VOL. 53, No. 1, 2016
Articles
Brer Rabbit and the Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem: The Double Voice in Literatures of Exile
Rachel S. Mikva
Patrick Modiano’s Raphaël Schlemilovitch and Homer’s Odysseus Laertiades: Fit(ted) Companions?
Charles O’Keefe
Gender, Modernity, and the End of the Fil-Hispanic World
William Arighi
Did World War I Foster Distinctively ‘Spectatorial’ Attitudes in Writers?
Michael West
Pierre Menard the Sur-realist
Delia Ungureanu
Pierre Bayard and the Ironies of Detective Criticism: From Text back to Work
Alistair Rolls and Jesper Gulddal
A Dissonance of Discourses: Literary Theory, Ideology, and Translation in Mo Yan and Chinese Literary Studies
Lucas Klein
Book Reviews
Rey Chow. Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture
(Se Young Kim)
Ian H. Magedera. Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000
(Joanne Wilkes)
Lorna Robinson. García Márquez and Ovid: Magical and Monstrous Realities
(Jerónimo Arellano)
Online Book Reviews
Lynn Tatlock. German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction
(Jill Suzanne Smith)
Aaron Hillyer. The Disappearance of Literature: Blanchot, Agamben, and the Writers of the No
(Anne McConnell)
Monika Class. Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817: Coleridge’s Responses to German Philosophy
(Tudor Balinisteanu)
Andrea Mirabile. Multimedia Archaeologies: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Belle Époque Paris, and the Total Artwork
(Ronjaunee Chatterjee)
SPECIAL ISSUE: BEYOND THE ANGLOPHONE-COMPARATIVE SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE.
GUEST EDITORS: Amritjit Singh and Nalini Iyer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Note from the Guest Editors
Articles
Introduction: Beyond the Anglophone: Comparative South Asian Literatures
Amritjit Singh and Nalini Iyer
Silence, Sympathy, and Violence: A Meditation
Alok Bhalla
‘Walls of Words’: Fakir Mohan, Premchand, and the Language Controversies in Late Colonial India
Sumanyu Satpathy
The Widow, the Wife, and the Courtesan: A Comparative Study of Social Reform in Premchand’s Sevasadan and the Late-Nineteenth Century Bengali and Urdu Novel
Krupa Shandilya
A Space for Debate: Fashioning the Urdu Novel in Colonial India
Jennifer Dubrow
Altered Realities, New Experiences: Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma, and the New Story Movement
Madhu Singh
Aja’ib Al Ghar’aib, Tilismi Qisse, and Rushdie’s Tilismi Realism
Anjali Gera Roy
Into Bhasha and English: Comparative Study of Bhasha and English Translation in India
Mini Chandran
Dialectics and Caste: Rethinking Dalit Life Writing in the Vernacular, Comparing Dalit Narratives
Sreya Chatterjee
Special Feature: How ‘Postcolonial’ Are Contemporary South Asian Literatures?
The Hindi Postcolonial: Categories and Configurations
Harish Trivedi
Anxieties of Postcoloniality: Postcolonialism and Odia Literature
Subhendu Mund
Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial?
