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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 316–319.
Published: 01 June 2004
...María Soledad Barbón How to Write the History of the New World: Histories,Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,2001. xviii + 450 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 195–221.
Published: 01 June 2009
... statue”—a Bild or image that both seduces and invites, inspires and imprisons, by means of epistemological and moral ambivalences that resonate far beyond the text's localizable source. University of Washington 2009 John T. Hamilton is professor of comparative literature and German at New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and present states of being in the dark. This nescient or ignorant epistemology has resonances with Roland Barthes’s writings on Zen as well as with Derek Parfit’s rejection of personal identity and, by extension, of self-interest as a catalyst for moral action. Thanks to Brian McGrath and Maureen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 447–463.
Published: 01 December 2015
... him to probe a broader readerly skepticism, extending beyond irony to epistemological questions of the truth of narratives and how they might be assessed. 9 Before his story is over, Berganza will both be exhibited as an entertainer himself and serve a poet who writes plays. 10 Cascardi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 369–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of information selection, historical contextualization, and epistemological configuration, this essay discusses the merits and limitations of the three analytic perspectives and proposes the paradigmatic image of the constellation to situate Hong Kong literary history more suitably in the multiple dimensions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
...James Nohrnberg Abstract Milton’s thinking and oeuvre divide historical time and place the poet and his subjects on the verges of periodizing metamorphoses: different eras of epistemology, religious dispensations, archaeologies of knowledge, kinds of global consciousness, rival explanations...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 53–80.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Taylor Schey Abstract Literary history commonly holds that the Enlightenment inaugurated an epistemological crisis to which the British Romantic poets sought to respond. The skeptical separation of subject and object is considered a central problem for Romanticism, which is thought to rest...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 141–166.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and Romantic history stage a debate between epistemological and aesthetic impulses that the affirmation of the existent resolves. ▪ ▪ ▪ Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 realism history temporality dialectics narrative To speak of Romantic history is to conjure a host...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
... totality. The essay discusses three exemplary critical concepts that assume a speculative epistemology of literary totality: Alexander Veselovsky’s “historical poetics,” Erich Auerbach’s “ Ansatzpunkt ,” and Edward Said’s “contrapuntal reading.” Each, it is argued, is grounded in the distinctive qualities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 411–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... crucial and complementary issues of epistemology—that is, questions of evidence-based knowledge and how we ground our ethical deliberations on these evidential foundations. If the Victorian novel invested its ethical energies in the individual and derived at least some of the justification...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... an interest in persons, situations, and worlds imagined at a level of detail and complexity well beyond the fictional placeholders other disciplines employ in their thought experiments. This raises ethical and ontological questions about the “reality” of our objects of study. Dominant Western epistemological...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 June 2024
... on his biographical and intellectual adjacency to the biologist Jakob von Uexküll. Several close readings illustrate the resonance between Uexküll’s theory of the Umwelt and an epistemological shift at the heart of Auden’s poetry, wherein the idea of the self is reconfigured in terms of the embodied...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 319–322.
Published: 01 September 1953
... on the latter point. I should have
welcomed a thorough discussion of the historic and philosophic tradition of the
three main themes of the Lettre: the epistemological problems, the biological
as well as metaphysical issues, and finally the general situation and fate of the
blind and the means...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (1): 97–121.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of some of the epistemological ambiguities of history and historical
interpretation see Paul B. Armstrong, “History, Epistemology, and the Example of The
Turn of the Screw,” in Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 89–108...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... but largely occluded Iron Cage. In epistemology, Gellner argued with regard to W. V. Quine’s pragmatism, Rubber Cage epistemology cheerfully abandons “the old Cartesian anxiety that every step must be made quite secure before the next one is attempted” (156). Uncharacteristically, Gellner also admits...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 295–311.
Published: 01 December 1954
... sur les uveugles) overcome the deistic-
mechanistic view of nature by his full realization of the significance of
time and of inner form in the development of organisms.
The chapter on “Psychology and Epistemology” seems to me one
of the best of Cassirer’s book. He was excellently prepared...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 March 1970
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angle of vision, Gulliver’s Travels may also have been intended’ as a satire
on Locke’s epistemology. While I do not find this argument convincing, his
major premise-that Swift was hostile to Locke’s epistemology-is entirely
reasonable. Some years ago, Rosalie L. Colie suggested a tenuous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 202–204.
Published: 01 June 1984
... the subject (or object) of the satire.
Viewed in the context of the history of prose narrative, both satires raise
many of the epistemological questions, if not moral dilemmas, associated
with the emergence of the novel-questions, for instance, dealing with the
relation between the perceiving...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the “Apologie” by unraveling European epistemologies. Montaigne’s self and his world mirror each other through disorder and multiplicity, constituting each other through fragments. Whereas Mercator’s cartography gestures toward wholeness, Montaigne presses toward unknowability. The Essais alternate Platonic...
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