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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 531–559.
Published: 01 December 2004
... is currently working on a book about the wartime that is Romanticism. War in the Air Mary A. Favret No soldiers in the scenery, No thoughts of people now dead, As they were fifty years ago, Young and living in a live air, Young and walking in the sunshine...
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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 (2011) 72 (4): 461–492.
Published: 01 December 2011
... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 614–615.
Published: 01 December 1965
... in the book, she transforms herself into a priestess of balladry, analyzing ballads and discussing chronic ballad problems in a curiously incoherent and arbitrary way, as though by going into a trance of subjectivism and becoming supersensitive to all the associations floating in the sinister air, she...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 47–52.
Published: 01 March 1958
... which scourged Buenos Aires in 1871; his founding of the Association for the Pro- tection of Animals in 1871; his activities during the Rebellion of Tejedor in 1880. Following each of the above moments of outburst- ing energy there was a long period of inactivity and total absence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 165–176.
Published: 01 June 1948
..., is the opinion of most critics. Indeed, despite his protestations 2 Manuel GSlvez, El espiritu de la aristocracia y otros ensayos (Buenos Aires : Agencia general de libreria y publicaciones, 1924), pp. 9-10. 8 P. 23. 4 Manuel Gilvez, Hombres en soledad (Buenos Aires : Ed. Losada, 1942), p...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 131–148.
Published: 01 June 1952
... of Melancholy and especially in the passage entitled “A Digression of Air,” which is a comprehensive, if jumbled, survey of the state of astronomy, filled with conjecture as to the significance of the new world-scheme. These interests have been pointed out by Professor Marjorie Hope Nicolson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 263–271.
Published: 01 September 1962
.... 159) That a landscape might be posed, in particular, as a symbolic “WO- man in the air” seems to have been a habitual notion with Stevens. This “woman” seems to be present in the early “Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage” (p. 5), as well as in the immature but attractive...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 1950
...Catharine W. Peltz Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THOMAS CAMPION, AN ELIZABETHAN NEO-CLASSICIST By CATHARINEW. PELTZ At the conclusion of his short word “To the Reader” prefixed to A Book of Airs (1601), Thomas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 381–385.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the complexity of relationships between levels of meaning and reference, a sensitivity required for the correlation of these two deep histories. The book opens elegantly and effectively with a meditation on the changing air of poetry, a topos traditionally associated with poetic inspiration that signals...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 1970
... Ireland today,” and the matter of the passage is more appli- cable to Purgatory than to “Under Ben Bulben.” Such an intermixture of works in progress is typical of all Yeats’s manuscripts. To go on to another matter, I have always had doubts about the reading “That air in immortal- ity” which has...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 1996
... to confront pas- sions and the complexity of social life. Josefina Ludmer has observed, with respect to gauchesca literature, that the delinquent serves to organize the state from beyond.1 From a 1 Ludmer, El gkogauchesco: Un trutado sobre la patria (Buenos Aires: Sudameri- cana, 1988...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 369–375.
Published: 01 December 1975
...” How happy he, who free from care, The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breaths his native air, In his ow11 grounds. In 1727 Pope introduced some alterations: Happy the hIan, who free from Care, The Business...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 259–284.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., and the relationship between literature and politics in Argentina. Born in Adrogué, in the province of Buenos Aires, in 1940, Piglia is one of the foremost Latin American writers of the “post-Boom” gen- eration. His first book, a collection of short stories titled La...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 322–342.
Published: 01 September 1948
.../unsre Masculine : i:re “her, their” i: rem Feminine : i: re i: re Neuter : i: re i: rem Plural : i: re i: re [dai] “your” (sg and [sail “his”, “its”, are declined like [mail ; [air] “your” (pl. ) , like [ unser...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 401–407.
Published: 01 December 1947
... that resembles silence, The breeze freshens! Life must be ventured! The huge air opens, then shuts my volume, Bold flies the spray, by rocks rejected! Off, dazzling pages, off in flight! nreak, waves! Tireak with joyous floods...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 1947
.... Only a few examples can be given. In the English-German part there is no entry for air force, although we find aircraft carrier, air- field, air mail, airplane, airport, air raid; neither is Luftwaffe in- cluded in the German-English part, although there is room for Luf tpost, Flughaf en...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 March 1981
... about Shakespeare’s play” (p. 102)-upon which he proceeds to do more or less that. Even the most plausible lines of influence seem to disappear, like air in air. I think it is impossible not to suppose that the Iliads were among the sounds resonating in Shakespeare’s mind when he wrote Troilus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 137–152.
Published: 01 June 1981
..., Good-Nature, and Affability are the Graces that play in her Countenance. . . . Her Air has the Beauty of Motion, and her Look the Force of Language” (No. 4). In this case, the gesture is an immediate presence because, as Mr. Spectator explains in another essay, “there is a strict Affinity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 March 1976
... to detail the formal and thematic differences that characterize Guillh’s three major works, Ccintico, Clamor, and Homenaje, which are included in Aire nuestro, an anthology of all of Guillh’s work until 1968. Disappointingly, instead of applying his skill at close textual criticism to explain...