21 articles in this issue
Jonathan Hart
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of CRCL/RCLC, a list of some of the most prominent contributors to the journal over its first 40 years.
Ghanim Sammarai
On the influence of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land on Arab poetry.
Shuyu Kong
"This paper examines the exilic experience and nomadic discourse in the lives and works of Gao Xingjian and Ma Jian, two prominent literary figures who have lived outside China since the late 1980s....Their exilic writing provides new source material for ... see more
Nadezda Vashkevich
"Les deux sonnets amoureux écrits en russe et en franc¸ais par Alexei¨ Tsvetkov et Laurent Fourcaut se ressemblent sous plusieurs angles et réve`lent des tendances plus générales de la poésie contemporaine. Les deux poe`tes ont recours au métissage des fo... see more
Q.S. Tong
Discusses British philosopher G. Lowes Dickinson's visit to China in 1912 and the influence of that visit on his writings.
Albert Braz
Review article on Colin Hill, Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012), and Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias, eds., Shifting the Ground of CanadianLiterary Studies (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012).
The English introduction to this issue's special section on Comparative Literature in Canada.
The French introduction to this issue's special section on Comparative Literature in Canada.
Lindsay R. Parker
"Insofar as Comparative Literature in Canada ostensibly provides a framework for critical and collaborative labour, it is also a crucial space for decolonization and the indigenization of university curricula and modes of research production. Decolonizing... see more
Tristan Bera
"Dans notre monde de plus en plus porté vers les technologies numériques et les espaces virtuels, le concept me^me d’œuvre littéraire change. Elle n’est plus simplement un média composé de mots, mais l’intime liaison qui existe entre tout ce qui forme l’e... see more
Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard
A personal account of Desbiens-Brassard's graduate work comparing "selected right-wing oriented, anti-communist texts from the USA during the 1960s to left-wing oriented, radical nationalist texts written in Quebec during the same period."
Jacqueline Sloan Morgan
A personal account of Morgan's graduate work on "Canadian and Australian women’s settlement writing...both published novels and private memoirs, written between the mid-eighteenth and early twentieth centuries by middle-class women."
Pushpa Acharya
"A critical regionalist perspective of comparative literature can help bring together the regional literatures in an organized way to encounter the dominants in global or regional literary systems. As the margins also have other margins, critical regional... see more
Juan Carlos Rodriguez
"There is no need to change the name, nature or scope of Comparative Literature but only facilitate agreements between literature departments, allowing students to oscillate between one department and another as they see fit. The Comparative Literature de... see more
Christian Ylagan
"The engine of Comparative Literature is moving along, but where it goes from here remains largely dependent on acknowledging the forces that drive it, not least including the ever-increasing diversity that characterizes the backgrounds, orientations, and... see more
Andrea C. Valente
A personal account of Valente's "academic trajectory from Brazil to Canada, [which] asks to be understood as an analogy ofthe current status of Comparative Canadian Literature."
Avishek Ray
"The way Comparative Literature has been bloated during the last few decades in order to cope with the threat of being usurped by some of the newborn disciplines is notonly surprising but also what fundamentally defines Comparative Literature today....Whi... see more
Asma Sayed
Discusses the academic study of Canadian literature written in languages other than English and French: "We cannot speak of trans-Canadian literature and moving beyond the national borders until we have fully recognized what lies within our borders."
Jonathan A. Allan
"Comparative Literature, today, needs to reset itself and imagine its future cautiously for that future is not guaranteed, especially not in Canada, a country that, one would imagine, would embrace Comparative Literature, a discipline committedto multicul... see more
Sara Bressan
"Dans le présent article, en comparant la préface de l’ouvrage de Strindberg, Mademoiselle Julie, et la préface de la pie`ce de Pirandello, Six personnages en que^te d’auteur, nous allons démontrer que ces deux textes fonctionnent comme des véritable mani... see more
Sheena Wilson
"Ours is not a problem of relevance, as I’ve already argued, but of public perception and marketability. The long-term goal should be to increase the visibility of the discipline, and to make more publicly accessible the comparative scholarship that is cr... see more