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Modern Language Quarterly 11426458.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Eric Lindstrom [email protected] The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day . By Nancy Yousef . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . ix + 196 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 The Aesthetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 427–452.
Published: 01 December 2019
... formations— poésie mondiale in French, poesía mundial in Spanish, and world poetry in English—but also highlights kindred trajectories in non-Western languages, such as sheʿr-e jahān in Persian and shiʿr fi al-ʿalam in Arabic. Corroborating Édouard Glissant’s claim that “the amassing of commonplaces...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 19–48.
Published: 01 March 2011
... commonplace. The principal piece of evidence is Fielding's use of the “Scriblerus Secundus” pseudonym for six early plays (1730–32); scholars have also touted his admiration for Pope and Swift and attempted to find parallels between his work and theirs (and Gay's). An impartial assessment, however, does...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 21–37.
Published: 01 March 1980
... addressing this crucial issue, then, will I proceed to a more general discussion of Gra- cian’s contribution to aesthetic theory. That the conceit is a special case of the metaphor has long been a commonplace of modern critical studies,’ and both May and Mazzeo in- corporate this “natural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 181–183.
Published: 01 June 1972
... the same conceits elaborated by one dis- tinguished or inconsequential author after another, he escapes neither an in- creasing feeling of triviality nor that tediousness which tends to accompany inventories of commonplaces. This applies even more surely as such cata- logues enter the periods...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 425–429.
Published: 01 December 1983
... and Calvin for epitomes of religious attitudes, for the theological commonplaces, of the poet’s culture. These theologians, according to Frye, “express the most influential, repre- sentative, and authoritative opinions of their time . . . , and . . . their expressions often furnish us...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (3): 481–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of the signifi- cance of this relation may well be in order. My ultimate aims in adducing the density and extent of correspon- dence between Kant’s Groundwork and Milton’s sonnet are (1) to iden- tify the status of exemplarity and commonplaceness in Milton’s perfor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 111–112.
Published: 01 March 1963
... to the modern mind, but this is simply because we dismiss the commonplace that honor is the most precious of man’s goods as a mere commonplace, and fail to realize that an Elizabethan would plead to have his own son killed in order to restore the honor of his family” (p. 216). This commonplace...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 61–65.
Published: 01 March 1963
... The similarities of these two passages are readily apparent, both in the figure and in the use made of it. Since the second passage alludes specifically to the parable of the virgins and the trimmed and untrimmed lamps, I suggest that perhaps Chaucer is actually echoing a moral commonplace...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 102–104.
Published: 01 March 1945
... tedious, egregious, and commonplace moralizing. But the title becomes clearer as one realizes something of the freedom in this ter- minology. The comma in the title is, of course, used playfully; the “Or” is significant. It is the Latin vel, sive = otherwise called, that is. Homiletic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 290–293.
Published: 01 September 1976
.... The distinction between “commonplace” and “ideology” is important, and has been neglected by many critics. Commonplace refers to universal assumptions (for a given audience), shared beliefs which are largely unconscious and unexam- ined. The incest taboo in Oedipus occurs to me as an example. Ideology...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 March 1963
... the commonplace that honor is the most precious of man’s goods as a mere commonplace, and fail to realize that an Elizabethan would plead to have his own son killed in order to restore the honor of his family” (p. 216). This commonplace is to be found in The Courtier‘s Academie, where a courtier...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 451–461.
Published: 01 December 1951
... : “One of my friends a few weeks ago sent me the following poem which he had copied out of an old commonplace book in the Ham- burg Library, the binding of which bears the date 1604. He could not describe the book more definitely. The poem is written in a neat Old-English hand.” Then comes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 225–229.
Published: 01 June 1994
..., offering, to those who read aright, a commonplace for democratic self-assertion in our profoundly antidemocra- tic commercial culture. It’s possible to summarize the book’s argument in this way; another account-provided by Christensen himself under pressure from his Gifford or by some latterday...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 214–215.
Published: 01 June 1961
... have to some of the poems here explicated. Roses, “grasse-hoppers,” imaginary islands lying at journey’s end or elsewhere, and other such things move through the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary world in a float of commonplace books and mythological dictionaries more heavily...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 215–216.
Published: 01 June 1961
... at journey’s end or elsewhere, and other such things move through the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary world in a float of commonplace books and mythological dictionaries more heavily thumbed than were many original com- plete works. One must, therefore, be particularly wary of taking...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 311–312.
Published: 01 September 1953
... in fifty-four pages of text seem a bit excessive, and Peery’s insistence upon documenting the most commonplace matter-his allusion, for instance, to the imprisonment of the authors of Eastward Hof-is often distracting to the reader. There are in addition special introductions for each play...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 312–313.
Published: 01 September 1953
... painstaking in his reference to almost every book and article (including many of his own) ever written about Field.’Three hundred and fifty-two foot- notes in fifty-four pages of text seem a bit excessive, and Peery’s insistence upon documenting the most commonplace matter-his allusion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 June 1962
... and the Drama in the Age of Shakespeare,” Criterioit, XI (1931-32), 599-625. 135 136 Shakcspenrc arid the Limits of Knowledge field, but rather eulogized it in their rhetorical exercises. For these, as well as for the commonplace books printed for school use...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 27–61.
Published: 01 March 1997
... is spectacularly occasioned by the continuity of cultural trans- mission. Malebranche observed that Descartes’s conception of God in the concursus drew on a formulation commonplace in the New Testament, especially in the Pauline epistles. Malebranche, who styled it “that we see all things in God,” meant...