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Introduction

  1. No Discipline: An Introduction to “The Indiscipline of Comparison”
  2. Jacob Edmond
  3. pp. 647-659
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Forum

  1. Trying to Make It Real: An Exchange between Haun Saussy and David Damrosch
  2. Jacob Edmond, Haun Saussy, David Damrosch
  3. pp. 660-693
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Articles

  1. Breaking Discipline, Integrating Literature: Africa–China Relationships Reconsidered
  2. Karen Laura Thornber
  3. pp. 694-721
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  1. Theory in a Relational World
  2. Shu-mei Shih
  3. pp. 722-746
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  1. Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network Theory
  2. Rita Felski
  3. pp. 747-765
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  1. Comparison and Correspondence: Revisiting an Old Idea for the Present Time
  2. Zhang Longxi
  3. pp. 766-785
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Review Essay

  1. What the World Thinks about Literature: Beyond Euro-American Theory and Criticism
  2. Thomas O. Beebee
  3. pp. 786-793
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Book Reviews

Nineteenth Century Literature

  1. Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness by Paul Binding (review)
  2. Marianne T. Stecher
  3. pp. 794-798
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  1. Translated Poe ed. by Emron Esplin and Margarita Vale de Gato (review)
  2. Micah Donohue
  3. pp. 798-801
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  1. The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds ed. by Shouhua Qi and Jacqueline Padgett (review)
  2. Chen Wang
  3. pp. 801-804
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  1. Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press by Teresa Pinto Coelho (review)
  2. Bruno Penteado
  3. pp. 805-807
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  1. Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century America: European Women Pilgrims by Adriana Méndez Rodenas (review)
  2. Bavjola Shatro
  3. pp. 808-811
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Politics and Literature

  1. Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas by David Kelman (review)
  2. Andrés Amerikaner
  3. pp. 812-814
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  1. The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire by Elise Bartosik-Vélez (review)
  2. Emron Esplin
  3. pp. 814-818
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  1. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature ed. by Marian Thérèse Keyes and Áine McGillicuddy (review)
  2. Maria Truglio
  3. pp. 818-822
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  1. The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West by Silke-Maria Weineck (review)
  2. Aleksandar Stević
  3. pp. 822-826
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  1. The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History by Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva (review)
  2. Adrian Wanner
  3. pp. 826-829
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Premodern Literatures

  1. Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire by Marc Nichanian (review)
  2. Firat Oruc
  3. pp. 830-833
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  1. A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History ed. by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette (review)
  2. Alexander E. Elinson
  3. pp. 833-837
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  1. Venus as Muse: From Lucretius to Michel Serres ed. by Hanjo Berressem, Günter Blamberger, and Sebastian Goth (review)
  2. Ben Pestell
  3. pp. 837-842
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  1. A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet by Gregory Jusdanis (review)
  2. Christina Dokou
  3. pp. 842-847
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  1. The Lives of the Novel: A History by Thomas G. Pavel, and: The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600–1800 by Steven Moore (review)
  2. Jeanne-Marie Jackson
  3. pp. 847-851
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Postmodern Literatures

  1. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier by Hanna Meretoja (review)
  2. Gianluca Cinelli
  3. pp. 851-854
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  1. The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow to Roberto Bolano’s 2666 by Stefano Ercolino (review)
  2. Gabriele Lazzari
  3. pp. 854-858
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German Literatures and Others

  1. German Literature as World Literature ed. by Thomas Oliver Beebee (review)
  2. Katherine Arens
  3. pp. 858-860
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  1. Womb Fantasies: Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art by Caroline Rupprecht (review)
  2. Thomas O. Beebee
  3. pp. 860-862
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  1. A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida and Celan by Michael G. Levine (review)
  2. Kristina Mendicino
  3. pp. 862-866
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Theory, Politics, Critique

  1. The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy by Simon Morgan Wortham (review)
  2. Jason Ciaccio
  3. pp. 866-869
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  1. Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo (review)
  2. Ezra Dan Feldman
  3. pp. 866-869
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  1. The Poetics of Otherness: War, Trauma, and Literature by Jonathan Hart (review)
  2. Gail Finney
  3. pp. 872-875
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