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VOL. 41, No. 1, 2004
Special Issue: Globalization and World Literature
Articles
To World, To Globalize – Comparative Literature’s Crossroads
Djelal Kadir, Guest Editor
Ghosts in the Disciplinary Machine: The Uncanny Life of World Literature
Vilashini Cooppan
Is a Non-Global Universe Possible? What Universals in the Theory of Comparative Literature (1952-2002) Have to Say About It
Didier Coste
Disciplinary Memory as Cultural History: Comparative Literature, Globalization, and the Categories of Criticism
Francesco Loriggio
National Culture, Globalization, and the Case of Post-War El Salvador
Silvia L. López
Translatability of Memory in an Age of Globalization
Stephanos Stephanides
The Object of Comparison
Jale Parla
Local Rock and Global Plastic: World Ecology and the Experience of Place
Ursula K. Heise
The Penal Colony: Inscription of the Subject in Literature and Law, and Detainees as Legal Non-Persons at Camp X-Ray
Scott McClintock
Book Reviews
David Damrosch, What is World Literature?
(Michael Wood)
Mary N. Layoun, Wedded to the Land? Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis
(Djelal Kadir)
VOL. 41, No. 2, 2004
A. Owen Aldridge Prize Winner 2003:
Parasitism and Pale Fire’s Camouflage: The King-Bot, The Crown Jewels and the Man in the Brown Macintosh
James Ramey
Articles
Enlightenment and Cultural Confusion: Mendele’s The Mare and Dangaremba’s Nervous Conditions
David Aberbach
The Comet and the Rocket Intertextual Constellations about Technological Progress in Bruno Schulz’s “Kometa” and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity Rainbow
Bruno Arich-Gerz
Brides of the Fantastic: Gautier’s Le Pied de Momie and Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann
Jutta Fortin
Book Reviews
Galin Tihanov, The Master and The Slave: Lukács, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time
(Paul J. Contino)
David M. Posner, The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
(Katherine Ibbitt)
Anne Herrmann, Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances
(Colleen Lamos)
Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason
(Christi A. Merrill)
Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
(Philip Mosley)
Edited by Gerhard Richter, Benjamin’s Ghosts. Interventions in Contemporary Literary Cultural Theory
(Cecilia Novero)
Stefan G. Meyer, The Experimental Arabic Novel: Postcolonial Literary Modernism and the Levant
(Deborah A. Starr)
Sarah Kay, Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century
(Michelle R. Warren)
Vol. 41, No. 3, 2004
Special Issue: Cybernetic Readings
Guest Editor: N. Katherine Hayles
Introduction:
Refiguring the Posthuman
N. Katherine Hayles
Globalization:
The Information Empire
Mark Poster
How Information Technology Has (Not) Changed Feminism and Japanism: Cyberpunk in the Japanese Contexts
Kumiko Sato
Performativity:
Post-Human Mimesis and the Debunked Machine: Reading Environmental Appropriation in Poe’s “Maelzel’s Chess-Player” and “The Man Who Was Used Up”
James Berkley
Techno-Cinema
Jamie Skye Bianco
Virtual Embodiment:
Style: Strategy and Mimesis in Ergodic Literature
Eric Hayot
Edward Wesp
Iatrogenic Permutations: From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other
Tama Leaver
Book reviews:
Stathis Gourgouris, Does Literature Think: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era.
(Charles Altieri)
Klaus Benesch. Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance.
(Thomas O. Beebee)
Sara Danius, The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception and Aesthetics
(Dean McWilliams)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Ed. The New Media Reader
(Mykola Polyuha)
Vol. 41, No. 4, 2004
East-West Issue
Articles
Great Bearer: Images of the US in the Writings of the Air Raids
Sugawara Katsuya
The Poetics of the Recontextualization: Intertextuality in a Chinese Adaptive Translation of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Leo Tak-hung Chan
The Topography of Dalian and the Cartography of Fantastic Asia in Anzai Fuyue’s Poetry
Toshiko Ellis
The Father-Son Relationship in Tôson Shimazaki’s The Broken Commandment and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Saburo Satô
Kobayahi Hideo, Apologist of the “Savage Mind”
Hitoshi Oshima
The Haunted Graph: Significant Studies of Nakajima, Borges, and Nabokov
Shigetoshi Morosaka
Ghosts in the City: Mourning and Melancholia in Zhu Tianzin’s The Old Capital
Jen-yi Hsu
Renaissance Nun vs. Korean Gisaeng: Chastity and Female Celibacy in Measure for Measure and “Chun-hyan Jeon”
Sung-Won Cho
Book Reviews
Susan Fisher, ed. Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages Between Japan and the West
(Sonja Arntzen)
Yoshinobu Hakutani. Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism
(Kasia Marciniak)
Susan Ossman. Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo
(Deborah A. Starr)