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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 (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...
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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 (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 (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 (2021) 82 (3): 281–313.
Published: 01 September 2021
... translation practices, renewed study of poetic alliteration, and inaugurated the political interpretation of Wagner’s works. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Richard Wagner literary societies translation historical poetics decadent literature The first...
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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): 239–257.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and colleagues in the humanities in Britain and its colonies during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. But the decline in idealism’s credibility and visibility has led to its erasure from histories of the discipline of English. In considering Green and his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Christopher L. Hill In the decades following the publication of Emile Zola's novel Nana (1880), “Nana figures” resembling Zola's heroine appeared in fiction around the world. The history of the Nana figure contradicts current models for the study of world literature, based on the diffusion of forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 149–170.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Heather Murray W. J. Alexander, trained at London and Johns Hopkins and appointed in 1889 by the University of Toronto as one of the first dedicated professors of English literature in Canada, was well positioned to direct the new discipline of English literary studies across the country and at all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Colin Jager Abstract This essay summarizes some of the arguments about secularism and secularization that have productively unsettled the study of religion in the past two decades. It then turns to the question of what literary studies can offer to the study of religion. Literary scholarship takes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 367–389.
Published: 01 September 2008
... (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 209.
3 Gary Schmidgall, Literature as Opera (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977),
286, 266.
4 The European fin de siècle literary and artistic movements called symbolism
and decadence are notoriously difficult to delineate, since...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 535–544.
Published: 01 December 1969
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get in his essays on Baudelaire and the Goncourts,lS that an old, highly
developed civilization requires a language of its own to express its
feelings.
“The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900 (Toronto, 1958), pp. 13-45.
Oeuvres poktiques compldtes, ed. Jacques Bore1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 412–416.
Published: 01 December 1961
... : Editorial Gredos.
Bihlioteca Rotnaiiica Hispanica, 11, Estudios y Enayos, 51, 1961. 1’1). 391.
416 Books Received
Ridge, George Ross. The Hero in French Decadent Literature. Athens: Uni-
versity of Georgia Press, 1961. Pp. ix + 195. $3.75.
Silver, Isidore...
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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 (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 (1954) 15 (3): 282–285.
Published: 01 September 1954
... Mann who, according to Professor
Eickhorst, are hopelessly decadent and therefore abnormal. It is certainly an
excellent idea to write a book “not only for the specialists in the field but also
for the general reader who may gain an insight into modern German literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 441–472.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and Temperament .” July 27 , 2 . Evangelista Stefano . 2019 . “ Transnational Decadence .” In Decadence and Literature , edited by Desmarais Jane and Weir David , 316 – 31 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Flower Desmond , and Maas Henry , eds. 1967...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 13–27.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., political stagnation. The linear narrative
mode and the discontinuous storytelling of traditional Chinese fiction
were thought to mute narrative force. Translated Western and Russian
fiction suggested solutions to the problem. Decades of the revolutionary
impact on Chinese literature make...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 June 1997
... ideology” (318). Literature from Schiller to Kafka thus
becomes the prison house of ideology and “repressive privatization”: instead
of literary history we get an allegory of decadence and despair that ends,
significantly, in 1914. As if to avoid the political implications, Gray’s last
pages...
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