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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
... class divisions by segregating literary forms and specifying what could and could not be represented in each (the same word ‘decorum’ denotes both social and literary protocols).” Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 biblical parallelism prophecy Robert Lowth William Blake...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 1941
... could safely argue Biblical influence upon such a common sound-
at tern.^ Nor could one urge as positive proof of Biblical influence
the fact that so many of Whitman’s lines are in the parallel structure
which forms such an essential feature of Hebrew poetry.’ I do not
mean to suggest...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 123–131.
Published: 01 June 1977
... is meant to be read
as an account of Truth among the Jews in Old Testament times. It is
the purpose of this article to show that the iconography of the episode,
as well as several biblical and historical parallels with parts of it,
strongly supports such a reading.
An interpretation...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 61–65.
Published: 01 March 1963
... S. Loomis and Laura H. Loomis, Arthurian Legends
in Medieval Art (New York, 1938), Plate 135, with explanatory text, p. 70.
7 Loomis, p. 70.
64 Irony in Chuucer‘s ‘Troilur’ (Book V, 540-53)
tensions implied by the Biblical parallel and its moral significance.
Whereas, in the two...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 239–242.
Published: 01 June 2022
... chapter are perhaps the strongest and most original, tracing as they do the parallels between the “Higher Criticism” of German critical analysis, which enfolds textual criticism into biblical study, and a movement toward detailed study of origins and authenticity in contemporary approaches to Shakespeare...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 371–387.
Published: 01 December 1966
...; the tempest is stilled; the union of the soul with God is
possible only through the New Testament.
One important biblical allusion should be noted because it is typical
ol Vaughan’s mariner of weaving unobtrusive verbal correspondences
which disclose extensive and trenchant parallels of concept...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 March 1975
... chapter on his religious heritage and his transformation of tra-
ditional biblical forms of expression. With the aid of biographical data,
Morris sketches out skillfully the drama of Stevens’s early life, the con-
flict of his religious lineage-as embodied by his maternal ancestors,
the Zellers...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 395–403.
Published: 01 December 1984
...
woodbine bow-and in his inclusion of a narratorial frame for his
retelling of the biblical story. The frame establishes a parallel be-
tween the narrator and Jonah, not only by showing their shared
need for patience, but also by “linking the idea of perfect patience to
that of stewardship” (p...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 237–244.
Published: 01 September 1963
....
The unself-conscious Melville was a better writer than the Melville
of the next four romances. It is generally agreed that Moby-Dick
was the first book to surpass Typee in literary quality. It is my
argument that the general decline paralleled-perhaps even in some
degree caused-a decline...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 115–128.
Published: 01 June 1974
... curious permutations in the criti-
cism of Genesis A. One might expect to find a measure of consensus re-
garding this poem, since it is a fairly close biblical paraphrase which
obviously relies on exegetical material to furnish certain nonbiblical
details. But no: while early critics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 417–435.
Published: 01 December 1973
... “alien” barley fields of Naomi’s homeland.
And yet, as far as I am aware, no commentator on the “Ode to a
Nightingale” has fastened upon this disparity between Keats’s Ruth
and the biblical text from which she is drawn, to ask what implications
it may have for our reading of the poem...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 285–287.
Published: 01 September 1987
... and with the fertile confusion of values
engendered by still-yearned-for heroic models. Contrasts between Marvell
and Dryden allow him to pick up biblical as well as classical models. The
observation that Davidic parallels serve Dryden’s conservatism whereas
apocalyptic and millennia1 ones serve the “vivid...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 1952
..., and because in Bricriu’s Feart the
couch of King Conchobar is surrounded by the twelve couches of the twelve
heroes of Ulster. (One might remark here that since the Irish consciously
draw a parallel between Conchobar and Christ the number twelve may come
from the biblical story rather than...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 378–385.
Published: 01 December 1987
....
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. 678 pp.
$29.95.
When I first taught a course in the English department called “The Bible
as Literature” thirty-five years ago, there was little guidance in existing
scholarship, and so I used the tools of traditional biblical...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 509–510.
Published: 01 December 1945
... writings re-
sulted in the formation of parallel attitudes : an irreparable break
with the philosophy of the Enlightenment, a return to the concrete
individual by way of self-examination, and an acknowledgment of
the irresistible power of such irrational forces in man as instinct and
passion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 227–236.
Published: 01 September 1963
... precisely because he is so eager to possess the world after
the flood that he forgets the biblical promise that the flood will not be
4 The pun is on “likerous.”
5 For the music imagery in the Miller‘s Tale, see D. W. Robertson, Preface
to Chaucer (Princeton, 1%3), pp. 127-33. Parts of my...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 84–85.
Published: 01 March 1962
..., is based on the Bible. Working in the
tradition of such works as the Cursor mundi, the Polychronicon, the cyclic plays,
and the late prose romances, the poet is said to follow the general outline of the
Biblical narrative, emphasizing the Creation (XI-XV), the Fall (XVI, 1-166),
the Patriarchs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 295–307.
Published: 01 September 1964
... sense. Chadband is so limited and defined by the intricate system
of parallels within the novel that he becomes a generalized Vice and
not merely an attack on nonconformist clergy. Moreover, because the
novel contains Jellyby and Pardiggle and Chadband, and numerous
ancillary instances...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 78–84.
Published: 01 March 1973
....
More specifically, he argues that Milton “presented himself to his
reader as the prime example of the relevance of his biblical epic to
fallen men” (p. 1). In this “self-directedness” he finds “affinities with
other works of Baroque art and, more narrowly, with Puritan attitudes”
(pp. 1-Z...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 229–233.
Published: 01 June 1997
...
From its title one might think that Lamb’s book fits a regular mold, either a
narrow study of rhetoric and biblical hermeneutics or a polemical pump to
put new fizz into pop Foucault. Instead, eschewing familiar rules, Lamb has
given us something better, an often valuable exploration...
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