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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2012
... was indeed an important strand of 1960s fiction, especially in the work of John McGahern, this essay argues that it was cross-fertilized by other realist narrative modes, including British documentary writing of the 1950s and 1960s. The Irish New Wave, however, differs in important respects from its British...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 March 1999
...Michael Thurston Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Documentary Modernism as Popular Front Poetics: Muriel Rukeyser’s “Book of the Dead” Michael Thurston In the standard history of modern American poetry, 1929 does not stand out. Ernest Hemingway published...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 119–121.
Published: 01 March 1948
... study of the “Stern des Bundes,” and for which we are really grateful. AUGUSTCLOSS University of Bristol The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play. By BERTOLTBRECHT. English version and an essay on Brecht by ERICRUSSELL...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Lyric (2014) in relation to documentary lyric and the online genre of microaggressions, this essay argues for the political utility of description at the micro scale. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 In its stillness and compression, this scene evokes a lyric now . Rankine...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 77–106.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the activities and insights of textual scholarship and is inherited from, rather than opposed to, the New Criticism and its core method of “close reading.” Literary history requires not new or integrated methods but a new scholarly object capable of managing the documentary record’s complexity, especially...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the pressure of anticommunism. The 1940s work of Muriel Rukeyser, turning away from an earlier documentary poetics, exemplifies her generation’s concern with the continuity between the Popular Front and World War II rather than a retreat from New Deal reform to patriotic consensus. During this understudied...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with specific political agendas. Second, the develop- ment of iconology across the arts evidences the independence of style from specific media. The recurrence of certain tropes and images in stage drama, fiction, and documentary films raises the possibility of a politically motivated typology. Third...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 86–99.
Published: 01 March 1991
... factual studies mask, the actual experience of human beings caught up in terrorist activities. Fragmentation of identity in the novel’s unstable world leads to a longing for order that asserts itself in totalitarian politics, funda- mentalist religion, and documentary realism, all disciplines...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., less subjective vision of daily life. For example, new mass-cultural forms like the documentary translated modernist styles into an arena where they could be consumed by a much larger audience. The resulting productions deployed “the aesthetic resources of modernism”—montage, disjunctures between sound...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
...—are limited, because they are inattentive to inequalities as they relate to the documentary and disciplinary contexts in which he works. Australia is an Anglophone, Western, wealthy nation with a relatively short written documentary record where there has been extensive public investment in digitization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 253–256.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the research experience itself is gripping, reminiscent of a documentary about making a documentary. This is juxtaposed with new findings, careful interpretations, and connections to book history and scholarship on Austen. The book draws together different approaches and targets a variety of readers, from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... appropriations of a family recording made by Charles Bernstein and of Mormon propaganda materials, “an exposé of pedagogy become indoctrination” (167). The rhetorics of everyone mentioned are parallel and important to understand: borrowed text, citation, sampling, documentary, obdurate quotidian materials...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 2023
... business practices. But by using corrupted childhood innocence as the central trope for dangers posed by global capitalism, Jane’s documentary renews exactly the paradigm of national identity (typified by wholesome, white, “normal” families) that she set out to challenge. Ozeki’s novel depicts Jane’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... a home in the traditional philological outlets. What called for the separate venue, and by implication a distinct field of study, was the vast quantity of documentary papyri, the special challenges these posed, and their significance for various branches of the study of antiquity ( Altertumswissenschaft...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 314–317.
Published: 01 September 1983
... is Nichols’s discus- sion of the “cruciform symbolism” suggested by the Paschal ritual celebrated in the tower of Saint-Sauveur at the abbey of CentulnlSaint-Riquier (pp. 106- 10). By carefully examining.both the documentary and the architectural evi- dence, David Parsons has shown that the tower...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 399–422.
Published: 01 December 2024
... television station, TV3, released the documentary Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista , which identifies the Catalan families who built their fortunes on the backs of African slaves and shows how this wealth enabled Catalan industrialization and prosperity (Portals 2023 ). Since 2020 such Catalan towns...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 167–176.
Published: 01 June 1943
... of the City would probably not be long, and could be referred to as a “paper.” Since this short roll or register served the documentary purpose of proving London citizen- ship, we may say that here again paper means document or certificate of proof. The apprentice, then, asked for (“soghte...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 188.
Published: 01 June 1955
... authors like Gald6s surround themselves, Pattison has shown that “an artist must work with something, not create out of itotltittg,” and this “some- thing” is the documentary information collected through the study, research, and experience of the novelist. Benito Pe‘rez Galdbs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 82–87.
Published: 01 March 1988
... easily at face value Pound’s persistent question- ing of Browning’s documentary inaccuracy in the famous description of the font at Goito in Sordello. “Does it matter?” asks Pound, and responds in Three * To Elkin Mathews, 30 May 1916, PoundlJoyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound toJames Joyce...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 82–87.
Published: 01 March 1988
... of The Cantos, shaping a discourse that is a profoundly personal and selective interpretation of history” (p. 142). But Longenbach takes too easily at face value Pound’s persistent question- ing of Browning’s documentary inaccuracy in the famous description of the font at Goito in Sordello. “Does...