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Published: 01 March 2023
Figure 1. “Five Hundred Year Map.” Endpaper map from Almanac of the Dead (1991) , by Leslie Marmon Silko. More
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., 1992 . Waugh, Evelyn. Decline and Fall . Boston: Little, Brown, 1956 . West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust . New York: New Directions, 1950 . ____. Novels & Other Writings . New York: Library of America, 1997 . aaron matz The Years...
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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 (2024) 76 (3): 294–335.
Published: 01 September 2024
... for the centenary of the first critique ( ACLU , no. 90 [1881]); Goethe in 1882 for the fifty-year anniversary of his death ( ACLU , no. 105 [1882])—while a regular section of the journal was dedicated to Schopenhauer from its inception, and two separate issues also made a case for the erection of a Schopenhauer...
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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 (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... . This essay looks at the theoretical writing of Italo Calvino over the six-year period from 1967 to 1973 —the years between his translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Les Fleurs bleues and his full election to the Oulipo — arguing that during this time Calvino's own poetics underwent a significant change...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 179–200.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Alys Moody Abstract The negritude movement emerged from the Black intellectual milieu of Paris in the 1930s and became one of the defining anticolonial modes of the postwar years. It stands as an exemplary case of primitivism beyond its canonical European forms, performing a striking détournement...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... their reveling in a cosmopolitan commons, largely situated in the United States and Europe, via Paris of the années folles (Crazy Years), from which fragments can be drawn to create queer counter-canons. However, the article concludes that through their highly intertextual works both writers reflect critically...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Anindita Banerjee; Gabriella Safran Abstract This special issue provokes a radical reconsideration of the pasts and futures of world literature thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, accompanied by triumphalist declarations of the end of history. Conceived in the wake of racial...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 1880s he engaged in a virtually unknown polemic with Mechnikov about science and religion that culminated in a face-to-face meeting the year before Tolstoy's death. Despite Tolstoy's expressed disdain for Mechnikov's theories, in his final novel, Resurrection (1899), Tolstoy used Mechnikov's phagocytic...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Dina Berdichevsky Abstract This article explores the moment of “invention” of the Hebrew mood. Around the year 1900 a new expression for mood appeared in Hebrew: matsav ruah . The articulation of a new linguistic expression was paralleled by the rise of an original atmospheric prose, mood prose...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... sāl-i-āshnā’i: yādo n kā majmūʻah ( Months and Years of Friendship: Recollections ; 1979), arguing that Faiz’s text is distinct from earlier, Western travelers’ accounts in its articulation of the complexities of his subject position vis-à-vis the Soviet state. It does so by translating his experience...
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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 (2022) 74 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is crucially important in Baraka’s narration of his conversion from Beat bohemianism to Black nationalism. Baraka’s argument with Wittgenstein anticipates the concerns of a debate that occurred several years later between Hans Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas. Reading...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 128–141.
Published: 01 March 2009
... to the failed revolt on the Speranza ; and the utopian ideal of a better society actually creates a relatively egalitarian and peaceful community for the span of twelve years, a limited prospect that does not seem possible in Delblanc's novel. Moreover, although avarice and the urge to subdue others finally...
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Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (4): 367–387.
Published: 01 September 2009
...NAOMI BRENNER From the early years of his long and prolific writing career, Hebrew poet Avraham Shlonsky continually wrote and rewrote himself into the early twentieth-century cultural scene as consummate artist and ideologue. Affiliating his artistic persona with a new Zionist language, ideology...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... As Ugrešić dismantles the phallus's imaginary “veils,” she also unmasks persistant gender inequality and a virulent socio-political backlash during the immediate post-Tito years. Ugrešić embeds in her psychoanalytic parody an incisive reading of gender discourse and local feminisms in 1980s Yugoslavia...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 253–268.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Chulkov. The English novel in question, The History of Charlotte Summers, The Fortunate Parish Girl (1749), was translated into French in 1751 and from French into Russian in 1763, just three years before the publication of the first installment of Chulkov's first literary work, The Mocker or Slavonic...
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Comparative Literature (2011) 63 (3): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kevin Newmark This essay considers Baudelaire's “Le Cygne” in terms of the crucial place the poem should occupy in any theoretical reflection on literary and historical “modernity.” Despite the proliferation in recent years of references to Walter Benjamin in the reception of Baudelaire's poetry...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
...A. Sean Pue Modernist Urdu poet N.M. Rashed's Iran men ajnabi ( A Stranger in Iran , 1957), published ten years after the partition of British India, describes the experiences of an Indian Muslim soldier in the British Indian Army occupying Iran during World War II. Rashed's narrator searches...