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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 301–319.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and pleasures of fiction, of literary study, and of metaphor. The alternative to what has been called “the poverty of context” is the richness and variety of poetic contexts, understood diachronically. 10 “The novel,” according to Lukács ( 1971 : 56), “is the epic of an age in which the extensive totality...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... they are read with an eye to authorial mediation. Further, conceptualizing authors as mediators proves a better framework for writing the history of authorship, as it clarifies synchronic tensions and diachronic developments that unfolded within this frame. It also reveals that the modern ideal of authorial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... a quantitative diachronic analysis of 230 years of French novels. While these trends cannot by their very nature show the birth of the concept of fiction—which was never born in the first place—they are the type of evidence that should be central to any future history of fiction. Monika Fludernik ( 2018 ) also...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (4): 648–651.
Published: 01 December 1996
...”
or that “all Euro-American women” since “have felt female just as ‘we’ . . .
do” (xv): a narrative “that do[es] not stay within diachronic models of tra-
dition and ‘progress’” (1). Toward such a history Schleiner’s study gestures.
Attending closely to differences- generational, socioeconomic, religious...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 193–196.
Published: 01 June 1984
... particular features of the play
are systematically translated in to terminology derived from linguistic the-
ory. Claudius, the man of action, represents the diachronic impulse.
Hamlet’s delay represents “diachronic suicide” (p. 133). The play itself
verges on diachronic suicide; the forward motion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1973
... to
bridge the gap between descriptive and historical studies, or, to put it differ•
ently, between the synchronic and the diachronic. The Saussurean opposition
lost much of its force as recognition' grew that the literary "system" was not
immune to historical change, and, conversely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 377–378.
Published: 01 September 1950
... of language (pp. 303-442). In all four parts the author’s approach is
diachronic, though in Part I1 the time covered is only a few years. Jespersen
conceives of language as one aspect of human behavior, something constantly
changing, on the move, patterned indeed but not describable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 378–379.
Published: 01 September 1950
... four parts the author’s approach is
diachronic, though in Part I1 the time covered is only a few years. Jespersen
conceives of language as one aspect of human behavior, something constantly
changing, on the move, patterned indeed but not describable in strictly static or
synchronic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., including literary history, has two temporal modes:
the diachronic and the synchronic. The rst is the privileged
mode for representing cultural difference: the difference between the
present and the past, of course, but also between Europe and Islam. As
medievalists like Kathleen Biddick...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 321–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
... readers have been preoccupied with trends so dramatic that the synchronic differences of prestige between works do little to change a diachronic picture. 1 But distant reading does not by any means rule out questions of value. In “The Slaughterhouse of Literature” Franco Moretti ( 2000 ) was already...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 204–207.
Published: 01 June 1984
... tendency of Paulson’s method often sorts uncomfortably
with the diachronic nature of his subject. The tension is apparent in the
following sentence: “Or is there something in the very process of revolution
(the French Revolution- that absolutely new phenomenon that was unfold-
ing before...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 138–155.
Published: 01 June 1982
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natural domain: the story unfolds through time. Its orientation, to
use the exact term, is diachronic, as, prior to Ferdinand de Saussure,
the orientation of linguistics was diachronic. Faulkner is not inter-
ested in developmental sequences of this kind, the “simple direct line
such as a story...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 309–328.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., but such synchronic resolutions could
be achieved only through the repression of the diachronic narrative
of colonial history.43 And if, as Edward W. Said and others have noted,
synchronic essentialism was a salient feature of the colonial order of
representation, then a diachronic narrative would function...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
... monograph cannot do justice to the historical, literary, and cinematic sources from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Andrew Scheil’s “selective study” (11) is not a diachronic history of the representation of Babylon but a carefully curated account of allusions to and reinventions of the concept over...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 March 1960
... of “Stockholnier Gernianistische For-
schungen.” The subtitle (“Plotzlich, schnell und ihre Syiionymik im Deutsch
der Gegenwart und des Friih-, Hoch- und Spatmittelalters”) gives some hint
as to the methodology applied : synchronic descriptions followed by diachronic
analysis.
While syntactic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 407–424.
Published: 01 December 2001
...
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conventional periods of time, can be used to stage or resolve the seem-
ingly inevitable opposition of the synchronic and the diachronic, and,
if there has been rather a vogue in literary studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 603–605.
Published: 01 December 1969
... Vida de Santa Oria. I quote it in toto:
It is evident from this that topoi and other traditional means of expres-
sion cannot properly be appraised without assessing their tonal com-
patibility with the rest of the work in which they occur, and without
diachronic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 90–91.
Published: 01 March 1960
....” The subtitle (“Plotzlich, schnell und ihre Syiionymik im Deutsch
der Gegenwart und des Friih-, Hoch- und Spatmittelalters”) gives some hint
as to the methodology applied : synchronic descriptions followed by diachronic
analysis.
While syntactic controls are kept as rigid as possible, the author...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 276–278.
Published: 01 June 1998
... a “genuine pluralism” rather than a syncretism or relativism (176).
He does so by separating them diachronically according to their domains of
explanation: Marxism best accounts for the field of determinations that pre-
cedes textual formation, formalism for developments within the genre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 137–140.
Published: 01 June 2022
... in historical change and literature’s longue durée . In my own subfield of book history, the focus has shifted dramatically from the layered moment of textual production to the diachronic unfolding of reception and circulation. On a different scale, the imaginative engagement with climate science and climate...
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