Auritro Majumder
2014 OWEN ALDRIDGE PRIZE WINNER
Psychological Realism in Early Prose Narrative: Dreams in the 1001 Nights and the Greek Novel
Henry Bowles
Articles
A Parrot without Feathers? Ventriloquy, Orality, and Nostalgia in Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller and Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale
Mara de Gennaro
Beckford’s Vathek in Italy: The Reception by Mario Praz, Alberto Moravia and Giame Pintor
Daniele Niedda
FORUM: COMBINED AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
Introduction: On Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
Alexander Fyfe
First Reponses
Barbara Harlow, Sarah Brouilette, David Thomas, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Joshua Clover, David Damroschz
WReC’s Reply
Warwick Research Collective
Final Remarks
Barbara Harlow, Sarah Brouilette, David Thomas, Joshua Clover, David Damrosch
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ZHANG-MILLER
Introduction: Toward a Substantial Chinese-Western Theoretical Dialogue
Wang Ning
Dialogue
J. Hillis Miller, Jiang Zhang
REVIEW ESSAY
Addressed and Redressed: World Literature and Reading Contemporary Poetry in Translation
(Lucas Klein)
BOOK REVIEWS
Marco Nievergelt: Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spencer
(Kate Anderson)
Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ed. Goethe’s Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces
(Ellwood Wiggins)
David Horton. Thomas Mann in English
(Tobias Boes)
Adam Lifshey. The Magellan Fallacy. Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish
(M’bare N’gom)
Eric Hayot. On Literary Worlds
(Gloria Fisk)
Emma Dawson. Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature
(Jamal En-nehas)
Barbar Machosky. Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature
(Jamey Graham)
Maurizio Ascari. Literature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of Transcultural Narratives
(John Pizer)
Online Book Reviews
Gordon Collier, Bénédicte Ledent, Geoffrey Davis, Eds. Speaking the Earth’s Languages: A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial Poetics
(Roxana Cazan)
Michel Delville. Crossroads Poetics
(Renee Silverman)
Roland Greene. Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
(Anne Balizet)
Special Issue- The Indiscipline of Comparison
Introduction
No Discipline: An Introduction to “The Indiscipline of Comparison”
Jacob Edmond
Forum
Trying to make it Real: An Exchange Between Haun Saussy and David Damrosh-Introduction by Jacob Edmond
Jacob Edmond
Articles
Breaking Discipline, Intergrating Literature-African-China Relationships Reconsidered
Karen Thornber
Theory in a Relational World
Shih Shu-mei
Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network Theory
Rita Felski
Comparison and Corresondence: Revisiting and Old Idea for the Present Time
Zhang Longxi
Review Essay
What the World Thinks about Literature:Beyond Euro-American Theory and Criticism
Thomas Beebee
Book Reviews
19th Century Literature
Paul Binding. Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness By Paul Binding
Marianne Stecher
Emron Esplin and Margarita Vale de Gato, Eds. Translated Poe
Micah Donohue
Shouhua Qi and Jacqueline Padgett, Eds. The Brönte Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds
Chen Wang
Teresa Pinto Coelho. Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press
Bruno Penteado
Adriana Mendez Rodenas. Transatlantic Travels in 19th Century America
B. Shatro
Politics and Literature
David Kelman. Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas. By David Kelman
Andrés Amerikaner
Elise Bartosik-Velez. The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
Emron Esplin
Marian Therese Keyes and Aine McGilicuddy, Eds. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature
Maria Truglio
Silke-Maria Weineck. The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West
Aleksandar Stevic
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva. The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History
Adrian J. Wanner
Premodern Literartures
Marc Nichanian. Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire
Firat Oruc
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallete, Eds. A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Mideaval Literary History
Alexander E. Elinson
Hanjo Berressem, Guenter Blamberger, and Sebastian Goth, Eds. Venus as Muse: From Lucretius to Michel Serres
Ben Pestell
Gregory Jusdanis. A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from The Iliad to the Internet
Christina Dokou
Review of Thomas Pavel’s The Lives of the Novel and Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Postmodern Literartures
Hanna Meretoja. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory. The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier
Gianluca Cinelli
Stefano Ercolino. The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow to Roberto Bolano’s 2666
Gabriele Lazzari
German Literatures and Others
German Literature as World Literature. Ed. by Thomas Oliver Beebee
Katherine Arens
Caroline Rupprecht. Womb Fantasies
Caroline Ruppert
Michael G. Levine. A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan
Kristina Mendicino
Theory , Poetics, Critique
Simon Morgan Wortham. The Poetics of Sleep: From Airistotle to Nancy
Jason Ciaccio
Jeffrey R. Di Leo. Criticism After Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Ezra Dan Feldman
Jonathan Hart. The Poetics of Otherness: War, Trauma, and Literature
Gail E Finney