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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 1996
..., and complexity of her indirection. Kahn’s eloquent and important book will reward the closest readings; it is the most intellec- tually engaging book I have seen in a long time. Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University The Circle of Our Vision: Dante’s Presence in English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 1954
... is like that presented by any other major poet, including Shakespeare. BENTS STIRLINC University of Washington 77ae Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Efect of the “New Science” upon Seventeenth Century Poetry. By MARJORIEHOPE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 411–412.
Published: 01 September 1949
... in the spelling of Joseph Priestley’s surname. F. E. L. PRIESTLEY University of Toronto Lord Byron and His Circle: A Calendar of Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library. Compiled by WILLIS W. PRATT.Austin, Texas, 1947. Pp. 60. Byron...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 226–229.
Published: 01 June 1971
... Pen ns y lvu n iu S t a t e U n iversi t y Peacock: His Circle and His Age. By HOWARD~IIILS. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. xv -t 257 pp. $9.50. The nature of Thomas Love Peacock’s relationship to English romantic thought has always been a puzzle to scholars...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Odai Johnson One of the most violent and influential inaugural mappings of migrational theater in the Western world occurred in the second century BCE, a period of aggressive Roman expansion (into Greece, the Near East, North Africa, and Spain). In one traumatic century Rome circled...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 391–412.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of Chekhov’s inconclusive, disjunctive manner in her meticulously composed, autobiographically candid novel bespeaks an unapologetic openness to authorial influence, made all the more provocative by the adoption of a foreign model whose merit was then still little recognized in English literary circles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 239–257.
Published: 01 June 2014
... intellectual circle, which included Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, and John Addington Symonds, the essay opens up the sometimes surprising ways in which intellectually innovative discussions about literature might occur within the walls of the university, albeit outside the strictures of the curriculum...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 249–267.
Published: 01 September 2018
... literature but also on its literary theory and criticism; Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive critical theory has helped form a unique version of Chinese postmodernism; and Alain Badiou’s Maoist passion and his critical reception in China’s cultural and intellectual circles have spurred Chinese intellectuals...
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 1. Percentage of English-language fiction titles written by women in HathiTrust (diamonds) and in Publishers Weekly (error bars). Circles estimate percentages for HathiTrust based on rates of romance fiction recorded for Australian novels. (Results exclude reprints and juvenile titles.) More
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 242–260.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Don Parry Norford Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 MARVELL’S “HOLY M ATHEMATICKS” By DONPARRY NORFORD The problem of squaring the circle is roughly that of constructing a square of which the area is equal to that enclosed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 June 1941
... together in rosary fashion but form a unified, organic structure. An outer circle represents the progress in the relationship of Reinhart and Lucie. The stories told by them (except the one by the uncle) are indicated by smaller rings tangent internally to the outer circle arid intersecting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1941
... within wheels to illustrate her chief ar- 334 R~o2‘cws gunient, namely, that the seven subsidiary stories of the Sinngedicht 2re not strung together in rosary fashion but form a unified, organic structure. An outer circle represents the progress in the relationship...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 261–275.
Published: 01 September 1977
... and mystical1 Mathematicks of the City of Heav- en” (p. 226). A specific order, the order of five, is the subject of this book; but in the central chapter, and in the middle of that, he explains: Now the number of five is remarkable in every circle, not only as the first sphzrical number...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 73–87.
Published: 01 March 1980
... and spectacles and of their delimiting magic circles. And because that which is a circle is so elegantly distin- guishable from that which is not, this perspective provides a dualism that supports Kierkegaard’s opposition between the aesthetic and the religious,l in contrast to recent major...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 162–173.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of the principal images for containment in Bacon is the circle; his treatment of it is boldly iconoclastic. Marjorie Nicolson has ex- plored thoroughly the traditional associations of this image: the old symbol of immortality and eternity, the visual sign of a limited and ‘The Orphic Voice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 75–76.
Published: 01 March 1954
... into the open. Here the critical problem is like that presented by any other major poet, including Shakespeare. BENTS STIRLINC University of Washington 77ae Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Efect of the “New Science” upon...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 73–76.
Published: 01 March 1988
..., and if Rowe has not followed out the implications of a feminized audience, others have and will. Chapter 4 proposes another structural scheme, modeled on that of Dante’s Inferno. Here, the first three legends correspond to Dante’s second circle, that of the lustful; the fourth legend matches up...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 374–376.
Published: 01 December 1955
... in the plot against Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944. Being unhampered both by the self-centered prejudices of the old Circle and the apologetic tendencies of some of its survivors, David is able to deflate the myth of George the prophet. He does so by simply adducing a wealth of bio...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 401–413.
Published: 01 September 1965
... with the far subtler technique of repeated action. How many times is the Mariner’s boat pushed by wind or becalmed at sea? How many times does it cross the harbor bar or the Equator? How many things move in circles? How many things break in two? I intend to show how all these and other actions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 380–381.
Published: 01 December 1960
...” (p. 34). Stefan George was a natural leader, and as such, he “accepted the historic responsibility for a renascence in German poetry” (p. 34). His goal was not to educate the masses, but to reach a small select circle. He “sought to reform the intractable world on his own terms...