Recently added articles from Comparative Literature:
Joyce's and Borges's Afterlives of Shakespeare
Jul 01, 2008; Novillo-Corvalán, Patricia ... 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; Lunde, Arne; Stenport, Anna Westerstahl ... 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; Kelman, David ... "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; Pearson, Ann ... 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; Golsan, Richard J ... 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; Wittman, Emily O ... 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; Pfau, Thomas ... 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; Tidd, Ursula ... 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; Viers, Carole ... 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, ...