Journal articles: 'Comparative literature|Literature|American literature'

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Greene, Roland. "American Comparative Literature: Reticence and Articulation." World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (1995): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151139.

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Prieto, Rene, and Alfred J. MacAdam. "Textual Confrontations. Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature." MLN 104, no. 2 (1989): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2905155.

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Hassett, John J., and Alfred J. Mac Adam. "Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature." Hispanic Review 56, no. 3 (1988): 397. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/474043.

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Gledson, John, and Alfred J. MacAdam. "Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature." Bulletin of Latin American Research 7, no. 1 (1988): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3338448.

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Agosin, M., and Alfred J. MacAdam. "Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 42, no. 4 (1988): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1346981.

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Ledgerwood, Mikle D., and Alfred J. MacAdam. "Textual Confrontations: Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature." South Atlantic Review 53, no. 3 (1988): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3200654.

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Das, Dilip K. "The Image of American Police in Comparative Literature." Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 59, no. 3 (1986): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032258x8605900313.

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Wang, Ning. "Globalizing Comparative Literature: Toward a New Millennium—A Survey of the Third Sino-American Symposium on Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature: East & West 3, no. 1 (2001): 169–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2001.12015289.

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Brennan, Timothy. "EDWARD SAID AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE." Journal of Palestine Studies 33, no. 3 (2004): 23–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2004.33.3.023.

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Between 1969 and 1979, Edward Said redefined American comparative literature, coining phrases, supplying a new critical pantheon (Vico, Schwab), and, above all, devising a method. Falling between generations and facing two different kinds of continental èèmigrèè——one philological, the other textualist——Said outmaneuvered the latter by reinterpreting the former. In a two-pronged move, he unleashed an arsenal of arguments against both new critical formalism and its latter-day avatars in ““theory.”” With these arguments, his authority was penetrating and atmospherically felt as he chipped away at the edifice of traditional comparative literature by emphasizing the situatedness of form and the transitive intelligence of humanist intellectuals.

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Heise, Ursula K. "Globality, Difference, and the International Turn in Ecocriticism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 3 (2013): 636–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.3.636.

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Comparative literature has always pursued literary studies in a transnational framework. But for much of its history it has been a “modest intellectual enterprise, fundamentally limited to Western Europe, and mostly revolving around the river Rhine (German philologists working on French literature). Not much more,” as Franco Moretti pithily sums it up (54). The rise of postcolonial theory in the wake of Edward Said's and Gayatri Spivak's influential work vastly expanded comparatist horizons, as did the attention to minority literatures that spread outward from the study of American literature and culture in the 1990s. In 1993 Charles Bernheimer's report to the American Comparative Literature Association, “Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century,” criticized the elitist and exclusionary tenor of earlier reports on the state of the discipline by Harry Levin (1965) and Tom Greene (1975). Instead, it emphasized “tendencies in literary studies, toward a multicultural, global, and interdisciplinary curriculum” and called for an expansion from comparative literature's traditional focus on a mostly western European and North American canon of works to a truly global conception of Goethean Weltliteratur, for inclusion of previously marginalized minority literatures from around the world, and for connections to media studies, other humanities disciplines, and the social sciences (47).

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Et al., Ikromkhonova Firuza Ikromovna. "THE ISSUE OF HISTORICAL WORKS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (2021): 4581–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1564.

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This article discusses the issue of literary perception of historical reality and the creation of a mature work as one of the constant problems of literature, it is about paying special attention to comparative-typological analysis of the unity of form and content, composition and plot, system of characters, historical truth and to the fiction in the study of historical works in today's globalization.The article provides an analysis of advanced examples of American literature, information on folk art thinking and cultural development. The poetics of the work of art, in particular, the approach of how the composition of historical works is solved, the typology of characters, the scientific study of the problem of the genre together form the basis of the article.

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Tusques, Françoise. "The Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, Nischik REINGARD Ed." Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies, no. 80 (June 1, 2016): 231–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/eccs.753.

