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On the Composition of Paradise Lost: A Study of the Ordering and Insertion of Material
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 534.
Published: 01 December 1949
...Kester Svendsen Allan H. Gilbert. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Pp. x + 185. $3.50. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 534 Rm’ews
On the Composition of Paradise Lost: A Study of the Ordering ad Insertion...
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Manly Writing: Gender, Rhetoric, and the Rise of Composition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 238–241.
Published: 01 June 1995
... latecomers to composition studies.
Born in thc intersection of empirical education research, the waves of‘
arrivals of the unexpected (and often unwanted) other into the classroom,
and the revival of classical rhetoric, composition studies initially dcvcloped a
socially and psychologically sound...
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The Composition of Meier Helmbrecht
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 March 1957
...W. T. H. Jackson Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 THE COMPOSITION OF MEIER HELMBRECHT
By W. T. H. JACKSON
Mekr Helmbrecht is one of the not inconsiderable number of inedi-
eval works which, to judge by the critical comments made upon them...
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La Chartreuse de Parame: the Problem of Composition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 204–215.
Published: 01 June 1951
...A. Lytton Sells Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 LA CHARTREUSE DE PARME: THE PROBLEM
OF COMPOSITION
By A. LYTTONSELLS
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How has it come about that the Chartreuse de Parme, which...
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Hazlitt on Systematic in Contrast to Familiar Composition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 185–186.
Published: 01 June 1941
...Stewart C. Wilcox Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 HAZLITT ON SYSTEMATIC IN CONTRAST TO
FAMILIAR COMPOSITION
By STEWARTC. WILCOX
In his essay “On Genius and Common Sense” William Hazlitt
defends his method of setting...
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The Cyclical Method of Composition in Gottfried Keller's “Sinnge-Dicht”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1941
... WAGENKN EC HT
Uiziversity of Washington
The Cyclical hIethod of Composition in Gottfried Kellef’s crSinnge-
dicht.” By PRISCILLAM. GAMER.New York, 1939. Pp. vii
+ 3 18. Ottendorfer Memorial Fellowship Series of Germanic
Monographs, No. 26.
The problem Dr. Kranier has...
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Numerical Composition in Gottfried's Trist an the Petitcreiu Episode
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 20–32.
Published: 01 March 1969
... to as “proportional syrn-
metry” in the Petitcreiu episode.) The second formulation of the
criterion for compositional equivalence is the correct one: two units
may be compositionally equivalent if their respective numbers of lines
are divisible by whole numbers that differ by only one. We can say
that IIA...
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The Meaning of The Sacred Fount “Its Own Little Law of Composition”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 1976
...William F. Hall Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THE MEANING OF THE SACRED FOUNT
“ITS OWN LITTLE LAW OF COMPOSITION’’
By WILLIAMF. HALL
The psychological interpretation of The Sacred Fount is still...
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Voltaire's Micromégas (1739–52) Composition and Publication
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 113–118.
Published: 01 June 1972
...George R. Havens VOLTAIRE’S MICROM~GAS(1733-52)
COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION
By GEORGER. HAVENS
Micromigas, in basic conception at least, is the first composed among
the more important of Voltaire’s prose tales...
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Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 204–207.
Published: 01 June 1979
....
DUSTINGKIFFIN
New York University
Blake’s Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminuted Poetry. By W. J. T. MI-KHELL.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xix + 232 pp. 112 illus. $16.50.
Landmark books that are also modest in appearance and tone occasionally
appear; this is one...
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Summers composites the character-details of Tintin and Joan of Arc onto Tee...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 June 2023
Figure 4. Summers composites the character-details of Tintin and Joan of Arc onto Teek, capturing the fraught relationship queers can have to character types cast as anachronistic. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K. Summers
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Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 509–531.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Katherine Elkins This essay explores a modernist revision of influence distinct from a Bloomsian model of struggle and misprision. Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf articulate new representations of composite memory that suggest an alternative. When memories of past works collide with a changed...
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Waverley and the Object of (Literary) History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 495–525.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the novel's date of composition, his ostentatious rejection of contemporary genres, and his later self-review of the novel effectively cleared Waverley of contemporary competitors and bolstered its claims to newness. It then turns to Scott's other strategy, that of looking beyond contemporary generic models...
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Reconsidering the Last Part of Orlando Furioso : Romance to the Bitter End
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 385–405.
Published: 01 December 2010
... to upgrade the romance with which he began to an epic poem, given that the differences between romance and epic that modern critics claim are at work in Orlando furioso did not come to the fore as issues in Italian poetics until about fifty years after the poem's first composition; and (2) the persistence...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and journalistic articles, authors and studios alike reflected on the importance of preparing fiction for adaptation. The capacity of authors to imagine the afterlives of their prose works at the moment of composition may be called the “transmedial possibility” of fiction. Transmedial possibility, the theoretical...
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Comedy and Metacomedy: Eugene O’neill’s Desire Under the Elms and Its Antecedents
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Alexander Pettit Abstract During an eleven-year period that began in 1913 with the composition of his first play, Eugene O’Neill repeatedly experimented with New Comic forms. His seven “metacomedies” from this period—most focally Bread and Butter , “Anna Christie,” and Desire under the Elms —render...
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“The Gospel of World Harmony”; Or, Beethoven’s Transformation of Schiller’s “An Die Freude” Into World Music Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 261–276.
Published: 01 June 2013
... music literature,” it implies that three domains are essential for it: first, creating a literary text; second, setting the text to music; and third, having access to both and enabling the composition to circulate within large networks and groups around the globe. Within this context Schiller’s text...
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“What Is Historical Poetics?”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and Luna” as a poem about reading other poems about Pan, among them “A Musical Instrument,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the composition and reception of her poem, we see how Victorian poetry foregrounds its multiple mediations, including the mediation of voice by meter as a musical instrument...
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Thomas More’s Account of Natural Language and the Literariness of His Polemics
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 355–372.
Published: 01 December 2018
... doctrine, that meaning is an emanation of text, came tacitly to shape the theory and composition of profane poetry in the next century. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Thomas More polemic hermeneutics feeling early modern 10 The notion that I might fashion a “language...
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Superversive Poetics: Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 121–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Simon Jarvis Abstract A superversive line is that line in a given poem which most eminently exploits the play between syntactic and metrical segmentation, between an ordinary and a special phonology; which peculiarizes verse as verse. A superversive poetics places composition and technique...
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