Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance
This edited volume explores Cervantes’ final novel and its treatment of concepts of race, ethnicity, nation and religion. Continue Reading →
Category: Comparative Literature
At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Authors: Maria DiBattista, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, professor of English and comparative literature; and Deborah Epstein Nord, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and professor of English Publisher: Princeton University Press, Continue Reading →
Egyptian translation highlights the beauty of hieroglyphs
By Catherine Zandonella Since he was in fourth grade, Tom Hare has been fascinated with Egypt. Although his career as a professor of comparative literature has focused mainly on Japanese works, he never forgot his Continue Reading →
The literature of madness and how it shaped modern psychiatry
IN 1890, THE RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN and writer Anton Chekhov traveled across Siberia to document the lives of prisoners sentenced to a remote penal colony on Sakhalin Island. The visit inspired not only a nonfiction exposé Continue Reading →
Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine
Author: Lital Levy Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014 A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, “Homelandic,” is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish- Israeli author imagines a “language plague” that infects Continue Reading →
Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe
Author: Eileen Reeves Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Professor of Comparative Literature Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways Continue Reading →
Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial transition in post-dictatorship Latin America by Susana Draper
During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the post dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of Continue Reading →