Articles

LINA STEINER

"My most mature poèma": Pushkin's Poltava and the Irony of Russian National Culture
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 97-127; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-001 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

SUSAN C. BRANTLY

Engaging the Enlightenment: Tournier's Friday, Delblanc's Speranza, and Unsworth's Sacred Hunger
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 128-141; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-002 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

JAMES RAMEY

Synecdoche and Literary Parasitism in Borges and Joyce
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 142-159; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-003 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Review Essay

SIMON GAUNT

Can the Middle Ages Be Postcolonial?
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
Geraldine Heng. Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.
Sylvia Huot. Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest: Cultural Identities and Hybridities. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007.
Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds. Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams, eds. Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
Sharon Kinoshita. Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 2006.
Karla Malette. The Kingdom of Sicily: A Literary History. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 2005.
Michael Uebel. Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2005.
David Wallace. Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Benn. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 160-176; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-004 [Abstract] [PDF] [References]  

Book Reviews

Tobias Gregory

The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso
THE QUEST FOR EPIC: FROM ARIOSTO TO TASSO. By Sergio Zatti. Edited by Dennis Looney. Translated by Sally Hill with Dennis Looney. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 315 p.
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 177-179; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-005 [PDF]  

Thomas R. Hart

Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Western Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century
INSCRIPTION AND ERASURE: LITERATURE AND WESTERN CULTURE FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Roger Chartier. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. xiii, 203 p.
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 179-180; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-006 [PDF]  

Ania Loomba

A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
A FORGETFUL NATION: ON IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES. By Ali Behdad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xvii, 212 p.
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 181-184; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-007 [PDF]  

Brian T. Edwards

In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of the Separatist Imagination
IN SPITE OF PARTITION: JEWS, ARABS, AND THE LIMITS OF THE SEPARATIST IMAGINATION. By Gil Z. Hochberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii, 192 p.
Comparative Literature 2009; 61(2): 184-187; DOI:10.1215/00104124-2009-008 [PDF]  

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