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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (1): 100–125.
Published: 01 March 1992
...Susanna Greer Fein Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 FORM AND CONTINUITY IN THE ALLITERATIVE TRADITION: CRUCIFORM DESIGN AND DOUBLE BIRTH IN TWO STANZAIC POEMS By SUSANNAGREER FEIN Motifs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 397–398.
Published: 01 December 1962
...E. H. Eby Roy Harvey Pearce. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. Pp. xv + 442. $7.50. Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 REVIEWS The Continuity of American Poetry. By ROY HARVEYPEARCE Princeton: Princeton University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 93–96.
Published: 01 March 1981
..., constantly shifting, dynamic struggle between Word and Spirit. Both are well represented here. ILONABELL Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Faith of John Dryden: Change and Continuity. By G. DOUGLASATKINS. Lexing- ton: University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 413–415.
Published: 01 December 1984
...Nelson Hilton Morton D. Paley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. xiii + 330 pp. $57.00. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 NELSON HILTON 4 13 The Continuing City: William Blake’s “Jerusalem.”By MORTOND. PALEY.Oxford...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 578–582.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Donald Wesling The Point Is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present . By Jerome McGann. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xx + 242 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Donald Wesling is emeritus professor of English literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 304–306.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Elizabeth Dipple A. Kent Hieatt. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. xviii + 292 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 REVIEWS Chaucer, Spenser, Milton: Myt hopoeic Continuities and Transformations...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 205–242.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Jonah Siegel Abstract This essay is a study of two interrelated phenomena, the influence of Walter Pater on two notable postwar European critics, Ernst Robert Curtius and Mario Praz, and the place of war on the imagination of cultural continuity and rupture in the work of the later authors...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 203–226.
Published: 01 June 2018
... because the realist novel has been previously theorized in terms of an expressive self-production thwarted by social alienation or the usurpation of individual agency; overlooked because Hardy criticism has focused on work as a protected category of meaning creation and social continuity. Abstract value...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 2010
...-contained decade. They thus demonstrate the incompatibility between the immediate experience of the present and the retrospective gaze of periodization. They also suggest a way to resolve it. The formal continuity between American Psycho and Glamorama , which shows them to be variations of the same allegory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 453–474.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Stephen Best A good deal of recent scholarship into the slave past proclaims that the past’s political significance resides in its continuity with our present, finding both ethical moment and critical motivation in a recovery imperative that seeks to continue, reanimate, or complete the political...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., Cowper as the preeminent poet of sensibility. The conversational idiom they share, however, holds together even contrasting ideas in unreconciled suspension, and the two poets’ use of that idiom thus accommodates the radical differences in their attitudes. The resulting continuity between their bodies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 517–540.
Published: 01 December 2013
...-collar workers, the essay tracks themes and formalizations of both labor and management as they continue in Ashbery’s highly experimental second book, The Tennis Court Oath (1962). In this book the standpoint of the earlier poem gives way to an explosion of shifting voices as Ashbery’s distinctive use...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., intersecting continually the larger narrative of twentieth-century print culture: his self-defining agon with mortality may in fact be traced to a concomitant chronicle of American publishing history. Building on the story “Pigeon Feathers” as exemplum, this essay traces the progress of Updike's engagement...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 487–504.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... Everything is subject to understanding, via dialogue rather than intuition, and with continued alertness to the unthought within each culture. François Jullien holds the Chaire sur l’Altérité at the Collège d’Études Mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. He is author of thirty books...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Anahid Nersessian Recent calls to understand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry as a response to deteriorating environmental conditions insist on a problematic continuity between our own time and the time of Romanticism. This essay explores the aesthetic and ethical possibilities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of Browning—his difficulty—into an argument for the value of interpretative labor that not only continued a tradition in nineteenth-century Browning criticism of emphasizing the active cooperation of reader and interpreter but also transferred the idea of “discipline,” formerly associated with the classics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 541–575.
Published: 01 December 2014
... under study wrote in Galician, continued to identify with their homeland’s right of self-determination, and insisted on foregrounding its areas of socioeconomic exclusion and underdevelopment. This discussion centers on Manuel María’s use of his poetry to mobilize popular-democratic politics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the pressure of anticommunism. The 1940s work of Muriel Rukeyser, turning away from an earlier documentary poetics, exemplifies her generation’s concern with the continuity between the Popular Front and World War II rather than a retreat from New Deal reform to patriotic consensus. During this understudied...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 233–259.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Robert Hudson Vincent Abstract As many scholars, including the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary , continue to cite false etymologies of the baroque, this article returns to a Scholastic syllogism called baroco to demonstrate the relevance of medieval logic to the history of aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Ron Ben-Tovim Abstract Home and war seem to be spaces set apart, one defined by the rules and order of society and the other by the absolute, order-undoing destruction of battle. Yet for those families who endure war even from afar, and for those who return from war, its violence continues...