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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Comparative Literature Studies.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 36, no. 3 (1999);
Vol. 37 (2000) through current issueLatest Articles: Comparative Literature StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Comparative Literature Studies1528-42120010-4132Latest articles in Comparative Literature Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Introduction: The Metapolitics of Fiction:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983015
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In November 2023, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, a member of the post-fascist party Fratelli d’Italia, opened an exhibition in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome about the British fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien. At the event, the Italian minister of culture, a member of the same party—which has also been characterized as right-wing extremist, right-wing radical, or right-wing nationalist1—declared the British author to have been “a staunch Catholic who exalted the value of tradition and of the community to which one belongs . . . a true conservative.”2 Thus, with great emphasis, both an author and his work, as well as a cultural event, were politically instrumentalized by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallIntroduction: The Metapolitics of Fiction:2026-02-13text/htmlen-USIntroduction: The Metapolitics of Fiction:2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1260742026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13From Nazism to Nationalism: Tracing the Foreign and the Native in Fictional Accounts of the British Far Right
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983016
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The Far-Right movement in Britain crystallized in the 1930s with the formation of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF).1 Suspected of pro-Nazi sympathies, the group was officially banned by the British government in 1940, and Mosley and his closest associates were imprisoned without trial as potential traitors for much of the war. Since then, a myriad of groups and organizations have peppered the British political landscape, including the Union Movement (1948–1973), the National Front (NF, 1967–), the British Movement—later the British National Socialist Movement (1968–1983)—the British National Party (BNP, 1982–), Combat 18 (1992–), the English Defence League (EDL, 2009–), and National Action (2013–).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallFrom Nazism to Nationalism: Tracing the Foreign and the Native in Fictional Accounts of the British Far Right2026-02-13text/htmlen-USFrom Nazism to Nationalism: Tracing the Foreign and the Native in Fictional Accounts of the British Far Right2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®733652026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Gaining Sympathy and Shifting to the Right: The Literary Politics of the German-Speaking New Right
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983017
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One of the most media-effective events organized by the German-speaking New Right in recent years took place in Vienna on November 17, 2023. Götz Kubitschek was invited by the “Ring freiheitlicher Studenten” (Ring of Liberal Students), a student organization close to the extreme right-wing party FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs/Freedom Party of Austria), to give a lecture at the University of Vienna. The relevant channels rejoiced: “Zum ersten Mal in der jüngeren Geschichte spricht ein konservativer Denker von seinem Format in einem Hörsaal der Universität!”1 (For the first time in recent history, a conservative thinker of his caliber is speaking in a university lecture theatre!) But Kubitschek is not a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallGaining Sympathy and Shifting to the Right: The Literary Politics of the German-Speaking New Right2026-02-13text/htmlen-USGaining Sympathy and Shifting to the Right: The Literary Politics of the German-Speaking New Right2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1168882026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Libertarian Robinson: Exit Fantasies, Randian Heroism, and Political Aesthetics in Argentine New-Right Literature
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983018
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The libertarian right has received increasing attention on a global scale since the surprising electoral victory of Javier Milei and his inauguration as the President of Argentina in December 2023. These events have caused an earthquake not only in Argentine politics. Milei presents himself as the world’s first libertarian president. As a “liberal libertarian,” he is now trying to intensify the “cultural war” over the interpretation of the present and the diagnosis of its crises from the position of the state power. The terms “libertarianism” and “libertarian” are by no means unambiguous or clearly defined—not least because of their divergent uses both internationally and historically—but they certainly point to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallLibertarian Robinson: Exit Fantasies, Randian Heroism, and Political Aesthetics in Argentine New-Right Literature2026-02-13text/htmlen-USLibertarian Robinson: Exit Fantasies, Randian Heroism, and Political Aesthetics in Argentine New-Right Literature2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1001612026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Dismantling Far-Right Revisionism: Critical Approaches to the Memory of the Fascist Past in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983019
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In 2021, writer, politician, and professor of philosophy Michela Marzano published a memoir, Stirpe e vergogna (Ancestry and shame), in which she addresses Italy’s Fascist past by reconstructing the life of her grandfather, Arturo Marzano, a judicial officer under the regime and a member of parliament in postwar Italy with the ultraconservative monarchist party. The story is set in motion by Michela’s discovery that her grandfather was active in the early stage of the Fascist movement—a fact previously unknown to her—which compels her to investigate her family’s past. Spanning multiple eras, the memoir interweaves Michela’s research journey with her grandfather’s story, narrating both the unfolding of the COVID
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallDismantling Far-Right Revisionism: Critical Approaches to the Memory of the Fascist Past in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto2026-02-13text/htmlen-USDismantling Far-Right Revisionism: Critical Approaches to the Memory of the Fascist Past in Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1191542026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13Dystopian Chronicles of Brazil’s Shift to the Far Right: B. Kucinski’s New Order and its Collapse
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983020
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In January 2020, President Jair Bolsonaro’s new minister of culture, Roberto Alvim, announced a national call for patriotic art. Equipped with a budget of twenty-five million Brazilian reais, the ambitious program would reward 5 operas and 25 plays, 50 individual exhibitions of both painting and sculpture, 25 short stories and 15 graphic novels, as well as 25 music discs. The intended heroic artist to which this call was addressed should represent the virtues of faith, loyalty, and self-sacrifice in the battle against—in a purely Christian sense—Evil. The initiative should help to spark the constitution of a new noble art, deeply rooted in national myths, providing wholesome education for future generations.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmallDystopian Chronicles of Brazil’s Shift to the Far Right: B. Kucinski’s New Order and its Collapse2026-02-13text/htmlen-USDystopian Chronicles of Brazil’s Shift to the Far Right: B. Kucinski’s New Order and its Collapse2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®1379572026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13“This Isn’t Happening, Right?”: Satire, Spectacle, and Anti-Intellectualism in Don’t Look Up
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983021
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In Adam McKay’s 2021 film Don’t Look Up, Kate Dibiasky, a PhD candidate in astronomy, discovers a comet hurtling toward earth and soon understands the threat of global extinction linked to its impending impact. The story follows Dibiasky and her supervisor, Dr. Randall Mindy, on their quest to inform the U.S. government and the public about their discovery and to build solutions for diverting the “planet killer” (00:20:01).1 The scientists petition the U.S. president and national defense institutions, they talk to the press and appear on a morning show. Ultimately, they witness the failure of the political and economic elites who rely on media spectacles and anti-intellectualism to preserve their own power, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/33/image/coversmall“This Isn’t Happening, Right?”: Satire, Spectacle, and Anti-Intellectualism in Don’t Look Up2026-02-13text/htmlen-US“This Isn’t Happening, Right?”: Satire, Spectacle, and Anti-Intellectualism in Don’t Look Up2026-02-132026TWOProject MUSE®698062026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-02-13