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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Katherine G. Charles Abstract Across her career the modernist Edith Sitwell iterated eccentricity as a category of reclaimed value that sanctions an expansive array of previously overlooked and frequently unshared pleasures. These intimate appetites are broadly conceived as operating in variable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 277–292.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the bankruptcy of the category of minor literature when one thinks about world literature. Several examples from lusophone writers and others point to the need to rethink the national categorization of literature. Instead of seeing some literatures as minor, Medeiros proposes seeing them as “eccentric...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 207–208.
Published: 01 June 1978
...
works, Michael Butler’s sensitive and comprehensive interpretation offers
many new insights. Butler clearly demonstrates the fascinating complexity
within the remarkable thematic unity of the novels. Frisch’s unifying theme
is the “eccentric” hero’s loss of, or search for, “centricity...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 205–207.
Published: 01 June 1978
... written on Max Frisch’s
works, Michael Butler’s sensitive and comprehensive interpretation offers
many new insights. Butler clearly demonstrates the fascinating complexity
within the remarkable thematic unity of the novels. Frisch’s unifying theme
is the “eccentric” hero’s loss of, or search...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 90–91.
Published: 01 March 1961
..., the
most Modern, critic.
Paulson’s analysis is divided into four parts : “The Parody of Eccentricity,”
“The Quixotic Theme,” “The Gnostic View,” and “The Christian View of Man.”
He claims for the Tale “an encyclopedic fullness in protean disorder” and an
“intensely personal quality...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 531–532.
Published: 01 December 1949
... of something
like a general physiognomy of the European mind of the period, always remem-
bering, however, that sensations of horror, of the plentitude of power, of bitter-
ness in the collapse of the Weltanschauung are expressed with the strongest
possible display of passion and eccentricity...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 March 1980
... of the author’s location amid other
scholars of the literary baroque is somewhat obscured by the book’s principal
eccentricity-a complete absence of footnotes-an eccentricity this reviewer
would regard as a weakness, albeit a minor one. There is, however, a fairly ex-
tensive and intelligently...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 510–512.
Published: 01 December 1948
... received as a pupil of Meyer-
Liibke and his respect for traditional scholarship have kept him free
from the charges of superficiality, slovenly thinking, and eccentricity
that have been leveled at some of the adherents of the idealistic and
esthetic school. Some readers may find his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 507–510.
Published: 01 December 1948
... and is embodied in the linguistic form
of the poem” (p. 194).
The thorough training that Spitzer received as a pupil of Meyer-
Liibke and his respect for traditional scholarship have kept him free
from the charges of superficiality, slovenly thinking, and eccentricity
that have been leveled...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 December 1943
... of his encounters with the foul enemy; “nay, he
had killed the devil and slaughtered numbers of the imps of dark-
ness-hence his soubriquet of ‘The Devil-Killer.’ ”6 Between these
extremes may be found the eccentric, the sick, and the sane pursuers
of demonological studies.
Like many...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 213–228.
Published: 01 June 1967
... is eccentric, irascible, and contra-
dictory. Blount ate gigantic meals, reading all the time from a bound
volume of Punch; Charles tells us that his father “from long habit took
a book with him to the table” (p. 73), and he, too, eats prodigious but
terribly bland meals. As in Vile Bodies...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 221–241.
Published: 01 June 2007
... of
colonial and indigenous elements. The Latin American neobaroque
constitutes such a site-specific, hybrid modernity from the global
periphery, where imported European and native, modern and premod-
ern, forms are joined to generate an eccentric New World modernity
that deviates from the metropolitan...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 March 1961
... decade of our century has grown to new life,
has had its form closed, opened, and is now in the hands of the very latest, the
most Modern, critic.
Paulson’s analysis is divided into four parts : “The Parody of Eccentricity,”
“The Quixotic Theme,” “The Gnostic View,” and “The Christian...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 528–531.
Published: 01 December 1949
... and eccentricity in the English mentality. This
recent study, Shakespeare und der Tragodienstil seiner Zkt, continues and
enlarges his earlier work in the field. His subject is still the artist’s debt to his
time ; his key-word is still “baroque.”
It would be pointless here to argue the need...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 106.
Published: 01 March 1952
... that tend
towards eccentricity.” Of these the third is the most interesting, and perhaps
the most revealing, for here the revisions are in the direction of more purple
and deeper chaos. Doubtful clarity and posed simplicity are made extravagant
jlnd more vain.
Miss Calder’s study provides...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 21–29.
Published: 01 March 1947
..., there was a tradition of grotesque, buf-
foonish, extravagant humor that was almost Nonsense, but not quite.
It was too crude. The same thing may be said of the type of humor
produced by a long series of eccentric and dissident writers from
the late sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 355–369.
Published: 01 December 1972
... the harmony of the spheres, a description of which Raphael gives
when he speaks of the angels’
Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare
Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles
Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,
Eccentric...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 June 1942
... of the science
of comparative mythology, and with their most eccentric literary ...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (4): 283–293.
Published: 01 December 1958
... concerned with the portrayal of originaux. In this
respect Jacques le Fataliste is again connected with Le Neveu de
Rameau, for there, too, Diderot, while professing personal disapproval,
had spoken of the eccentric as a man whose very idiosyncrasy served
as a challenge to the false uniformity...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 105–106.
Published: 01 March 1952
... the meaning; (2) revisions that make for concreteness;
(3) revisions that occur in so-called ‘purple patches’; (4) revisions that tend
towards eccentricity.” Of these the third is the most interesting, and perhaps
the most revealing, for here the revisions are in the direction of more purple...
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