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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 34–45.
Published: 01 March 1964
...Donald H. Reiman Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 APPEARANCE, REALITY, AND MORAL ORDER IN
RICHARD II
By DONALDH. REIMAN
Critics have noted that one of the underlying motifs in Shakespeare’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 117–164.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Mark Goble © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.2-02 Coble 4/20/01 3:42 PM Page 117
Cameo Appearances; or, When Gertrude Stein
Checks into Grand Hotel
Mark Goble
Besides, when every body has his portrait...
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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 2. Illustration of the evolution of the embryo of the bird, from the cicatricula (the point in the yolk of an egg from which the embryo is formed) to the appearance of the vertebral nuclei. Plate 68 of Owen 1840 . Emerson could have encountered this volume on his tours of the Museum
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 427–452.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Harris Feinsod Abstract This essay offers a philological career of the term world poetry as poets and scholars employed it and close cognates across the twentieth century (the century in which it first appeared). This career emphasizes trajectories in three of the West’s imperial language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 117–131.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Joseph Roach Performance and memory share a practice of disguise best described by the word surrogation . Surrogation occurs when more or less plausible substitutes appear in place of the dead, the fugitive, or the banished. Properly disguised, persons can even stand in as surrogates for themselves...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Thomas DiPiero Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, thinkers in various disciplines evoked birds and other animals that appeared able to talk to make points about language use and human reason and identity. Talking birds initially allowed philosophers to draw parallels between language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 363–386.
Published: 01 September 2009
... many of Hawthorne's early tales first appeared, suggests that to read ekphrasis attentively in Hawthorne is to read the idiom of the interpersonal realm. Ekphrasis thus emerges not as a timeless figure to be cherished only by formalists but as a powerful tool for the historian, a moment that compresses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Christopher L. Hill In the decades following the publication of Emile Zola's novel Nana (1880), “Nana figures” resembling Zola's heroine appeared in fiction around the world. The history of the Nana figure contradicts current models for the study of world literature, based on the diffusion of forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Adam Barrows The fantasy of turning back the clock by journeying eastward across what we today call the International Date Line appears in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and James Joyce, all of whom create characters who make, or contemplate making, such time-defying...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
...-translated, first, because they appear simultaneously in multiple languages and, second, because they engage formally, thematically, and typographically with the theory and practice of translation. Chang and Voge help us think about the relationship between modernism and world literature. They show...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michael B. Prince This essay reopens the case of two identically titled works that appeared within twelve months of each other, a preface and poem by John Dryden (1682) and a philosophical treatise by Charles Blount (1683). It argues that the latter was written before the former and not by Blount...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 March 2014
... appears as “The Century’s End 1899 1900”; in the periodical the Graphic , it is implicitly the issue’s date of publication, December 29, 1900; in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), it is “December 1900”; and, finally, in The Collected Poems (1919), it takes its canonical form, “31 December 1900...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 347–360.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Matthew Sussman Abstract This essay traces the concept of “aesthetic historicism” in literary studies, from its first appearance in the writing of Erich Auerbach to its influence on an array of contemporary currents loosely associated with “new formalism,” such as historical formalism, historical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 December 2023
... agreement between Kracauer’s account, in essays written during the mid- to late 1920s, of how a modern urban public “consumed” movies and Auerbach’s description of the audiences of early modern French tragedy in the to all appearances highly academic book The French Public of the Seventeenth Century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Jefferies, Mark Twain, and others. Jefferies’s 1885 After London , an early and critically neglected work of British speculative fiction, is a bellwether of the widely distributed naturalist impulses among novelists responding to the era of scientific naturalism marked by the appearance of Charles Darwin’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Samuel Fallon Abstract After the popular Elizabethan writer Robert Greene died in 1592, a series of pamphlets appeared with stories of his ghost’s haunting returns. These pamphlets—Henry Chettle’s Kind-Harts Dreame (1592), Barnabe Riche’s Greenes Newes both from Heauen and Hell (1593), and John...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., as theorized by Cesare Pavese, who argued that American novels in Italian translation played a role in the domestic intellectual resistance. Against this background, the Italian translation of Faulkner’s novel may thus appear as an antifascist act. Indeed, the translator’s introduction to the work foregrounds...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 261–271.
Published: 01 September 1975
..., forming the values which govern her decisions, but
they also have a proleptic function, foreshadowing the Princess’s own
dilemmas and highlighting the principal motifs of the novel: gallantry,
infidelity, dissimulation, appearance, passion, and jealousy. As J. W.
Scott observes, the story...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 1947
....
448
Emmett L. Azwy 449
The references to authorship generally appear in two forms. One
is a direct statement of the author’s name, usually with a descriptive
word; for example, “Written by the Famous Ben. John~onThe
other is a reference, usually...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 231–247.
Published: 01 September 1980
..., appears to be
an exception. Though it is not illogical for Imogen to assume a male
disguise, Shakespeare’s use of the device here, compared to the variety
of uses to which he puts it in earlier plays, seems curiously uneconomi-
cal. I believe that Shakespeare’s use of sexual disguise...
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