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  1. Editor's Column: Comparative Literature on the Borders
  2. John Burt Foster Jr.
  3. pp. 1-4
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0019
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Essays

Cultural Transactions Between Global Regions

  1. Aryan Aristocrats and Übermenschen: Nietzsche's Reading of the Laws of Manu
  2. Dorothy Figueira
  3. pp. 5-20
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0024
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  1. Viscous Circles: Antecedent Narrative Structures in Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable
  2. Joel Lee Coleman
  3. pp. 21-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0029
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Inter-American Affiliations of Modern Fiction

  1. Artists, Aesthetics, and Family Politics in Donoso's El obsceno pâjaro de la noche and James's The Golden Bowl
  2. Scott Pollard
  3. pp. 40-62
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0002
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  1. Triptychs of Solipsism: The Decadent Plantation in José Lins do Rego's Fogo Morto and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
  2. Thomas O. Beebee
  3. pp. 63-88
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0007
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Contemporary Eastern Europe as a Postcolonial Space

  1. Configurations of Postcoloniality and National Identity: Inbetween Peripherality and Narratives of Change
  2. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
  3. pp. 89-110
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0012
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New Directions in Narrative after the Cold War

  1. Introduction — Narrative Practices in the Post-Cold War Transition: Cultural and Narratological Transformations
  2. Marcel Cornis-Pope
  3. pp. 111-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0017
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  1. Post-Cold War Narratives of Nostalgia
  2. Claudia Sadowski-Smith
  3. pp. 117-127
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0022
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  1. Becoming Rasta: Recentering White Masculinity in the Era of Transnationalism
  2. Wendy Somerson
  3. pp. 128-140
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0027
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  1. The Last Bomb: Historicizing History in Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain and Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine
  2. Phillip E. Wegner
  3. pp. 141-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0000
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  1. Neither Fire nor Ice: Postmodern Revisions of America's Post-Cold War Apocalyptic Nightmare
  2. Charles E. Gannon
  3. pp. 152-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0005
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Review Articles

  1. The Insistence of Theory
  2. Jocelyn Van Tuyl, Miriam L. Wallace
  3. pp. 160-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0010
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  1. Umberto Eco: Two Portraits of a Proteus
  2. Nikita Nankov
  3. pp. 164-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0015
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Reviews

  1. The Fateful Discourse of Worldly Things (review)
  2. Thomas L. Cooksey
  3. pp. 167-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0020
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  1. The Future of the Book (review)
  2. Jeffrey R. DiLeo
  3. pp. 169-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0025
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  1. Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities (review)
  2. Jeanne J. Smoot
  3. pp. 171-172
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0030
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  1. The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (review)
  2. David Halliburton
  3. pp. 172-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0003
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  1. Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990 (review)
  2. Maria-Regina Kecht
  3. pp. 175-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0008
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  1. The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary Studies in a Changing World, and: Culturele identiteit en literaire innovatie (review)
  2. Liedeke Plate
  3. pp. 177-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0013
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  1. What else but love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (review)
  2. Carolyn R. Hodges
  3. pp. 179-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0018
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  1. Making Waves (review)
  2. Celso de Oliveira
  3. pp. 181-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0023
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  1. The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans After Modernity (review)
  2. Peter Woodruff
  3. pp. 183-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0028
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  1. Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (review)
  2. Thomas Kovach
  3. pp. 184-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0001
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Booknotes

  1. Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde (review)
  2. Ileana Orlich
  3. pp. 187-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0006
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  1. Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (review)
  2. Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
  3. pp. 188-189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0011
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  1. Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition (review)
  2. Maurizio Godorecci
  3. pp. 189-190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0016
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  1. Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States (review)
  2. Robert S. Dombroski
  3. pp. 190-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0021
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  1. Paralelismos transatlánticos: postcolonialismo y narrativa femenina en América Latina y Africa del Norte (review)
  2. Greg Dawes
  3. pp. 192-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0026
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  1. The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (review)
  2. Oleg Krochik
  3. pp. 193-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0031
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  1. Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (review)
  2. Christian Moraru
  3. pp. 195-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0004
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  1. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity (review)
  2. Elaine Martin
  3. pp. 197-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0009
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List of Books Received

  1. Books Received
  3. pp. 198-199
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0014
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