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حسين جوده عناي الشريفي, احمد, and سيد أبو إدريس أبو عاقلة. "Comparative literature according to the concept of the American School." Journal of Education College Wasit University 2, no. 42 (2021): 616–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/eduj.vol2.iss42.2104.

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يسعى البحث التركيز على خصوصيات الدراسات المقارنة، وعلم الأدب المقارن وتعريفه ومفهومه؛ وايجابيات وسلبيات مناهج المدارس العالمية للأدب المقارن؛ وإيضاحه حسب مفهوم المدرسة الأمريكية واختلافها مع الفرنسية في منهجيتهما؛ وعن أفضل وأحدث منهجيات هذا المجال؛ والتركيز على مفاهيم المدرسة الأمريكية وعلمائها، والتعرف على إيجابياتها وتمايزها عن المدارس العالمية الأخرى؛ والوقوف على اختلافات هذه المدارس وفروقاتها. بالإضافة إلى التعرف على التجارب المحلية والإقليمية والعالمية في مجالات الدراسات المقارنية، وكيفية الاستفادة من تلك التجارب فيما يخدم الأدب العربي وما ينعكس من خلاله على مجتمعاتنا العربية، للارتقاء وتطوير الأدب المقارن في الجامعات العربية والعراقية، لتظهر بنى معرفية جديدة في هذا المجال، وتشخيص أهم أسباب تأخر الأدب المقارن في الوطن العربي بصورة عامة وفي العراق بصورة خاصة.

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Caminada Rossetti, Lucía. "Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues." Interlitteraria 25, no. 2 (2020): 359–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2020.25.2.8.

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The article will suggest that the texts and ways of reaching some materials and perspectives in Argentina, remains at a national level. It is important to notice that in order to read criticism and theory regarding Latin American literature, Spanish from Río de la Plata separates at some point the fields. In that regard, one of the greatest assets and achievements of Argentinian literary research concerns the relationship between politics and fiction. In connection with this it might be asked how we can think of Argentinian literature without linking it to the social discourse? How can we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one academic area of studies? In our view, comparatism seems to be one of the loneliest areas of studies in terms of the fields of theory, fiction and criticism. We thus suggest that in Argentina, literary research and criticism in general are strictly concerned with only one option: the national culture. Thus, exclusively, western theoretical frames are chosen to read literature and comparative perspectives are mostly applied to European studies. That is why I insist on the fact that comparative literary research is not represented institutionally at all.

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Caminada Rossetti, Lucía. "Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues." Interlitteraria 25, no. 2 (2020): 359–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2020.25.2.8.

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The article will suggest that the texts and ways of reaching some materials and perspectives in Argentina, remains at a national level. It is important to notice that in order to read criticism and theory regarding Latin American literature, Spanish from Río de la Plata separates at some point the fields. In that regard, one of the greatest assets and achievements of Argentinian literary research concerns the relationship between politics and fiction. In connection with this it might be asked how we can think of Argentinian literature without linking it to the social discourse? How can we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one academic area of studies? In our view, comparatism seems to be one of the loneliest areas of studies in terms of the fields of theory, fiction and criticism. We thus suggest that in Argentina, literary research and criticism in general are strictly concerned with only one option: the national culture. Thus, exclusively, western theoretical frames are chosen to read literature and comparative perspectives are mostly applied to European studies. That is why I insist on the fact that comparative literary research is not represented institutionally at all.

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Tourino, Christina, and Earl E. Fitz. "Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context." American Literature 64, no. 2 (1992): 418. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927880.

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Moore, Charles B., and Earl E. Fitz. "Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context." Hispania 76, no. 1 (1993): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/344625.

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Aizenberg, Edna, and Earl E. Fitz. "Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context." World Literature Today 66, no. 1 (1992): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148114.

