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Volume 57

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VOL. 57, No. 1, 2020

 

In Memoriam

 

2018 A. Owen Aldridge Prize Winner

Bilingual Mistranslations: Plautus, Lorenzo da Ponte, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Francesca Bellei

 

The View from . . .

Comparative Literature as Transaction; or, Doing Business with the Other
Alfred J. López

 

Articles

The Nature of Comparison: Macunaíma and Orlando
Václav Paris

Memory Traces: Printed Electronic Literature as a Site of Remembrance
Alex Saum-Pascual

Righting the Aftermath: On The Ethics of Recognition in the Postwar Novels of Alonso Cueto and Julien Kilanga Musinde
Gilbert Shang Ndi

“Grabbism” and Untranslatability: Reinterpreting Lu Xun’s Position as a Translator
Haiyan Xie

Where Théophile Gautier Meets Li Yu: Mining Divergence and Common Ground from the “Heying lou” to “Le Pavillon sur l’eau.”
Yunfei Bai

 

Book Reviews

Incest in Contemporary Literature by Miles Leeson
Yue Jianfeng

Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters by Tobias Boes
Jeffrey Meyers

Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light by Laila Amine
Justin Izzo­

The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
Thomas D. Frazel

 

 

VOL. 57, No. 2, 2020 

 

2019 OWEN A. ALDRIDGE PRIZE WINNER 

Loan-Words: Economy, Equivalence and Debt in the Arabic Translation Debates 
Hannah Scott Deuchar 

 

Articles

Against the City: A comparative study of Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop and 老舍«二馬» (Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son) 
Klaudia Lee 

“A Mouthful of Air”: Modern Poetry and the Idea of Presence 
Peter Nicholls 

Mogadiscio’s Unenlightened Pilgrim: Farah’s Links, Dante’s Inferno and the Somali Civil War 
Christopher Ronald Tyndall 

Cartesian Shades: Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican and Nabokov’s Pale Fire 
Alison Boulanger 

Katherine Mansfield in Colonial Seoul: Korean Modernism, Translation, Cosmopolitanism 
Kelly S. Walsh 

The Reactionary Dystopia: Differences Between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Boualem Sansal’s 2084 
Leander Møller Gøttcke 

 

Book Reviews

Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile. Edited by Catalina Florina Florescu and Sheng-Mei Ma. Lanham 
Bozhou Men 

After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera 
Micah Donohue 

The Dragon: Fear and Power by Martin Arnold 
Jean S. Forward 

Poetry and Mind: Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus by Laurent Dubreuil 
Michael Matto 

Kafka’s Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic by Anne Jamison 
Ritchie Robertson 

Christ’s Subversive Body: Practices of Religious Rhetoric in Culture and Politics by Olga V. Solovieva 
Joseph B. Modica 

The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone 
Petar Ramadanovic 

 

Online Only Reviews

Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity by Christopher L. Miller
Matthew Smith 

Making and Seeing Modern Texts by Jonathan Locke Hart 
Ming Song 

Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013 by Zoë Wicomb
Jenny Siméus 

The Broken Voice: Reading Post-Holocaust Literature by Robert Eaglestone
Petar Ramadanovic, Ph.D. 

 

 

VOL. 57, No. 3, 2020

 

Introduction
Thomas O. Beebee

 

Articles

The Historical Role of Translation in the New Culture Movement and Its Future Prospect
Ning Wang

On Translation and Literary Variation in the Compilation of Classical Chinese Literary History
Peina Zhuang

Trade and Missionary Work: A Word Frequency Analysis of Dialogues and Detached Sentences in the Chinese Language (1816) and the Pedagogy of Robert Morrison
Junjie Luo

Surrogate Infrastructure: The Noncommercial Circulation of Chinese Films in the Early Cold War
Thomas Chen

The United States Information Service Magazine World Today: American Cold War Politics and the Cultural Nationalism of Overseas Chinese
Ying Du

Cat and the Plumber: An American Radio Drama in China
Ke Xu

Intermedial Performativity: Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum on Page, Screen, and In-Between
Chengzhou He

From Alan Turing to Ian Mcewan: Artificial Intelligence, Lies and Ethics in Machines Like Me
Biwu Shang

Anthropocentrism in 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Three-Body Problem
Siqi Zhao and Qinglong Peng

Cross-cultural Migration and the Academic Boundaries of Comparative Literature
Weirong Zhao and Qing Yang

Variation in Literature Communication and the Formation of World Literature
Shunqing Cao and Shuaidong Zhang

Circulation in Comparative and World Literature: How the Irish Literary Revival Was Received by the Chinese May Fourth Generation
Simone Catherine O’Malley-Sutton

Why Did Milton Land in China Earlier than Shakespeare?
Tianhu Hao

Emotion and Female Authority: Cross-Dressing Women in Early Modern English and Chinese Fiction
Wen Jin

Teresa Teng in Diaspora: Affective Replacement in Chinese World-Making
Sijia Yao

The Wandering Earth and China’s Construction of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism
Weihua He

 

Book Reviews

John T. Hamilton. Philology of the Flesh
Andrew Hui

Kaisa Kaakinen. Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary. Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald
Jobst Welge

Adriana X. Jacobs. Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry
Yosefa Raz

Eleonory Gilburd. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Aaron Hale-Dorrell

Sheila Murnaghan and Ralph M. Rosen. Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition
Hassan Melehy

Olga G. Voronina. Depicting the Divine. Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann
Thomas Seifrid

Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski. Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977–2014)
Tom Zille

Zoë Wicomb, Andrew van der Vlies, ed. Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990—2013
Jenny Siméus

Christopher L. Miller. Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity
Matthew B. Smith

Julia Hell. The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
David Yates

Venkat Mani. Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books
Jeffrey Wallen

 

 

VOL. 57, No. 4, 2020

 

Introduction: The Interactive Relations Between Science and Technology and Literary Studies
Ning Wang

 

Articles

Digital Humanities Approach to Comparative Literature: Opportunities and Challenges
Qinglong Peng

Biotechnology and the Socioeconomic Forms in Chinese Science Fiction
Li Zou

Translating Forensic Science in Detective Stories in Early Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers
Bo Li

Digital Humanities Approaches to Literary Translation
Yifeng Sun, Dechao Li

Ecotech, Alienation, and Science Realism in the Chinese Cyborg Novel Waste Tide
Yuqin Jiang

The Dual Alienation in Waste Tide
Yuanyuan Hua

The Alienation of Spaces in Future China: The Case of Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing
Wang Liao

Sci-Fi Realism and the Allegory of Dystopia: With Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as an Example
Wei Lu

The Dystopian Discourse of “Success but a Failure” Between Science and Ethics in the Korean Science Story “Dr. K’s Research”
Yuming Piao

Evolution, Machine, and Humanity: Rereading Samuel Butler from a Posthuman Perspective
Mingming Su, Bing Jin

From Nature to Humanity: Renaissance of Chinese Cosmology and Technology in Ken Liu’s The Grace of Kings
Yang Mu

 

Book Reviews

Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti (review)
Alla Perminova, Michael M. Naydan

Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen et al. (review)
Xiaoxia Lin

Samuel Beckett’s How It Is: Philosophy in Translation by Anthony Cordingley (review)
Andre Furlani

Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800 by Chenxi Tang (review)
Peter A. Coclanis

Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Passannante (review)
Cassandra Gorman

Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes by María Odette Canivell Arzú (review)
Robert Bayliss

A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui (review)
Andrew Houwen

Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens by Hosam Aboul-Ela (review)
Ira Dworkin

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