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Artykuł 2023

Being the Other, Speaking for the Other

Autorzy / redaktorzy: Dorothy Figueira

Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This essay examines the phenomenon of false minority representation in US academia. it seeks to draw a parallel between the individuals choosing to speak for the other in the workplace and recent theoretical and pedagogical trends in academia.

DOI: 10.18276/rk.2023.14-14 · ISSN: 2081-8718

Artykuł 2019

Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity: Frederick Douglass Visits Rome in the Wake of Other Americans

Autorzy / redaktorzy: Dorothy Figueira

Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This essay examines nineteenth-century literary responses to the perception of Roman Catholicism’s excess. It focuses on Frederick Douglass’s visit to Rome in 1887. Douglass, a former slave who had become a gifted writer and orator, visited Italy during a Grand Tour of the con…

DOI: 10.18276/rk.2019.10-01 · ISSN: 2081-8718

Artykuł 2017

Fear in Greek and Sanskrit Drama

Autorzy / redaktorzy: Dorothy Figueira

Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This essay compares Greek and Sanskrit drama from the perspective of their aesthetic aims. It examines briefly the role of pity and fear in Aristotle as a point of departure for a more general study of emotion in Sanskrit drama, where fear comprises but one mood sought in the aes…

DOI: 10.18276/rk.2017.8-09 · ISSN: 2081-8718

Artykuł 2015

What Do We Do When the Other Speaks Her Own Language: Returning to the Ethics of Comparativism

Autorzy / redaktorzy: Dorothy Figueira

Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny

This article examines the ethical dimensions of the Other, as it is configured in the discipline of Comparative Literature, particularly as it is practiced in the US in the recent proliferation of critical schools that claim to engage alterity in a respectful and inclusive fashio…

DOI: 10.18276/rk.2015.6-01 · ISSN: 2081-8718