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Behdad, Ali. "What Can American Studies and Comparative Literature Learn from Each Other." American Literary History 24, no. 3 (2012): 608–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajs033.

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Giles, Paul. "American Literature in English Translation: Denise Levertov and Others." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 1 (2004): 31–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x22864.

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The theory of exile as a form of intellectual empowerment strongly influenced writers of the Romantic and modernist periods, when major figures from Byron to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett sought to take advantage of a dissociation from native customs to embrace the authenticity of their art. More recently, however, displacement from indigenous cultures has become such a commonplace that it appears difficult to credit the process of migration with any special qualities of critical insight. Nevertheless, literary scholarship remains to some degree in the shadow of the idealization of “exiles and émigrés” that ran through the twentieth century. Edward Said, a Palestinian in the United States, consistently linked his “politics of knowledge” with a principled alienation from “corporations of possession, appropriation, and power,” while looking back to the exiled German scholar of comparative literature Erich Auerbach as a model for transcending “the restraints of imperial or national or provincial limits” (Culture 335). Julia Kristeva, a Bulgarian in France, associated a similar perspective of estrangement with Christian narratives of exile and purification, along with their negative correlatives, psychological traumas of disinheritance and depression; but she also attributed to the foreign writer a levitating condition of “weightlessness”: “since he belongs to nothing the foreigner can feel as appertaining to everything, to the entire tradition” (32).

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Sklodowska, Elzbieta. "Textual Confrontations. Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature de Alfred J. MacAdam." Revista Iberoamericana 54, no. 144 (1988): 1096–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.1988.4536.

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HUANG, Weiliang, and Xiaocheng LIU. "Chinese and American Scholars on the “Path of Comparative Literature” — Preface to 1979-2009: Retrospect of the Development of Comparative Literature Studies of China." Comparative Literature: East & West 13, no. 1 (2010): 164–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2010.12015569.

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Marinšek, Darja. "Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature." Acta Neophilologica 40, no. 1-2 (2007): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.40.1-2.129-146.

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The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of these two groups. The author uses comparative analysis of two popular African and African American novels, comparing their ways of describing FGM, its causes and consequences, the level ob objectivity and the style of the narrations.This is followed by a discussion on the reasons for such differences, incorporating a larger circle of both African and African American women authors, at the same time analysing the deviance within the two groups. While the differences between African American writers are not that great, as they mostly fail to present the issue from different points of view, which is often the result of their lack of direct knowledge of the topic, African authors' writing is in itself discovered to be ambivalent and not at all invariable. The reasons for such ambivalence are then discussed in greater context, focusing on the effect of the authors' personal contact with circumcision as well as their knowledge and acceptance of Western values. The author concludes by establishing the African ambivalent attitude towards FGM, which includes different aspects of the issue, as the most significant difference between their and African American writers' description of this practice.

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Fishburn, Evelyn, and Gustavo San Roman. "Onetti and Others. Comparative Essays on a Major Figure in Latin American Literature." Modern Language Review 96, no. 2 (2001): 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737451.

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FIDDIAN, ROBIN W. "Alfred J. MacAdam, "Textual Confrontations, Comparative Readings in Latin American Literature" (Book Review)." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 66, no. 1 (1989): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bhs.66.1.110.

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Wolski, Paweł. "Rozwój, sukces, tradycja. Relacja z The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2012 Annual Meeting." Porównania 11 (December 2, 2017): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/p.2012.11.11240.

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Ingram, Susan. "The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, edited by Reingard M. NischikReingard M. Nischik, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. x, 418. US $185.00." University of Toronto Quarterly 85, no. 3 (2016): 353–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.85.3.353.

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Gibbins, Roger, and Neil Nevitte. "Canadian Political Ideology: A Comparative Analysis." Canadian Journal of Political Science 18, no. 3 (1985): 577–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900032467.

