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The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the Penn State University community. The Luncheon series was established more than half a century ago as venue for bringing distinguished speakers in the Humanities to campus to talk about…

Hosted by Shuang Shen and Jonathan E. Abel


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    "'How to Read Lolita," Imraan Coovadia, University of Cape Town

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 64:42


    "'How to Read Lolita," Imraan Coovadia, University of Cape Town, Monday, November 26, 2012...

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    "Thick Skin, Thin Mask: The Dilemma of Chinese Opera in the New Millennium," Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 65:18


    "Thick Skin, Thin Mask: The Dilemma of Chinese Opera in the New Millennium," Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine, Monday, November 5, 2012...

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    "Comparing Surgery Literatures: Sex Reassignment Surgery in Thailand," Jillana Enteen, Northwestern University

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 67:08


    "Comparing Surgery Literatures: Sex Reassignment Surgery in Thailand," Jillana Enteen, Northwestern University, Monday, October 22, 2012...

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    "Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents," Wai-chee Dimock, Yale University

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 65:00


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    "Wiring Ourselves for Sound: Quietness, White Noise and the Metamorphosis of Mediated Subjectivity," Matt Jordan, Penn State

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 65:27


    "Wiring Ourselves for Sound: Quietness, White Noise and the Metamorphosis of Mediated Subjectivity," Matt Jordan, Penn State, Monday, October 15, 2012...

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    "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths," Nancy Marie Brown

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 60:39


    "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths," Nancy Marie Brown, Monday, November 12, 2012...

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    "Biotropes: Environmental Aesthetics for an Industrial Age," Christine Marran, University of Minnesota

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2014 53:29


    "Biotropes: Environmental Aesthetics for an Industrial Age," Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, Monday, October 1, 2012...

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    "Clarice Lispector and the Art of the Cronica," Elizabeth Lowe, University of Illinois

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 65:00


    "Clarice Lispector and the Art of the Cronica," Elizabeth Lowe, University of Illinois, Monday, September 24, 2012...

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    "Two Imaginary Medieval Universities," Caroline Eckhardt, Penn State, Monday, September 10, 2012

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 69:38


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    "On Transtromer," Aldon Nielsen, Penn State, and Douglas Messerli, poet and the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational P

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 65:00


    "On Transtromer," Aldon Nielsen, Penn State, and Douglas Messerli, poet and the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc., Monday, April 2, 2012...

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    "Strategic Amnesia: Postcolonial Studies and the Second World," Nancy Condee, Universty of Pittsburgh

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 65:00


    "Strategic Amnesia: Postcolonial Studies and the Second World," Nancy Condee, Universty of Pittsburgh, Monday, February 20, 2012...

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    "The Teleologies of Modernism: Toward a Transitional Theory," Christopher Hill, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Univ

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 64:48


    "The Teleologies of Modernism: Toward a Transitional Theory," Christopher Hill, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University, Monday, March 12, 2012...

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    "The Art of Stephen Colbert: Satire and Democracy," Sophia McClennen, Penn State

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 66:34


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    "Jean Prouve's 'Maisons Tropicales', or Architecture as Discourse on colonialism," Monday, October 5, 2009

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 56:10


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    A Roundtable Discussion on 2007 Nobel Prizewinner Doris Lessing, Monday, October 29, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 55:09


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    "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel," Monday, March 24, 2008

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 58:24


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    "Film Co-Productions, Spatial Practice, and the Cultural Contingencies of 'New Asia,'" Monday, April 4, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 61:49


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    "Professor Latino Goes to Singapore: Race, Classical Reception & Canonicity in 16th Century Granada & 21st Century Singapore,"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2014 65:00


    "Professor Latino Goes to Singapore: Race, Classical Reception & Canonicity in 16th Century Granada & 21st Century Singapore," by Mira Seo on December 3, 2012...

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    "Making Monsters: War Crimes and Ordinary Men," Monday, February 28, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 60:21


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    "The Ethics of Extinction" Monday, September 14, 2009

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 56:49


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    "Is this year's Nobel in Literature novel? A Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa," Monday, February 14, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 61:03


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    "'A Path 'Strewn with Dreams': William Stanley Braithwaite, Modernist Poetics, and The Poetic Year For 1916," Monday, March 21,

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 57:37


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    "Arabic Literature Now: New Directions," Monday, March 14, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2011 64:30


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    March 5, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 49:31


    March 3, 2008

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 57:31


    March 19, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 53:26


    March 24, 2008

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    "Memos from the Besieged City" Monday, February 12, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 51:03


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    October 5, 2009

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 56:09


    October 29, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2011 55:08


    March 19, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2011 66:27


    "Surrealism and Turkish Script Arts," Monday, March 5, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2011 120:35


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    "The People's Republic and the Republic of Letters: Literature and the State," Monday, October 8, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2011 65:42


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    "Herta Müller's Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde," Monday, March 17, 2008

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2011 60:18


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    "Freud's Pre-Columbian Antiquities," Monday, March 3, 2008

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2011 54:24


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    "The Globalization in Mainland China of African American Jazz and Hip-Hop Culture," Monday, April 16 , 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2011 60:18


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    "Testimonio (testimonial narrative) and Truth," Monday, February 7, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 67:25


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    "Reader Response -- For Real, This Time," Monday, January 31, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2011 134:48


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    "Machado and Borges: A New Trajectory of Avangarde-Fiction in the Americas," Monday, January 24, 2011

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2011 64:57


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    "Sacred Texts & Saving Remnants: Manuscript Culture and the Roman Catholic Underground in Early Modern Europe," Monday, Decembe

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2011 66:28


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    "Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Gender of Jewishness," Monday, November 29, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2010 62:26


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    "How Shizuo Ozawa became Mario the Jap: Militant Ethnics and Ethnic Militancy in Brazil," Monday, November 1, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2010 70:27


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    "The Devil Inside: the image of Japan in 20th century Chinese humor," Monday, October 25, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2010 63:49


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    "Ghandi and his South African readers," Monday, October 18, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2010 64:57


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    "Indigenizing Modernism," Monday, October 11, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2010 63:38


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    "The Logic(s) of Expenditure: Bataille in the context of Michael Marmot and Robert Frank" Monday, November 26, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2010 58:30


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    "Holes in the Poles" Monday, March 19, 2007

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2010 53:05


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    "Victorian Scandal: New Meredith Letters Reveal Thomas Love Peacock's 'Love Child'," Monday, October 4, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2010 54:02


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    "The Critical Role of the University Press," Monday, September 27, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2010 56:24


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    "Entertaining and Useful: Contemporary Japanese Educational Manga," Monday, September 20, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2010 33:21


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    2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Müller: A Roundtable Discussion, Monday, February 15, 2010

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2010 57:22


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