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“Kings of Modern Thought”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 392–395.
Published: 01 December 1963
... with these
Last of the people who believe!
Silent, while years engrave the brow ;
Silent-the best are silent now.
Achilles ponders in his tent,
The kings of modern thought are dumb ;
Silent they are, though not content...
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The Hector-Andromache Scene in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 335–340.
Published: 01 December 1953
..., for when he learns that Margeton has been
killed by Achilles, he can no longer be restrained.
Caxton’s account in the Recuyell, while not different from Lyd-
gate’s in essentials, is briefer and less dramatic.
Whan the triews was passd the nyght to fore Andrometha the wyf of hector...
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Pen and Sword in Renaissance Emblem Literature ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 131–141.
Published: 01 June 1944
... profession
brings glory and immortality, their own was the slightly more glori-
ous of the two. A majority of thtem were inwardly convinced that,
in their own words, had it not been for the Homers and Vergils,
the Achilles’, Ajaxes, and Aeneas’ would now be long forgotten.
Restating the two...
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“Things Unattempted Yet in Prose or Rime”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 341–347.
Published: 01 December 1953
....’ Of the gods in each poem not all were on the same side.
Achilles was predestined to lose his own life if he fought with the
Greeks at Troy, and it was also predestined that the Greeks could
not win at Troy unless Achilles fought with them.8 Thetis, the mother
of Achilles, tried to keep her...
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“Mars His Heart Inflam'd with Venus”: Ideology and Eros in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 209–226.
Published: 01 September 1989
... that Achilles, Patroclus, and Ajax
are mocking the Greek commanders all reveal a breakdown of
hierarchy in Greek society.
The play repeatedly underscores the aristocratic nature of Tro-
jan society. The life of the Trojans is centered on the court. Much
of I.ii, the conversation between...
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Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
... arrived at a time when educational uses of television were increasingly normalized and embraced at institutions of higher education. In 1957 WGBH, which produced both The Sense of Poetry and The Wrath of Achilles , was still a relative newcomer to National Educational Television (or NET, later PBS...
FIGURES
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Terror as Usual in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Assignment
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 86–99.
Published: 01 March 1991
... Sijrensen, not Tina von Lambert, is the
first of Polypheme and Achilles’ murder victims; F., the once-detached
filmmaker, nearly becomes the third. Surely few readers can have the
moral certainty to decide whether a brain-damaged Vietnam veteran-
turned-rapist is a victim or a terrorizer...
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The Rape of the Lock and Pope's Homer
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 342–354.
Published: 01 September 1947
... and that of Achilles in the first book of the Iliad is a bril-
liant one, to which Pope himself called attention in a note to the 1713
edition of the former. (The Baron’s oath, with an unimportant dif-
ference of one word, had already appeared in the 1712 version.)
Since Pope himself did call attention...
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The Story of Troilus and Briseida in the Laud Troy-Book
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 238–246.
Published: 01 September 1957
... the other events which Guido (161-63) relates as
occurring during this truce; namely, Hector’s visit to Achilles, the
proposed single combat between them, and the prevention of their
fighting (8237-8616).
(6) The third fight between Troilus and Diomedes, which con...
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Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... we even encourage it. “What do you suppose Achilles is thinking, there in his tent?” we might ask our undergraduate students, as if Achilles were the kind of being who had interior thoughts apart from those reported in The Iliad . The clever student who answers that Achilles is not thinking anything...
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Criseyde's Dream of the Eagle Love and War in Troilus and Criseyde
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 115–132.
Published: 01 June 1975
... fallen in love herself,
he would tie condemning her for it:
“Allas! I wolde han trusted, ciou teles,
I’ha t if tlia t 1, tliorugli my tlisaven ture,
Hadde loved outlier hym or Achilles,
Ector, or any marines creature,
Ye nolde Iian 11ad no mercy...
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Troilus and Criseyde the Inviolability of the Ending
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 147–159.
Published: 01 June 1970
... that they could ap-
pear no place else in the poem. Stanza 258 ends by telling us that Achilles
killed Troilus; stanza 259 begins, “And whan that he was slayn in this
manere.” If stanzas 259-61 were omitted, we would move just as easily
and logically to stanza 262, “Swich fyn hath, lo, this Troilus...
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Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress: “Nature's Dance of Death” and Other Studies
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 470–473.
Published: 01 December 1973
..., as also between tlie epic Iiero
arid the epic poem. Swift summed it up: “It is Homer and Virgil we rever-
ence and admire, not Achilles and Aenetis.” I, for example, u~ouldsay that
SLvift. atid after Iiini Hogarth and tlien Fielding, worked in a basically trav-
esty mode, one wliicli...
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Some Versions of Milton 1
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 292–306.
Published: 01 September 1979
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mind” (p. 98). The hero, literally or figuratively, is imprisoned in a cave,
from which he attempts, or should attempt, to escape. Thus Achilles
sulks in his private space or shelter, trapped by his angry impulsiveness
and inability to think things out. Odysseus, more alert, crafty, and self...
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The Cult of Language a Study of Two Modern Translations of Dante
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 140–156.
Published: 01 June 1974
...); and in line 61 Ciardi deliberately mi~translatesl~for the sake of
the rhyme, making Deidamia weep for Achilles “slain” (6l)-t0 accord
with “pain” (63)-while Deidamia died of sorrow over Achilles’ leaving
her, long before he was ever slain. And yet for all these accommoda-
tions, the rhyme, wherever...
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The Allegorical Epic: Essays in Its Rise and Decline
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (3): 291–293.
Published: 01 September 1982
... “nothing in Achilles’ words [Iliad 1.396-4061 to support the equation of
Hera with air,” but merely “assumes this interpretation” (p. 7), the result
being that Homer’s gods, severed from religion, “function rather as a tech-
nical vocabulary” and provide ways in which the poet supposedly “can dis...
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The Place of the Poet in Chaucer's House of Fame
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 125–135.
Published: 01 June 1966
... are granted their requests or denied them accord-
ing to Fame’s caprice, are dramatic proof that even the feats of Achilles
cannot have the assurance of fame if they are unsung. If those worthy
of fame are to have it, they must insure the celebration of their works
by a poet; and the gracious return...
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Shakespeare's Historical Plays
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 473–475.
Published: 01 September 1965
... V’s
“ceremony” speech is quoted out of context and associated with an argu-
ment against order, and even Ulysses “praises ‘degree’ only to explain the
temporary eclipse of the Greek army in Troy and to wean away Achilles
from indolent retirement” (p. 25). This seems to be overdoing...
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Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 March 1981
... over the years, they came not from Shakespeare but, Ide specu-
lates, from political actuality (Essex’s career looms large here), and from the
greater resistance of Achilles in the later parts of the Iliad to being translated
into an Elizabethan moral hero. As for the influence of Chapman...
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Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 381–383.
Published: 01 December 1980
... to any one of several other sources,
if indeed they stem from a single source at all. Is it, for instance, really just to
describe Ulysses’ decision to pit Ajax against Achilles as an instance of the Para-
celsian principle of pitting like against like? Even less persuasive is the author’s...
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