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AbstractThis article explores contemporary political ideologies in English Canada, francophone Quebec and the United States using cross-national attitudinal survey data. Drawing central hypotheses from the qualitative Canadian-American political culture literature, the analysis focusses on three dimensions of political ideology—ideological polarization, the issue content of the respective lefts and rights, and ideological coherence. Evidence of distinctive national “lefts,” together with fundamental similarities in the English-Canadian and American ideological “rights” and important differences in the ideological structures of the three political cultures, call into question some conventional generalizations found in the nonquantitative literature.

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Narivska, Valentyna, and Nataliia Pakhsarian. "Contemporary french comparative studies: issues and methods." Слово і Час, no. 3 (May 26, 2020): 48–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33608/0236-1477.2020.03.48-64.

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The paper presents a review of the main issues and methods of studying modern French literature and comparative studies. The authors outline the diferences between European approaches, now taken with focus rather on all-European common principles than cultural distinctions, and American tendencies that reflect the priority of feminist and post-colonial methods of comparative studies. Attention is paid to the French peculiarities concerning the replacement of the term ‘influence’ by ‘intertextuality’, and to the role of intermedial and interdisciplinary comparative studies. Among the outlined concepts and issues are research ethics in comparative studies; non-essential writers and genres (F. Lavokat); relation of comparative studies to the concepts of European and world literature (A. Tomiche); the role and place of comparative studies in literature and culture (F. Toudoire-Surlapierre), accuracy and universality of defining the discipline (B. Franco), the study of links between literature and art (G. Steiner). Attention is also paid to the discussions on the concept of ‘world literature’ (in particular to the views of P. Kazanova) that concern the term ‘world literature’ as it is interpreted by American researchers and ‘European literature’ used by French ones. Other issues are the concept of ‘cultural transfer’; the content of hermeneutic practice in comparison; the role of analysis and ‘defamiliarization’ (introduced by V. Shklovsky); comparison as an object of criticism, a tool of analytics, and methodological necessity; the transversality as the coexistence of diferent comparative methods. The comparative approach has been shown as ontological and culturological vision, a special method of research with a basis in comparison and opposition of the interconnected systems covering translation studies, mythology, imagology, geocriticism, post-colonial and gender studies, research of cultural transfer specified as multicomparativism.

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Khezri, Haidar. "Internal Colonialism and the Discipline of Comparative Literature in Iran." Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada 23, no. 43 (2021): 94–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2596-304x20212343hk.

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Abstract This essay studies the history, current, and future status of the discipline of comparative literature in Iran. It compares the theoretical norms of contemporary comparative literature to the Pre-modern Perso-Islamic notion of “comparison,” which has been theorized in Iran and the Arab World as the Arabic, Islamic, and Iranian schools of comparative literature. The article highlights profound institutional and canonical Perso-Shi’a centrism in Iranian academia, and shows how the discipline of comparative literature has been used as a vehicle for transnationalism of this Perso-Shi’a centrism that has manifested in “Persianate World” in the context of European and North American academia. Marshall Hodgson’s 1960s neologism “Persianate World” has been placed with the paradigm shifts ushered in by the linguistic and cultural turns of the 1970s, the postcolonial scholarship that grew from Edward Said’s Orientalism in the late 1990s, and Sheldon Pollock’s formulation of a ‘Sanskrit cosmopolis’ in the 21st century. The article explains how the Persianate comparatists, under the banner of postcolonial studies, not only erased the experience of the subaltern and internally colonialized non-Persians of Iran in favor of the Middle Eastern states in a binary matrix (Western Imperialism versus a “colonialized” Islamic world), but also represents an unrealistic and exaggerated picture of the discipline to Western readers. The article further maps the conversations within the postcolonial Middle East about “internal colonialism,” as an analytic tool for thinking about operations and interlocking systems of power in the Middle East and abroad, here applied to the discipline of comparative literature for the first time.

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Lankowski, Carl. "Comparative National Responses to International Economic Challenges: A Review of Some Recent American Literature." Politica 20, no. 1 (1988): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/politica.v20i1.68957.

