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Julien Sorel—Soldier in Blue ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 339–348.
Published: 01 December 1976
... might well expect blue to take on a function similar to
that of red and black, and it is my thesis that this is in fact the case.
Early in Le Rouge et le Noir we come to know Julien as a young man
obsessed with Napoleon. He sees in him a great and dynamic general,
but goes beyond historical...
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Langston Hughes's Queer Blues
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 505–538.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Martin Joseph Ponce © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Martin Joseph Ponce is assistant professor of English at Ohio State University. He is at work on a history of Anglophone Filipino literature. Langston Hughes’s Queer Blues
Martin Joseph Ponce
ollowing the brief...
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News, Blues, and Cowper's Busy World
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 219–238.
Published: 01 September 2001
...: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding (1990), and, most recently, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion (1999). MLQ 62.3-02 Ellison 7/12/01 1:17 PM Page 219
News, Blues, and Cowper’s Busy World
Julie Ellison
he scholarly...
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The Virtuosity of Langston Hughes: Persona, Rhetoric, and Iconography in The Weary Blues
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Michael Skansgaard Abstract Previous historical studies of The Weary Blues have focused on the racial symbolism of Langston Hughes’s technique, which (as the consensus goes) authenticates the voice of the persona through its deliberate simplicity. This orthodox view is wrongheaded from the outset...
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Jazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 651–682.
Published: 01 December 2000
... that both writers undertook the crucial
task of “freeing American literary expression from the restrictions of Puritanism” (21).
2 Baldwin, “Sermons and Blues,” review of Selected Poems, by Langston Hughes,
New York Times Book Review, 29 March 1959, 6.
Modern...
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Whistler and the English Poets of the 1890's
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
... (Philadelphia, 1930), p. 180, reported that Whistler cared little for
music in any profound way.
3 The Gentle Art of Makiy Enemies, 3rd. ed. (London, 1904), pp. 127-28.
4 Some of his titles are: Symphonies’’ in “White,” in “Green and Violet,”
“Blue and Pink,” “Violet and Blue,” “Grey...
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A Reply to Mr. Utley
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 December 1951
... of the ‘‘social tradition” and the im-
portance of the “formal” aspects of her art, he cites a late recording, “Empty
Bed Blues,” the salacious lyrics of which were intentionally composed to sell to
“white folks.” Slightly earlier recordings, such as “Jail House Blues, “Hard
Times Blues...
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Ernst Wiechert's “Die Blauen Schwingen”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 198–219.
Published: 01 June 1949
... phenomena This, his first meeting with his new patrons and friends, takes
place in the time of roses; in the solemn stillness of the great park his inward
ear, turned from all material things, is enabled to hear the delicate whisper of
the trees and the overtones of the blue ether...
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The Populace in Shakespeare
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 1951
... Blues,” the salacious lyrics of which were intentionally composed to sell to
“white folks.” Slightly earlier recordings, such as “Jail House Blues, “Hard
Times Blues,” and “Homeless Blues” illustrate more clearly the crucial mistake
of separating form from content. But to ignore the early...
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Documentary Modernism as Popular Front Poetics: Muriel Rukeyser's “Book of the Dead”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 March 1999
... common cause with blacks and to speak authoritatively
about “black”issues (i.e., issues that they saw more broadly in terms of
social justice). Sol Funaroff, for example, wrote a series of “Negro
songs,” sympathetic borrowings or parodies of blues and dialect folk
songs that refract working...
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Poet, Nature, and Society in Wallace Stevens
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 263–271.
Published: 01 September 1962
... inner human violence, is “the monster” :
Speak of the soul, the mind. It is
An animal. . . .
its claws propound, its fangs
Articulate its desert days.
(“The Man with the Blue Guitar,” p. 174)
Stevens would...
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The Manuscripts of Trevisa's Translation of the Polychronicon Towards A New Edition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (3): 281–317.
Published: 01 September 1990
... not correlate completely with absence of decoration, since
M has decorative borders at the beginnings of books (though
only two have survived). The two other single-column manuscripts
(excepting R as being in a different league), C and H, have no
decoration apart from large initials in red and blue...
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Ludwig Tieck and America
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 279–281.
Published: 01 September 1955
..., or at least enough of it to under-
stand the title and something of its “richly imaginative content” (p. 72). Al-
though it is true that Poe mentions Tieck’s Journey into the Blue Distance in
the hero’s list of books, I deem it unlikely that Poe ever saw the original. My
reasons are : (1...
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The Gestalt Configurations of Wallace Stevens
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 60–76.
Published: 01 March 1967
... transfigurings of freshest blue.
(P. 102)
The poem is consciously meant to chronicle the shaping of natural
forms by the mind. Perhaps it is this Gestalt proclivity to order, to
make firm and hopefully actual, that prompts Stevens to address his
muse...
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Shakespeare in Harlem: The Norton Anthology, “Propaganda,” Langston Hughes
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 495–519.
Published: 01 December 1999
... culture. Hughes, however, imag-
ined that his poetry could itself theorize a relation to the institutions it
engaged. Many of his poems, written at the same time as the more
famous “blues”lyrics of the 1920s, consider the canonical and political
implications of aesthetic innovation; they confront...
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A Study of the Pennsylvania German Dialect Spoken in the Counties of Lehigh and Berks
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 448–466.
Published: 01 December 1948
... of Lehigh County, in the western part
of the Lehigh Valley, which lies between the Blue and the Lehigh
(or South) mountains. A distance of approximately fifty miles sepa-
rates the two regions. The choosing of these locations was influenced
by the following conditions : ( 1) Berks and Lehigh...
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Rilke and Leonora Christina
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 425–431.
Published: 01 December 1953
... imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen, the
experience described in her classic Javnmersminde, is contemporaneous
to much of the action in Jacobsen.8 It cannot be precisely determined
how Rilke’s attention was focused upon the authoress; the scanty
evidence would indicate that it occurred...
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Melville as Amateur Zoologist
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 159–164.
Published: 01 June 1951
..., so called by the sailors; a grasping, rapacious varlet. . . . At
times, these gentry swim in herds; especially about the remains of a
slaughtered whale. They are’the vultures of the deep There is little
enough of a zoological nature here, to be sure. Next he presents “the
dandy Blue Shark...
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Poe's Zenobia: an Early Satire on Magaret Fuller ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 205–216.
Published: 01 June 1950
...
American rival in literary criticism, as she became six years later,s
she was, nevertheless, a well-known and much marveled at “blue
stocking.” Everyone around Boston had heard of her. In February
of that year she saw into print her fifth piece of writing. Each was an
essay of erudition...
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Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 456–459.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., the preface to Blue Fasa : “To pull the long song, the long poem, particularly the serial poem, the extended lyric, is to be taken over and to be taken afar” (Mackey 2015 : xiii). In an interview Mackey observes that “the long song, whether in music or in poetry, increasingly appeals to me. . . . It creates...
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