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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 2021
... livelihoods that trouble narrow definitions of work and its spatial, temporal, and corporeal limits. Through its montage and unusual soundscape, Santos Port presents laboring bodies in excess of their labor in an elusive portrait of both a strike and of work-life relationships. Unwaged, overlooked forms...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., no faith, no law, no memory. —Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea 227 IT HAS BEEN SAID that diasporic fiction by writers of Vietnamese origin can be read generationally, in that the work of first generation authors is notably marked by the political upheaval of twentieth-century Vietnam, while...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 444–465.
Published: 01 December 2018
...—written upon his fur; so, too, Arzef is not only a taxidermist but also a kind of bookmaker—an artisan working with animal skin. I offer this reading of Balak as a scripted hybrid or walking book because it embeds him in the novel’s concern with made objects—specifically, objects that straddle...
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in Remedial Materialism: What Can Comparative Literature and Electronic Literature Learn from Each Other?
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 2. Jason Edward Lewis, still image from interactive work “What They Speak When They Speak To Me.” Photograph: Jason Edward Lewis, 2012. Reproduced with permission.
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 263–265.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Charles Forsdick Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory, and the Work of Fiction. By Nicholas Harrison. London: Polity, 2003. vii, 221 p. University of Oregon 2006 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/256
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (2): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Nicholas Rennie The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel. By Michel Chaouli. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv, 290 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/192...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 432–446.
Published: 01 September 2009
...SANDRA BERMANN “Working in the And Zone: Comparative Literature and Translation” argues that in conjunction with translation and translation studies comparative literature can offer new energy and purpose to the humanities today. The paper considers the changing roles of comparative literature...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 22–40.
Published: 01 January 2010
...' works we see an ambivalent relationship to father figures and a desire to challenge the Oedipal pact demanded by the symbolic by means of a literary act of defiance that involves a move beyond meaning and sense. Moving away from her earlier focus on poetry, Kristeva turns to Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 2. The working body breathing and at rest, attesting to its transnational circulation.
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in Transported Memories: How “I Remember” Poetry Became an International Form
> Comparative Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figures 8–9. Floc’h, Je me souviens ( 1987 ). Inside details of television “frame” that houses the work’s loose prints. Fair use.
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 257–269.
Published: 01 September 2012
... critical readings of Mimesis . This tendency, originating in the work of Edward Said and practiced in some form or another by nearly all of Auerbach's critics of the last three decades, is to contextualize the writing of Mimesis and to explain its seemingly ungainly form in terms of the specific...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 15–25.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Aarthi Vadde This article contributes to the forum on original languages by examining debates about reading in translation in comparative literature studies. Traditionally comparative literature has eschewed the study of works in translation, but new interventions in world literature challenge...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 408–428.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Glyn Salton-Cox This essay examines the English Communist novelist, Edward Upward (1903–2009) in a hitherto unexplored comparative frame. Until recently, Upward's authorship was largely dismissed as formally uninspired and dogmatically “Stalinist,” the work, as Samuel Hynes put it, of “a gifted man...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Lucas H. Harriman A transcultural adaptation of a literary work often reveals aspects of the original that had previously been obscured in its native context. In a similar vein, a creative reading that truly attempts to do justice to its object might be said to betray it, both in the traditional...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 179–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the fact that literature, especially the novel, does work within a society that both exposes social processes and psychological drives and creates the institutions they need and desire. Frye organized his anatomy around a set of interlocking hermeneutical and structural levels and modes that attempted...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 361–375.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Paul Stasi Ezra Pound argued that it was impossible to think in only one language in the contemporary world. To this end he worked in The Cantos to create a world culture built on the comparison of works of “great value” from a variety of cultures. Pound's epic poem serves to displace the English...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... with Haitian authors generally and with the works of the Baron de Vastey (1781–1820) in particular. Vastey composed at least ten prose works, all of which circulated either in the original or in English translation in the Atlantic World. U.S. newspapers in the north that printed or reviewed Vastey's works...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
... typically mobilized in discussions of works from non-major traditions, coupled with dominant theories of the development of the novel, serve to occlude the formal innovations of both texts. Attending to their complex work of worlding yields new critical insights, revealing how these works anticipate...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (3): 320–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Gregory Goulding Abstract The long poems of the Hindi poet Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (1917–64) present a series of fantastic narratives, in which a nameless speaker journeys through a fantastic landscape. These works, often analyzed solely in terms of a supposed mythic, romantic structure, should...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Natasha Tanna Abstract This article analyzes queer literary politics and the engagement with cultural precursors in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century in works by Cuban writer Ena Lucía Portela and Argentine writer María Moreno. The lack of a clearly defined tradition of lesbian/queer...
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