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Kinney, James. "Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context (review)." Comparatist 16, no. 1 (1992): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/com.1992.0008.

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Varsava, Jerry. "Comparative North American Studies: Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture by Reingard M. Nischik." ESC: English Studies in Canada 43, no. 1 (2017): 127–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.2017.0016.

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Apolloni, Jessica. "Law and literature in comparative perspectives: Tracing Shylock’s case from Italian novelle to American courtrooms." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 53, no. 2 (2019): 350–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014585819831608.

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Recent work on law’s connection to literature has shown the immense overlap in narrative structuring, power dynamics, and social prejudices inherent to both literary and legal texts. Yet law-literature studies have often relied on nationalistic boundaries, overlooking the intense interchange of legal and literary ideas circulating across spatial and temporal divides. This article studies Italian novelle from a comparative perspective to uncover how concepts of law, justice, and authority circulate in literary texts across diverse geographies and legal systems. I specifically trace Shylock’s case, from its origins in the Italian novelle genre to the utilizations of The Merchant of Venice in American legal training and courtrooms. This case study illustrates the power of literature to synthesize diverse legal environments, influence popular understandings of law, and provide a comparative perspective of justice to both legal scholars and public audiences.

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Slaughter, Joseph R. "Locations of Comparison." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 2 (2018): 209–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.59.

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What difference does it make who compares? From what location? What kinds of comparison are possible, inevitable, even necessary at particular historical moments? What are the extra-literary conditions of literary comparison? How and when does literature qualify for comparison? Revisiting Harry Levin’s seminal essay, “Comparing the Literature” (1968), this paper—originally presented as the presidential address at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference—considers the historical conditions and locational contingencies that motivate acts of literary comparison. Looking at how specific comparisons of African literature to European literature have been mobilized at different times and locations, I argue that comparative literature’sde factoimmigration policies (its [in]hospitality to other worlds of literature) may be read in the histories of comparisons that have been done before—comparisons once regarded as improper, impertinent, or insurgent that are now commonly practiced to give old Eurocentric fields new life, new prestige, and new authority.

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Abella, Mireya Sosa. "A Comparative Analysis between Latin American Magical Realism and Malaysian Realism: Intercultural Understanding through Literature." Journal of KATHA 12, no. 1 (2016): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/katha.vol12no1.1.

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AGIRO, CHRISTA PRESTON. "Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Student and Teacher Editions of Secondary Christian American Literature Textbooks." Journal of Research on Christian Education 21, no. 3 (2012): 211–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10656219.2012.733557.

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Wolff, Leon. "Litigiousness in Australia: Lessons from Comparative Law." Deakin Law Review 18, no. 2 (2014): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2013vol18no2art39.

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How litigious are Australians? Although quantitative studies have comprehensively debunked the fear of an Australian civil justice system in crisis, the literature has yet to address the qualitative public policy question of whether Australians are under- or over-using the legal system to resolve their disputes. On one view, expressed by the insurance industry, the mass media and prominent members of the judiciary, Australia is moving towards an American-style hyper-litigiousness. By contrast, Australian popular culture paints the typical Australian as culturally averse to formal rights assertion. This article explores the comparative law literature on litigiousness in two jurisdictions that have attracted significant scholarly attention — the United States and Japan. More specifically, it seeks to draw lessons from this literature for both understanding litigiousness in modern Australia and framing future research projects on the issue.

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Pająk, Paulina. ""Naszą filologiczną ojczyzną jest ziemia…" Jak "amerykańska" komparatystyka wyobraża sobie obywatelstwo w nowym świecie?" Politeja 16, no. 3(60) (2020): 255–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.16.2019.60.17.

