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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 371–372.
Published: 01 December 1960
...J. Leeds Barroll Lily B. Campbell. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1959 Pp. viii + 268. $5.00. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 REVIEWS
Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 219–241.
Published: 01 September 1977
...Ilona Bell Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 “SETTING FOOT INTO DIVINITY”
GEORGE HERBERT AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION
By ILONA BELL
Most critics of The Temple have taken George Herbert’s Angli-
canism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 229–269.
Published: 01 September 2010
...David Quint Milton tightly structures book 3 of Paradise Lost around analogies and distinctions between divine and solar light, the invisible heaven beheld by the poet's blind faith in the book's first half and the visible universe and sun visited by Satan in its second, vision down and up...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 June 2009
... and realism locates multiple secular meanings in specific historical events. Secular excess replaces divine plenitude. The absence of a consistent authorial voice prevents readers from determining a hierarchy of significance. Exaggerated correlations between individual lives and public events aggrandize...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of Paris demystifies the bildungsroman’s typically self-made protagonist by foregrounding how the probabilistic attribution of causal force to the human will resembles predestinarian belief in divine determination. The Eastern wish-fulfilling skin of Balzac’s title at once hyperbolizes the liberal fantasy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 163–200.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and behavior, on the other. Influenced but not bound by Stoic and Christian conceptions of freedom, Hamlet can act most freely, and ultimately kill Claudius, after achieving a sense of inner moral freedom based on trust in a “divinity” that oversees the world. Joshua Scodel is Helen A. Regenstein...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
... poetry, which he imagined as originating in the responsive singing of the seraphim. At a time when the divine authority of the Bible was waning, the reclassification of large swaths of prophecy as poetry helped Lowth extol the human figure of the prophet as a literary genius. Lowth idealized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... becoming human as a temporary letting go of his divinity; for Rossetti and Hopkins, this models a way of being and thinking in which the subject is untied from an ego desirous of control and power. Both writers consequently embraced the interdependence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Trinity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (1): 31–35.
Published: 01 March 1959
... manifestations,
such as Boehme’s “Aurora,” it is attended by a bent toward insanity.
Yet in “The Transcendentalist” he had stressed the transcendental
belief in inspiration, ecstasy, and miracle. The divine mind reveals
its presence to Emerson much as it did to Boehme, by an influx of the
light...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 232–236.
Published: 01 September 1955
... there of the Old Testament.
The very fact that Christ so often depends upon Old Testament wis-
dom and example in order to repel Satan suggests that for some rea-
son he is acting as a man rather than a divine being. And if one traces
references to the Old Testament throughout the poem, it becomes clear...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 1951
... time which guaranteed
regularity and order; and absolute space and time, for their part,
guaranteed the presence of the divine Mind.
Leslie Stephen pointed out that “the doctrines which men ostensibly
hold do. not become operative upon their conduct until they have
generated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 173–199.
Published: 01 June 1992
...
division of labor, roles, and character.’ Further, Antigone is paired with
the divine Man, who, reenacting Spirit’s externalization from and rec-
4 “Solgersnachgelassene Schriften und Briefwechsel,” in Werke, 11:233.
5 Hegel adored Antigone, both character and play, from his days...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1981
... voice unconnected to a divine support, Herbert
seeks, as he says in “Easter,” to correct the “defects” of his poetic voice
by “twisting” his heart and lute into three-part counterpoint with the
voice of the Holy Spirit. Similarly, in many poems of The Temple, God
makes himself manifest...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 123–143.
Published: 01 June 1984
... as a pilgrimage, troubled by unanticipated
difficulties and humiliations but leading in the end to a “total and
self-annihilating union with the Divine’’ (Surprised by Sin, p. 330). His
reader eventually becomes a Christian hero, able to perceive the
truth, by learning how to read. According to each...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 315–320.
Published: 01 December 1960
... to the traditional theology of
divinity, as one mode of defining a positive, though highly unorthodox,
moral ideal. As I see it, Tumburlaine poses, probably as a hypothesis,
the idea of a personal morality that is completely self-contained, de-
pending for its sanctions neither on divine revelation nor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 1948
...-revelations delivered through the agency of sleep in a dream or
through a waking vision. It is my present purpose to show the back-
ground of this divine revelation in rabbinical and Neo-Platonic theory.
Jewish commentators, in particular, built up an elaborate theory of
such revelations, because...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 1972
... and contentment within a joyfully animated nature
in which human and divine, animal and vegetable, are correspondent
parts of an undivided vision. But such a definition is emphatically not
pertinent to all the actors within Innocence. I have already quoted
Hirsch and Nurmi on the subject...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (1): 19–47.
Published: 01 March 1986
... impulse of invoking divine inspiration to authorize
a truly sacred poetry. For Milton, the Shakespearean imagination
was the “self-begetting”herald of human autonomy; in fact, a secu-
lar imagination was the inevitable harbinger of historical crisis in a
universe losing its conviction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (2): 122–130.
Published: 01 June 1960
... 125
imagery with the name of the girl, Maria, we see her as a figure of
the Virgin Mary, the Christian expression of the archetypal Mother.
The child the Virgin will bear is the divine luminous child, the light
that comes out of darkness, who is, in Joliannine terms, light in dark...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 1958
... which
amplify the author’s anthropocentric philosophy. In his mature
works, from The Magic Mountain to Joseph and His Brothers, the
protagonist is called upon to fulfill the divine dream of harmony. (It
is not by chance that Thomas Mann shares this ideal of the artist as
the harmonizer...
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