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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 379–381.
Published: 01 September 1947
... for Several Years As also the Deliverances which I have
Cause to Give The Glory to God Forever. Foreword by H. M.
TOMLINSON.Edited by E. H. W. MEYERSTEIN.New York and
London : Oxford University Press, 1946. Pp. xxxviii + 190. $2.50.
The seafaring life of Cromwellian and Stuart days...
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![Figure 1. Vertebrate endoskeletons. Plate 1 of Owen 1849: 120. Owen’s vertebrate archetype is illustrated at the top right; the rest of the plate shows, Owen explains, “the modifications of [the archetype] characteristic of the four great divisions of the vertebrate subkingdom, viz. fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals, and also of man” (87).](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/modern-language-quarterly/80/2/10.1215_00267929-7368209/2/s_mlq7368209figure1.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=lh7OnNU8Ky4hiGygstgazrNqym~5ht-yO7t3z0LWYiSGayH8uQ6QL7OOn5hY3kA9ra8k~mVed29CQmJn-h6pJKuWJG9JqiKGl6Y1JOmDQJ59OGwoCAsTqmsZ6myT8BZka3B8lPEQnPm5xzTfNbVqiaabkemEK9TSGt-m7MpIe1Xa0Z7xE159C4vf~iCXZUx7sKl7UiwS9WNj7KgzskE1w3k5TgAYQMsmbUhX~nD2L2rp~duO4ue4Zt2KTQV4~nxUGdiCW8uc4Len-Y2nFH97qF3jizfL-TUtgCeeiJPFa7UEYwLnypT3Yzr3SI8GUH6ynff~vLTUIo6nStpeT4vRpQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
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Scaling the Detail: Woolfian Proportions
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 169–185.
Published: 01 June 2023
...: they are always in motion, zooming in and zooming out, demanding close observation while also enlarging the frame to the global impact of war or the marginalization of women. Woolf uses details dynamically to move between material objects and human minds, and also to move across scales , and thus produces...
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Chinese Postmodernist Fiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Douwe Fokkema The title of this essay implies that there is a Chinese postmodernism that differs from American or European postmodernism. But the different postmodernisms also have a common basis, which can be found at the level of unstable signification. First the author briefly sketches how...
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Alternative Antiquarianisms of Scotland and the North
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Janet Sorensen In dominant accounts, the eighteenth-century “ballad revival” brought a dead form back to life by digging up old songs and restoring their force and meaning. It also brought “the people,” as producers or consumers of ballads, to a kind of national public life but relegated them...
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From Lyric to Epic and Back: Joachim Du Bellay's Epic Regrets
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 107–127.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Marc Bizer It had been the dream of the sixteenth-century Pléiade poets to glorify their country and literature by composing a “long French poem,” a term that designated a genre resembling epic but that also included romance. In the 1550s, not only Pierre de Ronsard, who had received an official...
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The Privilege of Contemporary Life: Periodization in the Bret Easton Ellis Decades
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 2010
...” or degraded version of periodization; perhaps for this reason, it is also the perfect narrative mode for the present's historical self-consciousness. Ellis's novels American Psycho and Glamorama expose the contradictory link between the ephemeral details of consumer life and the essence of a single, self...
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Early Modern “Neoliberalisms”: England and the English Caribbean
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 September 2011
... background and foreground and between text and New World context, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: A Royal Slave exploits these tensions between the economic and political domains to reveal the market not only as an ethical framework for political freedom but also as a tyrant ruling over those it dispossesses. Taken...
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V. S. Naipaul and Historical Derangement
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 433–451.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the social trajectories of the peasant formations of the precapitalist world. According to Naipaul, these deranging effects are precisely what the peripheral artist excavates. Writers born of this historical milieu must, in his view, also note how their work partakes of the order it describes. Those who...
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Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 159–180.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Vivasvan Soni Abstract Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is often thought to have inaugurated a tradition of sociological observation in the novel, and it also cultivates a practice of judgment in readers. Yet the social theory that informs Fielding’s novel (Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville...
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From Grief to Leisure: “Lycidas” In the Eighteenth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2016
... heterogeneity were intrinsically related to its political critique. His objections to “Lycidas” also reflected his view that pastoral depicted an idealized life of rural leisure to distract and entertain city men. This ancient association between pastoral and leisure may have informed eighteenth-century readers...
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Robert Lowth’s Bible: Between Seraphic Choirs and Prophetic Weakness
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
... into poetry, Lowth—with much ambivalence—also ushered more passion, enthusiasm, and subjectivity into neoclassical English poetry. Despite his attempts to minimize the formal and theological weaknesses he found in the prophetic text, his scholarly project also transmitted them into English literature...
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Ethos, Poetics, and the Literary Public Sphere
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... with the ancient public sphere proceeds from their common origin in the historically continuous intellectual tradition of European rhetoric. Ancient rhetoric, which also constituted the ancient public sphere, entered into ancient, medieval, and Renaissance rhetorical poetics; this last, transformed...
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“This More Delusive”: Tantalus and Seneca in Paradise Lost
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the Tantalus scene from Seneca's Thyestes and that his engagement with Seneca constitutes what critics of intertextuality call a “systematic” or “critical” allusion. As such, this scene not only provides an intertext for the controversial fruit episode of book 10 but also reveals larger thematic parallels...
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Opening the Cultural Mind: Translation and the Modern Chinese Literary Canon
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 13–27.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., and literary reasons for the formation of a literary canon, and to a degree literary production is inseparable from cross-cultural (re)production. The literary canon appropriates and is also appropriated by translations. Many modern Chinese literary concepts derive from translations, especially of Western...
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Lu Xun and Modernism/Postmodernism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 29–44.
Published: 01 March 2008
... unchanged. However, Lu Xun's vision of literature and his writing techniques also draw on features common to symbolism, surrealism, supernatural realism, grotesque realism, magic realism, and other experimental forms. Since these are modernist, even postmodern, features, it would be of great interest...
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 March 2008
... She's representation of Dr. Mao and Dr. Wen also pose challenging questions for his contemporaries and for twenty-first-century readers alike: Can one ever refuse to be defined by the local, either by birth or by acculturation? What are the implications and consequences if one so chooses? © 2008...
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The Political Campaign as Genre: Ideology and Iconography during the Seventeen Years Period
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
... produced a politically motivated typology. The examination of campaigns as genrelike offers an opportunity to rethink the connection not only between Maoism and its cultural manifestations but also between ideology and form in general. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Yomi Braester...
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1966 Nervous Breakdown; Or, When Did Postmodernism Begin?
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 391–413.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of a number of topological signatures of cultural practices and products also datable to 1966, among them the rediscovery of meta (self-reflection, recursiveness, strange loops) and the opening of paraworld spaces. These topological signatures constitute the building blocks of a postmodernist poetics. ©...
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Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 509–531.
Published: 01 December 2008
... present, they inspire creative adaptation and forgetful recombination. This revision of influence also challenges viral theories of cultural transmission by positing a more active role for the artist. More important than Harold Bloom's anxiety of influence is an anxiety of significance emerging from...
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