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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 297–328.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Marius Hentea This essay explores the conceptions of the classic, and of literary value more generally, in T. S. Eliot's “What Is a Classic?” and Matthew Arnold's “Study of Poetry.” Eliot's address heavily depends on Arnold's study, but there are significant points of difference, especially when...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 80–91.
Published: 01 March 1983
...L. G. Swingle Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 1 R. D. Stock. The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. 395 pp. $27.50. CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC' By L. J...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 616–618.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Sara E. Melzer Orientalism in French Classical Drama . By Michèle Longino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 274 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Sara E. Melzer is professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 June 2005
...John D. Lyons Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama . By Christopher Braider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 387 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 June 2006
...William Waters Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition . By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp. University of Washington 2006 William Waters is associate professor at Boston University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 June 1944
... at Los Angeles Winckelmann and his German Critics, 1775-1 781. A Prelude to the Classical Age. By HENRYCARAWAY HATFIELD. New York: Co- lumbia University Germanic Studies, New Series, No. 15, 1943. Pp. 169. $1.75. There has been of late a very strong interest in Winckelmann. German...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Andrew Hui How the Classics Made Shakespeare . By Jonathan Bate . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . xiv + 361 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 How the Classics Made Shakespeare is a solid synthesis of the best work done in classical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 315–345.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the poet mandated by the classical era's perfection of the specifically theatrical mode of representation, Corneille's identification with his tragic divas constitutes genius as the radical other of the classical cultural order that the canonical “grand Corneille” is wrongly taken to personify. In addition...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 246–247.
Published: 01 June 1946
...William Haller Zera S. Fink. Evanston: Northwestern University, 1945. Pp. xi + 225. $4.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 246 REZ~~P‘IVS The Classical Republicans: An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 477–488.
Published: 01 December 1946
...Herbert Weisinger Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ENGLISH TREATMENT OF THE CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC PROBLEM By HERBERTWEISINCER It is, of course, a commonplace to point out that the Romantic era is the high...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 174–193.
Published: 01 June 1947
...-CLASSICAL TASTE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By ALICESTAYERT BRANDENBURG* The narrowly classical nature of English education in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries was one of the factors in the creation and preservation of the neo-classical movement...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 231–233.
Published: 01 June 1995
..., but the effort will be rewarded with a feel for the texts and for a very important strand in classical Arab culture. Here and there it will be hard going all around: phrases like “theological conceptualization assisted by a philosophy living off its own self as logic” or “the detached dimensionality...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 93–94.
Published: 01 March 1976
...Alan S. Fisher Edward Pechter. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1975. viii + 225 pp. $14.95. Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 REVIEWS Dryden’s Classical Theory of Literature. BY EDWARDPECHTER. New York and London...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 401–403.
Published: 01 December 1977
...: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers. By LOUISEK. HOROWITZ.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1977. 169 pp. $12.50. Generally love is an overworked term, applied to the most various urges and affections, emotions, and drives. In French literature of the seventeenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 March 1941
...Frederick M. Padelford By Herbert David Rix. The Pennsylvania State College Studies, No. 7, State College, Pennsylvania, 1940. Pp. 88. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. Classicism in the Rheto...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 285–287.
Published: 01 September 1987
.... HESTERGOODENOUCH GELBER Stanford University Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. By GEORGEDEFOREST LORD.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 198’7. viii + 224 pp. $23.50. Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry brings together some...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 455–464.
Published: 01 December 1943
...James Paul Brawner EARLY CLASSICAL NARRATIVE PLAYS BY SEBASTIAN WESTCOTT AND RICHARD MULCASTER By JAMES PAULBRAWNER The decade of the 1570’s was not only a period of remarkable proliferation for English drama, but a time...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 1991
...Elaine Tuttle Hansen Katherine Heinrichs. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. 270 pp. $28.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature. By KATHERINE HEIN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 437–456.
Published: 01 December 1997
... Press. “Pure Poetry”: Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism Trevor Ross Less than a decade after his death, Alexander Pope’s preeminence in the English canon began to be challenged by polemicists hop- ing to rid English poetry of its neoclassical values...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 106–107.
Published: 01 March 1944
... up of line numbers, might preferably have been devoted to the titles of the episodes, as Wendelin Foerster did in his edition of ChrGtien de Troyes. GUSTAVECOHEN Bcole Libre des Hautes Etudes, New York French Classics. Edited...