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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 459–486.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-House , is one of her favored modes of expression because it so capably conveys the blended generosity and vulnerability of her cosmopolitan outlook. Research for this essay was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I offer my thanks to Laura...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 467–470.
Published: 01 September 1965
...Maurice Z. Shroder Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 TWO VIEWS OF MALRAUX’ By MAURICE2. SHRODER In two very different ways, Charles D. Blend and AndrC Vandegans have addressed themselves to the same question. Both wish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
...) reveal a Whistlerian subject matter, employed subtler blendings of color. “Mauve, Black and Rose” is a nervous handling of soft tones seen against dark : Mauve, black and rose, The veils of the jewel, and she, the jewel, a rose. First...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 508–509.
Published: 01 December 1950
... a congruent blending of the two aspects of motivation. “Congruity of ‘Idee’ and ‘Bild‘ ” is, for Oechler, “the measuring-stick of a well-drawn char- acter” (p. 118). The method pursued is to examine minutely the action of each character to discover first, whether it is psychologically credible...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 355–357.
Published: 01 September 1948
... 1531 and 1555. The technique of blending Aristotle and Horace to arrive at an im- pregnable critical position is well illustrated in the discussions of the function of poetry and in the development of a concept of convention- alized characters in drama. Horace made unmistakably clear...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 66–78.
Published: 01 March 1963
... of a blending of two dialects also involves a certain degree of choice. Is it then strange that among the shifted tenues the sounds which were rejected, wholly or partially, were the relatively difficult and noneuphonious affricates, /kx/ and /pf/? For the me- diae, a leveling-out process took place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 208–215.
Published: 01 June 1948
... and protected from distraction. That skill is exercised through an adherence to correct grammar and idiom, the avoidance of awkward rhythms and contrasts of imagery, a harmony of rhythm and content, and a certain temperate freshness of phrasing that creates the blended effect of uniqueness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 503–505.
Published: 01 September 1941
...- plicit in certain early homilies, and need not therefore be attributed, as has usually been done, to twelfth-century literary fashion. With this kernel of a debate have been blended other products of its au- thor’s wide reading : classical story, the Vulgate, and theological literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 162–185.
Published: 01 June 1987
... blended in Chekhovian drama, espe- cially in The Cherry Orchard, also compose the mood of Twelfth Night. Shakespeare’s romantic comedy and Chekhov’s tragicomedy gener- ate richly complex moods that do not yield themselves readily to traditional Aristotelian analysis. The comic and the tragic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 September 1968
... into play, blending the past and the future into the ever-fluid present, at the moment when the mind registers visual perception. The psyche then suspends superficial reality, bracketing out all rational connections with time and space, and thus attains the pure stream of consciousness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 509–531.
Published: 01 December 2008
... by a material sense impression. His involuntary memo- ries, “impressions,” blend sensation and recollection so that the expe- rience of memory is simultaneously repetitive and new. Unlike many postmodern artists, Proust retains the anxiety of influence. Simply republishing cultural material troubles him...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 437–445.
Published: 01 December 1951
... as the two I have mentioned as illustrations. This does not mean, however, that many other distorted stanzas do not possess the same underlying principles. No artist as brilliant as Coleridge would give the student a complete set of perfect cases. Coleridge would, and does, blend the words...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 130–139.
Published: 01 June 1972
... that brings into focus all the speaker’s aspirations and defects. His opening words are a blend of crashing sounds and stormy lights: “Storm in the night! for thrice I heard the rain / Rushing; and once the flash of a thunderbolt” (26-27). ‘4 maddened world of storm arid tem- pest is the objective...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 323–336.
Published: 01 December 1962
... Above its mates, the head was chopped; the bents Were jealous else. The ridiculous internecine strife among the thistle stalks is reported with a fine blend of amusement and contempt. The absurd group name “the bents” converts their Lilliputian rivalry into something like polit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 137–157.
Published: 01 June 2015
... History 1 and History 2 continue to relate nonsynchronously, undecidably, and supplementarily to one another, is the time, the situation, of the Anthropocene (the situation that I propose calling History 4°) one that blends and weaves together History 1, History 2, and History 3? Is it a time of the human...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 March 1961
...). In other words, Goethe has just the right blend of qualities from his parents and other relatives. Herein lies the difference between Goethe and Hanno Buddenbrook, for example: the latter had no such blend in his nature, and hence was too weak to withstand life. Tonio Kroger, however, was acutely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 396.
Published: 01 December 1987
... purpose as in part a reaction to deconstructive models of reading, and James A. Snead blends his own deconstructive method with formal and thematic interpretation. Both books have theoretical implications beyond their topics and imply a wider applicability for their methods, yet give greater...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 139.
Published: 01 March 1942
..., but the strange story of Chapman, like that of Milton’s Satan, tends to dominate the reader’s interest. One has to keep reminding himself that this curious blend of contradictory qualities actually exerted no small intellectual influence in his day. The transcription of the two diaries, which makes up...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 339.
Published: 01 June 1941
..., yellow, in a distinctly ro- caille manner. Although the author has not laid claim to enrich our fund of literary judgments concerning Ronsard, students will probably give him credit for his excellent translations which blend well with the narrative and do justice to the original text...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of decadence with the project of national- ism. The books and objects that Huysmans and Pater praise are nearly all characterized by a crossing of borders, a blending of traditions, a breaking down of national unities. Both writers create idiosyncratic and international canons of works that attest...