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The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 251–279.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Michael B. Prince Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Michael B. Prince is an assistant professor of English at Boston University. His essays have appeared in Eighteenth-Catury Studies and College English . The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest
Michael B. Prince...
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Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post)modern “Third Aesthetic”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Linda Hutcheon Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post)modern “Third Aesthetic.” By Herbert Grabes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. xiii + 172 pp. University of Washington 2010 Linda Hutcheon is University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University...
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Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860 – 1960
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Robert L. Caserio Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860 – 1960 .By Douglas Mao. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. x + 319 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews
Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi...
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Popular Culture and Body Politics: Beauty Writers in Contemporary China
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Sheldon H. Lu This essay is a study of a group of women writers who emerged on the Chinese literary scene in the late 1990s and the turn of the twenty-first century. They have been called beauty writers ( meinü zuojia ), referring to the authors themselves being beautiful women. Their writings...
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Akfnside and the Hierarchy of Beauty
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 65–67.
Published: 01 March 1947
...Alfred Owen Aldridge Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 AKFNSIDE AND THE HIERARCHY OF BEAUTY
By ALFREDOWEN ALDRIDGE
Irl a passage of thirty-three lines in The Pleasures of Imagimtion
Akenside traces the degrees of beauty through “various being’s...
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The Prefigurative Imagination of John Keats: A Study of the Beauty-Truth Identification and Its Implications
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 185–186.
Published: 01 June 1954
... of John Keats: A Study of the Beauty-Truth
Identification and Its Implications. By NEWELLF. FORD.Stanford : Stanford
University Publications, University Series in Language and Literature, IX,
No. 2, 1951. Pp. 168. $2.50.
Dr. Ford’s iIIuminating and original study grew from his...
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Just Beauty: Ovid and the Argument of Keats's “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2007
... . Just Beauty: Ovid and the Argument
of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Arnd Bohm
hat happens to people when their gods die, when their belief and
Wfaith are dismissed as mere superstitions? A poignant account
from recent times is found in Michelle Z. Rosaldo’s report about her...
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Optics and Beauty
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 45–50.
Published: 01 March 1942
...Clark Emery Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 OPTICS AND BEAUTY
By CLARKEMERY
Keats had sufficient reason when he wrote in Lamia:
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she...
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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 563–567.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Martha Banta Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era . By Russ Castronovo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiii + 287 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Martha Banta is former editor of PMLA and past president of the American Studies...
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King Lear and the Irony of Capacity
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 123–149.
Published: 01 June 2024
... action to lyric power, Lear’s speech renders the ability and willingness to understand one’s situation, and to act efficaciously in that situation, irrelevant to accessing what is beautiful and true. Shakespeare thus separates the question of mental capacity from that of felicitous choice. The irony...
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Illustration of the progressive development of the vascular system of a goo...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 June 2019
Figure 3. Illustration of the progressive development of the vascular system of a goose embryo. Plate 71 of Owen 1840 . “The beautiful drawing here engraved,” writes Owen, illustrates the artful nature as well as the scientific facts of embryogenesis (232).
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The Theory of Spanish Realism in Mila and Revilla
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 298–310.
Published: 01 September 1953
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Manuel Olgiiin 299
been suggested to them by the eighteenth-century Spanish aesthe-
tician Esteban de Arteaga, the author of a theory of Ideal Beauty;
and (3) how such a solution entails a coherent and systematic state-
ment of the theory...
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Wordsworth's Revisionary Aesthetics
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 395–399.
Published: 01 December 1988
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bling psychoanalysis-are, according to this account, opposed and medi-
ated throughout Wordsworth’s writings by the agency of the beautiful,
which marks the poet’s deference to a nature not of his own imagining and
to a community and culture composed of other, equally significant human
beings...
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The Argument against the Association of Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 125–136.
Published: 01 June 1954
... longer and more famous Philo-
sophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and
Beautiful (1757). In both essays, Burke opposes the associationist
current and argues against the theory of association as the basis of
taste; in the Enquiry he deliberately opposes it as the origin...
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Another Play by John Ford
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 595–601.
Published: 01 December 1942
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ties of Ford’s narrow yet intense genius appear: the plot revolves
about a chaste, beautiful woman exposed to moral danger which
momentarily blackens her honor but from which she emerges wholly
pure ; heroes and heroines kneel, weep, display alternating moods,
and exhibit psychological...
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Making the Daimonic Personal Britomart and Love's Assault in The Faerie Queene
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 237–255.
Published: 01 September 1979
..., is that Belphoebe
never acts like a Heavenly Venus: such a Venus, if at all orthodox,
should lead men away from matter toward union with Spiritual Beauty.
I See, for example, Kathleen Williams, “Venus and Diana: Some Uses of Myth in The Faerie
Quenie,” ELH, 28 (I 96 I), 10 1-20. See also...
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The Picturesque and the Affectionate in Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 263–294.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., that is, the affectionate tie between the travel-
ing mother and daughter forms the conceptual center of Woll-
stonecraft’s revision of the gendered aesthetic conventions of the pic-
turesque and its concomitant terms, the beautiful and the sublime.
It may be useful briefly to remind the reader of some...
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Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 149–172.
Published: 01 June 1992
...Jill Anne Kowalik Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 FEMININE IDENTITY FORMATION IN WILHELM
MEISTERS LEHRJAHRE
By JILL ANNE KOWALIK
Natalie, the “beautiful soul,” and Therese have...
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The Economy of Critical Attention: A Computational Analysis of Roland Barthes’s S/Z
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 373–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and to what he terms the symbolic (SYM) code. These attention-attractive parts of Sarrasine tend to revolve, at least for Barthes, around ideas of beauty. I also find that Barthes’s critical attention is influenced by grammar and syntax despite his stated goal of reading against the flow of language...
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Bourdieu's Derrida's Kant: The Aesthetics of Refusing Aesthetics
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 417–436.
Published: 01 December 1997
... as the negative opposite of the Kantian aesthetic, and
that the popular ethos implicitly answers each proposition of the ‘Ana-
lytic of the Beautiful’ with a thesis contradicting it” (41 ). He then con-
trasts Kant’s distinction between aesthetic pleasure and pleasure that is
merely physically gratifying...
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