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Virtuoso Translations as Visions of Water and Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne's Arthurian Tale and Bal'mont's Medieval Georgian Epic
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 419–443.
Published: 01 December 1998
... and Fire:
The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian
Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic
Martin Bidney
s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and
A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys
opportunities...
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Mythopoeic Elements in “Christabel” ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 39–50.
Published: 01 March 1983
.... MYTHOPOEIC ELEMENTS IN “CHRISTABEL””
By ANTHONYJOHN HARDING
“Christabel,” as Walter H. Evert wrote in 1977, has “eluded critical
consensus,” and despite a steady flow of commentary continues to
baffle interpretation.’ The poem evidently owes something...
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Common Elements in Wordsworth's “Preface” And Shelley's Defence of Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 175–181.
Published: 01 June 1944
...B. R. McElderry, Jr Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 COMMON ELEMENTS IN WORDSWORTH’S “PREFACE”
AND SHELLEY’S DEFENCE OF POETRY
By B. R. MCELDERRY,JR.
In his recent elaborate study of Shelley, Professor Newman I.
Whitel...
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Picaresque Elements in Thomas Mann's Work
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 183–200.
Published: 01 June 1951
...Oskar Seidlin Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 PICARESQUE ELEMENTS IN THOMAS MANN’S WORK
By OSKARSEIDLIN
Whether little Lazarus of Tormes or any of his rascally breed
should or should not be considered the direct ancestor of the pro...
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The Multitudinous ORB Some Miltonic Elements in Shelley
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 247–257.
Published: 01 September 1955
...Ants Oras Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE MULTITUDINOUS ORB
SOME MILTONIC ELEMENTS IN SHELLEY
By ANTSORAS
In the final, climactic act of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, imme-
diately before the paean-like...
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The Autobiographical Element in Hoccleve
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (3): 269–284.
Published: 01 September 1967
...Jerome Mitchell Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENT IN HOCCLEVE
By JEROME MITCHELL
Many scholars have felt that the autobiographical element is the most
interesting feature of Thomas Hoccleve’s poetry...
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Becoming-Obscure: A Constant in the Development of Modern Chinese Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the 1980s, to the Western source from which the Chinese New Poets learned the techniques of modern Western poetry and introduced them into China by way of adaptation and imitation. At that point a new leaf was turned in the history of Chinese poetry: the mingling of the foreign elements, especially...
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Maravall's Post-Hegelian Roots
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 319–340.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of the baroque as the privileged locus of Spanish literary and historical production by appealing to the secularized post-Hegelianism of Jacob Burckhardt and Heinrich Wölfflin. In particular, Maravall's analysis draws on two related elements in the post-Hegelian approach to early modern historiography...
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Eastward Journeys: Literary Crossings of the International Date Line
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., or reclaiming it as an intrinsic rather than extrinsic element of modernity. Adam Barrows is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. He is author of The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature (2011) and was awarded the 2010...
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Ezra Pound’s Provincial Provence: Arnaut Daniel, Gavin Douglas, and the Vulgar Tongue
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 175–199.
Published: 01 June 2012
... world. Pound’s concerns in this respect are read in relation to those of the Irish Samuel Beckett and above all the Scottish Hugh MacDiarmid, in their elaborations of a concept of the vernacular that they both deem “synthetic.” In all cases, translation or multilingualism becomes a central element...
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War and the Domestic Interior: Pater, Curtius, and Praz in the House of Life
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 205–242.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the possibility of recognizing elements that are still galvanizing and disturbing in his work. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 houses influence continuity literary history war At Viterbo’s Roman Gate, the magic screen of memory [is] was brutally torn away, and your mind...
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Gathered by Invention: Additive Forms and Inference in Gascoigne’s Poesy
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 413–445.
Published: 01 December 2015
... elemental workings of poetic form. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Figure 1. Page opening with “His Riddle” sequence, in George Gascoigne, A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, 1573), sigs. 2D2v–2D3r. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Figure 1. Page opening...
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Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and rhetorical elements and uses this model to track the movement of this modernist technique across generic boundaries (from anglophone modernism to more popular genres) and linguistic ones (from English to Japanese). Oscillating between statistical models and moments of close reading, the article shows how...
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Leopardi Local and Global: Italian Society, European Modernity, and Poetry’s “Natural Duty”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 173–202.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Joseph Luzzi Abstract The dialogue between antimodernist and Romantic elements in the work of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi fueled his thinking on the crucial issue of italianità , or “Italian identity.” Leopardi wanted to protect what was unique and enduring in Italian culture, especially its...
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Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Sam Alexander Abstract Recent approaches to literary character treat fictional population as a defining element of narrative form but continue to read novels at the level of individual characters. This essay uses the tools of narrative network analysis to bridge the gap between microlevel readings...
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Pascal without Apology
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2024
... takes the form of a three-cornered conversation that links Pascalian thinking not only to the Hobbes of Leviathan but to the Hegel of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Elements of Right and to the Wittgenstein of the late, sadly fruitless notebook On Certainty . [email protected]...
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Lu Xun’s Heteromodal Realism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 253–278.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the elements that Lu Xun’s story cannibalizes from Russian intertexts, which have themselves defied straightforward categorizations such as realism, the article intervenes in long-standing discussions about the nature of realism in modern China and, more broadly, in recent conversations about peripheral...
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The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (2): 167–199.
Published: 01 June 2025
... that by injecting elements of a religious practice—confession—into the comic formula, L’île des esclaves and L’île de la raison reveal the Catholic ritual of truth telling as theatricalized and theorize the theater as a medium ideal for the transmission of a secularized morality capable of renewing the polis...
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George Herbert's Use of the Transferred Verb: A Study in the Structure Fpoetic Imagery
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 163–174.
Published: 01 June 1944
...-the minor term.
See how spite cankers things.’
The verb here is transferred from its ordinary, literal, concrete
meaning to an abstract and figurative one. The context must contain
some element which is literal and shows that the verb is figurative.
This element...
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Some Principles of Linguistic Change in Romance
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 1940
..., the
Celtic languages do not regularly and necessarily front u to ii.
(2) To facilitate clearness of utterance of the elements of a
diphthong which is made by the tongue in positions of too close
proximity to each other-requiring extra effort to keep them from
melting into one position...
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