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VOL. 55, No. 1, 2018
Aldridge Prize Winner 2016 Article
GLOBALISING FINANCE: NOSTALGIA, DESIRE, AND THE MARKET IN CONTEMPORARY SHANGHAI
Laura Finch
Articles
The Debate with Method in the History of Literary Criticism
Mark Hewson
Writing Life in the Twenty First Century: The Body and the Self in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal and Juan José Millás’s El mundo
Jennifer Brady
Taha Hussein and the Case for World Literature
May Hawas
Noble Errors: Examples of Love and Tragedy from Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis
David Stromberg
Rescuing the Odes from Modernity: The Rhetoric and Sources of Ezra Pound’s “Confucian” Translation
Monica Eileen McLellan Zikpi
The Orphan of Zhao: Chinese Revenge Drama and European Adaptations
Shiao-ling Yu
Another Pluralism: Reading Dostoevsky Across the Sea of Marmara
Nanor Kebranian
Book Review Essays
Re-examining English and/in the geography of (world) literature
Bavjola Shatro
A Cultural Ambassador East and West: J. Hillis Miller’s Lectures in China
Ming Dong Gu
Book Reviews
Scatter I: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida.
David E Johnson
South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation.
Odun Balogun
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Irmtraud Petersson
Review of The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination. By Sotirios Paraschas.
Geoffrey Baker
Tragic Modernities
Katherine Biers
Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust
Seth Lerer
Al-Musawi’s The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction
Giovanni Herran
VOL. 55, No. 2, 2018
Global Crises and Twenty-First- Century World Literature
GLOVAL CRISES AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WORLD LITERATURE
Hansong Dan and Ewa Wojno-Owczarska
Articles
Nuclear Disaster and Global Aesthetics in Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Chris D. Jimenez
Novels in the Translation Zone: Abbas Khider, Weltliteratur, and the Ethics of the Passerby
Corina Stan
Global Crises in Ernst-Wilhelm Händler’s Wenn Wir Sterben (When We Die) and Kathrin Röggla’s Wir Schlafen Nicht (We never Sleep)
Ewa Wojno-Owezarska
Crouching Terrorist, Lurking Author”: On the Terror Narrative in Zhang Chengzhi’s and Xiao Bai’s Historical Fiction
Hansong Dan
Celebrity Authors, Humanitarian Narratives, and the Role of Literature in World Crises Today: The Medecins Sans Frontiers’ Newspaper Chronicles Testigos Del Horror (Witness of Horror)
Luis Fernando Restrepo
Suspended Crisis in Arab-American and Arabic Literatures: Modernity, Violence, and Afflicted Textuality
Youssef Yacoubi
Hues of Red: The Facades of Leftist Insurgency and Crisis in India in Select Fiction
Debjani Sarkar and Nirban Manna
Book Review Essays
Reconsidering Modernist Totality
Mark DiGiacomo
Fiction Unbound: The Contemporary Landscape of Narrative Theory
Violeta Martinez-Alcañiz
Book Review
Anna Katharina Schaffner. Exhaustion: A History
Erin Elizabeth McConnell
Cyrus Moore. Love, War, and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso de Ercilla and Edmund Spenser
Patricia Palmer
Cynthia N. Nazarian. Love’s Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe
Jarrell D. Wright
Ilya Kliger and Boris Maslov. Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics
Leroy Searle
Theodore Ziolkowski. Music into Fiction: Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated
Aaron Allen Hayes
Gordon McMullan and Sam Smiles. Late Style and its Discontents: Essays in Art, Literature, and Music
Marshall Brown
Christopher Reed. Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Lindsey Stirek
Ben Hutchinson. Lateness and Modern European Literature
Marlo Alexandra Burks
Sarah Roger. Borges and Kafka: Sons and Writers
(Michael Palencia-Roth)
Stanka Radović. Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
(Kathryn Lachman)
Vincent P. Pecora. Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee
Stephen Cox
Tomáš Hlobil. Výuka dobrého vkusu jako státní zájem II: Závěr rané pražské uriverzitní estetiky ve středoevropských souvislostech 1805-1848
David L. Cooper
