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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 532–537.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Michael B. Prince mprince@bu.edu Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment . By James Noggle . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xi + 266 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Affect theory is all the rage of late. James...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 383–414.
Published: 01 December 1994
...Eric Rothstein Foucault, 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 374–376.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Andrea Frisch afrisch@umd.edu Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage . By Rosensweig Anna . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2021 . ix + 234 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 The central topic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... transnational position, the first conceiving of the Protestant Ascendancy as neofeudal landlords who transform Irish labor into capitalist wealth, the second characterizing the Anglo-Irish as a cosmopolitan class of professional managers. By regarding these socioeconomic roles as affective dispositions between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 453–477.
Published: 01 December 2010
... as erased, is recovered by the novel for history, and produces effects in the world beyond the novel. Yet such recovery fails to affect the world beyond the novel. In the articulation of that contradiction, intertwining fiction and history, invention and reality, the novel proposes an enduring and essential...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 453–474.
Published: 01 September 2012
... textual effects expresses the author’s apparent turn away from the affective history project she earlier so capably inspired. On Failing to Make the Past Present
Stephen Best
No resurrection can be anything other than a prelude to ultimate erasure.
— Alain Corbin, The Life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and as philosophies of social consensus and psychologies of empathetic affect recollected it sentimentally and benevolently. Post-Miltonically, Satan has earned sympathy or pity: upon Sin’s attaching our world with a great chain of necessitarian and material causality. 14 “Masculine Birth of Time” (1604...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., moral, and aesthetic disputes throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By paying renewed attention to style and affect in the context of cultural history, this essay aims to revive interest in Bernardes’s work. Although Bernardes’s reputation is modest now, he was a remarkable figure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 367–389.
Published: 01 September 2008
... affect, and to glorify amoral modern individualism as embodied by the perverse Salome. Some important yet little-analyzed contemporary reviews of the play and the opera in Germany and Austria from 1905 to 1907 already noted such correspondences. They interpreted Strauss's choices as direct aesthetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 281–313.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of Wagner’s poetry featuring Forman’s wife, Alma Murray. In making Wagner legible and audible for these societies, Forman aligned Wagner with contemporary radical poets and promoted the Ring as a political allegory. Forman’s translations, far from cranky or cultish, show how Victorian society culture affected...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Analyzing the affective configuration generated by The Unnamable through the prism of containment deepens our understanding of the challenges posed by the text and of the text’s historical situatedness. va2280@columbia.edu Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Samuel Beckett...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 3. The minor characters of Pregnant Butch respond to their representation within the text, highlighting the affective and temporal relationalities that shape queer character. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Figure 3. The minor characters of Pregnant Butch respond to their representation within the text, highlighting the affective and temporal relationalities that shape queer character. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 598–601.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and the History of the Emotions in Latin America makes a valuable contribution to a crowded area of research by approaching magical realism through affect studies, the history of the emotions, and new materialist studies (Jane Bennett, Bill Brown). Jerónimo Arellano’s opposing perspectives elicit surprising new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 198–200.
Published: 01 June 1979
...” (an affective devotion), and
Traherne’s “Wonder” (an affective and mystical description of unwilled, pas-
sive acts). Because each mode is allowed to draw upon many forms, moods, and
techniques, the taxonomy can accommodate such poems as Crashaw’s “On the
wounds of our crucified Lord,” an affective...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 323–332.
Published: 01 December 1952
..., not permanent, sweet, not lasting.” This need not
be taken literally as characterization, but it deserves recognition as a
restatement of theme. Laertes, moreover, warns Ophelia : “And keep
you in the rear of your affection.” All of this advice is expanded by
Polonius in turn, but only after he has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 581–589.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... Following his teacher Erich Auerbach against his tutelary spirit Lukács, Jameson devotes a chapter to praising Zola for the extraordinary richness of affect displayed in his descriptions. From the “codification of affect” in Zola, Jameson reads in successive chapters the process by which realism’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 88–98.
Published: 01 March 1963
..., amis,
and amirtiet. Although derived respectively from Latin amare, amor,
amicus, and amicitkz, the Old French words do not always imply the
personal affection or emotional attachment usually suggested by their
Latin sources and modern derivatives. To be sure, affection or inclin-
ation may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 538–541.
Published: 01 December 2021
... is convinced “wants [her] gone” (91), which proves crucial both to her demonstration here and the new study overall. Between the extremities of liking and remaining in the cold is the calamity form. But the affective frame is important here because it makes clear the extent to which a study of “form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 228–234.
Published: 01 September 1960
... Don Garcie have discovered
Elvire’s love for him? To complicate matters even more, she had
shown considerable affection to his dashing young rival, Don Sylve:
Ma pitii, complaisante A ses briilants soupirs,
D’un dehors favorable amusoit ses desirs,
Et...
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