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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
... Londinensis ” (the senate and people of London, 99). Bate is an urbane docent in the ancient-haunted galleries of Shakespearean drama and poetry. How the Classics Made Shakespeare is a solid synthesis of the best work done in classical reception and Renaissance studies in the past two generations...
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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
... 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 Jennifer , 449 – 70 . Oxford...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Leiden : Brill . Walton Izaak . 1670 . The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert . London . Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 materialism disaster classical reception Renaissance literature John Donne I know...
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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
... studies, and probably Chinese culture as a whole, labor as a consequence of the maelstrom of globalization. His call for a Chinese literary theory rooted in a dedicated reading of the Chinese classics situates itself in a long tradition that is also operative, of course in this case with regard to its own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 253–256.
Published: 01 June 2021
... for publishing and distributing books. The study thus straddles literary criticism, book history, and reception studies, in particular the modern history of publishing and reading. It is held together by a personal enthusiasm that makes it an exciting read. The detailed account of the research experience...
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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 (1954) 15 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 1954
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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): 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 (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
... more “advice-saturated culture,” Blum argues, classic modernism is “experiencing a revival as a source of useful countercounsel” against the “easy solutions” of therapeutic advice (19). By the same logic, the rise of the self-help genre might be seen as “a defense of a specific mode of reading...
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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 (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 (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 (2017) 78 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in different contexts, a nationalist thread runs through Bernardes’s reception and its association with this word. In following this thread, one discerns a surprising link between brandura as a quality of the Portuguese language in the seventeenth century and the so-called brandos constumes (gentle ways...
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