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Modern Language Quarterly 11426443.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Bernadette Myers [email protected] Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576–1609 . By Chloe Kathleen Preedy . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xiii + 330 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Aerial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 45–50.
Published: 01 March 1942
..., Continuous, with direct ascension rise, And lift the trunk to prop the neighbouring skies. Collateral tubes with respiration play, And winding in aerial mazes stray. These as the woof, while warping, and athwart The exterior cortical insertions dart...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 March 1944
... of The Scribleriad, to examine in their original settings the dramatic account of the aerial combat of an Englishman and a German, and the predictions of submarines and incendiary bombs. In these verses will be found none of the nobility and high seriousness of nineteenth-century poetry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 343–344.
Published: 01 September 1973
..., that of evaluating an aberrant (one might say dead-ended) movement, symptomatic of the deep crisis which affected French poetry after 1848. We could have wished for a more aerial view of this crisis, but at any rate we can be thankful for an ac- curate description of the symptoms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 531–559.
Published: 01 December 2004
... the sky, sufficed for the overthrow of the world,” wrote Victor Hugo of the battle of Waterloo.6 Yet even as it aspired to comprehend the aerial movement of global forces, georgic weather unleashed a free-floating anxiety, an affective surplus that was, like the new weather itself, hard either...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
...) shows that the regime drew on “modern ideas about the need for a colonizing societal, technological power that could exploit and dominate a colonized nature” to legitimize its imperialist undertaking; in addition, he points out that the campaign “was successful partly through aerial superiority...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 June 1977
..., suggested in its title: that “novelists and auto- biographers necessarily depend upon artifice . . . to achieve their effects” (p. 310), and that this artifice, in the eighteenth century, is exercised in order to affirm “selfhood and consistent identity” (p. 3 15). Like aerial photographs taken...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 197–211.
Published: 01 June 1996
... Mexico Press, iggo), 69. The aerial map of Saq- sawaman is taken from Graziano Gasparini and Luise Margolies, Inca Architecture, trans. Patricia J. Lyon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), 78. I thank Gasparini for his permission to reproduce it. Mazzotti I Indigenous History...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 453–477.
Published: 01 December 2010
... that year. Having pioneered dive-­bombing in Haiti, the U.S. Marine Corps used aerial tac- tics in the Dominican Republic as early as 1919. For Latin American initiatives in air transport, Roorda recounts only Rafael Trujillo’s in the Dominican Republic in the 1930s (“The Cult of the Airplane among U.S...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1973
... wished for a more aerial view of this crisis, but at any rate we can be thankful for an ac- curate description of the symptoms. KICHARDVERNIER Wayne State University The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
... propensity to bog down in details recalls Georg Lukács’s ( 1970 : 127) dictum that “narration establishes proportions, description merely levels.” Again, I take a literal interpretation: the novel’s elevated perspectives—whether the aerial views afforded by planes and birds or Julius’s gaze hovering over...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 81–98.
Published: 01 March 1941
... occasionally the author, if intent on the moral lesson, may leave him nodding in his aerial situation. It is usually asserted that Volney’s Ruins and Sir William Jones’s Palace of Fortune were the primary sources for the frame- work of Queen Mab. The direct influence of neither work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 321–335.
Published: 01 December 1960
... support for this doctrine in Fulgentius’ belief (De Trinitate, Book 111) that angels “have ethereal or fiery bodies, but devils aerial” (p. 355) and in Jude vi (“the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation By sinning, the fallen angels lost “not only...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 131–148.
Published: 01 June 1952
... expresses accurately the position of the scientists. That the heavens are penetrable, he says, they prove by the motion of comets and otherwise, which are riot generated, a$ Aristotle holds in the aerial region of hot and dry exhalations, and so consumed, but as Anaxagoras and Democritus held...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 321–337.
Published: 01 September 1949
...] optical deception optischer Betrug [instead of “Tauschung” ] 335 xxxv aqueous-aerial wasserig-luftig (aerial) These points might be studied within a general...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 205–242.
Published: 01 June 2017
.../historiamilitaria3/romanord.htm . Mark Eduard . 1994 . Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars . Washington, DC : Center for Air Force History . Marucci Franco . 1996 . “ The Forms of Modernity and the Modernity of Form .” In Walter Pater: The Forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 257–271.
Published: 01 September 1974
..., where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measured for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion-at which my soul aches to think...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 229–269.
Published: 01 September 2010
... hither like aerial vapours flew Of all things transitory and vain, when sin And vanity had filled the works of men: Both all things vain, and all who in vain things Built their fond hopes of glory or lasting fame Or happiness in this or the other life; All who have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 319–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of simultaneous, interwoven events viewed from multiple places and angles and on multiple scales, from the molecular to the aerial.12 In other words, it was reportage stripped of any claim to observational or critical distance: reportage as factographic art, with immersion in the action guaranteeing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
... seems guaranteed to be fabulously large? At WGBH Richards entered a situation hardly similar to what he would have found at a major network. In 1957 the antenna that broadcast the station’s signal in the Boston area could only reach so far. Viewers complained of poor reception when the station launched...
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