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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 99–112.
Published: 01 June 1972
...F. Xavier Baron Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 VISUAL PRESENTATION IN B~ROULSSTRZSTAN By F. XAVIERBARON Biiroul’s twelfth-century Tristan has received considerable atten tion, but little has been said about its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 372–383.
Published: 01 December 1973
...F. Xavier Baron LOVE IN CHRETIEN'S CHARRETY'E REVERSED VALUES AND ISOLATION* By F. XAVIERBARON For all the attention which Chrktien's Chevalier de la...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 493–520.
Published: 01 December 2011
... challenges received understandings of the linguistic purchase of modernist innovation. The author examines Hebrew and Yiddish modernist literary texts by Devorah Baron and Dovid Bergelson that employ nonreferential indexicality in order to chart the ruptures in two textual communities, in two particular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 74–89.
Published: 01 March 1948
... paper, then, is to discuss the transformations in the role of Alceste from the time of MoliPre to the middle of the eighteenth century. We shall be particularly concerned with the interpretations of Baron and Grandval, and with the effect on the role of the quarrel over the theatre stirred...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 363–372.
Published: 01 December 1980
... with an idyllic description of the life of Baron d’Eyncourt and his daughter Bertha, who live in what is left of their once substantial estate. They have failed to keep abreast of devel- opments, both political and economic, and have fallen on hard times in an age dominated by the industrial barons...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 492–496.
Published: 01 December 1948
... the tradition set by Baron and carried on by Grandval, Bellecourt, and others.] Mole’s theatrical career extended over the second half of the eight- eenth century. He was accepted as sociktuire in 1761, but it was not until 1778, at the death of Bellecourt, that he came into possession...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 113–118.
Published: 01 June 1972
....’ In a letter to Frederick, then Prince Royal of Prussia, dating probably from June, 1739, the author mentions sending him the manuscript of a brief story, which Voltaire modestly calls “une fadaise philosophique.”2 On July 7, Fred- erick acknowledges receiving it, noting the title as “Voyage du baron...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 March 1946
... and all the trumps were in the hands as dealt, for the five small trumps held by the Baron and the third player might well be acquired by drawing. On any supposition (sans prendre or asking leave) we know the Baron did draw from the stock and probably the third player did. Unhappily, if we...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 446–461.
Published: 01 December 1967
... the Baron, though Strether regards him with more envy than hostility. While the Baron works openly, in contrast to Chad’s deviousness, both attempt to convey the affections of encumbering women from themselves to the infatuated heroes. Ex- cept for her early life, Mme de Mauves remains...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 59–62.
Published: 01 March 1957
... publication of the new edition in 1778 or 1779, he printed a prospectus and solicited subscriptions. Among those who promptly supported the venture was Catherine 11, who, on October 17, 1778, requested her Paris correspondent, Baron Grimm, to place her order for 100 copies of the edition which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 117–164.
Published: 01 June 2001
... with a company from Manchester, a meeting on which “everything depends.” A woman named Suzette (Rafaela Ottiano), the assistant to the famous ballerina Grusinskaya (Garbo), calls the theater to warn them that “Madame will not dance tonight.” Then Baron Felix von Geigern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 400–411.
Published: 01 December 1964
... introduces Geraldine to Sir Leoline and Bard Bracy, the inversion of good and evil continues. The Baron, believing that Geraldine is the daughter of an estranged friend, orders Bracy to ride to Tryermaine to inform Geraldine’s father that she is safe and that she and Sir Leoline’s retinue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 415–417.
Published: 01 December 1948
... Obregon. 7 Historia de Don Pablo de Segovia. 8 Aventures du Baron de Faeneste. Francion. Joliat’s statement (of. cit., p. 25) that “malgrd les quelques scPnes et personnagesQ que Smollett semble devoir A Francion, ce roman n’a eu sur lui aucune influence g6nCrale” hardly warrants...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 June 1990
... curialium el uestigiis philoso- phorum 1,ibn Vlll, ed. C. C. I. Webb, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1909), 2:481-82, provides an index of John’s rcferences to the speeches. On the medieval attitude generally see Hans Baron, In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 512–516.
Published: 01 December 1949
... which Goethe apparently showed the Grand Duchess on the same occasion. Then, Goethe writes: “Fur mich im Globe.” A few weeks earlier Goethe had read in the Globe that Baron Pierre Charles Fransois Dupin, the French economist,18 planned to strike a medal in memory of Canning and invited...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 1958
... of circumstances. The son of poor people who have settled illegally in the forest of an estate in East Prussia, Hans is wrongfully accused of having shot the Baron who intends to cut down the woods and evict the squatters. Feeling that he is sacrificing himself for the forest, which will now...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 342–354.
Published: 01 September 1947
... disposes me to ac- cept (ii), tentatively, as the most probabIe theory about this particu- lar passage. If (ii) be correct, we have evidence that at least part of the Iliad was composed several years before publication. (2) The parallel between the Baron’s oath in the fourth canto of the Rafe...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 495–525.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and foremost, because the earliest of our acquaintance) the Baron of Bradwardine, stately, kind-hearted, whimsical, pedantic; and Flora MacIvor (whom even we forgive for her Jacobitism), the fierce Vich Ian Vohr, and Evan Dhu, constant in death, and Davie Gellatly roasting his eggs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 March 2006
... imagination with him. Whereas Faustus pitted his lush, dissident, and Ovidian wit against the Christian god, Gaveston and Edward II use theirs in a political and ideological struggle with the English barons. Gaveston begins by imagining the lavish spectacles that he, as mas- ter of revels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 371–377.
Published: 01 December 1959
... suffice to explain the divergency of their presentation. Piero is persuaded that Tonietta, his bride, has had an affair with the Baron Tancredi. He turns her out of the house, although she protests her innocence; and since her father also refuses to take her back, she is forced to earn her...