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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 1975
...John C. Coldewey Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE LAST RISE AND FINAL DEMISE
OF ESSEX TOWN DRAMA
By JOHN C. COLDEWEY
Cause and effect are often difficult to distinguish. Such is the dilem-
ma...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 415–417.
Published: 01 December 1979
... of Bolton’s excellent survey of Alcuin’s literary
ideas, we are finally asked to prefer Alcuin as critic to the perceptive close read-
ers of our own time, we might have to side with the following assessment by
E. D. Hirsch:
It must be said further that the pursuit of [the New Critics...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 256–274.
Published: 01 September 1979
...William H. Galperin Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 “TURNS AND COUNTER-TURNS”
THE CRISIS OF SINCERITY IN THE
FINAL BOOKS OF THE PRELUDE
By WILLIAMH. GALPERIN
In the middle of Book 11...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 362–377.
Published: 01 December 1988
...Tim Armstrong Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 FINAL GESTURES
B’ B’ TIMARMSTRONG
As he was lying on his deathbed, Thomas Hardy dictated two
angry squibs about his enemies George Moore and G. K. Chester-
ton. The poems...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 362–377.
Published: 01 December 1988
...Tim Armstrong Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 FINAL GESTURES
B’ B’ TIMARMSTRONG
As he was lying on his deathbed, Thomas Hardy dictated two
angry squibs about his enemies George Moore and G. K. Chester-
ton. The poems...
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in Gathered by Invention: Additive Forms and Inference in Gascoigne’s Poesy
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 December 2015
Figure 2. The conclusion of “seven Sonnets in a Sequence,” with numbering that drops out in the final two poems, A Hundreth sundrie Flowres , sigs. 2X1v–2X2r. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 441–463.
Published: 01 December 2013
... reconciliation of father and daughter, as, also tragically, does the final action between Gertrude and Hamlet when she wipes his forehead, fulfilling his promise that “when you are desirous to be blessed, / I’ll blessing beg of you.” The blessing of marriage between Hamlet and Ophelia exposes another abruption...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
... as an anticlimactic avoidance of the bind of desire. If desire drives beyond any terms in which its target can be represented, what compels William Langland is finally the unrelenting character of the demands to which the subject can never be adequate. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 sin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 391–412.
Published: 01 September 2013
... sensibility (as apprehended in Woolf’s 1925 Common Reader essay, “The Russian Point of View”), but this congruence was intensified during extensive final revisions, begun in typescript just after Woolf had viewed a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in late October 1925. Woolf’s purposeful assimilation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 March 2014
... appears as “The Century’s End 1899 1900”; in the periodical the Graphic , it is implicitly the issue’s date of publication, December 29, 1900; in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), it is “December 1900”; and, finally, in The Collected Poems (1919), it takes its canonical form, “31 December 1900...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., stages the interplay of his wide-ranging literary and philosophical influences. Drawing on figures such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean Racine, Henri Bergson, Arnold Geulincx, and Fritz Mauthner, the play bends toward tragedy but undercuts any sense of finality with its slow unrolling. More than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 499–526.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the city as at once socially fragmented and structurally connected. Furthermore, the novel departs from classical realism in its closure; though the 2008 financial crisis is omitted from the novel, it overshadows the entire plot, and its absence emphasizes the lack of finality in the story of this phase...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that love is a mutual injury, and thus he is a victim too. Since it contains conventional apologies for ravishment, and provocations to touch, the blazon may also be considered a precursor to violent sex. Finally, Sidney rescues his knights, unpersuasively, with a marvelous and “strange conceit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... The essay then turns to A. K. Summers’s graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014), which takes up the character-details of Tintin to expand the narration of gender nonconformity. Finally, the essay traces how character-details focalize bisexual queer eroticism in Carmen Maria...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 42–52.
Published: 01 March 1963
... and the final version of the ode.2
Many critics have commented upon the poor organization of the
final poem, but many others have praised the poem’s aesthetic unity-
for a rather varied set of reasons. One critic found unity through the
illuminating symbolism of the green light. Another...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 184–198.
Published: 01 June 1953
... we use [ae:] where Reed has /e/. (See IV, 12.)
(3) We use I where Reed uses /a (See VIII.)
(4) We use [a] where Reed uses /e/. This we justify not only on
the grounds that it is phonetically more accurate, but also because
[el sometimes occurs in final unaccented position...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 March 1943
... the sounding
of final -e before a vowel-beginning word, or, vice versa, the silenc-
ing of the -e before a consonant. These exceptions have been care-
fully set forth in the systematically arranged “Demonstration” which
constitutes the major part of this book, and are restricted to modern...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 439–449.
Published: 01 December 1968
... and objective normalcy. We move
from Benjy’s confused sensations to Quentin’s twisted obsessiveness, to
Jason’s “logical rational contained”2 literalness, and finally to the ob-
jective, omniscient third-person narration of the last section. The char-
acter dominating but not narrating this last section...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 323–335.
Published: 01 December 1977
...-
such interpretations are unsatisfying to me.
If there is no transcendent pattern of meaning in the universe of
Shakespearean tragedy, what distinguishes the tragic from pathos on
one hand and absurdity on the other? The difference, I think, lies in
the man-made significance created by the hero’s final...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 March 1961
... because of the differing drafts of individual poems
and because of the many rough or semi-final drafts in which no choice has been
indicated among the variants clustered around the margins and between the lines.
Though there will inevitably be continuing scholarly quibbling about the choice...
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