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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 March 2012
...) on British elocutionary debates and eighteenth-century poetic practices. Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action . By Wolfson Susan J. . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2010 . xiv + 381 pp. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 536–544.
Published: 01 December 1965
...Wallace Jackson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 DRYDEN’S EMPEROR AND LILLO’S MERCHANT
THE RELEVANT BASES OF ACTION
By WALLACEJACKSON
Though AlZ for Love no longer occupies our stage, it has become...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 267–268.
Published: 01 September 1957
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 1991
...James Hirsh A. Charles and Elaine S. Hallett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi + 230 pp. $39.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 JAMES HIRSH 105
Analyzing Shakespeare’s Action: Scene versus Sequence...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 1976
...Edgar Schell Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 SEEING THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
THE ACTION IMITATED BY THE
SECUNDA PASTORUM
By EDGARSCHELL
It has been a long time since...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 331–362.
Published: 01 December 1978
...By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 HAMLET
THE NAME OF ACTION
By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD
Off the coast of Wales to the northwest of Caernarvonshire is the is-
land of Anglesey...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 163–200.
Published: 01 June 2011
... son of the murdered king is limited in his freedom to maneuver and whose quest for freedom is both fueled and stymied by the Ghost's command that he kill his uncle. Hamlet dramatizes the felt connections between external constraints on freedom of action and internal states that inhibit or foster...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 441–463.
Published: 01 December 2013
... reconciliation of father and daughter, as, also tragically, does the final action between Gertrude and Hamlet when she wipes his forehead, fulfilling his promise that “when you are desirous to be blessed, / I’ll blessing beg of you.” The blessing of marriage between Hamlet and Ophelia exposes another abruption...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of practical possibility where “realism” is the only mode of operation and action in history. Yet without a critique of the idea of the vitality of the state/profession and without actively seeking an ethical life on behalf of another praxis, history is constrained to participate in the violent narrative...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 347–365.
Published: 01 September 2008
... on Corneille's treatment of heroic action and its place in history, and the remainder becomes, in Corneille's work, something capable of redemption and new life. The argument is focused on three tragedies: Médée (1634), Sertorius (1662), and Tite et Bérénice (1670). © 2008 by University of Washington 2008...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
... for desire and action, sin indicates the subject’s splitting by the norms that organize it. Piers Plowman , which explores the medieval split subject through formal experimentation, repeatedly encounters the demands of political, ethical, economic, and spiritual life and repeatedly problematizes all its...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 September 1965
... to play. Instead of being the concomitant of action, the
precipitator of action, or simply the final cutting off of action, it
becomes the enveloping action of the play, the continued and repeated
action which has meaning in itself. Such a death-dealing man is
Tamburlaine, as Christopher...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 573–581.
Published: 01 December 1942
... implied by Sidney’s definition and by the im-
mediately preceding assertion that the Cyropedia and Theagines and Cariclea
are poems though in prose. But Sidney did not speak in this place of plot
or action, and the omission, as will be seen shortly, is important.
6 Literary...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 439–449.
Published: 01 December 1968
... the novel
is the thing it is: why, for instance, no frame of reference or formal
exposition is anywhere expressed for him-why he must piece one to-
gether for himself. For the form of this novel calls marked attention to
itself: the balanced juxtapositions of past and present action...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 227–236.
Published: 01 September 1963
... in the action for what they are from the
beginning. Chaucer first presents the principals in static portraits,
then displays them in a preliminary action, and, finally, in the main
action. The plan is somewhat more complicated than this would
suggest, since two sets of portraits and two sets...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 197–204.
Published: 01 June 1950
... he proposes.6
Because this accession of grace is exhibited in free choice, it is most
plainly seen in activity; it is “action, correspondence”e on the part of
man which enables him to say “. . . that is Christ being nte and me
being Christ.”7
Hopkins’ notes contain frequent references...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 347–364.
Published: 01 December 1971
... of the angels and man largely transposes Scripture and other
narratives based on Scripture,l follows a predetermined order of
events,2 contains few incidents extraneous to canonical Scripture, shows
little amplification or condensation of actions, and maintains a rela-
tively small over-all scale...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 292–309.
Published: 01 September 1951
... and misery, as readers of the novel will remem-
ber, by being thrust into prison as a result of a benevolent action.
Almost immediately upon arrival, Booth engages in a philosophical
discussion with a fellow-prisoner on “the necessity arising from the
impulse of fate, and the necessity arising...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 March 1957
..., and in the drama that end is the imitation of an action, the
representation of events organized by probability and necessity. Other
poetic forms, such as the lyric, may appear to treat events, but “events
in the sense in which we speak of events in a philosophical dialogue-
they are only dialectically...