanism...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (4): 366–382.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Antony Rowland This article examines the categories of victim and perpetrator testimony in relation to the writing contained in the Salamander Oasis Trust archive in the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. In Dimensions of the Holocaust , Elie Wiesel famously commented that the Holocaust produced...