Comparative Becomings

Michael G. Kelly lectures in French and comparative literature at the University of Limerick.Daragh O’Connell is a lecturer in Italian Studies at University College Cork.

• CONTENT: Michael G. Kelly: Introduction: Framing Transition(s) in Comparative Studies – Daragh O’Connell: ‘Denti Alligator’: The Dantification of Popular Culture – Gemma Pellissa Prades: Creating New Myths in the Fifteenth Century: From Ovid’s Medea to a Lustful Nun from Barcelona – Jack Fennell: Looking for Lucian’s Locale: The Case of «Cuairt ar an nGealaigh» – Emilia Di Rocco: Kissing the Earth and Defining Space: Transitions between Folklore, Religion and Literature – Manus O’Dwyer: The Language of Birds: Valente, Scholem, Benjamin – Kerstin Fest: Becoming Nonmodern: Transitory States in Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem (1915) – Cathy Roche-Liger: The Animal Metamorphoses of the Artist in Paul Durcan’s Intermedial Poetry – Kenneth Keating: ‘dude I have alts’: Computer Technology and Poetic Innovation in John Redmond’s MUDe and Geoffrey Squires’ Two New Poems – Cathrin Bengesser: How to Play a Film: The Game-Like Pleasures of Digital Home Media – Dara Waldron: «Near Documentary» as Post-Bressonian Aesthetic: Cinematographic Dialoguing between Jeff Wall’s Adrian Walker and Ben Rivers’ Two Years at Sea – Michael G. Kelly: D’un château l’autre: Authorship, Individuation and Utopia in Pola X and De la guerre

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