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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (3): 329–341.
Published: 01 September 1967
...Heyward Ehrlich Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 CHARLES FREDERICK BRIGS AND LOWELL’S FABLE FOR CRIT’ICS By HEYWARDEHRLICH The full story of James Russell Lowell’s indebtedness to Charles Frederick Briggs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 285–304.
Published: 01 September 1983
... UGLY DUCKLINGS AND SWANS MARGARET DRABBLE’S FABLE OF PROGRESS IN THE MIDDLE YEARS By MARGARETMOKGANKOTH GULLETTE Margaret Drabble’s favorite story has always been the myth of the Ugly Duckling who becomes a Swan...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 June 2006
... . University of Washington 2006 Body, Earth, and Migration: The Poetics of Suffering in Zhang Wei’s September Fable Jian Xu he plea for “pure literature” (chun wenxue) on China’s literary scene Tin the 1990s must have sounded strange in an era of cultural stud- ies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 June 1999
...Marc Redfield Keenan Thomas. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xii + 251 pp. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 288 MLQ IJune 1999 Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 197–206.
Published: 01 June 1963
...Ariadna Foureman Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 1 La Fontaine, Œuvres , ed. Henri Régnier (Paris, 1883), Vols. II and III. “MERITE” AND MORALITY IN BOOKS IX TO XI1 OF LA FONTAINE’S FABLES’ By ARIADNAFOUREMAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 501–505.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Blakey Vermeule Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century . By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii + 273 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 395–397.
Published: 01 December 1980
... basis that reflects in each case the rigidity or flexibility of our own . . . defenses against narcissistic excite- ment” (p. 206). MARJORIEPERLOFF University of Southern California Virginia Woolfs Major Novels: The Fables of Anon...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 279–292.
Published: 01 June 1941
... of Waldis at once assumes greater proportions. Furthermore, his De parubell vam vorlorn ,Czohn is one of the outstanding German dra- mas of the sixteenth century. As a fable writer-together with Erasmus Alberus-Burkhard Waldis towered head and shoulders above such successors as Nathan Chytraeus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 March 1968
... University Press, 1967. xvi + 266 pp. $6.00. A man’s mind is known by the words that attend it. Daniel Hoffman’s mind is attended by these: archetype, myth, folk, fable, lore, ballad. Some- times only one or two of these are visible, sometimes all run together, but even when one of them...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 495–498.
Published: 01 December 2003
... be worth making at all” (33). Terry is being sentimental: scholarship has always been riven by polemics, and, for better or worse, his is no exception. Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sentimental: scholarship has always been riven by polemics, and, for better or worse, his is no exception. Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century. By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 505–508.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sentimental: scholarship has always been riven by polemics, and, for better or worse, his is no exception. Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century. By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 508–513.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sentimental: scholarship has always been riven by polemics, and, for better or worse, his is no exception. Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century. By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 513–518.
Published: 01 December 2003
... sentimental: scholarship has always been riven by polemics, and, for better or worse, his is no exception. Trevor Ross, Dalhousie University Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century. By Laura Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., both produced during his time at the college. The first, The Oriental Fabulist (1803), is a translation of Aesop’s fables into designated Indian “vernaculars” and “classical languages.” The second, Bāġh-o Bahār , a purported translation into Hindustani of a set of Persian qișșās by the college...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (4): 493–497.
Published: 01 December 1951
... to be an authority. Stearns is also somewhat un- critical of the documents about the Dunfermline “notarius publicus” and the Glasgow “Magister . . . in Artibus.” H. Harvey Wood (in his edition of the Poems and Fables [Edinburgh, 19331, p. xiii) is only one of those who remark that the name is too common...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 207–210.
Published: 01 June 1977
... the visual image in several different temporal contexts. In other words, Kossetti hardly restricts himself, as Stein would have it, to translating a picture’s visual effect into language. Stein’s valuable discussion of the way Kuskin organizes his works in terms of narratives of vision or “fables...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 301–303.
Published: 01 December 1956
... such works as De Z’origine des fables and L’Histoire des oracles, its author is plainly a precursor of the “philosophe” attitude toward religion. Fontenelle’s illustrations seem chosen less to elucidate the history of pre-Cornelian theater than to allow him to make derogatory remarks about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 141–150.
Published: 01 June 1996
... have been made into movies. There is some- thing of the national literary canon, and not just one strand of cul- ture, in these stories. The corpus of the crime, insofar as it is the car- pus of a literary culture, could be read, therefore, as one of the fables of identity that run through...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 383–396.
Published: 01 December 1962
... the height of its popularity in Germany. His collection of fables and tales became one of the most widely read books, not only in his homeland, but throughout all of northern Europe. Gellert’s role of praeceptor Germanbe is acknowledged by Hermann Hettner when he writes : “Er war der...