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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 421–444.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hannah Freed-Thall Abstract The rhetoric of revulsion has shaped French cultural modernity. This essay examines salient forms of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literary disgust, then turns to écœurement (heartsickness) as a contemporary case study. Écœurement is key to the work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 417–436.
Published: 01 December 1997
... shows Kant returning the favor,
defining his aesthetic in terms of a repulsion from popular values:
“Kant’s principle of pure taste is nothing other than a refusal, a dis-
gust-a disgust for objects which impose enjoyment and a disgust for
the crude, vulgar taste which revels in this imposed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... through the poetry of the past to work out problems of ethics and aesthetics that were of great importance to her. One simple way to present the difference between the two poems, then, would be to say that while “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” is energized by the poet’s disgust, “Suburb” attempts to counter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... As the eccentric’s rigidity stages a protest against normality, so called, the anger and disgust of both Swift and Sitwell structure their protest in a way that hurls it forward, daring us to recognize the insufficiency of our own anger and the urgency of the work that it should prompt—leaving the nature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (1): 27–34.
Published: 01 March 1957
... of
reputation (“0God ! Horatio, what a wounded name in The White
Devil the characters welcome oblivion as a haven, a rest. They are
beyond the attitude of “To be or not to be”-the disgust they feel, the
horror at misused and pandered glory, makes “not to be” desirable.
The beautiful last scene...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (4): 344–354.
Published: 01 December 1959
... mis A nu,” 111, 86 f.)
The obscenity of the language brings out the contempt which he
feels for women. Furthermore, his insistence that woman is the
opposite of the dandy makes it apparent that his disgust is caused
by the fact that women can not be included in his aesthetic scheme...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 511–514.
Published: 01 December 1998
...; his two earlier books,
Wittgenstein and Derrida and Nietzsche’s Voice, barely mention literary texts.2
The emotion Staten traces now is the persistent Western disgust with the
body as vehicle of death. If “mourning . . . [is] the agitation that is set off in
the soul by . . . losing what we...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 233–259.
Published: 01 September 2019
... poetry that is confusing or misshapen. Later in the century Samuel Johnson ( 2010 : 23, 37, 41) criticized Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, and other “metaphysical” poets for writing verses so full of “enormous and disgusting hyperboles” that “their thoughts and expressions were sometimes grossly absurd...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 225–237.
Published: 01 September 1957
..., the great master of contempt” ; “Pope, the great
master of hatred” ; “Swift, the great master of disgust.”
Another difficulty with satire is that by tending toward exaggera-
tion and by appealing to high standards, it can easily be allied to
fanaticism, and even madness. Purely righteous...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 181.
Published: 01 June 1955
... challenges certain misconceptions in
the interpretation of decisive traits of Gotthelf s philosophy and politics ; e.g.,
the futile and somewhat disgusting attempt to turn Gotthelf‘s obviously stubborn
and reactionary attitude toward political and social developments in his native
country...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 247–275.
Published: 01 September 1995
...” of the story, offers his
daughters to the would-be rapists, the poet delights in the violent fate
suffered by the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. A reluctance to read
homosexuality in the poem literally, sensitivity to violence (against
homosexuals in particular), and disgust at the sexual...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 367–376.
Published: 01 September 1949
... disgust with mankind.
That the effects of Gulliver’s final return were perhaps intended as
exaggeratedly calamitous (and, therefore, comic) is a conclusion ap-
proached, however, by two critics. Professor Arthur Case points out
that “the expressions about humanity which are found [in the last...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 91–103.
Published: 01 March 1993
...
not be published at all. Malone’s footnote to sonnet 20, for instance,
reads as follows:
-the MASTER-MISTRESS of my passion;] It is impossible to read this ful-
some panegyrick, addressed to a male object, without an equal mixture
of disgust and indignation. We may remark also, that the same...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 359–371.
Published: 01 September 1970
...; centuries of carnal
embracement, yet man is no nearer to understanding man” (p. 135).
After the frightening experience in the caves, the disenchantment
. .
turns to disgust. “ ‘Why all this marriage, marriage? . The human
race would have...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 125–136.
Published: 01 June 1954
... uniformly strikes
all men, and other objects “naturally indifferent or disgusting ; and
yet that come into value and reputation on account of an association
they happen to be in with original beauty.” This distinction, he is
confident, explains the fixity of judgment in some matters of taste...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 June 1942
...
any pleasure from their revival: to shew them as they have already been
shewn is to disgust by repetition; to give them new qualities or new ad-
ventures is to offend by violating received notions.
Far from sharing this opinion with Dr. Johnson, the English
Romantics wilfully violated...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 490–491.
Published: 01 September 1942
... comment. “The charac-
ter of Madame Bovary is one of the most essentially disgusting
that we ever happened to meet with,” but, then, “in England, novels
nowadays are written for families - in France, they are written
for men American literature was consistently disparaged. In
music...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 464–474.
Published: 01 December 1949
... his mother, as Orestes does, exceeds the
guilt that appears in the foregoing scenes. . . . There is no age, but has suffered
such guilt [parricide] to be represented on the stage; and yet I feel the disgust
that must arise at the catastrophe of this piece; so much is our delicacy more
apt...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 207–223.
Published: 01 September 1987
... to control and contain the object of the
relation. Othello’s and Leontes’ images may provoke disgust or
fear, but their relative smallness allows the heroes to contemplate
them without any fundamental sense of danger. Furthermore, the
relation of the observer to the smaller object seems...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 71–73.
Published: 01 March 2023
...,” “the poacher,” “the casual pauper,” “the vagabond,” “the beachcomber”: all these categories functioned tautologically to naturalize or justify the economic and social conditions that produced them. Whether viewed as picturesque or deviant, the triggers of nostalgia or disgust, the errant poor served...
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