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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... intersect. A Study in Scarlet , the novella that introduced Sherlock Holmes, offers the first meditation on distant reading. A split double plot that anticipates generic fissures within crime fiction broadly conceived, A Study in Scarlet creates a data-centric detective intelligence in dialogue with late...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Hoyt Long; Richard Jean So Abstract This article uses computational modeling and large-scale pattern detection to develop a theory of global textual transmission as a process of turbulent flow. Specifically, it models stream-of-consciousness narration as a discrete set of linguistic features...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 388–391.
Published: 01 September 1970
.... 223 pp.
DM 28.
This is not a study, fortunately, of everything that could be loosely called
a “detective story,” but an analysis of a particular subject, well defined in
scope and strictly focused in time. That subject is a fundamental pattern of
narration which is shown to culminate...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 207–228.
Published: 01 March 2000
... are likely to select Conan Doyle again in the
future, until he ends up occupying 80, 90, 99.9 percent of the market
for nineteenth-century detective fiction. But why is Conan Doyle
selected in the first place? Why him, and not others? Here the eco-
nomic model has...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 351–372.
Published: 01 September 2012
... pretensions in Los detectives
salvajes (The Savage Detectives, about a gang of “visceral realist”
poets. In a brilliant review Edmond Caldwell argues that this novel
works out a historical- cultural dialectic that replaces the restoration-
ist...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 87–110.
Published: 01 March 2007
... French Fiction (2006) and coeditor of a special issue of Yale French Studies , “Crime Fictions” (2005). Legacies of the Rue Morgue:
Street Names and Private-Public Violence
in Modern French Crime Fiction
Andrea Goulet
dgar Allan Poe’s inaugural detective story “The Murders...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 387–390.
Published: 01 September 2020
... for rethinking the disputatious conjunction of modernism and genre. Levay’s subject is crime and detective fiction, which he sees as feeding into (and fed by) the modernist fascination with ungovernable or outlaw behavior. Earlier work in this area, initially dubbed “pulp modernism” (noir’s focus on the detritus...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 388–390.
Published: 01 September 1995
... a book that traces some of the narrative constants of nine-
teenth-century Westerns and shows their continuous relationship with
earlier rags-to-riches myths and later detective stories. Klein’s subtitle-
1870-1900-is somewhat misleading, since his discussions range broadly
and eloquently from...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 1994
...: Har-
court, Brace, 1950), 413. Ian Ousby reiterates Eliot’s dictum: “Its commonly
accepted status as the first English detective novel” (Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detec-
tive in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 19761, 117).
Duncan I...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... excommunicated—in the generic form of popular detective fiction. This generic choice allowed Moretti to claim the displacement of the elite literary canon, itself implicitly modernist, by the “social canon” of popular literature, which is the result of popular selection. 6 By the time “The Slaughterhouse...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 391–392.
Published: 01 September 1970
...-
erned by the banality of chance. In Durrenmatt’s Bus Versprechen all these
trends are finally actualized. The detective-hero Matthai-demoniacal by
virtue of his faith in the rational intelligibility of events-solves the mystery,
but is tragically thwarted by a stupid chance occurrence. Ambiguity...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 218–219.
Published: 01 June 1952
... and return, is to be detected in the Melville corpus. The rude
question that may suggest itself is, of course, what of it? A great deal of
Melville’s work undoubtedly has an abiding interest not vouchsafed many of
his contemporaries because of its mythic core, but much of the symbolism...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 289–298.
Published: 01 September 1972
... browbeats Hortense; but, if we
go simply by the language of the arrest scene, we may be quite unaware
of any sexual undertone. Bucket seems merely to be pursuing his trade
as infallible master detective.
Close analysis will show that this is only superficially so and that the
scene...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 210–212.
Published: 01 June 1979
... chapter treating Speak, Memory, Nabokov’s autobiography, “as fiction.”
Linking the chapters on individual novels is a central idea concerning the pa-
rodic structure that, in Stuart’s view, underlies each work. The Real Life of Sebas-
tian Knight, for example, is a parody of a detective story...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 397–399.
Published: 01 September 2015
....) The Sherlock Holmes fantasy that a near-omniscient detective can uncover people’s inner thoughts through endless study of their appearances remains impossible; at the other extreme from Arthur Conan Doyle is Walt Whitman’s determination in his poetry to keep people at a distance, blessing them only from afar...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 215–217.
Published: 01 June 1963
... of contrast rather than of kinship to Goethe, that a specifically
German Goethebild and the clichC of the “Olympian” belong to the past.
Apart from a very few, easily detectable misprints, we found the following
errors : p. 85, line 10, read Itulienische Reise; p. 108, line 30, Wilhelm Wundt...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 375–412.
Published: 01 December 1953
... must be), its own
interpretation. The meaning is by the author intimated or suggested,
is not to be by the reader detected or constructed, then arbitrarily
attached. And what, then, is there symbolical (even for a highbrow
audience) is not everything, but what, from the mysterious yet con...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 429–439.
Published: 01 December 1985
... to examine the extent to which
one may within reason detect such influence. He considers Milton’s
direct allusions to Revelation, his deterministic sense of history, his
use of Antichrist imagery, and his expectations of the Last Judg-
ment. He also asks important questions often ignored...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 309–322.
Published: 01 December 1962
... would signal the audience of the fact. It is interesting
2 I have found fourteen critics who praise her nobility in the prison scene and
thirteen who charge her with inhumanity toward her brother.
3 The only critics who have detected dynamic development of any kind in
Isabella are: G...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 415–417.
Published: 01 September 2008
...,
somewhat frenetically titled chapter, “Dismember Me: Shakespeare, Para-
noia, and the Noir World Order,” which bases its argument on Slavoj Žižek’s
reading of the difference between classic and noir styles of detective fiction.
The classic style depicts a world governed by the big Other, who ensures...
