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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 547–572.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the potentially global significance of local environmental change emerged in concert with the environmental philosophy of his era, specifically the “back to the land” movement and theories of climatic determinism, and was developed in a 1909 short story, “The Machine Stops,” that he wrote while beginning Howards...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 1940
... man, and
remained in his service for some time. We do not know whether he
died in Hrothgar’s service or whether he went back to the land of
the Wylfings in due course. He lived to a ripe old age and won fame
for himself as an ordfruma. Not all the items of this reconstruction
can...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 133–139.
Published: 01 March 1993
... describe, one that will
soon be shattered. Thus it makes the lines proleptic of the different
breaking of the spell that takes place in the ode in the movement of
the speaker’s thought, as he is called back from the land of fairy to his
sole self. Precisely its difference from our own makes Hunt’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 233–245.
Published: 01 September 1954
... collapse as the workers
migrated back to the land whence they came, and where, he would
have us know, they belong. Giono’s peacetime peasant revolution
would, therefore, neutralize the power of the capitalist state without
ushering in the communistic rule that he likewise abhors.
Never...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2003
... a great storm when
he attempted to bring his new queen, Anne of Denmark, back to Scot-
land. In Scotland, unlike in England, suspected witches were interro-
gated under torture, and the 1591 pamphlet News from Scotland gives a
grim account of the hysteria at court and the torturing, questioning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 63–82.
Published: 01 March 1997
.... Eliot, and Matthew Arnold
Donald J. Childs
Feminists have long celebrated Virginia Woolf‘s observation in A
Room of One’s Own that “we think back through our mothers if we
are women Woolf can thus be situated as a precursor to contempo-
rary feminisms that seek...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 139–145.
Published: 01 June 1947
...
paradise or in some other place equally inaccessible to man and is
frequently identified with the land of the departed.15 In a story from
French Switzerland belonging to a well-known marchen type
(Grimm, K.H.M., No. the “singing tree” and the “bird of
truth” must be fetched from the glass...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (3): 333–361.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and, above all, the physical in the human
condition.
Sweeney, a recurring character in Eliot’s poems, makes a cameo
appearance in The Waste Land, a client arriving at Mrs. Porter’s brothel
with mock fanfare:
But at my back from time to time I hear
The sound of horns and motors, which...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 49–73.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., 2004 the desti-
nations envisioned for resettlement after Reconstruction shifted from foreign lands
Knadler Back to “Oriental” Africa 53
In this essay I begin to trace the role of islamicism as it defined,
influenced, and revised the self-fashioning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 582–602.
Published: 01 December 1969
... parts. Thus we have three exactly equal sections. In the
first of these, Gaspar I16m, the Indian cacique of the region of I16m,
undergoes a struggle with his conscience (conceived as the lament of
the land) over whether or not he should combat the invading com-
mercial maize-growers...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 297–306.
Published: 01 June 1942
... as Nottingham and while there dreaming over
the bones of Byron, I got a telegram from my oldest and dearest
friend who was with me in Nicaragua and also California; Col.
James tho ma and so came back. I find your letter here and am
pleased with its kind expressions more than I can say.
I have...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 339–355.
Published: 01 September 1940
... sjilfvaxinn vinvi6r ; svi voru bar lands-
kostir gciBir. 6. Porbjorn var8 nzsta gla8r vi8 pessi tiBindi, ok
vildi bangat halda. 111. 7. Litlu siBar mztti honus citoluligr 198r
af Skraelingjum, ok lbtust vilja kaupskap hafa vi8 Porbjorn ok hans
menn. 8. En bessir Skrzlingjar hof8u mesta s6kn...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 329–364.
Published: 01 September 2005
...
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?
—T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Los descended to me
And Los behind me stood, a terrible fl aming Sun, just close
Behind my back.
—William...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 166–183.
Published: 01 June 1981
..., how beautiful the Weald looked! The hills stood out above its
radiance, as Fiesole stands above the Tuscan Plain, and the South
Downs, if one chose, were the mountains of Carrara. She might be
forgetting her Italy, but she was noticing more things in her Eng-
land. One could...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 419–425.
Published: 01 December 1947
... accessible. D’Arbois de Jubain-
ville translated a short section of it from the Book of Leinster, the
oldest manuscript (ca. 1160),l but other texts and translations2 were
based upon O’Clery’s seventeenth-century recension. No one could
tell whether details given by O’Clery went back to the twelfth...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 392–393.
Published: 01 December 1976
... Twain in the Holy Land.
By FRANKLINWALKER. Seattle and London: University of Washington
Press, 1974. xii + 234 pp. $9.95.
For most Americans of the nineteenth century as for most Englishmen, the
European Grand Tour normally did not extend beyond Italy to the eastern...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 33–70.
Published: 01 March 1998
...
journeys from her exile in Wales to London; back to Wales; then to Ire-
land, London, Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, London, Wales, and
the Highlands; and, finally and triumphally, to Ireland. She circles
dizzyingly through the Celtic periphery as well as through England’s
national heart, where...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 123–155.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., by contrast, turns on a murder
134 MLQ June 2012
and nishes with the land’s white inheritors moving from America back
to England.
Most important, the book grounds its ction of the memory and
the promise of American violence in an explicit framework...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that Moore detected in Eliot’s poetry a sinister streak that could not simply be attributed to artistic daring. Elinor Wylie ( 1923 ), in a review of The Waste Land , looked back on Prufrock with less uncertainty about the “humiliation” Eliot had visited on the figure in “Portrait of a Lady”: “I felt...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 154–168.
Published: 01 June 1978
... of a promised land;
all send her out into the wide spaces and high mountains of the south-
west United States and Mexico; and all test her possible salvation
through the spirit of place she finds or through the ancient, pre-Chris-
tian beliefs of the American and Mexican Indians she encounters...