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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 248–251.
Published: 01 June 2012
... collection of essays on South African “histories of the book”; and coeditor of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies . He also writes about South African art and postcolonial queer studies. South African Literature beyond the Cold War . By Popescu Monica . New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 333–368.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of aesthetic autonomy to declare their freedom from colonial bondage, from systems of racial discrimination, and even from the new postcolonial state. In the geopolitical context of the Cold War, modernist ideals of aesthetic detachment also gave these writers a language of ideological neutrality. The literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 534–537.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Shuang Shen Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide . By Xiaojue Wang . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xiii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Modernity with a Cold...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 223–226.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Laura Chrisman [email protected] At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War . By Monica Popescu . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . x + 258 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Investigation of the Cold War’s cultural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 1975
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 131–147.
Published: 01 June 1945
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 491–514.
Published: 01 December 2015
... figure literary modernism as part of the “vital center” of Cold War politics but, improbably, position postwar nationalist anxiety as a version of modernist ennui. This unlikely picture of an American Eliot exposes a momentary reinterpretation of modernism as inherently nationalist in postwar periodical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 185–189.
Published: 01 June 1943
... throughout his
life that people living in a northern or a cold climate were anti-lntel-
lectual, Milton made use of the idea in his writings, touching upon
it, often obliquely, in places Mr. Fink does not observe; and he
connects the th.eory, especially as it may refer to the seasons...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 571–585.
Published: 01 December 1965
... effusiveness,
without a slovenly tenderheartedness. But it is never enough merely
to avoid the gross poetic heresies of overstatement and sentimentality.
The law of compensation operates in aesthetics. A poet may win his
subtlety and toughness of sensibility only with an implicit emotional
coldness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 March 1941
... was
the notion of the adverse effect of cold climates, the fear that
Englishmen as northerners might not be capable of succeeding
fully in certain pursuits. This idea was part of a complex theory
of climatic influence on the constitution of peoples which traces
back ultimately to a statement...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as a critical thinker are six hefty chapters, framed by the years of Good Neighbor diplomacy (1938–45), the early Cold War, the 1960s, and the early 1970s. The idea and the very possibility of a “poetry of the Americas,” Feinsod suggests, undergirded many forms of USAmerican, Latin American, and Caribbean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 September 2013
... incorporates into
a voice-over near the end of his 1990 film,The Garden:
I walk in this garden
Holding the hands of dead friends
Old age came quickly for my frosted generation
Cold, cold, cold they died so silently...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 1973
..., Rachel ac-
tually denies her husband sexually. He constantly talks of her coldness, and
in his cups he contrasts her previous warmth of love with what she has be-
come. . . . If he takes a mistress, he might have some excuse: “Her coldness
blights my whole life. . . .” (pp. 112...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 559–560.
Published: 01 December 1942
..., direct imitation on Spen-
ser’s part, with little more freedom than was required to expand
eight lines into a sonnet :
My loue is lyke to yse, and I to fyre;
how comes it then that this her cold so great
is not dissolu’d through my so hot desyre,
but harder...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 427–452.
Published: 01 December 2019
... project of verbal “worlding.” Second, following these high modernist phases, comes a “late modernist” phase defined in no small measure by the politics of the Popular Front and the global Cold War. Here several literary-political institutions, such as the world congress, the anthology, and the gallery...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 255–268.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., the critical
terms generated by these erce and impressive polemics come to us
warped by the subsequent history of the Cold War and by the United
States’ eventual victory in it. When the Soviet Writers Congresses in
the s dismissed modernism as a manifestation of “Western deca-
dence” and laid claim...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 41–45.
Published: 01 March 1962
..., a lifetime’s march.”
It is this notion that particularly interprets the passages we have at
hand. In the rose garden the protagonist is a child (as I read it) ;
the scene in “Little Gidding” restores that moment in a different
form, across “the dark cold and the empty desolation,” after a life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 27–37.
Published: 01 March 1978
...,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 September 1943
..., and the setting sun,
The Clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem
Though beautiful, cold-strange-as in a dream,
I dreamed long ago, now new begun
The short-liv’d, paly Summer is but won
From Winter’s ague, for one hour’s gleam ;
Though...
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