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"Our Philological Home Is the Earth…" How Do “American” Comparative Studies Imagine Citizenship? In 1952, Erich Auerbach, an exile and author of a seminal comparative project, announced that our philological home is the earth: it can no longer be the nation. His words seem both valid and timely in the contemporary global rise of neo-nationalism, anti-democratic movements, as well as the backlash against women’s and minorities’ emancipation. Since its beginnings, the comparative literature has been envisioned not only as an academic discipline that studies literature beyond national borders, but also a remedy against xenophobia and intolerance. This paper presents how the contemporary comparative theories depict citizenship, one of central identities in modern multicultural societies. Adopting a postcolonial approach, I examine three projects developed within “American” Comparative Studies: Mary Louise Pratt’s “comparative cultural practice”, Gayatri Spivak’s “planetarism”, and Jessica Berman’s “trans critical optic”.

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Ogene, Mbanefo S., Esther Chikaodi Anyanwu, and Ngini Josephine Ojiaku. "A Comparative Analysis of Racial Discrimination in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Kenneth Kaunda’s Zambia Shall be Free." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 3 (2017): 343–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n3p343.

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Abstract One major problem confronting the definition of Comparative Literature is that of the involvement (on the one hand) of more than one literature under comparison and (on the other hand) that of the consideration of the multidimensional aspects of such literature, such as social, historical, linguistic, religious, economic and cultural aspects of divergent societies. This study is guided by the above factors in analyzing the concept of Racial Discrimination in Southern Africa and African American literatures in the sense that the former’s experiences were on African soil, while the latter’s were on the NewFound land (America). The paper observes that racial discrimination was much severe and oppressive without much resistance in America than in Southern Africa where Africans withstood and fought back against an unjust, wicked and oppressive system.

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Øverland, Orm. "Getting Started: Comparative Notes on the Impact of Sigmund Skard on American Studies in Norway." American Studies in Scandinavia 41, no. 1 (2009): 108–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v41i1.4627.

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Baldwin, C. "Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture: Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies." Contemporary Women's Writing 8, no. 3 (2014): 430–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpu009.

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Feerst, A. "Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions; Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism." American Literature 78, no. 2 (2006): 408–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-016.

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KEVANE, BRIDGET. "The Hispanic Absence in the North American Literary Canon." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (2001): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006545.

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I recently completed a book of interviews (Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, co-edited with Juanita Heredia, University of New Mexico Press, 2000) with ten of the most prominent Latina writers in the US; Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago and Helena María Viramontes. These women, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans, raised issues that ranged from the craft of writing to the inherent problems of national identities. The themes generated in our conversations with these women – their doubled ethnic identities, their complicated relationship to their communities, their difficulties in representing their communities and, finally, their work as part of the larger American canon – revealed a powerful discourse about what it means to be Latina American in the United States. After spending two years talking with these women, it is evident to me that Latina literature is a vital part of American literature and should be included in any study of comparative American literatures.

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Quayson, Ato. "Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman in Comparative Frameworks." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 2, no. 2 (2015): 287–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2015.19.

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AbstractThis essay places Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman in various comparative contexts. These include the comparison with Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, literary tragedy, and world literature. Setting out the difficulties in teaching African and minority literatures in the Euro-American classroom, the essay details the means by which such problems are negotiated and the ways in which the text is brought alive as a dramatic text that speaks to various themes and ideas.

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Kallimani, Dr Madhushri. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost and 'Because I could not Stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson: A Comparative Study." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 4 (2020): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i4.10529.

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The study of literature is obviously the study of life and death. Literature deals with several nuances of life, death and the philosophies connected. Literature mirrors life and that is how we can realize what life is in a very meaningful way. In literature most of the poetry enlightens the readers through such meanings. This paper focuses on two eminent poets of American literature, i.e. Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, whose poetry mainly deals with life and death. Both the poets are known for their idiosyncrasies depicting their own style and content. Their poems are philosophical in nature, visualizing nature, relationship, divinity and spirituality. Both the poets were close to nature and spent their lives amidst the beauties of nature. Their poetry is simplistic and honest expressing the daily activities of life.

