transverse: a comparative studies journal copyright contributors 2009 centre for comparative literature university of toronto all rights reserved the use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the contributors, is an infringement of the copyright law the national library of canada has catalogued this publication as follows: transverse: a comparative studies journal editor: myra bloom editorial board: jonathan allan, rachel freedman, jeff morrisey, jeannine pitas, martin zeilinger production manager: julie parisien cover design: bao nguyen to contact the editor, please send an email to
[email protected] www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm 4 transverse transverse:transverse: aa comparativecomparative studiesstudies journaljournal issueissue 9,9, springspring 20092009 contemporarycontemporary currentscurrents editor’seditor’s prefacepreface myramyra bloombloom 88 intersection/traveling spaces: crossings/ imagination’s translation passport, of literatures memory’s suitcase dorotheakatie brennan martens 10 10 criminal“conquering” adaptations: annapurna: successful the infl uenceartistic ofand military cultural rhetoric infi delities in mountaineering joeaccounts culpepper 19 justin allec 22 preposterous translation: ass-lore and myth in a midsummer night’s dream kristengiving birthbennett and delivering the reader in luisa valenzuela’s cola de lagartija 31 jonathan allan 34 crevel’s babylone: a paradigm of babel? taniaevelyn collani lau’s persona and choose me: 43 the aesthetics of pathos, pathology and racial melancholia thejason use d’aoust of italics in the english translations of dostoevsky’s the gambler 52 nadezhda korchagina 55 the radiant city at night: zombies in suburbia howrachel nationalism freedman enhanced the fi rst translation of beowulf 68 mark bradshaw busbee 64 transverse 5 artworknew books greenşebnem cubism: susam-sarajeva.