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Imprinting Mortality: Updike Reading Books
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Kathleen Verduin Self-consciousness was eminently John Updike's hallmark theme, the matrix of his sustained confrontation with mortality and the condition of his alliance with Christianity. As with most literate persons, Updike's self-consciousness was stimulated by reading. His extensive oeuvre...
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Superversive Poetics: Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 121–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Simon Jarvis Abstract A superversive line is that line in a given poem which most eminently exploits the play between syntactic and metrical segmentation, between an ordinary and a special phonology; which peculiarizes verse as verse. A superversive poetics places composition and technique...
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Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis . Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day’s most eminent curators and academics in art and art...
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A Note on the Revisiion of The Prelude
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 51–52.
Published: 01 March 1945
...=VI, 533-34), theirs-Oficers
(IX, 125-26==IX, 124-25), confidence-once (IX, 279-80=IX,
274-75), eminence-ascents (X, 390-91=X, 425-26), and love-of
(XIII, 250-51=XIV, 279-80). Of these seven couplets, Words-
worth might well have felt only the rime in realities-trees, eminence
-ascents...
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Lytton Strachey and the Victorians
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 326–342.
Published: 01 December 1954
..., four years before
Eminent Victorians, Strachey likewise wrote of the Victorian period
as something complex and grotesque, possessing a strange hypnotic
power which his emotions arid imagination could not resist. The spell
of Lancaster Gate was still heavy upon him when...
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Mark Twain in Germany
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 March 1940
... was primarily a supreme
artist and an eminent and distinguished moralist rather than a mere
humorist. Schoenemann then attributed to Mark Twain a “Weltan-
schauung” in 1921. His Mark Twain als literarische Personlichkeit,
1925, was challenged into the field in part by Van Wyck Brooks’s
77ae Ordeal...
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Richard Flecknoe and the Man of Mode
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 June 1968
... refers
in conversation with Emilia (Act 11, Scene i):
EMILIA.Leave your raillery, and tell us is there any new wit come
forth-songs or novels?
MEDLEY.A very pretty piece of gallantry, by an eminent author,
called The Diversions of Brussels, very necessary to be read...
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A History of Magic an Experimental Science. Volumes V and Vi: The Sixteenth Century.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 1944
... mencyclopedic study.
Moreover, by zealously exposing the extent to which even the
most eminent scientists accepted the mistaken explanations of natu-
ral phenomena that passed current in their age, he supplies a most
welcome antidote to the writings of those amateur historians of
science who...
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Ronsard, Poète de L'amour. Livre Premier: Cassandre
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 89–91.
Published: 01 March 1954
... to the authors of Greece and Rome: “Le
meilleur Ronsard fut toujours celui qui ne dut rien h Pindare, rien A I’Italie,
ancienne ou moderne . . .” (p. 50). Is it possible to reconcile this position with
the eminently correct observation about “Mignonne allons voir si la rose,” that
it contains...
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Stages on Life's Way
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 314–317.
Published: 01 June 1941
... ?”
Such is the line in Cooper. But Jowett seems to be apologizing for
the bluntness of Plato’s question-he quashes it entirely. By manipu-
lating the homely vernacular of the lines that follow he secures an
effect that is eminently proper, but ponderous and flat in com-
parison.
There is little...
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The Whole Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 September 1986
... their integ-
rity, at least as a group. The coordinate eminence of Arthur and the
kings as sculptural entities is enhanced by each set’s being endowed
with an appropriate property, Arthur with a sword, each king with a
taper. The images of the twelve kings are subordinated to Arthur,
however...
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The New England Interest in Jean Friedrich Richter
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 505.
Published: 01 December 1944
.... Brooks,
his most eminent translator. From 1802 to 1880 “nearly one hundred
articles, reviews and translations appeared in some forty periodicals.”
About one-third of them originated in New England. After 1850,
however, interest in Jean Paul manifested itself in other parts of
the country...
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Überlieferung Und Gestaltung. Festgabe Für Theophil Spoerri Zum Sechzigsten Geburtstag Am 10. Juni 1950
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 382.
Published: 01 September 1951
... in this country.
GEORGETTER. SCHULER
State College of Wushington
Uberlieferung und Gestultung. Festgabe fir Theophil Spoerri gum sechzigsten
Geburtstug am 10. Juni 1950. Zurich : Speer-Verlag, 1950. Pp. 206.
Theophil Spoerri, the eminent Swiss...
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Platonism in William Godwin's Political Justice
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 63–69.
Published: 01 March 1943
..., but has an appetitive aspect. From this
point of view the problem of morality is simply a problem of recog-
nition; virtue and right reason are one; vice is simply error: “A
vicious conduct is always the result of narrow views” ;lo “a powerful
understanding is inseparable from eminent virtue...
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The Maryland Germans
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 507.
Published: 01 December 1950
... deal
more to be written about the customs, dwellings, speech, and attitudes of the
people-things which one may not learn readily in books and libraries, but more
satisfactorily by field work. It is obvious that the author is eminently capable of
such an exposition, for even here...
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Winstanley's Lives: an Appraisal
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 313–318.
Published: 01 September 1945
... by John
Milton, father of the poet.
16Although “praise of Sackville as a poet was common to all pens of the
sixteenth century,” and Sackville was “certainly of surpassing eminence among
the group with whom he was associated in the Mirrm” (Lily B. Campbell, ed.,
Mirror for Magistrates...
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Erasmus: Speculum Scientiarum
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 386–387.
Published: 01 September 1947
...,
eminently worthy of the renowned humanist whose name it bears.
Already its first number proves that this scholarly organ inherits and
enriches the valuable tradition of the French Rczvde critique d‘histoire
et de Zittkmture, the Swedish Litteris, and the German Liferatur-
zeitung...
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Functionalizing Cultural Memory: Foundational British Literary History and the Construction of National Identity
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 199–217.
Published: 01 June 2003
... literature through the writing of literary histories. Her main areas of research are British literary history and American drama. Sichert Functionalizing Cultural Memory 201 we possess, indeed, what may be called a national literature? Have we produced eminent writers in the various departments...
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A Literary Life of John Braham
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 475–489.
Published: 01 December 1949
... issues out at eve, Braham with front serene!
*It is needless to speak of this eminent vocalist and improvisatore. He nightly
delights a numerous and respectable audience at the Cidercellar; and while on
this subject, I cannot refrain from mentioning the kindness of Mr. Evans, the
worthy...
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Chattertoniana
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 417–424.
Published: 01 December 1950
...; and Meyerstein’s
characterization of the Reliques is eminently just : “a model to any-
one who wished to produce antique verse, and appeal to his century
at one and the same time.”8
It is not so just, however, to describe the Reliques as “almost the
efficient poetical cause of Rowley That honor...
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