Lucas Thompson. Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature
Mary K. Holland
Leo Shingchi Yip. China Reinterpreted: Staging the Other in Muromachi Noh Theater
Noel Pinnington
Heekyoung Cho. Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature
Ji Young Kim
Jennifer Rutherford and Anthony Uhlmann. J. M. Coetzees The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of ldeas and Things
Steven G. Kellman
Ning Ma. The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West
Shengyu Fan
Vladimir Zorić. The Rhetoric of Exile: Duress and the Imagining of Force
Jacob Emery
Nicholas Birns and Juan E. De Castro. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature
Eduardo González
Tom Eyers. Speculative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present
Daniel Rosenberg Nutters
VOL. 55, No. 3, 2018
Articles
Comparative Formations: reading Relations, with an editor’s introduction by Thomas Beebee
Mary Layoun
The Triumph of Exile: The ruptures and Transformations of Exile in Petrarch
Benjamin Boysen
Writing the Impossibility of Relation: Marguerite Duras’s La Maladie de la mort, Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, and Lydia Davis’s The End of the Story
Anne McConnell
The Elegy of Dom Casmurro
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva
Addison’s “Sheetful of Thoughts” and Clavijo’s “Pensamientos”: An Instance of Transnational Emulation
Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher
Nations in Review(s): Modernist “Little” Magazines and the (Trans) National Imagination
Maria José Canelo
The Mystery of Borges’ Night 602
Gabriel Garcia Ochoa
A Critique of the Orientalist Divide: Setting Side by Side of Domestic Spaces in R. K. Narayan’s The Dark Room (1938) and Rachilde’s The Juggler (1900)
Chi P. Pham
Phallus, Beatings, and verga: Freud, Wolf Man, and the Primal Scene in Echeverría’s Dream-Fantasy “El matadero”
Martin Sorbille
Heaneywulf alla turca: The Composite Nature of Nazmi Ağil’s Beowulf
Denis Ferhatovic
Book Reviews
Sean Cotter. Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania
Victoria Oana Lupascu
John Patrick Leary. A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Michael “Raul” Brown
VOL. 55, No. 4, 2018
Ecocriticism in East Asia: Toward a Literary (Re) Construction of Nature and Environment
ECOCRITICISM AND ECOCIVILIZATION IN THE CONFUCIAN CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
Ning Wang
Articles
Commentary
Karen Thornber, Sheldon Lu
Delving Into a World of Non-Human Experience: Unnatural Narrative and Ecological Critique of Chen Yıngsong’s The Last Dance of a Leopard
Biwu Shang
The Last “Hero and Jia Pingwa’s Ecological Concerns in Remembering Wolves
Weihua He
Toward a Holistic EcoFeminism: A Chinese Perspective
Qinggi Wei
Nature and Ethnic Women: An Ecofeminist Reading of Chi Zijian’s The Last Quarter of the Moon and Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms
Lanlan Du
An EcoFeminist Perspective on Sylvia Plath and Zhai Yongming
Xiaohong Zhang
Re-interpreting Dao De Jing from an Ecological Perspective
Jinghui Wang
Is Man Superior to Animals? A Comparative Reading to Animals in Biblical Narratives and Chinese Classic Texts
Luofu Ye
Animal Narrative and the Dis-eventalization of Politics: An Ecological-Cultural Approach to Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Chengzhou He
From Rice to Apple-Pear Style: An Ecocritical Approach to China’s Korean Ethnic Minority Literature
Yuming Piao
Speculating Extinction: Eco-Accidents, Solastalgia, and Object Lessons in Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes
Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai
Semiotics of Disaster: Writing in the Aftermath of Japan’s 3/11
Tong King Lee
Forum: Thinking Literature Across Continents
With an introduction by
Thomas O. Beebee
Toward Transcultural Theory
Laurent Dubreuil
There is No Middle Road/That is Itself the Middle Way
Andrew Way Leong
Deconstruction and the Transcultural Uncanny
Nicholas Royle
Dissensus, Irony, Dialectic
Marshall Brown
Thinking Thinking Literature Across Continents Across Generations
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, R. Radhakrishnan
Response
J. Hilks Miller
Jugalbandi
Ranjan Ghosh