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VOL. 51, No. 1, 2014
Poetry Games
Articles
Introduction
Jonathan Eburne and Andrew Epstein
Poetry is Theft
Rachel Galvin
Comic Poetics of Imaginative Travel in Your Country is Great
Eric Rettberg
English Before Engrish: Asian American Poetry’s Unruly Tongue
Tara Fickle
Pedantry and Play: The Zukofsky Catullus
Josef Horáček
The ABCs of Conceptual Writing
Jacquelyn Ardam
Terrible Engines: A Speculative Turn in Recent Poetry and Fiction
Brian Kim Stefans
Book Reviews
Theodore Ziolkowski. Gilgamesh Among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic
(Sydney Aboul-Hosn)
David Tucker. Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’
(Lois Gordon)
Magdalena Kay. Knowing One’s Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig
(Charles S. Kraszewski)
Valerie Henitiuk. Worlding Sei Shōnagon: The Pillow Book in Translation
(Charlotte Eubanks)
Alexa C.Y. Huang. Weltliterature und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kuturellen Globalisierung
(Adam J. Toth)
VOL. 51, No. 2, 2014
The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: Literary, Historical, and Cultural Approaches
Articles
The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches
William J. Spurlin
A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance
Aarón Lacayo
“Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”? Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral Literature
Pierre Zoberman
Strategies of Translating Sexualities as Part of the Secularization of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia
Sergey Tyulenev
Translation is Blind: Reflections on Narcissus and the Possibility of a Queer Echo
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Tick as Appropriate: A) Gay, B) Queer, or C) None of the Above: Translation and Sexual Politics in Lawrence Venuti’s A Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
Serena Bassi
Untranslatable Desire: Inter-Ethnic Relationships in Franco-Arab Literature
Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Book Reviews
Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed. The Question of Gender
(Geoffery Berney)
Irene Marques. Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity
(Malathi Iyengar)
Hoda Elsadda. Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel
(Dina Heshmat)
Yasemin Yildiz. Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition
(Bruce Horner)
- Shankar. Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation and The Vernacular
(Amardeep Singh)
Shaden M. Tageldin. Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
(Jenine Abboushi)
Tamar Steinitz. Translingual Identities: Language and the Self in Stefan Heym and Jakov Lind
(Natasha Lvovich)
Yael Schlick. Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment
(Ulrike Brisson)
Vittoria Intonti & Rosella Mallardi, eds. Cultures in Contact: Translation and Reception of I Promessi Sposi in 19th Century England
(Mary Ann Carolan)
VOL. 51, No. 3, 2014
Articles
The Institution and the Practice of Comparative Literature in Lebanon
Ken Seigneurie
Sex(y) Summer Solstice: Lope de Vega and Shakespeare Write Fantasies of Feminine Desire
Hilaire Kallendorf
Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Walt Whitman: A Set of Choral Poetry
Delphine Rumeau
Imitations of the Holocaust from the Recollections of Early Childhood: Childhood Memories, Holocaust Representation, and the Uses of Nostolgia in Danilo Kis and Christa Wolf
Aleksandar Stevic
“Diaphanous Irony”: Ironic Masquerade and Breakdown in Vladimir Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Gaito Gazdanov’s Night Roads
Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton
Book Reviews
Review Essay:
The Explanatory Critic: Harry Levin and Literary Criticism.
(Jay Garcia)
Book Reviews:
Emily Apter. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
(David Damrosch)
Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman, eds. Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
(Beyza Lorenz)
Philip Lorenz. The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama
(Andrew Gray)
Hassan Melehy. The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
(Karen Britland)
Walter Bernhart and Michael Halliwell, eds. Word and Music Studies: Essays on Performativity and on Surveying the Field
(Juliane Schicker)
William V. Spanos. Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said
(Andrew Rubin)
Franco Cassano. Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean.Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme, eds. and trans.
(Bernardo Piciche)
Ilya Kliger. The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature
(Emma Lieber)
David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins, and Nirvana Tanoukhi, eds. Immanuel Wallterstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture
(Marike Janzen)
Mark Hewson. Blanchot and Literary Criticism
(John McKeane)
VOL. 51, No. 4, 2014
Articles
- Owen Aldridge Prize Winner (2013):
What is a Digital Author? The Faulknerian Author-Function in Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme
Lauren Du Graf
What the World Thinks about Literature:
The Public Sphere and Literary Journals: An Investigation of the Discursive Formation of New Fiction’s Utopian Imagination in Late Qing
Shuk Man Leung
Forum:
Should we Justify the Humanities? A Round Table with David Damrosch, Lois Zamora, and Marianne Hirsch
Michael Swacha
Articles:
Margins of Europe: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration and Hospitality through Arab Diasporic Literature
Lisa Marchi
Rereading the Story of the Widow of Ephesus in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Edward Wheatley
From Female Ghosts to Ghostly Womanhood: Mt. Ch’iak (1908-1911) and the Birth of Modern Korean Fiction
Yoon Sun Yang
Book Reviews
Review Essay:
Andrew Milner. Locating Science Fiction, and Anindita Banerjee. We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity
Jose Alaniz
Book Reviews:
Theo D’haen et al., eds. The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries
(Jan Gorak)
Eugenio Suárez-Galbán. The Last Good Land: Spain in American Literature
(Luiz Alvarez-Castro)
Kerstin Oloff and Michael Niblett, eds. Perspectives of the ‘Other America’: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture
(Renea Mitchell)
Marissa K. López. Chicano Nations
(Ariane Audet)
Barbara Henry. Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin’s Yiddish Drama
(Alyssa Quint)
Robbie B. H. Goh. Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change
(Jini Kim Watson)
Douwe Fokkema. Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West
(Roy Chan)