Recherche littéraire/Literary Research Automne / Fall 2020 PETER LANG Bruxelles Berlin Bern New York Oxford Recherche littéraire / Literary Research Rédacteur / Editor Marc Maufort, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Publié avec le concours de /Published with the support of : l’Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC)/The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Comité consultatif / Advisory Board Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, Athens), rédactrice précédente/immediate past editor John Burt Forster (George Mason University), ancien rédacteur/past editor Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University, USA) César Domínguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, España) Eugene C. 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Ramakrishnan (Central University of Gujarat, India) Haun Saussy (University of Chicago, USA) Monica Spiridon (Universitatea din Bucureşti, România) Jüri Talvet (University of Tartu, Estonia) Anne Tomiche (Sorbonne Université, France) Hein Viljoen (North-West University, Potchesfstroom, South Africa) Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong, China) Assistants de rréééédaction/editorialdaction/editorial assistants Jessica Maufort (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB) Samuel Pauwels (Bruxelles) En tant que publication de l’Association internationale de littérature comparée, la revue bilingue Recherche littéraire / Literary Research a pour but de faire connaître aux comparatistes du monde entier les développements récents de la discipline. Dans ce but, la revue publie des comptes rendus de livres significatifs sur des sujets comparatistes ainsi que des essais critiques dressant l’état des lieux dans un domaine particulier de la littérature comparée. 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This publication has been peer reviewed. wwww.peterlang.comww.peterlang.com En tant que publication de l’Association internationale de littérature comparée, la revue bilingue Recherche littéraire / Literary Research a pour but de faire connaître aux comparatistes du monde entier les développements récents de la discipline. Dans ce but, la revue publie des comptes rendus de livres significatifs sur des sujets comparatistes ainsi que des essais critiques dressant l’état des lieux dans un domaine particulier de la littérature comparée. RL / LR publie de la recherche littéraire comparée sur invitation uniquement. As a publication of the International Comparative Literature Association, the bilingual journal Recherche littéraire / Literary Research has the mission of informing comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. 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Renseignez-vous auprès de / address inquiries to: Marc Maufort, Rédacteur / Editor, RL / LR Email: [email protected] ISSN: 0849–0570 Table des matières / Table of Contents EDITORIAL Comparative Poetics: A Path towards Renewal? ................................ 17 ÉDITORIAL La poétique comparatiste : un chemin vers le renouveau ? ................ 23 ARTICLES DE RECHERCHE / ARTICLES Post-ID: Five Lessons in Post-Identity Politics from the Postcolony ........................................................................................ 29 Chantal Zabus Kunene and the Swan: Two Approaches to Biography, History and Shakespeare in South African Theatre ........................................ 65 Chris Thurman Boom and Bust: The Global Novel of Ireland (2007) and India (2008) .............................................................................. 97 Janet M. Wilson Joseph de Guignes et John Barrow face à la Chine impériale, ou les illusions des hommes du lointain (1793–1812) ...................... 119 Jacques Marx 10 Table des matières / Table of Contents ESSAIS CRITIQUES / REVIEW ESSAYS Comparative Gender Studies: Where We Are Now ......................... 151 Liedeke Plate From Climate Crises to Crises of Language: Redefining Magical Realism in the Anthropocene. Ben Holgate. Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 236. ISBN: 9781138553484. ................................................................. 179 Eugene L. Arva COMPTES RENDUS / BOOK REVIEWS Ulrika Maude and Mark Nixon, eds. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. 545. ISBN: 9781780936413. ......................................... 191 David O’Donnell Eugene Eoyang. East-West Symbioses: The Reconciliation of Opposites. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. Pp. 224. ISBN: 9781527525016. ................................................... 199 Gang Zhou Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel, eds. Historizing the Dream / Le Rêve du point de vue historique. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019. Pp. 463. ISBN: 9783826067389. ................................................................. 205 Caius Dobrescu Gerald Gillespie. Living Streams: Continuity and Change from Rabelais to Joyce. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2018. Pp. 207. ISBN: 9782807610217. ................................................................. 211 Lucia Boldrini Jón Karl Helgason and Marijan Dović, eds. Great Immortality. Studies on European Cultural Sainthood. Table des matières / Table of Contents 11 Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. 353 + xxv. ISBN: 9789004364295. ................................................................. 219 Sándor Hites Wieslaw Krajka, ed. Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press / New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Pp. 272. ISBN: 9788322791868. ......................................... 227 Dong Yang Frédéric Regard et Anne Tomiche, dir. Genre et Signature. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 309. ISBN : 9782406074755. ................................................................ 233 Haun Saussy Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, eds. Policing Literary Theory. Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2018. Pp. 218. ISBN: 9789004358508. ......................................... 237 Christophe Den Tandt Lorna Fitzsimmons and Charles McKnight, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 648. ISBN: 9780199935185. ............................... 243 Anne Williams Kitty Millet and Dorothy Figueira, eds. Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. viii + 258. ISBN: 9781501316654. .......................................... 249 Jenny Webb Harri Veivo, Petra James and Dorota Walczak-Delanois, eds. Beat Literature in a Divided Europe. Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN: 9789004364110. ......................................... 257 Oliver Harris Claude De Grève. La Réception de Gogol en France (1838–2009). Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2018. Pp. 628. ISBN : 9782406061946. ................................................................ 263 Catherine Depretto 12 Table des matières / Table of Contents Nicholas Birns and Juan E. De Castro, eds. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 229. ISBN: 9781501343698. ................................................................. 269 Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Dan Ringgaard and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, eds. Danish Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. 286. ISBN: 9781501344695. ......................................... 275 Julie K. Allen Eduardo F. Coutinho, ed. Brazilian Literature as World Literature. London: