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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 487–509.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Christopher G. Diller Although recent scholarship has shown how many twentieth-century African American writers appraised the mixed literary inheritance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Ralph Ellison has been neglected in this regard. This essay excavates Ellison’s critique...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 219–238.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Julie Ellison © 2001 University of Washington 2001 Julie Ellison is professor of English at the University of Michigan and director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, A National Initiative. She is author of Emerson's Romantic Style (1984), Delicate Subjects...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 345–369.
Published: 01 September 2021
... it. This essay hypothesizes that postmodern theories of truth and concomitant transformations in reader sensibilities partly account for the legitimization and now dominance of biofiction. The essay analyzes a 1968 literary debate among Ralph Ellison, William Styron, and Robert Penn Warren, which on the surface...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 March 1998
... United States” recently appeared in Modern Fiction Studies . Race Man, Organization Man, Invisible Man Andrew Hoberek The organization had given the world a new shape, and me a vital role. -Invisible Man Since the 1952 publication of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 465–468.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Adam Potkay Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion . By Julie Ellison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp. © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.4 09 Reviews 10/24/01 5:54 PM Page 453 Reviews Adulterous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 453–456.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By Julie Ellison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp. The opening pages of Cato’s Tears are exhilarating. Ellison announces: “The project of this book is to investigate the cultural history of public emotion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 456–460.
Published: 01 December 2001
... marketplace. A quibble, perhaps, but with a critic of Richetti’s tal- ents the loss is keenly felt. Bradford Mudge, University of Colorado at Denver Cato’s Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By Julie Ellison. Chicago...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 461–465.
Published: 01 December 2001
... marketplace. A quibble, perhaps, but with a critic of Richetti’s tal- ents the loss is keenly felt. Bradford Mudge, University of Colorado at Denver Cato’s Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By Julie Ellison. Chicago...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (4): 468–474.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By Julie Ellison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xi + 229 pp. The opening pages of Cato’s Tears are exhilarating. Ellison announces: “The project of this book is to investigate the cultural history of public emotion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 1999
... and Alice Walker to sketch a “poetics of disobedience” (ig3), which she traces to King’s critical interaction with Emerson’s legacy. A key text that she does not examine is Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, whose black protagonist optimistically presents a letter of introduction at the offices...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 1999
... as the intellectual property of all. Prior to this coda Patterson briefly runs through works by Toni Cade Bambara and Alice Walker to sketch a “poetics of disobedience” (ig3), which she traces to King’s critical interaction with Emerson’s legacy. A key text that she does not examine is Ralph Ellison’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 1988
... such an apocalyptic perspective, the body rising here in Dilsey’s form becomes metaphorically identifiable with the pinned-down giant envisioned by Kalph Ellison in his “Twentieth- Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity”: “Thus on the moral level I propose that we view the whole of American life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
..., but rather to take it as seriously as it deserves. Sundquist ends by demanding from critics and readers of American literature the same acts of “eclectic resourcefulness” and “democratic faith” that Ralph Ellison urged from U.S. literary artists: this project sets just such an example. As a model...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 509–511.
Published: 01 December 1968
... stereotypes of “alienation” in Malamud’s A New Life; the abandonment of Negritude in Ellison’s work; the ideological and tractarian nature of homosexuality in contemporary literature; the connection between Mailer and Hemingway as simplistic myth-makers, although, at other times, Berman’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 80–82.
Published: 01 March 1988
..., that in A Chance Acquaintance, the somewhat rustic Westerner, Kitty Ellison, whom Howells idealizes as the embodiment of the best democratic virtues and manners, speaks a flawless English totally out of keeping with her background and markedly unlike the rural, ungram- matical speech of her close...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2019
... much religion or too much Enlightenment” (163). Another approach is to invoke “the uncanniness of the ordinary” (184n45). This loftier tradition, which starts with Emerson and the James brothers and includes writers such as Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Ralph Ellison, and Frank O’Hara, is impelled...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 March 1984
... + 273 pp. Dadson, Trevor J. The Genoese in Spain: Gabriel Bocangel y Unzueta (1603-1658):A Biography. London: Tamesis Books, Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A- Mono- grafias, 97, 1983. xiv + 192 pp. S19.60. Ellison, David R. The Reading of Proust. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 165–188.
Published: 01 June 2001
...). 40 Memoirs of Hon. William Gwin, ed. William Henry Ellison, California Historical Society Quarterly 19 (1940): 1–26, 157 – 84, 256–77, 344–67. 41 William Henry Ellison, A Self-Governing Dominion: California, 1849–1860 (Berkeley: University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 683–686.
Published: 01 December 2000
... at length, in addition to Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Bald- win, Amiri Baraka, Samuel Delany, and Adrienne Kennedy, and he creatively pairs writers (DuBois with Frantz Fanon, Locke with Ellison and Hurston, Baldwin with Baraka, Delany with Kennedy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (4): 686–689.
Published: 01 December 2000
... at length, in addition to Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Bald- win, Amiri Baraka, Samuel Delany, and Adrienne Kennedy, and he creatively pairs writers (DuBois with Frantz Fanon, Locke with Ellison and Hurston, Baldwin with Baraka, Delany with Kennedy...