Recently added articles from Comparative Literature:
The Indecisive Muse: Ethics in Translation and the Idea of History
Oct 01, 2008; ... I. Two Dogmas of Translation When I was a child in Madrid, my friends and I took our literary pleasures where we could find them, and we found them very often in translation.1 René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's great "Astérix et Obélix" series came to us in Castillan furnished with ...
The Plight of Buchanan's Jephtha: Sacrifice, Sovereignty, and Paternal Power
Oct 01, 2008; ... IN PROMOTING GREEKAND ROMAN ideals of public service, early modern humanism finds many ways to extol dedication to the commonweal. Within narrative or dramatic contexts indebted to republicanism or mixed monarchy, episodes involving the rule of law (implacable and, ideally, impartial) expose the ...
The Years of Hating Proust
Oct 01, 2008; ... I. The Death and Rebirth of Marcel Proust When Marcel Proust died in 1922, only the first four installments of A la recherche du temps perdu had been published. He was still correcting the proofs of La Prisonnière on his deathbed. That volume was not published until the following year, ...
Mikilistes and Modernistas: Taking Paris to the "Second Degree"
Oct 01, 2008; ... "Si Paris no existiera, los escritores hispanoamericanos la habrían inventado." (If Paris didn't exist, Spanish American writers would have invented it.) - Cristóbal Pera, Modernistas en Paris "Ici, nous sommes en terre étrangère. Le jugement dernier, c'est au pays. On ...
LABORS OF IMAGINATION: AESTHETICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY FROM KANT TO ALTHUSSER
Oct 01, 2008; ... LABORS OF IMAGINATION: AESTHETICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY FROM KANT TO ALTHUSSER. By Jan Mieszkowski. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 226 p. Aesthetics has often been conscripted as a convenient strawman to stand against politics, culture, history, and ideology. Such orchestrated ...
TRANSAMERICAN LITERARY RELATIONS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLIC SPHERE
Oct 01, 2008; ... TRANSAMERICAN LITERARY RELATIONS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLIC SPHERE. By Anna Brickhouse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 354 p. This comparative study of American literary relations during the three decades between 1826 and 1856 focuses on works of fiction, essays, ...
Joyce's and Borges's Afterlives of Shakespeare
Jul 01, 2008; ... JORGE LUIS BORGES PUBLISHED HIS Antologia de la literatura fantastica (1940) (Anthology of Fantastic Literature) one year after the publication of Finnegans Wake (1939) and one year before Joyce's untimely death in Zurich (1941), a coincidence that is acknowledged by the fact that the name James ...
Helga Crane's Copenhagen: Denmark, Colonialism, and Transnational Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
Jul 01, 2008; ... IN HIS 1993 BOOK The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Paul Gilroy posits an as yet open and unanswered question: "What of Nella Larsen's relationship to Denmark?" (18). Although she fell into obscurity relatively soon after the publication of her last novel in 1929, today ...
The Afterlife of Storytelling: Julio Cortázar's Reading of Walter Benjamin and Edgar Allan Poe
Jul 01, 2008; ... "They say that the most fervent desire of any ghost is to recover at least the appearance of its corporeality ..." -Julio Cortázar, "Some Aspects of the Short Story" AMONG THE MANY EVENTS that took place in Cuba following the 1959 Revolution was a seemingly insignificant literary ...
"Remembrance . . . is nothing other than a quotation": The Intertextual Fictions of W. G. Sebald
Jul 01, 2008; ... READERS OF W. G. SEBALD'S original and genre-breaking narratives cannot but be aware of the extent to which he draws on and incorporates other texts as raw material for his own, whether in the essayistic mode of The Rings of Saturn or the fictional reworking of Stendhal and Kafka in Vertigo, to ...
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Quest for the Other
Jul 01, 2008; ... Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Quest for the Other Michael G. Levine. The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Samuel Moyn. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics ....
SURPRISED IN TRANSLATION
Jul 01, 2008; ... SURPRISED IN TRANSLATION. By Mary Ann Caws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 145 p. In many ways Mary Ann Caws's most recent book, Surprised in Translation, can be read as a follow-up to her 2004 memoir To the Boathouse (University of Alabama). Surprised in Translation is also ...
ROMANTIC THEORY: FORMS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE ROMANTIC ERA
Jul 01, 2008; ... ROMANTIC THEORY: FORMS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE ROMANTIC ERA. By Leon Chai. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xx, 283 p. Leon Chai's fine new study opens with a meditation on the "fate of theory," a discourse that seems to have languished since the early 1990s and now ...
CRISES OF MEMORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Jul 01, 2008; ... CRISES OF MEMORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x, 286 p. As Paul Valéry observed, "our memory repeats to us what we haven't understood. Repetition is addressed to incomprehension."1 In this important book, ...
ESTHÉTIQUE DE L'OULIPO
Jul 01, 2008; ... ESTHÉTIQUE DE L'OULIPO. By Hervé Le Tellier. Bordeaux, France: Le Castor Astral, 2006. 334 p. The OULIPO is a literary group that investigates the literary potential of formal structures. Does an Oulipian aesthetics exist? According to Hervé Le Tellier, writer, professor of linguistics, ...