In this Issue

Table of Contents

Essays

Theoretical Dialogues

Editor's Foreword: Comparatism in Polysystemic Perspective

Marcel Cornis-Pope
pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0002
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A View from My Balcony: Perspectives on Comparative Literature in 1995

Jean-Pierre Barricelli
pp. 6-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0007
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In Remembrance of Things Past

Henry Sussman
pp. 21-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0012
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The Framing of Literary Studies, or, Is Comparative to Literature as Cultural Is to Studies?

Elaine Martin
pp. 25-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0017
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Postcolonial Theory and Irish Literature

Charting an Uncertain Flight Path: Irish Writers and the Question of Nation, Identity, and Literature

Michael R. Molino
pp. 41-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0021
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Framing the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston, John Millington Synge, and the Politics of Aesthetic Ethnography

Anthony R. Hale
pp. 50-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0025
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James Stephens's Diminutive National Narratives: Imagining an Irish Nation Based on the "Orient"

Joseph Lennon
pp. 62-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0000
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Poetry in Modern Ireland: Where Postcolonial and Postmodern Part Ways

Christina Hunt Mahony
pp. 82-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0005
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Theoretical and Cultural Interests

Naming the Crime: Responses to the Papin Murders from Lacan, Beauvoir, and Flanner

Paula K. Kamenish
pp. 93-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0010
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Family Sagas of the Americas: Los Sangurimas and A Thousand Acres

Lori Ween
pp. 111-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0015
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Comparative Poetics

Poetic Theory in the Depression Years: Language, Objectivity, and Image in the Poems of William Carlos Williams and Bertolt Brecht

K. H. Klotz
pp. 126-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0019
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Eastern-Western Relationships

Cross-Cultural Patterns in the Quest Fiction of Okamoto Kanoko

Maryellen T. Mori
pp. 153-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0023
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Review Article

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (review)

Mary Ann Frese Witt
pp. 179-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0027
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Reviews

Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (review)

Rick Livingston
pp. 182-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0003
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Morals and Stories (review)

John R. Harris
pp. 185-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0008
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Romantic Drama (review)

Elizabeth M. Richmond-Garza
pp. 187-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0013
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Fullness of Dissonance: Modern Fiction and the Aesthetics of Music (review)

Judith Barban
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0018
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Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (review)

Rolf J. Goebel
pp. 192-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0022
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Materialities of Communication (review)

David Kaufmann
pp. 194-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0026
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Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (review)

Florin Berindeanu
pp. 196-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0001
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Booknotes

From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative (review)

Wallace Martin
pp. 199-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0006
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Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (review)

Willard Bohn
pp. 200-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0011
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Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony (review)

Christian Moraru
pp. 202-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0016
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Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress (review)

Dudley M. Marchi
pp. 203-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0020
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Authorship as Alchemy: Subversive Writing in Pushkin, Scott, Hoffmann (review)

Robert Godwin-Jones
pp. 205-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0024
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The Orphic Moment: Shaman to Poet Thinker in Plato, Nietzsche, and Mallarmé (review)

Steven F. Walker
pp. 206-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0028
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Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Anaïs Nin (review)

Jeanne J. Smoot
pp. 207-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0004
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Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (review)

John Burt Foster Jr.
pp. 209-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0009
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Books Received

Books Received

pp. 211-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1996.0014
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