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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 173–204.
Published: 01 June 2017
... about the poet and his poem than it does about the history of our own disciplinary formation. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 historicism editorial practice The Faerie Queene spelling digital humanities Within the cache of Shakespearean manuscripts, documents...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. new media literary studies disciplinary history humanities media studies This special issue explores the emergence of new recording and broadcast media in and as a crucial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Warwick Research Collective Abstract In this essay the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) addresses the question of “what is and isn’t changing” in literary studies by reflecting on the material conditions that structure its disciplinary workscape. The essay notes that the pressures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 443–459.
Published: 01 December 2022
...: “secularism.” Melville helps us think secularism not as the extirpation of religion in modernity but as an ensemble of broadly disciplinary interventions, whose aim was both to exalt Protestant Christianity as the authorizing sign for planetary white dominion and to demote theology itself into a practice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... perceived as a crisis of the humanities: a disciplinary fragmentation combined with the growing influence of the social sciences in the study of culture. Before he would have turned to the study of myth, Kerényi proposed media history as the foundation for the renewal of classical studies and the humanities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Baldick Chris . 1983 . The Social Mission of English Criticism, 1848-1932 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Buurma Rachel Sagner Heffernan Laura . 2012 . “ The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History for the Twenty-First Century .” New Literary History 43...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 June 2014
... its own disciplinary offspring. Cognate with these offspring were two omnibus developments that may round out our twentieth-­century tale: New Historicism and cul- tural studies. The former school’s debt to history is manifest, yet it’s less marked, methodologically speaking, than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 163–170.
Published: 01 March 2009
... blend of voices than other academic disciplines. Or perhaps theater and performance studies lack a clear focus because of this? The place of history in theater and performance studies is not just a disciplinary question. More than telling us that something has happened and has now become history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 June 2014
... : Wedgestone . Buurma Rachel Sagner Heffernan Laura . 2012 . “ The Common Reader and the Archival Classroom: Disciplinary History for the Twenty-First Century .” New Literary History 43 , no. 1 : 113 – 35 . Clendenning John . 1999 . The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce: Revised...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 373–398.
Published: 01 December 2024
... reveals the hidden logics of Barthes’s distribution of critical attention and demonstrates how such analyses can identify the filtering models that operate in our critical tools and practices. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 attention disciplinary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 161–176.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., will be enough? These questions point toward my second set of concerns, which has to do with feminism as an academic project, with its history in the U.S. university, and with its relation to history making, temporal alterity, and what we might call nomadic (as opposed to disciplinary) thinking. While...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . . . part of the very history of literary studies that the discipline suppresses.” Of course, the disciplinary history of literature is entwined with religion in many ways, 3 but a particularly salient strand is raised by the religious studies scholar Kathryn Lofton. Writing on how religion challenges...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 2000
... is an unavoidable moment in the projects of both liter- ary and cultural studies, fields that remain sufficiently entwined to engage one another’s serious attention and sufficiently distinct to yield autonomous scholarship and rival disciplinary formations. For a criti- cal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 205–229.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and disciplinary knowledge, as made manifest in the university and other realms of science, carry distinctive power in Wynter’s account of global, racial-colonial history. What Wynter ( 2003 : 326) calls the “descriptive statement” and “representational processes” of academic practice are central to the production...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 479–504.
Published: 01 December 2006
... novelizes poetry. Curricular economies and accidents have contributed at the metaprofessional level to a renarrativization of the period that is part of a much larger disciplinary and epistemological shift: a shift that is reconfiguring the very relationship of the humanities to the social sciences...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the literary-historical record; both are partial, and not necessarily in complementary ways. The nature of the challenge thereby facing data-rich literary history—of proposing a historically coherent whole (a literary system) from a collection, or collections, of parts (the disciplinary infrastructure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (1): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 1992
... these texts, and the problems they raise about eloquence, outside the standard framework of literary history, placing them instead in the long history of the disciplinary construc- tion of rhetoric. The history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages is in large part the history of its configuration within...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 425–452.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of their problem: the closer one looks, the less they correspond to anyone’s experience of being and change. Too, diverse disciplinary histories—say, political, social, aesthetic, or economic history, or histories of their respective theories—may apply these names a bit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 476–478.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of Fiction begins by examining the history of American education and reminds us that for much of the nineteenth century formal schooling was not regarded as synonymous with education but instead figured as a single questionable prong in an ongoing, multifaceted endeavor that included apprenticeships...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 387–391.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Barbara Fuchs [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The following short essays were presented at “ MLQ and the Project of Literary History,” a special session of the Modern Language Association meeting in Seattle, Washington, on January 11, 2020...