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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 402–403.
Published: 01 December 1961
... the terrestial Jerusalem was superseded
by the spiritual City or Castle, radiating- as an active force, symbol, and arche-
type into our times, “at the threshold oi great revelations.”
The subtitle of the book, however, refers to an “attempt” at an inner history.
Naturally, 110 we has yet found...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Alexander Millen Abstract Literary historians often cite George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) as a chronicle of a waning literary scene, but his sentences offer altogether stranger demonstrations of how a threatened form of realism attempts to grasp a radically transformed and transforming...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 509–527.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of new media, chiefly visual media. Richards attempted in this later work to adapt new media such as television to the teaching of language, as well as to the teaching of literature. In the 1950s he attempted to use television to teach his audience how to read works of poetry. These experiments failed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Julie Stone Peters This essay attempts to offer a thick history of the turn-of-the-century ritual idea while identifying its relationship to a nexus of formations crucial to ideas about drama and to a variety of performance practices in the twentieth century. In the 1890s works on myth and ritual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 163–170.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Freddie Rokem This short article, commenting on the other articles in this issue of MLQ , is an attempt to “read” academic discourses through the prism of a literary-dramatic work: Shakespeare's Hamlet . © 2009 by University of Washington 2009 Freddie Rokem is Emanuel Herzikowitz...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 195–221.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John T. Hamilton Literary history's persistent attempts to locate the work of Joseph von Eichendorff within German Romanticism aim at a stabilization that contradicts the very dynamism associated with this movement. A study of Eichendorff's exemplary novella Das Marmorbild ( The Marble Statue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 March 2011
... commonplace. The principal piece of evidence is Fielding's use of the “Scriblerus Secundus” pseudonym for six early plays (1730–32); scholars have also touted his admiration for Pope and Swift and attempted to find parallels between his work and theirs (and Gay's). An impartial assessment, however, does...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 September 2011
... together, the essay's texts tell a story about economic and political entanglements that intensify even as the economic realm attempts to establish itself as an independent domain. This story develops alongside another: if freedom was initially conceived out of a relationship between subject and ruler...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 505–526.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Kevin Pask Literary history has largely ignored its own origins in the late Renaissance, and we still lack a full account of how literary history, based in the European vernacular literatures, emerged during the early modern period. Pask attempts to redress this lack by arguing, primarily through...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 29–44.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Ming Dong Gu Although Lu Xun (1881–1936) produced all his literary works in a period that coincided with the heyday of Western modernism (1910–30), scholars both inside and outside China have made few attempts to study them in the international context of the modernist movement. Because of Lu Xun's...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2018
... its literary significations. It is characterized by interpreting literary texts with a prepositioned mode of subjective intention in an attempt to reach a conclusion conforming to the critic’s intentions and theoretical doctrines taken off-field and from the critic’s own preconditioned logical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 311–334.
Published: 01 September 2019
... critical attempts to fathom literary history at the scale of the institution. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 literary sociology campus fiction Don DeLillo sports institutions There comes a moment in every college athletics scandal when the stakes dramatically escalate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 149–170.
Published: 01 June 2014
... educational levels, and he did so for many decades. Less known are his early work as a Browning scholar and his attempt to steer readers of Browning in a “poetical” direction based on close textual study. The history of Alexander’s 1889 Introduction to the Poetry of Robert Browning provides a point of entry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Gerald L. Bruns This essay attempts to situate Samuel Beckett’s fiction in the Parisian intellectual and literary milieu of Maurice Blanchot, particularly with respect to the experience of the materiality of language and the double bind of writing in which—as Blanchot wrote in Faux pas (1943...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 289–318.
Published: 01 September 2020
... modern lyric theory continues a long tradition. The white male supremacist foundation of those defenses informs definitions of lyric poetry as utterance overheard, as solitary self-address. Fry is right that historical poetics attempts to rock that two-hundred-year-old foundation. The answer to the third...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 419–440.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Patrick M. Bray Abstract This essay looks at Gustave Flaubert’s L’éducation sentimentale as a “literary-historical event,” that is, an event that becomes legible only by a literary text. Flaubert’s novel attempted to turn the ambiguous political events of 1848 and the coup d’état of Napoleon III...
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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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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the picturesque’s antihistorical drive to eradicate local difference. Renewed critical attention to early attempts to establish an antipicturesque aesthetic may uncover important precursors to present-day postcolonial and transnational theory, precursors that can enrich the ongoing global turn in literary history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 327–354.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in the outer world but fairly placid in academe, and it mediates the role that discussions of theory play in the attempt to categorize the 1960s as a “very short twentieth century” that can be outflanked by past and future. Nicholas Birns is author, most recently, of Barbarian Memory: The Legacy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Nico Slate Abstract Published in June 1951 under the title East Indian, West Indian , the hybrid autobiography of the Jamaican poet Claude McKay and the Calcutta-born Eurasian scholar Cedric Dover aimed to provide, in Dover’s words, “a practical expression of coloured unity.” Dover attempted...
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