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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 March 2012
... , appeared in 2011. A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso . By Barolsky Paul . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2010 . xvi + 147 pp. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Reviews
A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso. By Paul...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 383–414.
Published: 01 December 1994
..., Discursive History, and
the Auto-Affection of God
Eric Rothstein
In what does [philosophical activity today] consist, if not in the endeavor to
know how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, instead of
legitimating what is already known?-Michel Foucault...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 379–381.
Published: 01 September 1947
... for Several Years As also the Deliverances which I have
Cause to Give The Glory to God Forever. Foreword by H. M.
TOMLINSON.Edited by E. H. W. MEYERSTEIN.New York and
London : Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. xxxviii + 190. $2.50.
The seafaring life of Cromwellian and Stuart days...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 443–459.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of gentle suasion, private consciousness-raising, influence. Moby-Dick is a novel shouting not into the void of a world abandoned by God—or not only—but into the empty space where the theocratic authority of the pulpit once was, where words fired by the titanic power of Godliness itself narrated, shaped...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 375–376.
Published: 01 December 1960
... ROBERTMOORE
Indkna University
The Varied God: A Critical Study of Thornson’s “The Seasons.” By PATRICIA
MEYERSPACKS. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Publi-
cations, English Studies, No. 21, 1959. Pp. ix 3- 190. $4.00.
The aim of Mrs. Spacks’s study is different...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (4): 555–559.
Published: 01 December 1990
...Lawrence M. Clopper Raabe Pamela. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. 196 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 REVIEWS
Imitating God: The Allegory of Faith in “Piers Plowman” B. By Pamela Raabe.
Athens: The University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 349–372.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is to enfold the multiple voices of antiquity and the singular voice of the newborn Christ into a narrative about the poet’s own development. In the silencing of the pagan oracles, celebration and lamentation converge. By purging the old gods’ wailing, the poem prepares for the silent purity of the newborn...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 321–324.
Published: 01 September 1986
... of Renaissance studies in the 1980s fosters a privileging of the
evidence for careerism and a discounting of the evidence for emotional,
intellectual, and spiritual concerns.
CAMILLEWELLS SLIGHTS
Saskatoon
God’s Plot and Man’s Stories: Studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 1969
...JAMES GINDIN Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 GODS AND FATHERS
IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S NOVELS
Fitzgerald’s fiction always, in one form or another, reveals a strong
element of moral judgment against which the heroes can be seen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 392–394.
Published: 01 September 1970
...
of which most of us have lost the intimate knowledge which Goethe himself
still possessed intact.
LISELOTTEDIECKMANN
Washington Uniuersity
The Smile of the Gods: A Thematic Study of Cesare Pauese’s Works. Hy
GIAN-PAOLOBIASIN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 339–348.
Published: 01 December 1976
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 27–53.
Published: 01 March 2021
...James Kuzner Abstract This essay dwells on George Herbert’s “The Flower” and on how its speaker can love and praise God. Writing of praise and doubt, Stanley Cavell remarks that the problem of skepticism is partly a problem of finding an object that one can praise, a search that certainly occurs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 229–269.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the ladder of Creation. The vision of “things invisible to mortal sight” that the poet asks for in the opening invocation is analogized, in the divine council that the book goes on to depict, to the Son's faith in his triumph over death. False analogy leads the fools of the Limbo of Vanity to understand God...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 363–389.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in aesthetic theory of the time — nostalgia for an irrecoverable past — also expressed itself artistically in forms at once engaged with and detached from history, notably stylistic simulacra of the past and, in poetry, failed or ironized revivals of the classical gods. This essay was originally prepared...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Westminster Abbey and the capitol-like Whitehall—is revisited in Milton’s epic. God expels Adam and Eve from Eden and subsequently washes away the garden during the Flood to prevent it from turning into a temple-and-grove along the lines of Pandaemonium or a capital seat like Charles’s London, in either case...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... creative God or passive scribe must be replaced by a focus on the middle ranges of literary agency, which in turn requires theoretical elaboration. Premodern tropes of authorial activity, such as the metaphor of authorship as textile labor, gain a much fuller range of complexity and nuance when...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as a way of conceptualizing faith through shared humility and weakness. This approach to the self, the world, and God is an important one to identify in Christian texts, but it also exemplifies a Christian way of thinking more broadly attuned to the depiction of vulnerability and introspection...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2024
... without God is summed up in the strikingly Hobbesian chiasmus “Lacking the might to compel obedience to right, we’ve made it right to compel obedience to might.” However, Pascal turns demoralizing insights like this to apologetic purposes by showing how they’re the natural effect of a lack of specifically...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 388–401.
Published: 01 December 1966
... the climax of the poem has been considered Man’s fall in Book
IX, when Eve disobeys and Adam out of love settles his fate, and ours.
It has been urged that the thesis is the assertion of eternal providence,
which, when fully understood, will justify the ways of God and will
show the justice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 21–53.
Published: 01 March 1975
... draw from Nicholas of Cusa and
Heraclitus. For Nicholas in De wisione Dei, God is a “coincidentia con-
tradictoria”:
For Thou art there where speech, sight, hearing, taste, touch, rea-
son, knowledge, and understanding are the same, and where seeing
is one with being seen...
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