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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
...Dora Zhang Abstract Departing from the premise that novelistic details particularize and locate characters in a sociocultural matrix, this essay examines what happens to the detail in texts that refuse certain norms of specification. The essay focuses on the French writer Anne F. Garréta’s novel...
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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
... of how “exotic” details in Asian American fiction turn Asian American characters and people into objects of entertainment and edification for predominantly white readerships. Yet works of Asian American metafiction such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior , Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats , and Nam...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of characters. To the reader who worries that this approach conflates details and character traits , Bradway would, I suspect, respond that what he calls character-detail resists both the biologizing and the depth-psychological connotations of the character trait. Character-detail, he writes, foregrounds...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 117–128.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to simulate reality, it is a simulation that relies on the proliferation of details. Details flesh out atmosphere and character, elaborate the richness of circumstance, enhance “local color” by establishing the features of place, and delineate the speech patterns and vernaculars of particular persons...
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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. Modernist scholars have also de-emphasized the significance of detail, in their own way, highlighting acts of perception in modernist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (3): 310–311.
Published: 01 September 1963
... of the most important literary development of our time.
ROBERTD. SPECTOR
Long Island University
The Character Sketches in Pope’s Poems. By BENJAMINBOYCE. Durham :
Duke University Press, 1962. Pp. 141. $5.00.
Alexander Pope...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and romantic and familial love, kinship configurations, and repetitions across time. Some of these are captured in brief tales recounted by characters, others in the intertwined plots of the novel itself; still others, like the chess set, are implied through the smallest details. Although the novel is set...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 March 1957
..., the effect of it on Helmbrecht, the formal
discussion-but little unity of detail or consistency of motivation.
The characters are defined as types but not as individuals, and it seems
clear that Wernher is more concerned with showing specific defects
of character and their effect on society than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 475–485.
Published: 01 September 1941
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(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
... character than the rest; in him Jonson
presents a detailed picture of greed, developing fully the concomi-
tant evil of sensuality. Thus the theory of humors is again useful in
presenting certain characters as a related group, while revealing
their particular foibles and thus analyzing the vice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 508–509.
Published: 01 December 1950
... of reiteration in plot detail, character analysis,
and substantiating quotations.
The one-dimensional aspect of this clinical study obviates the necessity of
applying other critical values to the dramas of Hebbel but makes inevitable a
certain flatness and lack of perspective in the picture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 268–271.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., Staten’s readings are primarily hermeneutic or thematic; that is, they are psychological interpretations of the characters of each novel in their interactions with one another against the background of Victorian class and economic reality. Relatively little attention is paid to “poetics,” to the way things...
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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 (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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