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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 March 1979
...JOHN M. HILL © 1979 University of Washington 1979 BE0 WULF, VALUE, AND THE FRAME OF TIME By JOHN M. HILL For .J. R. R. Tolkien the Beowulfpoet-that consistent voice that narrates the story-surveys a doomed world from an enlightened pres...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 273–275.
Published: 01 September 1960
... that have been current. Perhaps the earliest popular definition of the Victorian frame of mind was the phrase that Chesterton supplied in his little book in 1912‘the age of compromise.” Houghton reveals that it was much more an age of tension and dilemma, often of intolerant-nd, above all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 440–447.
Published: 01 December 1948
...Thomas A. Perry Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 EMERSON, THE HISTORICAL FRAME, AND SHAKESPEARE By THOMASA. PERRY Emerson is most familiar as a “romantic” critic, that is, as an ex- ponent of the intuitive...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 2. The accumulation of character-details in a single frame expands the social narration of queerness, transforming group identity into group work. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K. Summers. Used with the permission More
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 404–405.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Stavros Deligiorgis HAMBUECHEN POTTER JOY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. x + 230 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS Five Frames for the “Decameron”: Communication and Social Systems in the “Cor- nice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 248–272.
Published: 01 September 1989
....” -Ezra Pound’ DETERMINING FRONTIERS T. S. ELIOT’S FRAMING OF THE LI7ERARY ESSAYS OF EZRA POUND BJ MICHAEL COYLE Few examples of literary collaboration have been so celebrated as that of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 605–607.
Published: 01 December 1969
...Donald M. Frame By Mikhail Bakhtin. Translated from the Russian by Helene Iswolsky. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1968. x + 484 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 JOHN E. KELLER 605 pression, pairs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., scholars focus on acts 2 through 4, where the play in question is rehearsed and staged. However, overlooking the frame in acts 1 and 5, where the subject of the interior play is chosen and the problematic consequences of the actor’s conversion are laid out, obscures Rotrou’s true theme, which is neither...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... they are read with an eye to authorial mediation. Further, conceptualizing authors as mediators proves a better framework for writing the history of authorship, as it clarifies synchronic tensions and diachronic developments that unfolded within this frame. It also reveals that the modern ideal of authorial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 169–185.
Published: 01 June 2023
...: they are always in motion, zooming in and zooming out, demanding close observation while also enlarging the frame to the global impact of war or the marginalization of women. Woolf uses details dynamically to move between material objects and human minds, and also to move across scales , and thus produces...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Peter Miller Abstract Wallace Stevens titled his first poetry collection, Harmonium (1923), after a nineteenth-century musical instrument: the American reed organ. The title frames the book as a period piece, an emblem of a bygone age, but also as a musical instrument, a tool for producing new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 129–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to be framed as a choice between symbolic economy (Casanova's “universal” literary capital) and political economy (the focus of many Latin Americanist scholars on hegemonic constructions of modernity). Yet the unique circumstances of Mundial —published in Paris by Spanish America's most famous poet, composed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... The frame around the present argument extends its significance beyond La Princesse de Clèves to the modern literary mechanisms whose origins critics have identified with it. David L. Sedley is associate professor of French and comparative literature at Haverford College. Currently at work on a study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 131–142.
Published: 01 June 1971
... the border line between the audience and the play. Far from being nai’ve about the possibly disruptive effect of min- gling the characters who make up his frame audience into the play prop- er,4 Medwall calls attention to it. When B gets the urge to join the Roman action, A warns him that he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 267–284.
Published: 01 September 1983
..., allegory imprisons its content, its objects, within the confines of an abstraction that does not equivocate, a the- oretically fixed and static frame-a completed view that is always and everywhere an illusion. Hawthorne’s objects, on the other hand, con- 11 See Roman Jakobson, “Two Aspects...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 March 1991
...”in Shakespearean drama is divided into “beats,”which are combined to form “sequences,”which in turn are combined to form “frames.”A beat is “a group of lines joined together by a common purpose” (p. 220); a sequence “raises a single dramatic question and answers it” in a “cli- mactic resolution” (p...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 219–237.
Published: 01 June 2003
... literary history would share the excitement Janet Frame recalls feeling when Curnow s anthology appeared: Here, in the anthology of New Zealand verse . . . I could read . . . about Canterbury and the plains, about dust and distance, about our land having its share of time and not having to borrow from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 316–325.
Published: 01 September 1985
...L. A. Beaurline Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 1 Anne Barton. Ben Jonson, Dramatist . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv + 370 pp. $54.50, cloth; $17.95, paper. Katharine Eisaman Maus. Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind . Princeton...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 79–86.
Published: 01 March 1961
... periods or moments of this thought in its supposed progression from Stoicism through Pyr- rhonism to Epicureanism.l More recently, in 1955, Donald M. Frame, in his Montaigne’s Discovery of Man, has sought to bring out the organic character of this evolution by relating it more closely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 161–167.
Published: 01 June 1968
..., and a more detailed exposition of the framed novella which constitutes Part 111, is perhaps necessary. The first two narratives are not our immediate concern. They re- count separate adventures of the titular hero and are merely episodic in structure, reflecting the formlessness...