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The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 251–279.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Michael B. Prince Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Michael B. Prince is an assistant professor of English at Boston University. His essays have appeared in Eighteenth-Catury Studies and College English . The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest
Michael B. Prince...
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Medieval Scottish Historians and the Contest for Britain
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Daniel Davies Abstract Scholars often claim that medieval writers use Britain and England interchangeably, but Britain was a contested term throughout the period. One persistent issue was how Scotland fit within Anglocentric visions of the island it shared with England and Wales. This article...
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Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770–1914
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 June 1997
... is, and how
historically suggestive are its failures to apply, not only its successes, Lamb’s
book should amply reward his readers.
Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Blindness, Invisibility, and the Negative Inheritance of World Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 277–292.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Paulo de Medeiros World literature can be seen as one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “good things,” a great idealization of the capacities of the human spirit and at the same time a fierce contest for power and dominance. In this contest the question of minor literature invariably surfaces in relation...
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The Death of the Novel and Two Postcolonial Writers
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 533–556.
Published: 01 December 2008
... provenance of the classic English novel; and the third explores contestations around questions of canonicity, fictionality, and the historical embeddedness of postcolonial novels. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Ankhi Mukherjee is CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford...
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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
... consciousness. All that is rendered in language, including the justifying faith of evangelical description, comes of the common, is the product of publicity. Though his twentieth- and twenty-first-century critics have thought otherwise, More’s contemporaries supposed his polemical contest with the evangelical...
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The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 191–205.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of the Anthropocene, on the other. It explores a series of entangled definitions of the Anglophone and the Anthropocene, including how each serves as an assessment of the uneven present, as a universalizing discourse, and as a force of temporalization. The essay contests the proposition that the key conceptual...
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Romantic Wales and the Imperial Picturesque
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... place in British travel and landscape writing, its rise was contested by Welsh and working-class writers like the antiquarian poet Richard Llwyd (1752–1835). By conspicuously failing to impose picturesque features on a carefully historicized landscape, Llwyd’s poem Beaumaris Bay (1800) lays bare...
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From Lyric to Epic and Back: Joachim Du Bellay's Epic Regrets
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 107–127.
Published: 01 June 2010
... a servant of the monarchy, Du Bellay contests monarchical authority and Ronsardian poetics through a particular reading of Homer: his self-portrayal contrasts with prudent Odysseus, whom Du Bellay's teachers had proposed as a model to the French king and whom the poet claimed ironically to surpass...
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World Literature: The Allophone, the Differential, and the Common
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 293–306.
Published: 01 June 2013
... literature as differential idiom, an integral part of a heterogeneous corpus in contestation; and (3) world literature as unitary and universal concept projected globally from particular sites of discourse. Each aspect has had a degree of epochal primacy in literary history. All three aspects seem...
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“The Fascination of What’s Difficult”: Browning and MacCallum’s Classroom
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., especially Latin, to the study of literature in the vernacular. By examining the complex reticulations of disciplinarity and publicness over a contested author in an institutional site at the periphery of the global network that was the British Empire, this essay questions prevailing periodizations...
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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
... to establish coherent protocols or boundaries for the emerging discipline. This article contests that view by examining synoptically the careers of several key players in the promotion and development of university English studies: John Churton Collins, W. P. Ker, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Walter Raleigh...
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Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 84–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...), the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and Algeria’s “dark decade” (1988–99) to argue for the seminal importance of the literary imagination in shaping representations of the past and contesting official historical narratives. Paying granular attention to the politics of literary representation...
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The Reeve's Tale as A Fabliau
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 219–230.
Published: 01 September 1974
... con-
ventions: the social pride of the Symkyn family and the atmosphere of
game and contest which permeates the tale.
Symkyn is guilty of a number of sins, to be sure, but (as is often
noted) the tale centers on his pride, which leads not only to his gro-
tesque swaggering through...
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The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 352–355.
Published: 01 September 1991
..., WilliamJames, and the Challenge of Modernity.
By Ross POSNOCK.New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 358 pp. $45.00
cloth, $19.95 paper.
It is a fashionable view that literature is always “complicit”(the code word)
with power, that it cannot contest, but must always, even in its...
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Psychomachia in Books V and VI of Paradise Lost
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 185–196.
Published: 01 June 1966
...) and the resource of an
invincible weapon (320-23). Since a lack of success attends even such
aid, must not the soldiers of Satan have been the better warriors after
all? The whole contest is a “put-up job,” one of the Almighty Parent’s
schemes for “exhibiting his Son in a very favourable light” (pp. 81...
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Strindberg and Dürrenmatt the Dynamics of Play
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 292–303.
Published: 01 September 1977
... of the actors represents the fluid and controlled
movements of skilled sportsmen that combine in a pattern pleasing to
both eye and ear. Their rhythmic changing of positions in the contest
stimulates the thrill of competition. Intellectual appeal is eliminated.
According to this statement...
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The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 261–263.
Published: 01 June 2020
... theorists such as Renato Poggioli, Matei Calinescu, Peter Bürger, and Paul Mann have defined the avant-garde as a practice of experimentation and contestation that blurs art and life and agitates, often irreverently, against the reigning social order. Sarah J. Townsend’s Unfinished Art of Theater...
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Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 348–352.
Published: 01 September 1991
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The Tn’al of Cun’osity: Henry Jams, WilliamJames, and the Challenge of Modernity.
By Ross POSNOCK.New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 358 pp. $45.00
cloth, $19.95 paper.
It is a fashionable view that literature is always “complicit”(the code word)
with power, that it cannot contest...
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Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer's Knight's Tale?
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1973
... by the
resolution of a contest between opposing characters or codes. This ele-
ment is the rhetorical descriptio, a large and to some an indigestible
portion of the tale. Indeed, there is some tendency, not a very helpful
one, to argue that the Knight’s Tale is less tedious than Boccaccio’s
Teseida...
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