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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Tyler Bradway Abstract This essay reconsiders the skepticism toward queer characters and the default privilege given to antirepresentational aesthetics in queer theory. To grasp the queer affordances of character, the essay identifies character-detail as an iconic and embodied dimension...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 2. The accumulation of character-details in a single frame expands the social narration of queerness, transforming group identity into group work. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K. Summers. Used with the permission
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Figure 4. Summers composites the character-details of Tintin and Joan of Arc onto Teek, capturing the fraught relationship queers can have to character types cast as anachronistic. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K. Summers
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 147–168.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the details. 1 According to Henning Andersen ( 1989 ), the unmarked/marked distinction was first used by Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy to characterize asymmetry in binary oppositions and is now used in linguistics to describe several kinds of distinction. Typically, the unmarked term...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
...”: the accumulation of details provides an authentic sense of place. But the detail’s usual role in constructing immersive worlds seems antithetical to the project of the so-called global novel, which has often been characterized by placelessness and by cosmopolitan, jet-setting characters. This essay examines...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 2023
... details of language and custom are “minimally warranted by the immediate narrative context” but provide “occasions for elucidating an exotic Chinese culture” (182). Although such details are gratuitous in the sense of “not functioning to advance the plot or deepening characterization,” reviewers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of labor and attention commensurate with the whole structure had been lavished on a part, such that the part may, as is routinely said of such details, characterize, define, even stand in for the whole. Thus, as long as our sense of scale includes not only physical space but also labor and attention...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of their management. (712–13) In his description of “the accumulation of texts” and the circulation of “enormous caches of Oriental manuscripts,” Said replicates the language of plenitude and excess that has long characterized critical discussions of detail. Details serve as a crucial instrument of Orientalism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 415–432.
Published: 01 September 2012
... counterposes a real-
ist ontology based on typicality.20 Realist typicality, as he describes it, is
a different way of thinking about the relation between the individual
and scalar possibility. The typical character, detail, or event stands...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 169–185.
Published: 01 June 2023
... they are tools of characterization but because they help draw out connections to larger social forces and events that affect Woolf’s characters in direct and indirect ways. It is perhaps not surprising that Lewes and Lukács assume the inconsequence of these activating details. But they are inconsequential...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... this another way: the narrative structure changes because the range of actions that the character in a given structural position can undertake is itself constrained and produced by social structures already regulating the details of the text. There is no outside structure. That does not mean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 310–311.
Published: 01 September 1963
... four lines to
the seventy-line picture of Aristarchus in the Duncind Book IV,” not to men-
tion numerous shorter characterizations.
From his long study of the period and his special interest in that literary
genre of brief sketches of types of humanity known as the “Theophrastan char...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 March 1957
... is adapted
to the story, again for comic effect. It should be emphasized that these
descriptions and incidents are introduced as scenes and that Wernher
does not feel it necessary to make the details consistent with the rest
of his story. This is particularly true in characterization. Wernher
does...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 475–485.
Published: 01 September 1941
....
(11, iii, 4)
Ignobility, vainglory, loquacity, and the “troublous spright” of the
meddling busybody-here we have in six lines the compact foun-
dation upon which, detail by detail, we shall see the character arise.
The next two lines of the stanza proceed at once, in Theo-
phrastian...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 September 1945
... simplifi-
cation of the character of Archas and the conception of his family
17 I, iv, p. 92.
18 Page 76.
19 V, vi, p. 166.
304 Tragicom ed y of H 11 m o rs
as a unit, expressing collectively the virtue of honor, which he
represents. The characterization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 March 1982
...
more complex. The drawings here are often sketchlike and lack the
detail and fullness of the verbal scenes; this visual economy permits
him to focus clearly on his human figures and allows the illustrations
to become true, and literal, character sketches.
Vanity Fair (1848) is perhaps...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 64–80.
Published: 01 March 1952
...; the wish to subordinate detail to a well-planned compo-
sition. But they differ in the degree of ability to compose and in satiri-
cal forcefulness.
In Hogarth’s pictures the witty episodical items, numerous as they
may be, do not crowd out the central characters, and the allusions do...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 268–271.
Published: 01 June 2016
... philosophical exponent in Nietzsche” (3). By “close readings” I mean long, microscopic attention to detail, to just what the words on the page say. Staten shows that these three novels, each in a different way, are dialectical battlegrounds on which the traditional Christian ideas about selfhood...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 308–310.
Published: 01 September 1963
... meant most to the proper development of characterization.
By bringing the novelist closer to his characters and permitting him to immerse
himself in their consciousness, it has achieved a greater sense of realism than
ever before. The “shift [as Shiv K. Kumar suggests in this study] from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 350–372.
Published: 01 December 1984
... to confuse the miniature’s minute-
ness of form with minutiae of detail; as I have tried to show, the case
was often precisely the opposite. Second, there is the confusion that
any painting metaphor engenders between detail of dialogue and
characterization and detail of physical representation...
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