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Shi, Flair Donglai. "The Yellow Peril as a Travelling Discourse: A Comparative Study of Wang Lixiong's China Tidal Wave." Comparative Critical Studies 16, no. 1 (2019): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2019.0308.

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Joining recent scholarly efforts to free the study of the Yellow Peril from the conventional framework of Asian American and postcolonial studies, this paper offers a comparative analysis of the manifestations of this mutable racial discourse in twentieth-century Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. As a case in point, I focus on the Chinese dissident writer Wang Lixiong and his ‘racist’ appropriation of the Yellow Peril ideology in fin-de-siècle Anglo-American popular writings. By juxtaposing his canonical work China Tidal Wave, known in Chinese as Huang Huo (‘Yellow Peril’), with the Asian invasion fictions by Jack London and M. P. Shiel, I argue that instead of some kind of indisputable metaphysical truth, the Yellow Peril ideology manifested in these texts is merely a performative cultural practice that shifts its functions and allegiances according to the situated socio-political agenda of its practitioner. This performative nature is made explicit through my analyses of the changes of their paratexts as these texts travel across languages, leading to further reflections on theoretical concepts such as Occidentalism, the postcolonial palimpsest, Sinophone literature, and world literature.

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Futaqi, Mirza Syauqi. "GENEALOGI KAJIAN PASCAKOLONIALISME DALAM KHAZANAH KRITIK SASTRA ARAB." LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra 14, no. 1 (2019): 205–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/ling.v14i1.6321.

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This study is a comparative literature study that seeks to investigate postcolonialism study in the Arabic Literary Criticism from the early postcolonialism study to the current postcolonial study. This study uses American comparative literature theory, the diachronic approach, and historical methods. The results of this study are that postcolonialism entered into the Arabic Literary Criticism through postcolonial theory book that was translated to Arabic language, students who studied in America or Europe and then taught at universities in the Arabic world, and also the internet. In addition, the attitude of the Arabs towards postcolonialism study in the Arabic Literary Criticism is still limited as consumers and not theorists.

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Shafieyan, Mahdi. "A Comparative Study of Universality: Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and Oates’ “Metamorphosis”." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES 4, no. 4 (2016): 537–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jah.v4i4.5096.

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Comparative studies within a literature, in the world literature, or even between two different branches of art have always been attractive since in contrast to contemporary critical theories reveal the universal nature of arts. The pursuit of a theme is one of the common features among literary and artistic works, which sometimes presents itself in characters, yet the investigation of the roots of the similarities seems more significant. In this article, it is attempted to compare and collate the main characters in Shakespeare’s poetic work Venus and Adonis and Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Metamorphosis”. Although having similarities, they give birth to the chiaroscuro of some differences. The findings confirm that the two works fly in the face of the critical theory of ideology that tries to neglect the author’s free will in writing, as the case studies are a classic poem from the seventeenth century by a British writer and a short fictional piece from the postmodern era by an American writer. Not only do they differ in place, time, genre, but also the writers’ gender. This is of paramount significance because in literary criticism and philosophy of literature the universality of literature is rejected by reader-response, deconstructionist, or New Historical studies and the like in order to omit the authenticity of literature and then include personal views, shaky history, as well as subjective perceptions. Representing the disadvantages of such theories, this study aims to lead scholars toward novel universal hermeneutics.

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Trnka, Jamie H. "Genre and Geoculture." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 44, no. 2 (2019): 410–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2019-0019.

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Abstract Enzensberger’s sustained engagement with Latin American thinkers and literary forms was central to his attempts to shift the parameters of West German debates on literature and politics in the 1960 s. Attention to Latin American exchanges and influences challenges simplistic criticisms of his Eurocentrism and demonstrates how the novel cultural constellations that underlie Enzensberger’s genre innovation engender productive inroads into transatlantic comparative projects.

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