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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 60–76.
Published: 01 March 1967
...”) Life is not free from its forms. (“Adagia”) THE GESTALT CONFIGURATIONS OF WALLACE STEVENS By STEVENFOSTER More than any other experimental discipline, Gestalt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 407–414.
Published: 01 December 1968
... as a veritable apotheosis of the concept Gestalt and an exemplification of the aesthe- tic-ethical thesis that everything in existence should achieve its perfect form2 The roses, the trees, the cacti in Nuchsommer, as well as the art objects that Risach rescues from oblivion, reach perfection...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 405–412.
Published: 01 December 1967
.... These expectations provide what the Gestalt psychologists would call an “internal force of organization,” a norm, a predisposition toward a certain patterning.l We will discuss meter, then, as a force affecting perception, a force generated by a reader’s expectation of (1) a pattern of alternating weaker...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 67–71.
Published: 01 March 1951
... komische Gestalt neben der tra- gischen mit gleicher, vielsagender Bedeutung. Nur dem spanischen Vorbilde folgend konnte in der Komodie Grillparzers neben die Ge- stalt Gregors die des Kuchenjungen Leon treten. In der Vereinigung dieser beiden Gestalten druckt sich j ener eigenartige...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1969
... relationship will do. The relationship of the high and low terms in a satiric utterance is appar- ently not crucially important. We are obliged to accept a configura- tional or Gestalt description of the satiric process. Semantic gravita- tion occurs when low images are inserted into a cluster...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 239–240.
Published: 01 June 1950
... bewundernswertem FleiB verfolgten Bemu- hungen kommt in Gestalt eines ansehnlichen Bandes zu Hoffmanns hundertfunf- undzwanzigsten Todestage eben zurecht. Das Buch richtet sich gleichermaBen an gebildete hien und an fachwissen- schaf tlich orientierte Leser, und diese an sich verstiindliche...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 267–284.
Published: 01 September 1983
... function expressively and shape the signifi- cance of the narration itself. They correspond to an interior reso- nance, elements of an affective configuration spatially grounded in the structural “gestalt” of a perceiver. For Hawthorne, an object “objects” only to the extent that it par- tially...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 389–399.
Published: 01 September 1949
... of excitement, no straining to reconcile diverse elements. But it is a suggestive description of a sight, a gestalt, which contained valuable elements. Undoubtedly many of the passages in Wordsworth’s own poetry were of a similar texture and tone at first thought, or first draft, and were later...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 317–327.
Published: 01 September 1946
... (lie Vereinigten Staaten haben da in der Stehr-Forschung eingesetzt, wo letztere begann, die Bahnen objektiver Wissenschaft- lichkeit zu verlassen. In Groningen erschien 1936 der bis jetzt bedeu- tendste Beitrag zur Stehrphilologie von Emil Freitag “Hermann Stehr, Gehalt und Gestalt seiner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 180–199.
Published: 01 June 1952
... konkreteste Philosophie einer Zeit. Die Dichter- generation, die heute am Werke ist, hat drei entscheidende Zeitereig- nisse erlebt : die gewittertrachtige Schwule des Vorkriegs, die Zer- trummerung aller leiblichen und seelischen Gestalt im Kreig; und die Perpetuierung des ungehemmten...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 241.
Published: 01 June 1950
... zuruckfinden. Entwickelt Schenck Hoffmanns geistige Gestalt genetisch und, wenn auch nicht ohne Schwerpunktverschiebungen, so doch als Ganzes, so tr5gt Hewett-Thayer von auBen Fragestellungen heran und behandelt diese monographisch. Seiner eingehenden und bis in Einzelheiten dem derzeitigen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 201–202.
Published: 01 June 1944
... unverstandliche orter verbessert / unterschiedene von meinen gedichten mit eingestreuet / und gegenwartige vorrede beygefuget. Solcher gestalt hat es in meiner gewalt nicht bestanden / etliche unnotige zusatze zu verhindern; welches iedennoch / so viel mir moglich gewesen / bey dieser neuen verlegung...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 334–335.
Published: 01 June 1941
.... The printing has been done with care. Only two misprints were noted: not (p. 177) for nor, and Weibsanstalt (p. 269) for Weibs- gestalt. MAX SCHERTEL University of IJWLz‘ngton The Artist in Modern German Drama. Ey RALPHSTOKES COLLINS. Doctor’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1941
..., and Weibsanstalt (p. 269) for Weibs- gestalt. MAX SCHERTEL University of IJWLz‘ngton The Artist in Modern German Drama. Ey RALPHSTOKES COLLINS. Doctor’s dissertation, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1940. Pp. v + 135. This is not the first piece...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 359–394.
Published: 01 June 2000
... a Gestalt-switch” (Truth and Progress, 10). The idea of Gestalten itself, in fact, harbors an ideal of repleteness: in a Gestalt objects appear as projected toward potentialities and interrelations. From Rorty’s angle, the heroic scene-shifter is fully Modern, for only...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 March 1948
... “Maximin” zusammen. Zwar bleibt dieser ungenannt, aber die ersten Gedichte dieses Bandes gelten einer Gestalt, die noch Spuren ihrer Genese aus der Situation des Maximinbuches im “Ring” verrat. . . . We sincerely wish that other works on Stefan George, and for that matter on any other...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 504–505.
Published: 01 December 1947
... in “Keats als Weltanschauungsdichter.” Maurer says explicitly that Keats’s aim was “durch Phantasie das Kunstwerk zii schaffen, die ‘Gestalt,’ die Schonheit. . . .” There is, therefore, little originality in Caldwell’s development of this idea in the first part of his book. Later he argues...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 March 1949
... wechseind voriiber, Guirlandcii von Lampen schmuckten die Winde, unzahlige Spiegel dazwischen spielten daq T,ehen ins Unendliche. so daB man die Gestalt rnit ihreni Widerspielc verwechselte und das Auge verwirrt in der grenucrnlosen Ferne dieser Aussicht sich verlor. IIzn schauderte mitten...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 450–452.
Published: 01 December 1985
... are new. But Donaldson takes the point of view toward these parallels now being taken by Chaucerians toward Chaucer’s own relations to the classical, French, and Italian authors, that is, not merely parallel hunting but discuss- ing the similarities as evidence of a broader, gestalt, familiarity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 350–351.
Published: 01 December 1957
..., and ultimately fails to reestablish the balance of Gestalt and Gahalt, he leaves our appreciation no fuller. This reviewer was not quite convinced by the intriguing interpretation of the Rilke Angels which asso- ciates their functidn wtih Jaspers’ “spielende Metaphysik” (p. 105). Simenauer’s diagnosis...