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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 535–544.
Published: 01 December 1969
...Philip Stephan Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 DECADENT POETRY IN LE CHAT NOIR
BEFORE VERLAINE’S “LANGUEUR’’
By PHILIPSTEPHAN
According to the traditional view held by historians of French sym-
bolism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 132–137.
Published: 01 March 2017
... . Vol. 2 . New York : Viking . Symons Arthur . 1919 . The Symbolist Movement in Literature . New York : Dutton . Warner Michael . 2002 . Publics and Counterpublics . Cambridge : Zone . Winters Yvor . 1947 . “ Primitivism and Decadence .” In In Defense of Reason...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 441–472.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Colton Valentine Abstract Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 296–298.
Published: 01 September 1959
...Henri Peyre A. E. Carter. The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900 . Toronto: University of Toronto Romance Series, No. 3, 1958. Pp. ix + 154. $4.50. © 1959 University of Washington 1959 Ziegler, Sophie Schrijder, Agnes Sorma, and Agnes Straub, among the ac-
tresses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Theodore Martin Is there a literary genre uniquely suited to grasping the history of the present? This essay proposes the “decade novel” and explores how the genre is elaborated in the work of Bret Easton Ellis. As a form of compressed history, the decade is the preeminently “stereotypical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 1965
...Willard Thorp Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 EXODUS: FOUR DECADES OF AMERICAN
LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP
By WILLARDTHORP
Before we can turn to present trends and recent achievements in
the field of American...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 282–285.
Published: 01 September 1954
... and then examines Grillparzer’s life and works com-
pletely and convincingly against the background of his age.
WALTERA. REICHART
University of Michigan
Decadence fn German Fiction. By WILLIAMEICKHORST. Denver: Alan Swal-
low, 1953. Pp. 179...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 71–86.
Published: 01 March 1943
...Benjamin T. Spencer Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 A NATIONAL LITERATURE : POST-CIVIL WAR DECADE
By BENJAMIN T. SPENCER
That after each demonstration of national power in the early
decades of the Republic a demand arose for a national literature...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 211–213.
Published: 01 June 1963
....” It also includes
an appendix on various minor characters, a substantial bibliography, and an
index of proper names and topics.
JOHN M. STEADMAN
Hunting ton Library
O’Neill and His Plays: Four Decades of Criticism. Edited by OSCARCARCILL...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 213–244.
Published: 01 June 2006
...: Cornell University Press, 1991); and
Barbara Spackman, “Interversions,” in Constable, Denisoff, and Potolsky, 35 – 49. On
decadent libraries see Agathe de Longevialle, “La bibliothèque décadente: Tradition
latine et modernité au tournant du siècle,” in Présence de l’antiquité grecque et romaine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Sharon Marcus Abstract Through a reading of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis , which readers inside and outside the academy have valued for decades, this essay teases out how literary critical value is often aligned with scale: big claims, minutely close readings, and the ability to move gracefully between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 367–389.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Petra Dierkes-Thrun The familiar scholarly view of Richard Strauss's modernist opera Salome is that it overturns the original aesthetics of its libretto source, Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist-decadent drama. A close reconsideration of the presumed opposition between the two works, however, shows...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 27–55.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Anthony Ossa-Richardson Abstract A decade ago Rita Felski argued that reliance on context shuts down a text’s meaning by enclosing it in a restrictive historical “box” and alienating its individuality. This essay offers a rebuttal to Felski’s critique, first by delineating the genealogy of her...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 369–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Heidi Yu Huang Abstract For more than three decades there have been calls for a “locally produced” history of Hong Kong literature by scholars born in Hong Kong or long resident there. Following an overview of the “Hong Kong dilemma” and of scholarly endeavors to meet the three challenges...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 259–277.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Alison Wood “Cambridge English” and the uses of literature it implies proffer, still, an image central to our sense of the history of literary study. This essay explores the percolation of the discipline at a religiously reforming Cambridge. In the three decades before the inaugural...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
... decades experimenting with the exacting and humbling realities of media production. Spanning his abandoned collaboration with Disney, a series of Basic English teaching films (made with the artist and filmmaker Len Lye), his two educational television programs on poetry, and a number of unrealized...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Zhu Liyuan Abstract In the first decade after 2000, the idea of “the end of literature” proposed by J. Hillis Miller aroused widespread controversy in Chinese academe. This article seeks to reiterate the original meaning of Miller’s statement while tracing the original Chinese context from which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
...-reflexive adaptations of the sensation genre's most popular paradigms in the following decades. Oliphant's At His Gates (1872) capitalized on the quickly established alignment between finance and sensation not so much to condemn commercial pressures as to turn them to good effect as the shapers of new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 329–349.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Toral Jatin Gajarawala A product of the last two decades, Dalit (“untouchable caste”) literature in Hindi has fashioned itself as a modern protest literature, drawing on the cultural and political traditions of other Indian languages and literatures. But Hindi Dalit literature is unique in that its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 327–354.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of structuralism and poststructuralism on American shores. In charting the happenstance of critical fortune at this pivotal and liminal moment, this essay suggests a new understanding of the institutional and intellectual bases of theory. It also addresses the anomalous status of the 1960s as a decade tumultuous...
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