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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 195–206.
Published: 01 June 1940
...Leon Howard Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 MELVILLE’S STRUGGLE WITH THE ANGEL
By LEONHOWARD
The common denominator of most-if not all-critical discus-
sions of Herman Melville is their dependence upon the logical fal-
lacy...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 50–57.
Published: 01 March 1950
...W. P. Albrecht Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE TITLES OF LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL: A STORY
OF THE BURIED LIFE
By W. P. ALBRECHT
For his first novel Thomas Wolfe considered the titles The Building...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 349–352.
Published: 01 September 2022
... .” GLQ 14 , nos. 2–3 : 191 – 215 . In all, Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture is a detailed examination of its archive, with insightful and sustained close readings that animate the transhuman potentiality of angelic figures. It will interest not only queer theorists...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly 11426383.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Laura Hydak Abstract This article reveals a new figure in the contemporary Spanish imaginary, the indiana , and a new literary mode, the indiana melodrama. It argues that the incarnation of the indiana as a virtuous, melodramatic heroine in Àngels Aymar’s 2007 play La indiana rebukes Spanish...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and that deceive the fallen angels by turning to ash in their mouths. This episode has been the object of much critical discussion, and none of its identified sources, including the Bible, Lucan, and Spenser, provides a convincing model for Milton's depiction of the tantalizing food. I propose that Milton imitates...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 439–440.
Published: 01 December 1971
...-
rived from power and independence of mind. He is not only thoughtf’iil in
himself; he will also prove to be a cause of the thought that is in others.
EARLh’IINER
Universily of California, Los Angeles
“Dryden on Creation...
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 (1960) 21 (4): 321–335.
Published: 01 December 1960
...John M. Steadman Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ARCHANGEL TO DEVIL
THE BACKGROUND OF SATAN’S METAMORPHOSIS
By JOHN M. STEADMAN
To many critics, Milton’s “transformation scene”-the metamorpho-
sis of the evil angels...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 264–268.
Published: 01 September 1961
... unconscious, or with hearts
Unfeeling of our universal Sire,
And that in His vast family no Cain
Injures Uninjured (in her best-aimed blow
Victorious murder a blind Suicide)
Haply for this some younger Angel now
Looks down on Human...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 1972
..., not standing. I
suspect Milton made this minor slip because he had no intention in the
poem of suggesting an actual shape change into vulture. If one has had
in mind all along the looking over of the Garden by a great angel, and
if one is considerably removed from the brief simile, it would be a nat...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 1948
.... In one
class we may place the dream which Eve had of eating the fruit-
dream inspired by Satan and ultimately conceived, I believe, in terms
of contemporary demon lore. But there are also a number of true
revelations, inspired by God either directly or through angelic media-
tion...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 376–402.
Published: 01 December 1974
... of “niovements of iinredeeniecl
human history” (p. 204). Both are far more acute concerning the Puritanic quality of Milton’s
historiography than C. A. Patrides, The Phoenix and the Ladder (Berkeley and Los Angeles,
1964).
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BOYD M. BERRY...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 21–53.
Published: 01 March 1975
...:
In this order hot things are in harmony with cold, dry with moist,
heavy with light, great with little, high with low. In this order
angel is set over angel, rank upon rank in the kingdom of heaven;
man is set over man, beast over beast, bird over bird, and fish over
fish.6...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 479–497.
Published: 01 December 1969
... to the original
version cannot be determined.
The primary unity of Genesis B is that of the plot itself. The story
of the Fall of the Angels, and the subsequent Fall of Man, from a state
of Grace is treated as a single, unified plot in Genesis B, just as it is in
Paradise Lost. The addition...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 511–512.
Published: 01 December 1944
... University on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Founda-
tion in November 1941. Pp. 133. $2.00.
Boas, Frederick S. (editor). The Year’s Work in English Studies. Volume
XXII, 1941. Pp. 245. $3.75.
Dick, Hugh G. (editor). Albumazar: A Comedy [1615], by Thomas Tomkis.
Berkeley and Los Angeles...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 185–196.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., their contempt is merciless
here.
The best apologies for the War episode are, first, that view which
Arnold Stein seems to share with Charles Williams in interpreting the
mutual onset of panoplied angels as a matter of intentional mirth; and,
second, C. S. Lewis’ validation of Milton’s angelology...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Paradise Lost ? Three things should be noted up front. First, the constant linking of gold with pain intimates pain’s status as a currency in the divine economy of justice. Digging in hell for the construction of Pandemonium, for example, Mammon’s angel minions cut into a gravelly body for “ribs of gold...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 1999
... he has-he is, after all, omnipotent-in his postrebeilion survey
of heaven he evaluates the effects of Satan’s revolt specifically with an
eye to his numbers. God asserts that although Satan took many angels
with him,
Yet far the greater part have kept, I see,
Thir station, Heav’n...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 259–265.
Published: 01 June 1967
...). Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. I: 1814-
1836; Vol. 11: 1837-1843. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 1966. xii + 576 pp.; ix + 564 pp. $25.00.
Hill, Hamlin (editor). Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894. Berke-
ley and Los Angeles: University...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 220–223.
Published: 01 June 1973
... Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 BOOKS RECEIVED
AMERICAN
Bader, Julia. Crystal Land: Artifice in Nabokov’s English Novels. Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press, 1972. ix + 162 pp...
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