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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 247–264.
Published: 01 September 1981
...Stephen Leo Carr Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 THE IDEOLOGY OF ANTITHESIS SCIENCE VERSUS LITERATURE AND THE EXEMPLARY CASE OF J. S. MILL By STEPHENLEO CARR The antithesis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 195–221.
Published: 01 June 2009
...John T. Hamilton Literary history's persistent attempts to locate the work of Joseph von Eichendorff within German Romanticism aim at a stabilization that contradicts the very dynamism associated with this movement. A study of Eichendorff's exemplary novella Das Marmorbild ( The Marble Statue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 331–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
....” Third, “low” and “satirical” forms of comedy gradually gives way to “sentimental” and even “exemplary” comedy. None of these claims is more than very partly true. Throughout this span of time we find topical ( City Politiques ) and topographical ( Covent Garden ) comedy, social satire ( The Provok’d...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 June 2013
... ( A Library of World Literature , 1929). Direct and indirect censorship, the cultural politics of intimidation, and the ethnicization of German national literature make Hesse’s essay, and its afterlife, an exemplary means of evaluating world literature through the politics of (in)accessibility. B...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 447–463.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that presume belief, the other encouraging instead a productive doubt—suggests that Cervantes advances a fully engaged fictionality as an alternative to the exemplary text. In particular, “Rinconete y Cortadillo” and the dyad of “El casamiento engañoso/El coloquio de los perros” show that the picaresque allows...
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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 (2000) 61 (3): 481–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
...- mance that makes it available to Kant in what, in the Critique of Judgment, he calls a “test” of the “talent to be exemplary” (5:309, 318); (2) to make it impossible, or at least very difficult, to doubt that, in ex- ercising his “special talent” for learning as well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 314–317.
Published: 01 September 1983
... Karoli Magni el Rotholandi, and the Chanson de Ro- land. Particularly influencing the development of historia was the concept of the- osis, the belief, developed in full by John Scottus Eriugena, that God could become manifest not only in history but also in the exemplary human (homo eruditus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 131–142.
Published: 01 June 1971
... exemplary sentiments; and it was just that awareness that they had helped to establish through their initial roles as spectators of the play. It is in the nature of a staged frame audience to set off in some manner the play that is presented. But whereas some frames give a sense...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 458–461.
Published: 01 December 1994
..., are eminently allegorical, because they translate the language of poetry into that of exemplary moral- ity and politics. Many Chinese and Western scholars have criticized those allegorical commentaries as mistranslations that bend the text to fit into the Procrustean bed of Confucian moral...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 114–118.
Published: 01 March 1997
... and literature, from Swift’s counter-Augustan aesthetic to a peculiarly Anglo-Irish mode of goth- ic.1 And a series of ambitious historical overviews, essay collections, and anthologies have explored the status of Ireland as an exemplary or proto- typical British colony, the continuities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 311–334.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the celebration of institutions in Stover at Yale . The novel’s investigation of social institutions in the end reproduces an institutional logic. Of course, the detached satisfaction of the exemplary spectator is not especially detached; it resembles the confused loyalties of Zapalac’s rambling monologues...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 613–615.
Published: 01 December 1969
... purpose: its possible exemplary value to the poten- tial reader. It therefore makes selections and emphases appropriate to the author’s understanding of spiritual values. Did the autobiographer realize this? And did he assume that religion itself was not an imaginative con- struction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 251–279.
Published: 01 September 1994
... as providential Orderer), then perhaps it would still be possible to identify certain exemplary objects (natural or artistic) whose inner organization conveyed such a wondrous sense of contrivance, that one had to grant the hypothesis of design. Without recourse to the endangered analogy referring...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 577–580.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of commemorative coins, heraldry, and painted and sculptured likenesses. The misadventures of the pigment grinder seem to satirize such concerns. Thus, in Gaylard’s account, the late fifteenth-­century interest in princely prudence emerges when exemplary historical images have lost their force; that virtue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 June 1989
... as the exemplary literary typk is cardinal. It is defended on Romantic grounds: imagination is power-and in the manner of the 1960s, power is the imagination. McGann’s is the voice of the tempera- mental anarchist (Blake is always at hand) addressed to any presumption of authority except his own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 326–329.
Published: 01 September 1994
... professionals negotiate the complex of relations that define the position. Chapters 4 and 5 examine the intel- lectual careers of two “exemplary” figures, Raymond Williams and Edward Said, both of whom, Robbins argues, have “wrestled with the ideology of professionalism in a manner that is also...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 41–44.
Published: 01 March 1942
... exemplary deeds toward these exemplary, and of their Ancestors, as the high- matchless deeds of thir Ances- est top of their Glory and Emu- tors, as to the highest top of lation, . . . thir civil glory and emulation. In The Tenure Milton made perhaps the greatest effort of his public...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 213–215.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... The Dark Side of Literacy is an exemplary study of reading undertaken by an exemplary reader. As the subtitle suggests, however, this book is exemplary, not as a model proffered for those eager to learn how to read but as a con- crete exception that can never ground the abstracting theorization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 215–218.
Published: 01 June 2010
.... The Dark Side of Literacy is an exemplary study of reading undertaken by an exemplary reader. As the subtitle suggests, however, this book is exemplary, not as a model proffered for those eager to learn how to read but as a con- crete exception that can never ground the abstracting theorization...