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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (4): 513–516.
Published: 01 December 1995
... Shnkrs@wmn Stngr: Boy Hvroinrs and Frmnlr I’qrs. By Michael Shapiro. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. viii t 282 PP. $34.50. While “apparel oft proclaims the man’’ (Hamkt 1.3.72)’it can also proclaim the woman. Michael Shapiro explores this notion in his compelling and incisive...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 465–490.
Published: 01 December 2015
... not homosexually aligned, Norris is persistently marked as queer, in both his gender performance (“Come in, dear boy, I’m visible now. Come and talk to me while I powder my nose” [Isherwood 2008 (1935–39): 98]) and the sexual practice of his masochism. Norris’s queerness is coupled with a tendency to duplicitous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 March 1949
...Richard C. Boys Margaret M. Fitzgerald. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Pp. x + 270. $3.00. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 116 Reviews Milton sees. One is, in fact, too often reminded of the sophomore who flaps his hand and inquires how...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 404–416.
Published: 01 December 1950
..., who had died the previous year. In that letter occurs the following passage : When he [Marcolino di Forli] was quite broken down with age and infirmity he had a lad to wait upon him in his cell, from whom he could not hide the devo- tions which he practiced. The boy observed that he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (1): 64–80.
Published: 01 March 1985
... the elderly woman and the little boy. But Barbie recognizes the gulf between them. She has read of the attacks on Miss Crane and Daphne Manners. “She found it difficult to distinguish,” Scott writes, “between the teacher who died in the attack on Edwina and the Indian who was supposed to have had...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 75–76.
Published: 01 March 1956
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 130–136.
Published: 01 June 1955
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 409–424.
Published: 01 December 1971
.... 409 410 KOETHKE’S GKEEN HOUSE POEMS about a girl thrown by her horse, a small boy waltzed to giddy joy (or is it terror?) by his tipsy father. Above all, it is the so-called “greenhouse poems,” in which one finds the special Roethkean voice. These are the poems...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird (2014). [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 structuralism narrative theory close reading pedagogy Naomi Schor ( 1987 ) was right. The detail was long marginalized and feminized in Western aesthetics. But for more than half...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 508–522.
Published: 01 December 1969
... contained two curious poems related to Her- bert’s “Aethiopissa.” The first was called “A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds.” The second was King’s own “The Boy’s answere to the Blackmore.” A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy Stay...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 174–193.
Published: 01 June 1947
... the classics, boys learn history, politics, ethics, geography, and literary apprecia- tion, as well as the Latin and Greek languages.12 According to Beat- tie, the reading of the classics and the learning of grammar discipline and improve children’s minds, an argument that has been used even...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 370–385.
Published: 01 September 1969
... of association, the boy’s mind being passive: Wisdom and Spirit of the universe1 Thou Soul that art the Eternity of Thought! That giv’st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motionf not in vain, By day or star-light thus from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on their own boy actresses to cultivate and display similar “star power”; and (3) attending to the impact of Italian playing on the English stage allows us to see familiar features of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama with new eyes. Over the course of seven chapters and an epilogue, The Diva’s Gift offers fresh...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., folder 47, McKay Papers. 10 Dover to Du Bois, November 4, 1950, reel 64, Du Bois Papers. 11 See the correspondence between Dover and Sheil in Claude McKay Letters and Manuscripts, SC Micro R-1233, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. 12 Sheil...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 207–209.
Published: 01 June 1963
... difference between private- theater boys and the public boys who “were apprenticed in the normal way [sic but it is still a “most perplexing matter” how a boy “played a satisfac- tory Cleopatra to Burbage’s Anthony.” Caputi argues that since boys are not basically convincing in serious...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 1972
... of the poem- “So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm”-as a “misfortune” which “jars in the poem.”5 So, too, does Martin Nurmi propose that “Doing one’s duty here means primarily going up chimneys without having to be forced, and the ‘harm’ is the very real punishment given boys who...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 18–27.
Published: 01 March 1954
... a leader. He expresses his contempt for the dainty accomplishments of court, such as the music of the lute, the blandishments of love making, the caperings of the dance (lines 2598- 2603). When Zenocrate relates how she watched Celebinus, the youngest of the three boys, “trotting the ring...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 231–247.
Published: 01 September 1980
... indebted to a suggestion by Peter Hyland, who argues that the disguise is a dramatic device to let the heroine occupy “an area midway between actors and audience” in the role of her female persona, whence she can comment on herself as a boy and on the action The five plays using the heroine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 March 1942
...Clark Emery Dyer John. Edited with introduction and notes by C. Boys Richard. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xi + 114. $1.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Grongar Hill. By JOHN DYER. Edited with introduction and notes by RICHARDC. BOYS. Baltimore...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 March 1984
... to John Day’s Ile of Guls (1606), three gallants bewilder the boy Prologue by voicing contradictory demands-for satire, bawdry, and bombastic history-and one threatens to leave early. In another instance, because of the vociferous dissatisfaction of one of the auditors (who becomes the Prologue...