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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (2): 203–224.
Published: 01 June 2011
...) opens the rhetoric of “ordinary” forgiveness to personal and political abuse, to hypocrisy and calculation. Forgiveness might suture a wound, enabling healing and reconciliation, but its closure also ushers in, if not forgetting, an attenuation or weakening of the suffering of victims of unforgiveable...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Brooke Holmes The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture . By Ballengee Jennifer R. . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2009 . 190 p. © 2011 by University of Oregon 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Th e Wo u n d...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 182–199.
Published: 01 June 2013
... ( 1996 ): 33 – 48 . Print . Wolin Richard . Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption . New York : Columbia UP , 1982 . Print . Lucy O’Meara “Not a Question but a Wound”: Adorno, Barthes, and Aesthetic Reflection...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 429–444.
Published: 01 December 2015
...; and as a genre embroiled in emotion and trauma, it can speak to all sides wounded by conflict without moralizing. It is in the hero's direct encounter with and response to conflict and violence, what Raymond Williams calls “its experience, its comprehension, and its resolution,” that the essay locates tragedy's...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (4): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2018
... allows both writers to reimagine the concept of the soul in modern secular terms: in Tartt’s conception of post-traumatic “soul loss” as a critical stage in the moral and aesthetic education of the self, and in Dostoevsky’s view of wounded memory as opening up the self to the more expansive, overwhelming...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 157–178.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... “Goethe and Tolstoy.” Essays of Three Decades . Trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Knopf, 1965 . Meister, Peter. “Wounds and Healing in Gottfried's Tristan.” Tristania: A Journal Devoted to Tristan Studies 13 . 1-2 (Autumn 1987 -Spring 1988): 72 -82. Meyers, Jeffrey. Disease and the Novel...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (3): 229–241.
Published: 01 June 2002
...—the hero-character, the proud, victorious, and mul- tiply wounded warrior—is a man who, on the face of it, resists and repels all promptings, obstinately insisting on speaking always and only for himself. It seems there is nothing more abhorrent and violating to Coriolanus’s sovereign dignity than...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 336–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., in other words, is a highly effective means of harnessing the signifying potential of pain as a rhetorical resource. The torturer is a ventriloquist, forcing the body to speak his or her message through its suffering. These claims lie at the heart of Jennifer R. Ballengee’s The Wound and the Witness...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 331–335.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... Torture, in other words, is a highly effective means of harnessing the signifying potential of pain as a rhetorical resource. The torturer is a ventriloquist, forcing the body to speak his or her message through its suffering. These claims lie at the heart of Jennifer R. Ballengee’s The Wound...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... These claims lie at the heart of Jennifer R. Ballengee’s The Wound and the Witness: The Rhetoric of Torture, and while they are not unfamiliar, in Ballengee’s hands they take on a renewed sense of urgency. In 1985, when Elaine Scarry published her groundbreaking study of, among other things...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (4): 381–407.
Published: 01 December 2019
...” and to art. At a crucial moment in the story of his life, Andrea gathers his strength while recuperating at Schifanoja from a strangely not fatal “mortale ferita” (mortal wound). This detail is provided, perhaps, to ironically suggest Andrea’s ability to thwart the “volontà micidiale” (murderous desire...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
... characterizes the phenomenon as a problem of historical comprehension: The idea is that, owing to the emotions of terror and surprise caused by certain events, the mind is split or dissociated: it is unable to register the wound to the psyche because the ordinary mechanisms of awareness and cognition...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 354–372.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to a collectivity: “an American looks like a wounded per- ALICE WALKER’S AFRICA/365 son whose wound is hidden from others, and sometimes from herself” (p. 208). This collectivity would include the author herself, while “hidden” wounds and the idea of “America...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to have been on a downward path,—now he seems to be rolling faster and faster away from the center—where to? into nothingness?” (115). Given these interpretations of the Copernican revolution, it might seem reasonable to acquiesce to the Freudian diagnosis of the narcissistic wound following...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 January 2009
... by fellow Greek warriors because of the festering wound on his foot, but who is destined to take Troy with the bow given him in friendship by the dying Heracles, Sophocles turns his mythic material into a drama of doubt and decision making that surpasses in complexity what we fi nd in Homer...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (3): 298–313.
Published: 01 September 2019
... laws are irreducible one to the other. Tragically irreconcilable and forever wounding. The wound itself opens with the necessity of having to count one’s friends, to count the others, in the economy of one’s own, there where every other is altogether other [ là où tout autre est tout autre ]. (22) 8...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 200–219.
Published: 01 June 2013
... nor Barthes’s earlier essays on photography had been trans- lated into Hebrew at the time when Matalon was writing her story and novel. 3 This quote appears in Matalon’s 1994 piece “The Place of the Wound” (“Ha-makom shel ha- petsa”) dealing with Alex Levac’s 1988 photograph entitled “Intifada...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (3): 217–228.
Published: 01 June 2003
... view, Oskar Negt has recently sought to redeem the dignity of both work and labor as Marx conceived them. In “The Wound of Auschwitz,” an extension of his collaboration with Kluge, Negt cuts to the quick of Europe’s labor history, taking a hard look at the words welded into the death camp’s gates...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 283–299.
Published: 01 September 2004
... organiza- tion; notable variants include Olenin marrying Maryana and their having a child, Luka killing or wounding Olenin out of jealousy and becoming one of the lead- ers of the Chechens, and Luka being caught and executed. The names of the characters changed many times, as did the title of the book...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., and he was nothing unless a wound; blood flows everywhere; the sinews, uncovered, lie exposed, trembling veins quiver without any skin. You could count the pulsing intestines and gleaming entrails in his breast. The country dwellers and forest spirits...