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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 June 2018
... was almost entirely a masculine activity pursued in Oxford’s Bodleian Library and other institutions, if indeed the gendered nature of classical reception was considered at all. 1 In the first half of the nineteenth century, when women were still excluded from higher education and formal training...
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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 (2015) 76 (4): 522–524.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of Milton’s work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem’s allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts—not only to Homer, Virgil, Ovid, and Lucretius but also to Dante...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... an interloping male hero. In the asinine Bottom, Shakespeare offers an antidote to the exploitative model of heroism embodied in Theseus and Aeneas through a mock-heroic retelling of Aeneas’s most renowned crime. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 classical reception translation genre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Michael . 2010 . “ George Saintsbury’s History of English Prosody .” Essays in Criticism 60 , no. 4 : 336 – 60 . Hurst Isobel . 2015 . “ Elizabeth Barrett Browning .” In The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature , edited by Vance Norman and Wallace...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2017
... understand how a much-maligned philosophy captured the imagination, as well as the critical function it served. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 materialism disaster classical reception Renaissance literature John Donne I know it is a small thing. But I am easily frightened...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 345–369.
Published: 01 September 1993
...) remains a classic study in the field. Brady I Dryden’s Reception of Ben Jonson 349 Dryden-Shadwell feud over Jonson makes for an interesting case study in the reception of one eminent forebear by his self-elected successors. Brian Corman, conspicuously siding with the claims...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 309–322.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., and Zhu Liyuan, address how Western theories of literature, on their reception in China, assume such Chinese characteristics. Zhang even uses the same term to describe the kind of criticism he calls for in his essay, “On Imposed Interpretation and Chinese Construction of Literary Theory.” It would...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 253–256.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of other works as different as Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers , Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur , and Thomas Day’s History of Sandford and Merton , an eighteenth-century children’s classic. The following chapters focus more specifically on the packaging of Austen. Barchas explains how in Victorian Britain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 13–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Sharon Achinstein Achinstein explores how lyric embarrassment becomes a figure for forms of obligation newly emergent, and under emergency, in historical conditions where uncontrolled reception and political uncertainty give rise to a new reflexiveness about the medium of lyric. The essay focuses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 301–319.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Lee Morrissey Abstract Periodized “modernity” unnecessarily polarizes Milton’s reception. His experience of modernity in the seventeenth century confounds the Enlightenment distinctions usually made about modernity. The periodized idea of modernity that continues to shape the study of Milton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 June 1991
... receptions of Frankfurt school theory. On the one hand, he reminds us of the heterogeneity of the German discussion, which is often not acknowledged as such in the United States, where the debate about critical theory mostly focuses on Habermas (Hohendahl reinscribes the names of Karl Heinz Bohrer...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Chinese and Western comparatists know that modern AChinese literature is an integral part of world literature, its study has been confined mainly to sinological circles.1 Whereas Western literature has enjoyed an enthusiastic reception in China, modern Chinese literature is known to few scholars...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 1954
... In these and similar discussions of the relationship of Bodmer and Breitinger to other literatures it has been sufficiently demonstrated that the Swiss borrowed freely and sometimes indiscriminately not only from the Spectator, but from French, Italian, and classical sources as well. Even those who...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the concept of postmodernism traveled from the United States to western Europe and Russia, with key roles for American critics such as John Barth, Leslie Fiedler, Ihab Hassan, and Matei Calinescu and, in Europe, writers such as Umberto Eco and the reception of Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Günter Leypoldt Blum’s opening chapter discusses Samuel Smiles’s foundational Self-Help (1859) and provides instructive glimpses of its transnational reception (from Nigeria’s Onitsha Market pamphlets to remediated reimports of “Eastern wisdom” such as Lin Yutang’s 1938 best seller...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2004
... symbolic value and appeal: they became instant liter- ary classics, with inspirational value not just for a learned audience but for a broad national readership. The reception history of the Nibelun- genlied is a well-known case in point.20 Its “A” and “C” manuscripts hav- ing been rediscovered some...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 201–225.
Published: 01 June 1992
... derived from Marxism, the hesitation to which Benjamin always returns by repeating the messianic nature of materialist truth remains an obstacle to his reception. Terry Eagleton, for example, clearly finds it an embarrassment that has to be explained away.* Yet in all the forms of textual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 427–430.
Published: 01 September 1993
... teach and write about late medieval literature. Moreover, its initial publication in an affordable paperback ensures that Chaucer and the Subject ofHistory itself will become the receptive subject of the articles, conference papers, and seminars that will grapple with its arguments...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 437–456.
Published: 01 December 1997
... of cultural auttr nomization that his detractors would soon champion. Ross I Cultural Capital and the Rejection of Classicism 449 effects, the poetic experience could be convertible into cultural capi- tal, since appreciating it now required a recognized measure of refined receptivity...