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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 686–689.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Emily Miller Budick Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual . By Ross Posnock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 353 pp. $35.00. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.4-05Reviews.cs 11/13/00 2:08 PM Page 683...
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Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 454–456.
Published: 01 December 1991
...Harry Levin Angus Fletcher. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. xi + 310 pp. $37.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS
Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. By ANGUS FLETCHER.
Cambridge, Mass...
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East Indian, West Indian: Colored Cosmopolitanism, World Literature, and the Dual Autobiography of Cedric Dover and Claude McKay
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to color world literature by crafting a transnational literary canon grounded in the idea of colored solidarity and explicitly opposed to racism and imperialism. His commitment to colored cosmopolitanism led him, however, to a stale ventriloquism that was itself a form of colonization. Claiming dominion...
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Coming Back for Seconds: Professing English Literature in British Universities, 1880-1914
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 215–237.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Robert Dingley Historians of the institutionalized study of English literature tend to treat the British professoriate during the subject’s “growth and consolidation” phase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a colorful miscellany of disparate and transitional figures who failed...
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Whistler and the English Poets of the 1890's
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
... effects;
he marked the transient splashes of fireworks against the dark, and
fashioned designs of people against simplified backgrounds of subdued
color. Second, he was opposed to what he called the art of “anec-
dotage” because it insisted upon literalness in art.l He cared nothing...
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Aphra Behn's Use of Setting
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 June 1946
... the more leisurely pace allowed by romance and by fmnishing
the drama with an elaborate setting.6
Too often students of Oroonoko are led by this to assume a wonder-
ful, overnight blooming of local color in the mind of Mrs. Behn. The
evidence to follow will show that this view is untenable...
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Flower Lore in Spenser and Shakespeare Two Notes
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 175–178.
Published: 01 June 1946
...
the story of Apollo and Hyacinthus, quotes Ovid :
Ecce cruor, qui fusus humo signaverat herbas,
Desinit esse cruor, Tyrioque nitentior ostro
Flos oritur, formamque capit quam lilia: si non,
Purpureus color his, argentens esset in illis...
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Julien Sorel—Soldier in Blue ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 339–348.
Published: 01 December 1976
...
in an effort to explicate the seemingly enigmatic title..In the most con-
vincing of these, Boris Reizov suggests that each color of the title refers
to a prophetic scene that in turn foretells the outcome of the nove1.l
In the first scene, characterized by red, Julien stops in the church in
Verrih...
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The Image of the Negro in Four Seventeenth-Century Love Poems
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 508–522.
Published: 01 December 1969
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A negro maid woos Cestus, a man of a different color
What do I care if my face is black?
Dark, 0 Cestus, has this color too, but love
Wants it anyway. You are aware that always
The forehead of the traveler is scorched.
Ah, the girl who perishes...
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Akfnside and the Hierarchy of Beauty
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 65–67.
Published: 01 March 1947
... fair-
proportion’d scale” from their first twilight to full meridian splendor
(I, 442-75). He lists in ascending order six different degrees of
beauty in different species : color, shape, natural concretes (the com-
bination of color and shape), vegetables, animals, and minds. Al-
though we...
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The Nature of Spenser's Imagery
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 300–310.
Published: 01 December 1955
... that the painter in turn can express
what is inexpressible in words. At any rate, in spite of his reputation
as a painter in words, Spenser does not try to use color, line, or mass
as a painter would use them. His colors are patchy, his lines are mere
impressionistic suggestions, and his contrasting...
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Race, Periodicity, and the (Neo-) Middle Ages
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 391–422.
Published: 01 September 2004
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blacks and Jews present in England at the time: “Rather, it seems that
the stereotypes were based on an essentially theological conception of
the status of both Moors and Jews as non-Christians; the former distin-
guished by their black skin, whose color was associated in Christian
iconography...
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Newton Demands the Muse; Newton's “Opticks” and the Eighteenth Century Poets
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 254–255.
Published: 01 June 1947
...) It led to an un-
precedented preoccupation with light (which is hymned by Thomson
and his followers in terms scarcely less ecstatic than those used with
reference to Nature and to Nature’s God) ; and with color, the poets
ringing the changes on the spectral colors of gems, flowers, insects...
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The Multitudinous ORB Some Miltonic Elements in Shelley
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 247–257.
Published: 01 September 1955
... forming vehicles of overwhelming magnitude and force. These
vehicles move in a whirlwind, emit light and fire, display an iridescent
variety of color, and produce sublime sounds and noise. Each carries
a deity, or a being comparable to a deity. But there are features which
link Shelley more...
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Oroonoko and Crusoe's Man Friday
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 286–291.
Published: 01 September 1951
.... 83. Bonner also cites Dampier’s earlier description (A New Voy-
age, p. 15) of the Mosquito Indians: “tall, well-made, raw-bon’d, lusty, strong,
and nimble of Foot, long-visaged, lank black Hair, look stem, hard favour’d, and
of a dark Copper-colour Complexion.” Some of these points do...
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Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain,1684–1750
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 683–686.
Published: 01 December 2000
... University
Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross
Posnock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 353 pp. $35.00.
In Color and Culture Ross Posnock aims to “turn on its head [the] tidy sce-
nario...
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Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 689–692.
Published: 01 December 2000
... University
Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross
Posnock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 353 pp. $35.00.
In Color and Culture Ross Posnock aims to “turn on its head [the] tidy sce-
nario...
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Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 692–696.
Published: 01 December 2000
... University
Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By Ross
Posnock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. 353 pp. $35.00.
In Color and Culture Ross Posnock aims to “turn on its head [the] tidy sce-
nario...
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The Gestalt Configurations of Wallace Stevens
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 60–76.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., and records its performance in a
maze. He does not busy himself with queer configurations, retinal
blind spots, puzzle pictures, musical phrases, and color charts; he is not
fascinated by the subtle phases and quirks of human perception, those
little mysteries revealed under barely varied...
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The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 June 1947
... pleasing, as when first/ The
hand of science pointed out the path . . (4) It led to an un-
precedented preoccupation with light (which is hymned by Thomson
and his followers in terms scarcely less ecstatic than those used with
reference to Nature and to Nature’s God) ; and with color, the poets...
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