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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 373–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in a literary economy. When this accrual (or lack thereof) is quantified using computational methodologies, we can track where critical attention goes, how much of it, and why. As a proof of this concept, the article offers a quantitative analysis of critical attention in Roland Barthes’s S/Z . This work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Shirley Lau Wong Abstract Literary settings are often celebrated for richly representing the many details of a particular place. The close association between detail and setting stems from the realist presumption that detail constitutes what Roland Barthes calls an “index of . . . atmosphere...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and present states of being in the dark. This nescient or ignorant epistemology has resonances with Roland Barthes’s writings on Zen as well as with Derek Parfit’s rejection of personal identity and, by extension, of self-interest as a catalyst for moral action. Thanks to Brian McGrath and Maureen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 247–269.
Published: 01 June 2015
... less common in modernist and experimental fiction. None of these claims survives scrutiny. A rereading of Roland Barthes’s S/Z (1970) should reveal the many shortcuts a narratologist has to take to celebrate open endings as liberating and should also disclose some of the ideological purposes to which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 525–529.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eric Lindstrom References Barthes Roland . 1985 . The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation , translated by Howard Richard . Berkeley : University of California Press . François Anne-Lise . 2008 . Open Secrets: The Literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 81–116.
Published: 01 March 2022
... works predating its coinage, such as Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva (1973), Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida (1980), and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Dialogue on Love (1999). 2 Neither a parody of theory nor a do-it-yourself theory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 452–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
... study of the works and lives of Jackson, Todd, Moore, Plath, and Bishop. It is a book to read and absorb, one that beautifully evokes the dramas of creativity unfolding in some of Dickinson’s most notable inheritors. References Barthes Roland . 1986 . “ The Death of the Author...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 347–349.
Published: 01 September 2019
... for jumpstarting gay history along a different axis from its current one” (102). Relying on theorists from Roland Barthes to Jack Halberstam, Block’s wager pays off in insightful analyses of authors from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Thomas Mann, from Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain . Block’s most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of literary and intellectual history. The other key structuring force in the book is Roland Barthes, whose Preparation of the Novel lecture series on notetaking appears in the first footnote and whose thinking about notation and experience helps Reader frame his argument about the note as a negotiation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 369–373.
Published: 01 September 2023
... theorizations of the human species—including those of David Hume and Thomas Jefferson—and their invocations of authorship as an index of differential humanity among what they theorized as human races, as well as Roland Barthes’s ( 1977 ) “Death of the Author” and Michel Foucault’s ( 1984 ) “What Is An Author...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of literary texts. Linguistic approaches emphasized the plural and
unstable linguistic construction of meaning, since, as Roland Barthes
has written, a text is “un espace à dimensions multiples, où se marient
et se contestent des écritures variées, dont aucune n’est originelle. . . .
un texte est fait...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 355–358.
Published: 01 September 1991
... of the revolutionary” (p. 217), while later in
the book that theory of “perverse desire” advanced by Roland Barthes in The
Pleasure ofthe Text (1973) is similarly written off as “romantic and Utopian” (p.
330). Good cultural materialist that he is, Dollimore takes care that psycho-
sexual dissidence should...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 117–131.
Published: 01 March 2009
... wore lipstick until the day she died.
She also wore it into the grave” (135).
In summoning his (photographic) memory of her, Blau quotes the
obviously pertinent essay by Roland Barthes.3 He also taps the literary
highwater marks of the senescent sublime: the very late work of Wil-
liam...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1973
... Projection." The survey of the Left Bank
intellectual ferment is sketchy, but often helpful. The reader gets some sense
of the contributions made by such exponents of structural poetics as A. J.
Greimas or T. Todorov, and of the vicissitudes of the versatile and unpredict•
able Roland Barthes, whose...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 204–207.
Published: 01 June 1981
... in the second place is that
Korg speaks of Wittgenstein as if he were Roland Barthes-as, indeed, he later
speaks of him as if he were Wallace Stevens:
Perhaps the single most important principle common to Philosophical Zn-
vestigations and the thinking of the revolutionary writers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 221–224.
Published: 01 June 1984
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Tittler, Jonathan. Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 2 10 pp. $25.00.
Ungar, Steven. Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire. Lincoln and London:
University of Nebraska Press, 1983. xx + 206 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 114–118.
Published: 01 March 1997
... (230), Daniel Corkery as
“the Irish Zhdanov” (231), or Oscar Wilde as “the Irish Roland Barthes”
(329),just what is he trying to accomplish, and who, exactly, will such acts
of translation help? At moments Eagleton seems to address an audience,
educated solely under the poststructuralist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 460–463.
Published: 01 December 1991
... with critics like Harold Bloom, Roland Barthes, Paul
Ricoeur, JCirgen Habermas, and Julia Kristeva, to name just a few. But this con-
text disintegrates as soon as one turns directly to Empson's best-known works:
Sewen Tvpes of Ambiguity (1930), Some Versions of Pastoral (1935)' The Structure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
... , edited by Zunshine Lisa , 581 – 89 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Barthes Roland . 1989 . “ The Reality Effect .” In The Rustle of Language , translated by Howard Richard , 141 – 48 . Oxford : Blackwell . Cheng Anne Anlin . 2018 . “ Ornamentalism: A Feminist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2012
... structuralism to post-
structuralism, especially in the work of Roland Barthes, where that shift
is clearly visible. S/Z, Barthes’s creative and compelling act of reading
that has had a lasting effect on interpretive protocols of narrative, was
published in Barthes gave seminars on the topic...
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