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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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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... which her class vacillated, Bowen creates a cyclical history in which the deficiencies of gothic hysteria and detached professionalism supplement each other in a dialectical exchange. Understanding the socioeconomic circumstances underlying Bowen’s Court provides an important insight into how Bowen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 373–375.
Published: 01 September 1948
... into a newly established definition. Heine, for example, “whose entire lyric production tends to be cyclic” (p. 91), is a frequent offender against the principles of the “true cycle” by sacrificing the unity of a group to his desire for quantity (p. 103). The larger question, then, as to what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 332–333.
Published: 01 June 1941
...- speare is a case in point. EDWARD 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 375–376.
Published: 01 September 1948
... and the necessities of the cyclic form” (p. 235). There is no fac- tual material whatever available as to George’s methods of cyclic com- position; in Rilke’s case we know almost too much about the genesis of all his work. He did not “compose” a “cycle” when he wrote the Stun- denbuch; he created a succession...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 20–32.
Published: 01 March 1969
.... The 150 lines are divided into three sections, the “outer” two of which are roughly equal. The pattern 26-100-24 suggests a “cyclic” composition, which could be represented as x-Y-x, where the capitalized symbol indicates a section substantially larger than that represented by the lower case...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 June 1941
... or interlocking with one another. They are, moreover, tangent to a central circle, the hub and core of the whole cyclical arrangement. There are two inore lines con- centric with the outer and the inner circle, intersecting the seven interlocking rings. These are meant to represent the Circle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 98–100.
Published: 01 March 1973
..., the ungainly productions of the prose writers are shown to conform to a medieval narrative norm of “acentric” composition, analogous to inter- twined or interlaced designs in Gothic art, especially well represented in manuscript decorations. Read from this viewpoint, the cyclical romances may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 September 1948
... into a newly established definition. Heine, for example, “whose entire lyric production tends to be cyclic” (p. 91), is a frequent offender against the principles of the “true cycle” by sacrificing the unity of a group to his desire for quantity (p. 103). The larger question, then, as to what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 September 1984
..., these poems reject the time- bound cyclicism and spiritual error of this genre. Gleckner skillfully dem- onstrates how Blake alludes to the Song of Solomon, Spenser, and Milton in order to portray the advent of Love (Christ) in “‘ToSpring,” his “fervid car” of creation in “To Summer,” and his union...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 33–40.
Published: 01 March 1966
... of the Inferno, for the visions are presented in a carefully constructed cyclic pattern. As Douglas Bush comments; Books XI and XI1 “have often been slighted as a dull appendage, but they are an integral part of Milton’s total theme.”2 Far from indicating a lapse of Milton’s poetic powers, Book XI...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 December 1974
... what is permanent in time in- stead of dismissing the teniporal as insignificant. Time, or clurative time, is essentially cyclical. Hence, one has an opportunity to regain in the future what one has lost through a mistaken choice in the past. If one fails to per- ceive this truth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 297–301.
Published: 01 September 1984
... of closure, by antisequentiality, and by anticyclicism, these poems reject the time- bound cyclicism and spiritual error of this genre. Gleckner skillfully dem- onstrates how Blake alludes to the Song of Solomon, Spenser, and Milton in order to portray the advent of Love (Christ) in “‘ToSpring...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 53–63.
Published: 01 March 1970
...- tently, sometimes very subtly, to make it clear. The unifying principle of this over-all pattern is the myth of Dionysus Zagreus. The cult of Dionysus expressed a worship of vitality, especially in the form of cyclical fertility. Dionysus himself was the symbolic personifi- cation of the forces...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (1): 102–111.
Published: 01 March 1953
... of their mundane and artistic adventures, in which there is no clear division into subjects, such as exists in what appears to be the corresponding section of the novel, the middle group made up of archeology, history, literature, politics-and apparently, the chapter on love. The definite cyclical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 373–393.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and history in Milton’s poetry. 1 Ryan Netzley ( 2015 : 4) associates revolution with “closed cyclical sameness” and consequently prefers apocalypse as a rubric for the immanent energies of revelation and hope in Milton’s lyrics. Yet Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate that revolution...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 292–311.
Published: 01 September 1973
.... Con- cretely, Mallarme apparently intended to situate the Noces d’Htrod iade in the cyclic time of myth and ritual. The reader is assumed to know from the opening all that will happen, and he knows everything already because, in a sense, it has all happened “once upon a time.” The cyclic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 349–350.
Published: 01 September 1945
.... It is not often today that a student of medieval literature finds a text, accessible and complete, that provides the perfect answer to a source seeker’s prayer. Long ago Gaston Paris divined the existence of a cyclic compilation about Charlemagne behind the two English stanzaic romances, the fourteenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 233–245.
Published: 01 September 1954
... the awkward cyclic opus L’Ame enchante‘e (1922-1933). Here the pacifistic ingredient was pretty well lumped together in the Chester W: Obuchowski 237 two volumes constituting the third section, ‘‘Mere et fils” (1927). This section covered the war years, and once anew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 March 1948
..., but a grandiose synthesis in which passion and calm- ness, unrest and sweetness, laconic brevity and cyclic parallelisms, plasticity and music, lapidary intensity and massivity are harmonized : “hochste Erregung durchgluht ruhende Geschlossenheit” ( p. 78). Each item in the “Stern des Bundes...