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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (3): 313–331.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Louisa Shea University of Washington 2006 Louisa Shea is assistant professor of French studies at Rice University. She is working on a book tentatively titled Diogenes in the Salon: Cynicism and the Question of Enlightenment . Sade and the Cynic Tradition Louisa Shea n his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 498–507.
Published: 01 December 1969
...Charles A. Hallett Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 MIDDLETON’S ALLWIT: THE URBAN CYNIC By CHARLESA. HALLEXT Speaking of Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, F. S. Boas remarked: “For grossly cynical audacity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 19–42.
Published: 01 March 2009
... with connecting facticity and rationality under the pressure of global capitalism and U.S. domination. Realpolitik has become a euphemism for Machtpolitik . In a world whose power politics is programmatically infused with a cynical rhetoric of compassion and inevitability, one is often stuck in the terrain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 405–407.
Published: 01 December 1978
... for the Donne quadricen tennial, Hardy leaves Lawrence, her acknowledged master, and takes T. S. Eliot as her (unacknowledged) guide to the subject of “feeling in poetry She is able to flesh out quite fully Eliot’s remarks on the coherence of Donne’s sensibility, on the interrelatedness of his cynicism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 1957
...- stantly being shattered by his baser instincts, and yet all the while he is trying to keep a brave front to the world, thereby increasing the tension immeasurably. Having lost faith in himself, he no longer can trust his wife, feeling now vindictive and cynical, now self-pitying...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 326–329.
Published: 01 September 1994
... of a multinational information econ- omy. Thus despite his praise of Spivak, Robbins, in attempting to link cos- mopolitanism with oppositional politics, almost invites a cynical response- something comparable, perhaps, to the use of “designer Socialism” to Loewenstein I Review...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 379–380.
Published: 01 December 1955
... moralism. “Naivete franqaise,” in the eyes of the German world, as Barrhs observed; “naivet6 franqaise,” in contrast to Anglo-Saxon cynicism, as the present study pcints out (p. 23), and it is cynicism that is pessimistic. This lucid analysis is, in OW opinion, one of the many highly valuable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 423–447.
Published: 01 December 1945
... chest, and emit an occasional “Ah” or “Indeed,” his gray eyes star- ing coldly at you. Sometimes the stare turned into a glare and his harsh nasal voice was raised in reproof; in fact, there were some who declared that they had never heard anything but a snarl from the old cynic. Lean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 March 1969
... polarity is that of the “cynical idealist” (p. 84),l a paradox that both the author and Amory himself use frequently to explain the man always aware of two different sides of his own nature. Amory’s ideal of nobility and magnanimity is undercut by shallow social snobbery; his interest in rising...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 33–44.
Published: 01 March 1960
...; and by revealing her as made of common clay, if in an uncommon way, he prepares for her eventual resort to the bed-trick. But though Shakespeare humanizes, he does not vulgarize. The debate is initiated by Parolles, whose attitude toward virginity is sensual and cynical (and a bit trite) in contrast...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 198–201.
Published: 01 June 1972
... the dialogue. In turn, Diderot is presented as Socrates, Epicurus, a Greek spectator itt a performance of music and pantomime, and finally as Diogenes the Cynic. Keferretl to by Voltaire as I’lato-or vI’onpla-and identified elsewhere with Ariste (for his views on the need for a modtle idkal), he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 347–368.
Published: 01 December 1981
... life could most strongly identify? The narrator, then, is a kind of amalgam, a mixture of what Byron is and what he would be. Upon the wit, cynicism, and For example, Leslie A. Marchand tells of Byron’s friendship with Kobert Charles Dallas and says, “This was another...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (3): 409–426.
Published: 01 September 1990
... those laugh whose lungs are tickle 0’the sere, is so expanded and overlaid with savage satire that it becomes a complete disquisition on marriage from the only point of view which is possible for the disenchanted Merchant. Thus considered, the cynicism of the Merchant’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 197–211.
Published: 01 June 1966
.... In exhaustion, the prosaic soldier is almost schizophrenic: in his coolness, professionalism, and laughter, he is the subtle cynic of warfare, yet at odds with this cynicism are the tastes and incapacities of a child. The final effect is to remove war from noble abstractions through the humanizing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 329–333.
Published: 01 September 1994
.... In a larger sense, however, the subject of Secular Vocations involves this affective dynamics of professionalism with both its oppositional hopes and imbricating cynicism. “we expect to be told in a conclusion,” Robbins remarks in his own concluding chapter, ”why we should care, or at least what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1969
... , savage1 pointless” (p. 151). Of the countless popular reviews of Huxley’s works noding mud can be said, except that the publication of each of his novels stimulated indignant com- mentaries on his cynicism, his hatred of life, his misanthropic ecstasy of disgust with man, his fondness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 June 1962
... tempted to forsake the “sad dull plodding of philosophers” for the excitement of Ovid. But under the influence of his more balanced fellow students, who are neither victims of Ovid nor “pieces of Cynic earth,” Philomusus repents : Indeede the pleasure poetrie did yelde...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 133–139.
Published: 01 March 1993
..., topics, and angles are readily found and can be written up, usually, without mental overexertion. This is a sour, cynical note, and apologies are in order, especially as the note will become more cynical. Younger colleagues may, if they wish, compare me to old dough, kneaded so often it can...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 30–36.
Published: 01 March 1972
... a lamentable “gesture of lame cynicism,” whereas Pierre Legouis rejoices in their achievement of true Gallic finesse: “Even in France, where raillery of the fair sex was then reaching perfection through politeness, did ever poet surpass Marvell in the shooting of the final-dart,so delicately...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 19–37.
Published: 01 March 1988
...) But the subject’s earlier failures are replicated as the rebuttal of the adversarzus’s faith in speculative reason is seen to lead many merely to a nonplussed cynicism of retirement to the tub (90-93). The succeeding attempted cure of the subject’s plight-the de- velopment of a “right reason...