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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 33–57.
Published: 01 March 1999
...Ronald Schleifer; Nancy M. West Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Poetry of What Lies Close at Hand:
Photography, Commodities, and Postromantic
Discourses in Hardy and Stevens
Ronald Schleifer and Nancy M. West
We understand while we look...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 619–624.
Published: 01 December 1941
...Frederick A. Klemm Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 THE DEAD-HAND MOTIVE AS A PHASE OF
GERHART HAUPTMANN’S ROMANTICISM
By FREDERICKA. KLEMM
The term “dead hand” or its equivalent “mortmain” is used
here...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 195–220.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Aaron Kunin © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Aaron Kunin is visiting assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. His current projects include essays on literary knowledge and an edition of the plays of Jack Spicer. Other Hands in Pepys’s Diary
Aaron Kunin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 231–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 408–409.
Published: 01 December 1961
...Wayland D. Hand Gerhard Lutz. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1958. Pp. 236. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 408 Rm‘ews
Adotf D. Klarmann’s title, “Fratiz Werfel and the Stage,” suggests that
Werfel’s dramas are not meant to be read...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 492–495.
Published: 01 December 2010
... absolute freedom), on
the one hand, and Godwin (who decries marriage as a system of fraud and
enslavement), on the other. For the poet Ann Yearsley, indifference signifies
“a desire to stand outside the closed field of conjugal affect” (7); in philo-
sophical thought indebted to Schelling...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 384–387.
Published: 01 September 1995
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 321–341.
Published: 01 December 1988
...
hand, the race is a degraded correlate for political contests such as
elections or Parliamentary maneuvering. Yet it also provides a valid
analogy, with valuable lessons visible in the parallel. For betting on
horses requires knowledge of facts and persons much like that
essential for any...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 June 1989
Journal Article
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 (2011) 72 (2): 163–200.
Published: 01 June 2011
... such freedom. To assert some degree of social and political freedom depends on attaining freedom from thoughts and feelings that block free action. Hamlet probes the early modern semantic range of free and its cognates, which could denote sociopolitical status, on the one hand, and aspects of moral character...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 191–205.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan Abstract This brief essay outlines the case for a postcolonial presentism arising at the intersection of two urgent areas of inquiry: the literary and linguistic study of global Anglophonism, on the one hand, and the humanistic and social-scientific study...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 362–377.
Published: 01 December 1988
... Hardy’s “last words”? The poem written by the writer’s hand,
the poem of intentionality and authorial presence, or the supple-
ment, the dictated poems that are a problematic (and slightly sinis-
ter) remainder and that can be read by suspicious critics as the real
key to Hardy’s preoccupations...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 362–377.
Published: 01 December 1988
... Hardy’s “last words”? The poem written by the writer’s hand,
the poem of intentionality and authorial presence, or the supple-
ment, the dictated poems that are a problematic (and slightly sinis-
ter) remainder and that can be read by suspicious critics as the real
key to Hardy’s preoccupations...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 June 1999
... reviewer of Lezra’s intricate and brilliant
study of “eventiality”and “unspeakable subjects.” At the heart of this book-
to bend its own use of body parts to our purposes-are two of the most rig-
orously theoretical chapters on Cervantes in print. At the heart of the heart
of this book is a hand...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 448–461.
Published: 01 September 1965
...
he had, indeed, discovered all, said: “Isaac Sumpter.”
Then added, in a conniving whisper, with the pitying smile into
the glass: “Ikey-Little Ikey.”
He shrugged, dropped his hands, palms outward, in a parody of
the classic gesture of the Jew’s resignation and irony...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 September 1944
...Francis Lee Utley Wayland D. Hand. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1942. Pp. 289-356. Seventy-five cents. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 Helen Kahin 365
B. J...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 30–32.
Published: 01 March 1960
... to its conclusions represents
the furthest I should be prepared to go in order to meet those who con-
sider “The Nymph” as a religious poem. On the other hand, I never
thought it worthwhile to comment upon the coexistence in the poem
of pagan and Christian expression, because one finds...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as a unified project. Wells (2005
[1925]: 6) describes his writing as “a sort of shot-silk texture between
philosophical discussion on the one hand and imaginative narrative on
Modern Language Quarterly 76:1 (March 2015)
DOI 10.1215/00267929-2827549 © 2015 by University of Washington
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