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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sam Alexander Abstract Recent approaches to literary character treat fictional population as a defining element of narrative form but continue to read novels at the level of individual characters. This essay uses the tools of narrative network analysis to bridge the gap between microlevel readings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 236–244.
Published: 01 June 1970
... Bridges. In his notes to the first edition of the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Bridges explained that although he had placed “The Wreck of the Deutschland” at the head of the mature poems, the reader would be well advised to defer attempting it until he had enjoyed some of the later works...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 March 1999
..., to dig a three-and-a-quarter-miletunnel from Gauley’sJunction to Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia. The tunnel, on which two thousand men worked, would direct water from the nearby New River to a hydroelectric plant at Gauley Bridge, and the plant would sell the power to the Electro-Metallurgical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 1951
... to the parallelism established below between “The Bridge of Sighs” and the “Chor seliger Knaben.” 0 With regard to Up the Rhine, I do not quote page numbers either, as I had to use the Frankfurt 1840 edition, which may not be easily accessible elsewhere. However, there will be little...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
... Dropt from the wharf: and chill and cold The yellow fog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses’ walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul’s Loomed like a bubble o’er the town. The third, “In the Gold Room: A Harmony...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (2): 128–132.
Published: 01 June 1959
... and superficial resemblances 1 M. B. Forman, ed., Letters of John Keats (Oxford, 1952), Letter 64, pp. 142-43. 2Robert Bridges, “Critical Introduction” to Poems of John Keafs, ed. G. Thorn Drury (London [1894 pp. xxxiii-xxxix; E. de SClincourt, ed., Poems of John Keats, 7th ed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (1): 31–42.
Published: 01 March 1953
... from Villon. In 1873 there began to appear definite signs that the forms were being adopted without alteration and used for original poems. Though Edmund Gosse included seven. imperfect rondeaus in On Viol and Flute, Robert Bridges, then a young London physician, working quite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 402–408.
Published: 01 December 1989
.... Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, Cam- bridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 1990. ix + 236 pp. $34.50. Barbour, James, and Tom Quirk (editors). Writing the American Classics. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xiv + 287 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 20–32.
Published: 01 March 1969
..., two of the most reliable sources for capitals. These compo- sitional divisions correspond nicely to changes of place: IIA tcqkes place at Gilan’s court; IIB at a bridge, at Urgan’s castle, and once more at the bridge; IIC again at Gilan’s court. The term “spatial composition” seems...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 154–162.
Published: 01 June 1953
..., for Burroughs’ memories of his Harvard visits. Sa For further data regarding the close relationship among Trowbridge, O’Connor, Burroughs, and Whitman, see the present writer’s articles : “Trow- bridge and O’Connor,” ATrterican Literature, XXiII (1951), 323-31 ; and “Trow- bridge and Whitman...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 17–19.
Published: 01 March 1962
..., earth is closer to heaven and, until the Fall of Adam, is physically linked only with heaven by the golden chain or golden ladder. The building of the bridge by Sin and Death in Book X, pre- sented after the human climax but seeming to occur simultaneously, might be termed the cosmological...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 259–265.
Published: 01 June 1967
... Books, 1966. 176 pp. $4.00. Blaydes, Sophia B. Christopher Smart as a Poet of His Time: A Re-Appraisal. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, Studies in English Literature, XXVIII, 1966. 182 pp. 24 guilders. Boyce, Benjamin. The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath. Cam- bridge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., even as he examines (in chap. 1) the history and the work of the Rockefeller-sponsored Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA)—perhaps a telling abbreviation—Feinsod shows exactly how sound works in Jorge Carrera Andrade’s To the Bay Bridge as that poem rewrites Hart Crane’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 1952
..., “There was never a ship in which he might be contained.” Finally we are told Passed on to the Welsh, this [Irish] concept of the perilous bridge was con- nected with the island abode of Bran, son of Llyr. Though we have no Welsh text to corroborate this conclusion, it is difficult otherwise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 336–347.
Published: 01 December 1977
..., Carden’s stream, Chester Bridge, the Aucht-Mile Brig, the old mill bridge). She pulls him down and holds him fast as instructed, and when in the end he takes on his own human form, she immerses him in a body of water and wraps him in her mantle. Frequently the ballad ends with a malediction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 360–361.
Published: 01 September 1945
..., writers, scholars, and critics. Even Winnie the Pooh, a poet of sorts, said, “It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come.” I do not believe that Pro- fessor H. w. Garrod and Robert Bridges would object to such company; at least their testimony is to the same effect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 361–362.
Published: 01 September 1945
..., said, “It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come.” I do not believe that Pro- fessor H. w. Garrod and Robert Bridges would object to such company; at least their testimony is to the same effect. “It is not, I think, to put it too high,” Mr. Garrod said in his book The Study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 131–143.
Published: 01 June 1963
...) where he was wounded. Meanwhile, out in the kitchen, Trim locates that place for Bridget on his own body. But real sexual passion, such as Trim’s and Bridget’s, disturbs the Shandy world even to the point that one night their love-making breaks one of Toby’s bridges. Walter Shandy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 216–223.
Published: 01 June 1948
... Trowbridge an occasional lesson in public speaking, which accounts for the latter’s frequent comments upon the poor stage presence of such men as Hale or Higginson, whose voices trailed off to a whisper so that only those in the front rows could hear them. Trow bridge’s relationship...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 259–277.
Published: 01 June 2014
... with past religiosities, structures, and vocabularies was accommodated within a complexly secular Cam- bridge and how the particular formation of “Cambridge English” reflected these conditions. There are two elements underpinning this exploration of what Brian Doyle (2003: 1) describes...