Comparative Critical Studies最新文献

Comparing Translations of Dante’s Commedia 但丁喜剧的翻译比较

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0484

Jacob Blakesley

{"title":"Comparing Translations of Dante’s <i>Commedia</i>","authors":"Jacob Blakesley","doi":"10.3366/ccs.2023.0484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2023.0484","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the translations of the title of Dante’s magnum opus, the Commedia, as well as its canticle titles, across languages worldwide. This fills a gap in the secondary literature, which up until now has not examined this topic on a global scale. Rather than focusing on close textual analysis, this piece distantly reads the translation history of the title and canticle titles within different linguistic, cultural, historical and religious contexts. This essay thus shows how translators render specific concepts such as Commedia, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, often in non-Catholic and non-Christian societies. The results reveal how translations of the title (and canticle titles) are problematic, each in their own way. Translations of the title Commedia, for example, are difficult everywhere, because of the idiosyncratic usage of the term by Dante. Translations of the canticle title Purgatorio are problematic in non-Catholic societies in general, lacking such a religious concept. Meanwhile translations of the canticle titles Inferno and Paradiso are particularly challenging in non-monotheistic religious societies, which don’t have such eternal afterlives for individuals. In all these cases, though, this has not stopped translators from translating Dante’s text.","PeriodicalId":42644,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Critical Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136093228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Pasolini and Minor Comparativism: Transnationalizing Dialect Poetry 帕索里尼与小比较主义:方言诗歌的跨国化

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0483

Rosa Mucignat

引用次数: 0

Comp Lit’s Other Half: In Defense of Literature, with Lao She 比较文学的另一半:与老舍一起为文学辩护

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0486

Adhira Mangalagiri

{"title":"Comp Lit’s Other Half: In Defense of Literature, with Lao She","authors":"Adhira Mangalagiri","doi":"10.3366/ccs.2023.0486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2023.0486","url":null,"abstract":"How might we now make sense of Comp Lit’s ‘literature’ half amid a contemporary mediascape in which literature no longer possesses the cultural centrality it once enjoyed? To probe this question, I turn to scholarly efforts from a century ago to make a case for reading literature within the university classroom by formulating ‘criticism’ as a field of study. I focus on the eminent Chinese writer Lao She 老舍 (1899–1966), who taught in both Chinese and British classrooms, and who unexpectedly sparked the introduction of ‘criticism’ in the Chinese academy through his translation of a little-known textbook for criticism by the American professor Elizabeth Nitchie (1889–1960). Drawing upon Lao She’s conviction in the critical capacity of literature, I argue that returning to ‘criticism’ – as Lao She articulates it in his pedagogical lectures and his profound yet overlooked short story ‘Filling a Prescription’ ( Zhuayao 抓药, 1934) – can help build a justification for the continued importance of teaching literature’s reading. Amid institutional pressures to ‘rebrand’ Comparative Literature, this article ultimately suggests that there may be reason yet for the discipline not to abandon its focus on literature too hastily.","PeriodicalId":42644,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Critical Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136093377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Mark Sandy, Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment 马克·桑迪:《浪漫主义的跨大西洋转型:美学、主体性与环境》

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0488

Yuanxing Tan

引用次数: 0

Dominique Jullien, Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales 多米尼克·于连:《博尔赫斯、佛教与世界文学:出家故事的形态》

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0487

Rory O'Bryen

引用次数: 0

Comparison and Gender Injustice in Worlds of Pandemics 流行病世界中的比较与性别不平等

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0480

Karen Thornber

{"title":"Comparison and Gender Injustice in Worlds of Pandemics","authors":"Karen Thornber","doi":"10.3366/ccs.2023.0480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2023.0480","url":null,"abstract":"With several notable exceptions, comparative literature scholarship has not fully addressed the relationships between literature and global challenges and crises. In our era of multiple intensifying pandemics, not to mention often anaemic humanities enrolments (paradoxical, given robust interest in the arts both within and outside academia), it is crucial that comparative literature go more global: engaging more deeply with a broader array of texts, pathways and processes than ever before with a focus on providing insights into global challenges and crises as well as possibilities for amelioration on a vast scale. This article focuses on three novels: He Jiahong’s Chinese-language Hanging Devils: Hong Jun Investigates (1994) from China; Oh Jung-hee’s Korean-language The Bird (1996) from Korea; and Bina Shah’s English-language Before She Sleeps (2018) from Pakistan. These narratives highlight intersections in different parts of Asia among gender inequities/gender-based violence and corruption in criminal justice, intergenerational trauma and environmental catastrophe, respectively. To be sure, scholarship on literature is unlikely to provide immediate remedies. Yet, by helping readers better understand how literature engages with global challenges, scholarship on literature, including the field of comparative literature, can contribute to increasing motivations and the ability to take the essential leap to become champions for change.","PeriodicalId":42644,"journal":{"name":"Comparative Critical Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136093386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Comparative Media Literacies 比较媒介素养

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0479

Thomas O. Beebee

引用次数: 0

Front matter 前页

3区文学

Comparative Critical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0475

引用次数: 0

Structural Comparison, Transfers and Unequal Power Relations: Field Theory as a Conceptual and Methodological Tool 结构比较、转移与不平等权力关系:作为概念和方法论工具的场理论

3区文学