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Table of Contents

Editor's Column: The Makings of an Award—A Retrospective

Marcel Cornis-Pope
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0020
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Essays

Issues in Literary Representation

Fictionalizing Fact

Lilian R. Furst
pp. 4-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0024
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Forster's Passage to India: Re-Envisioning Plato's Cave

Debrah Raschke
pp. 10-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0002
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The Case of the Fabricated Facts: Historical Reconstruction in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Vargas Llosa's Historia de Mayta

Deborah Cohn
pp. 25-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0006
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Comparative Cultural Poetics

Ritual at the Birth of Kitsch

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu
pp. 49-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0010
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Borderless and Brazen: Ethnicity Redefined by Afro-German and Turkish German Poets

Karein Goertz
pp. 68-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0014
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Postmodern Rewritings

The Reincarnated Plot: E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, Heinrich von Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas," and the Spectacle of Modernity

Christian Moraru
pp. 92-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0018
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CaRterbury Tales: Romances of Disenchantment in Geoffrey Chaucer and Angela Carter

Nicoletta Pireddu
pp. 117-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0022
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Review Article

Postcolonial Studies and Comparative Literature

John Burt Foster Jr.
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0000
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Reviews

Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan (review)

Rolf Goebel
pp. 152-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0004
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The Morals of History (review)

Jeffrey R. DiLeo
pp. 155-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0008
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Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach (review)

Lilian R. Furst
pp. 158-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0012
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Readers & Reading (review)

Robin Rison Ashworth
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0016
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Topographies (review)

Florin Berindeanu
pp. 163-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0021
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Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May '68 (review)

Claudia Nadine
pp. 166-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0025
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Booknotes

The Limits of Voice: Montaigne, Schlegel, Kafka (review)

Celso de Oliveira
pp. 170-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0003
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A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing (review)

Thomas M. Orange
pp. 171-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0007
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Jung and the Jungians on Myth: An Introduction (review)

Thomas L. Cooksey
pp. 172-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0011
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Multicomparative Theory, Definitions, Realities (review)

Christine Kiebuzinska
pp. 174-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0015
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Comparative Literature Today: Methods and Perspectives (review)

Jeanne J. Smoot
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0019
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The Poetics of Death: The Short Prose of Kleist and Balzac (review)

Robert Godwin-Jones
pp. 176-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0023
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To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens, and Zola (review)

Amy Reid
pp. 177-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0001
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The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque (review)

Heather Brady
pp. 178-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0005
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Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity, China 1919-1937 (review)

Mary Scott
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0009
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Southern African Literatures (review)

Virgil Nemoianu
pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0013
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List of Books Received

Books Received

pp. 183-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1997.0017
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