Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 830
Search Results for way
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 331–346.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... Mary Ann Caws and Eugene Nicole. New York: Peter Lang, 1990 . 185 -95. Naremore, James. The World Without a Self . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973 . Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way . Trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff. London: Chatto & Windus, 1922 . Spivak, Gayatri C. “Unmaking...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 400–415.
Published: 01 September 2009
... K. COFFMAN
“Swann’s Way. Basic
Training”: Interpretation
in James Merrill’s Late
Collections and À la
recherche du temps perdu
URING HIS FINAL YEAR AT AMHERST, James Merrill wrote a thesis with
Dthe title “À la Recherche du...
View articletitled, “ Swann's <span class="search-highlight">Way</span> . Basic Training”: Interpretation in James Merrill's Late Collections and À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
View
PDF
for article titled, “ Swann's <span class="search-highlight">Way</span> . Basic Training”: Interpretation in James Merrill's Late Collections and À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (3): 246–266.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in ways that resonate with the Odyssey 's own preoccupations. The conceptual framework used to bring these poets into dialogue draws from ancient skepticism as a posture or way of being in the world that shapes philosophical and literary works bound up in what the Pyrrhonists called “the searching way...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 130–140.
Published: 01 June 2016
... space? In keeping with this forum's emphasis on “relationality,” I argue for a turn to Blackness since it troubles the emphasis on Eurocentric ways of thinking and disrupts the linear progressive narrative with which we are all acquainted. To relate to Blackness as a deliberate choice authorizes...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Sander van Maas Abstract This essay investigates what the word “book” in the concept of the audiobook has come to refer to, and how contemporary material book cultures suggest ways to reperceive audiobook experience. The essay uses audiobooks by David Foster Wallace and Jacques Derrida, which...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 369–391.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Nimrod Reitman Abstract The article reads Sigmund Freud and Claudio Monteverdi’s understanding of musicality, its affinity with rhetoric, and the way this relation informs their individual oeuvres. Both Monteverdi and Freud, each in his own way, were condemned to live with an aversion to musicality...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Weihsin Gui Abstract This essay argues that contemporary literary anthologies of Indian Ocean narratives offer a distinctive way of representing the diversity of voices and experiences that traverse the ocean and connect the different countries and cultures along its rim. Whereas the single-author...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 207–229.
Published: 01 June 2012
... makes the “thing, the human, the poem, and indeed language itself” into metaphors for each other ( Feminist Difference 130), this essay takes the link between poetic difficulty and images of occlusion as a way to broach the difficulties of entering into alien experience by way of lyric poems. More...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 March 2017
...S. Shankar This essay harnesses the use of translation as a critical method to explore affect in a comparative mode. By way of readings of ethnography (Margaret Trawick's Notes on Love in a Tamil Family ), film (the Hindi-language masala film Guide ), and fiction (Chinua Achebe's Nigerian novel...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Ilya Kliger This essay attempts a reading of Ivan Turgenev’s First Love as a case study within a broader inquiry into the social imaginary of Russian realist fiction. One way to formulate the central question of the essay is to ask what happens when, on some deep structural level, an ostensibly...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (2): 156–170.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Clarissa Vierke Abstract The Swahili poetry of the master poet Fumo Liyongo, which dates between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, draws much of its imagery from the Indian Ocean, and in a particularly sensuous way: the poems paint baroque tableaux of Swahili material culture, evoking...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 188–206.
Published: 01 June 2023
... politics of the Right. It argues that the end of the Cold War prompted a reconfiguration of political identities and public discourse in both the West and the former Soviet territories—through distinct but interrelated logics—that highlighted the failures of liberalism in ways that set the stage...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 355–377.
Published: 01 September 2024
... Manuel Puig’s 1980 novel Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas as an example of a text that engages in debates of its moment, including reader-response theory and Latin American testimonio, while also looking over their horizons to anticipate the ways the collective “we” of literary studies would...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 43–53.
Published: 01 January 2009
... photographs included in Austerlitz . Indeed, Austerlitz and Wittgenstein mirror each other in so many ways that a reader familiar with Ray Monk's biography of the philosopher and Wittgenstein's own work might suspect that Sebald lifted specific elements from these texts into his own. But Sebald's work also...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 432–446.
Published: 01 September 2009
...,” as well as political, religious, and commercial issues connected to the writing and transmission of literary works. They also include an invigorated awareness of the ways in which questions of “foreign” and “home,” other and same, might find a place in a more dialogic and responsive mode of reading...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 122–143.
Published: 01 March 2010
... these works depict. In both texts the portrait raises the issue of the relation between identity and representation. Since in both stories the portrait is that of a woman and the painter is a man, they also deal with the way the power to represent (and thus determine or construct identity) relates to gender...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (3): 246–261.
Published: 01 June 2010
...DAVID BARNES This essay performs a new reading of John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice , placing the work in the context of nineteenth-century Italian nationalist debates on the character and history of Venice. Using letters, diaries, and other sources, the essay discusses the ways in which...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 2012
... constitute themselves as participatory members in the larger field of Western and world culture? And how does the apparent divestment of national cultural identity actually reaffirm the importance of that identity? Specifically, I am intrigued by the different ways in which they interact with Joyce both...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 383–407.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Windelband's primer, A History of Philosophy . Unearthing Beckett's reaction to the nineteenth-century Kantian's grand narrative of the progress of reason, this article maps the poetics of appropriation that marks Beckett's quintessentially late modernist aesthetics. In no way can Beckett's poetics edify...
Journal Article
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...
View articletitled, Perpetrators and Victims: Third-Generation Perspectives on the Second World War in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde and Erwin Mortier's Marcel
View
PDF
for article titled, Perpetrators and Victims: Third-Generation Perspectives on the Second World War in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde and Erwin Mortier's Marcel
1
