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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 September 1940
... Values. By A. CLOSS. London : George
Allen and Unwin, 1938. Pp. 478. 18 s.
An authoritative work of almost five hundred pages, in English,
on the genius of German lyric poetry in the nature of a historical
survey of its formal and metaphysical values, written during one...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (2): 210–212.
Published: 01 June 1983
... and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire. By HOWARDD. WEIN-
BKOT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. xx + 388 pp. $35.00.
In his previous book, Augustus Caesar in “Augwstan” England (1 978), How-
ard D. Weinbrot set out to overturn our habit of referring to the Age of
Pope and Swift...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 229–239.
Published: 01 June 1967
...Derek Bickerton Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 MODES OF INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
A FORMAL DEFINITION
By DEREKBICKERTON
Every novelist who tries to present character in depth faces the prob-
lem of conveying...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Virgil Nemoianu © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-03Nemoianu.ak 6/1/00 2:26 PM Page 41
Hating and Loving Aesthetic Formalism:
Some Reasons
Virgil Nemoianu
he present essay starts from deeply felt concerns and deals...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Heather Dubrow © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-04Dubrow.ak 6/1/00 2:27 PM Page 59
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Reinterpreting Formalism and the
Country House Poem
Heather Dubrow
n the current critical...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 March 2000
...J. Paul Hunter © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-06Hunter.ak 6/1/00 2:28 PM Page 109
Formalism and History:
Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet
J. Paul Hunter
egotiating Plato is probably still the single highest...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 131–156.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Robert Kaufman © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-07Kaufman.ak 6/1/00 2:29 PM Page 131
Everybody Hates Kant:
Blakean Formalism and the Symmetries
of Laura Moriarty
Robert Kaufman
verybody Hates Kant would do...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 229–251.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Catherine Gallagher © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-11Gallagher.ak 6/1/00 2:33 PM Page 229
Formalism and Time
Catherine Gallagher
he most prominent generic features of the novel have received
Tremarkably little...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1973
... and
Russian Formalism. By FREDRICJAMESON. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1972. xi + 230 pp. $9.00.
Fredric Jameson is a glutton for “isms.” In Marxism and Form (1971) he
sought to survey the broad sweep of modern Marxist criticism. In the present
book he tackles a vast body...
View articletitled, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian <span class="search-highlight">Formalism</span>
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 347–360.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Matthew Sussman Abstract This essay traces the concept of “aesthetic historicism” in literary studies, from its first appearance in the writing of Erich Auerbach to its influence on an array of contemporary currents loosely associated with “new formalism,” such as historical formalism, historical...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Yosefa Raz Abstract Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 171–194.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Noel Jackson The poetics of Erasmus Darwin's Botanic Garden , its status as an aesthetic as opposed to a purely scientific artifact, and the formal logic of the genre its author popularized have received scant historical attention. Yet in its time Darwin's contribution to the genre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
... culture's end-driven tendencies by taking the viewing process out of the viewer's hands. While readers can read novels as they please, visual technologies function independently of the spectator. From them, James thought, twentieth-century novelists might derive formal strategies to solve the problem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 107–127.
Published: 01 June 2010
... commission to write the Franciade , but also Joachim Du Bellay were exploring epic as a change from love poetry. Having formally renounced Petrarchist lyric, Du Bellay drew on his experience in the French diplomatic service in Rome to compose his most famous sonnet collection, the Regrets . Although...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 2010
...-contained decade. They thus demonstrate the incompatibility between the immediate experience of the present and the retrospective gaze of periodization. They also suggest a way to resolve it. The formal continuity between American Psycho and Glamorama , which shows them to be variations of the same allegory...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 229–269.
Published: 01 September 2010
... ground for poetry to occupy vis-à-vis the New Science, a poetry skeptical of its own inherited fictions based on the old cosmology, a poetry whose own formal patterns and unity intimate order against a more sweeping empirical doubt. University of Washington 2010 David Quint is Sterling...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 309–328.
Published: 01 September 2012
... was to produce a literature with an African referent in a language that deconstructed the mimetic contract as one of the operating signatures of colonial governmentality. In their literary ideologies and formal preferences, these writers did not consider romance, realism, and modernism separate categories...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Paul B. Armstrong Although form and history are joined in reading, the profession of literary studies has regularly regarded formalism and historicism as opposites and even antagonists. When dichotomous terms replicate themselves without mediation, a phenomenological approach to resolving...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 29–44.
Published: 01 March 2008
... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 367–389.
Published: 01 September 2008
... that despite seemingly divergent styles, they share major formal and thematic characteristics. Responding in tandem to the metaphysical crisis of modernity, both aim systematically to replace metaphysical purpose and sublime religious experience with physical sensation and secular ecstasy, to corporealize...
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