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Comparative Literature explores issues in literary history and theory. Since its inception in 1949, the journal remains a source for cutting-edge research in the humanities. https://www.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature
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Matthew Beeber's fascinating reading of Negro alongside Los poetas - “Nancy Cunard and the 1930s Coalitional Anthology.”
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Nancy Cunard and the 1930s Coalitional Anthology
Abstract. This essay addresses Pablo Neruda and Nancy Cunard’s Spanish Civil War poetry anthology Los poetas del mundo defienden al pueblo espanol alongside Cunard’s earlier anthology, her massive and...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Birger Vanwesenbeeck's "Paul de Man’s Flemish" offers a brilliant comparison of de Man and Derrida regarding their theory of language-as-other.
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Paul de Man’s Flemish | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Tyler Grand Pre's perceptive reading of the shifts in address in Césaire's poem - "Inflecting the French: The Poetics of Intersubjectivity in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal."
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Inflecting the French: The Poetics of Intersubjectivity in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Abstract. Aimé Césaire’s long poem Cahier d’un retour au pays natal is the most expressive example of his ambitious effort “infléchir le français” (“to inflect the French”), as he famously put it in a...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Jane O. Newman and Ron Sadan's "The World’s Literatures: Erich Auerbach’s Early Essays on Giambattista Vico" rethinks the significance of Auerbach in today's comparative literary studies.
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The World’s Literatures: Erich Auerbach’s Early Essays on Giambattista Vico
Abstract. Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), best known as the author of Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatur...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Mads Larsen's "Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel" analyzes Holberg's anticipation of today's cultural despondency.
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Historicist Cosmopolitanism from Scandinavia’s First Novel
Abstract. Today’s political despondency is informed by how Western populations no longer believe in the cosmopolitan stories that underpinned the modern world. Before Kantian universalism became hegem...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Byungsam Jung, "Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida." - A fascinating take on the artistic object versus reality in Nabokov's literary view.
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Lolita in Humbert Humbert’s Camera Obscura and Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov’s Camera Lucida
Abstract. This article analyzes two types of visual perception in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955): camera obscura and camera lucida, terms that are taken from photography and painting, respectively. ...
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July 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Ellen Howley's article "The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry" investigates a transformative engagement with the myths of oceanic spaces.
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The Mythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry
Abstract. Myths of the sea are some of the most enduring cultural associations with oceanic spaces. In particular, literature written from islands and coastal locations often shares an interest in the...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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R. A. Judy's insightful take on poetic socialities in "The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis."
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The Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis
Abstract. Offering an itinerary of the thinking that led to Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiēsis in Black, R. A. Judy explains the concept of “poetic socialities” mentioned in it. This explan...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Aruni Kashyap's "Northeast Indian or Assamese: Beyond the Confines of the Indian English Literary Conventions" explores the limitations and possibilities of Indian English writing.
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Northeast Indian or Assamese: Beyond the Confines of the Indian English Literary Conventions
Abstract. What does it mean to be a writer from Northeast India? What does it mean to write from the margins of India? What are the limitations of Indian English writing when it comes to depicting mar...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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In "Knowing and Not Knowing: Gossip, News, and Rumors in Two Novels about Assam," Sangeeta Ray articulates the relationship of agnotology and truth in Indian Anglophone novels.
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Knowing and Not Knowing: Gossip, News, and Rumors in Two Novels about Assam
Abstract. This article articulates how an epistemology of ignorance structures the postcolonial metropolitan critic’s knowledge about a particular fraught state in India, Assam. Using the term agnotol...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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From the archive: Firat Oruc’s “Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean” introduces a special issue on the poetics of the Indian Ocean.
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Thalassological Worldmaking and Literary Circularities in the Indian Ocean | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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July 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Check out our most recent special issue: “Sensing Migrant Romanticism” - introduction by Carlos Abreu Mendoza and Tanvi Solanki.
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Sensing Migrant Romanticism: Introduction | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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July 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Alexander Lewis’s ““Can the Concept of God Exist in a Perfectly Logical Language?” Baraka, Wittgenstein, and the Hermeneutics of Counter-Enlightenment” discusses the influence of language philosophy on the Black Arts Movement.
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“Can the Concept of God Exist in a Perfectly Logical Language?” Baraka, Wittgenstein, and the Hermeneutics of Counter-Enlightenment
Abstract. This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quot...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Explore Jerry White’s take on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s engagement with Catalonia - “Pasolini in/and Catalonia: Translation, Minority Languages, and Internationalism.”
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Pasolini in/and Catalonia: Translation, Minority Languages, and Internationalism | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Emily Wang’s groundbreaking analysis of Pushkin’s Byronic apprenticeship - “Russia’s Radical Byron: Reexamining the “Decembrist Pushkin”.”
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Russia’s Radical Byron: Reexamining the “Decembrist Pushkin”
Abstract. Lord Byron’s reputation in Russia’s literary imagination might surprise those who remember him not only as a multifaceted poet or political commentator, but also as a sexual libertine. Follo...
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June 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Sunny S. Yudkoff’s “Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn” offers an exciting reflection on the cultural politics of language. doi.org/10.1215/0010...
Growing Old in Yiddish Modernism: The Case of the Young Yankev Glatshteyn
Abstract. This article examines the intersection of the Yiddish modernist Yankev Glatshteyn’s poetics of old age with the cultural politics of language. Specifically, the article draws on Robert Pogue...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Check out Sara Hakeem Grewal’s fascinating reading of the ghazals as a traveling form – “The Ghazal as “World Poetry”: Between Worlding and Vernacularization.” doi.org/10.1215/0010...
The Ghazal as “World Poetry”: Between Worlding and Vernacularization
Abstract. While the ghazal has appeared in many linguistic traditions, its diversity is undermined by the imposition of a singular definition of this genre, which is further compounded by the overly s...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Adam Spanos’s “The Rendezvous of Victory: Translations of Bandung Humanism” brilliantly traces the engagement of twentieth-century writers with Aimé Césaire’s poetic image. doi.org/10.1215/0010...
The Rendezvous of Victory: Translations of Bandung Humanism
Abstract. This article tracks the engagement of several twentieth-century writers with a line from Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (Journal of a Homecoming): “et il est place pour tous...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Interested in guest editing a special issue of CL? Proposals are reviewed once a year and must be submitted to cljournal@uoregon.edu by June 10th. The completed special issue would be due to our office in final form by June 15, 2026.
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May 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Check out the newest issue: read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-...
Volume 76 Issue 4 | Comparative Literature | Duke University Press
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March 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM