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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 523–534.
Published: 01 December 1969
...Donald Friedman Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 HARMONY AND THE POET’S VOICE IN SOME OF MILTON’S EARLY POEMS By DONALDFRIEDMAN Milton’s poetic career is marked by an unparalleled consistency of purpose...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 March 1970
...- standing and complex in the best of Shaw’s plays, are yet to be explored. CHARLESA. BERST University of California, Los Angeles Music and the Musician in “Jean-Christophe”: The Harmony of Contrasts. By DAVIDSICES. New Haven...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 March 1943
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 261–276.
Published: 01 June 2013
... : Insel . Willey David . 2007 . “ La Scala brings Beethoven to Ghana .” BBC News , April 25 . news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6592317.stm . Zizek Slavoj . 2007 . “ ‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair .” New York Times , December 24 . “The Gospel of World Harmony...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 85–86.
Published: 01 March 1955
...- warding. This section tends much to obscurity in diction and concept. The basic suggestion embodied in the title seems to be-though I am not sure-that Milton’s poetic productions are largely inspired by a perception, or vision, of a divine harmonious plan underlying all creation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
...- nizable subject. He wanted to appeal “to the artistic sense of eye or ear” ; his scheme was to create “arrangements” and “harmonies” in- dependent of naturalistic ~eaning.~He gave many of his paintings musical titles4 and juxtaposed and repeated broad tonal areas of color 1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 299–304.
Published: 01 September 1952
... in the Fifth Book-the harmoniousness of the organ. Throughout the narrative this instrument is princeps instrumentorum for Rabelais, and all references to it are tinged with admiration and awe, even when found within an ironic context. But in the last bpok the harmoniousness of the organ becomes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 195–203.
Published: 01 September 1958
... of the mature author betray his deep yearning for a harmonious polarity hidden behind the display of dialectic ambiguities. The mystical longing for the all-embracing unity of being stems from Thomas Mann’s roman- tic heritage. In his early works it finds fulfillment in death. With his turn toward...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 298–310.
Published: 01 September 1953
... : “the form without use” (Estktica, p. 30), and further characterizes as harmony, or unity in variety. This definition he applies both to natural and to artistic beauty, although he makes a distinction between the two. Natural beauty can exist independently from any observer, in such a way...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 September 1950
... a complete balance between the Zch and the Nicht-Zch, brought about by the forces of the heart, which is identical with the idea of love. “Genius . . . implies a perfect harmony between consciousness of self and consciousness of God. . . . This harmony in turn impels the individual by means of his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 131–145.
Published: 01 June 1973
..., a fact largely ignored by the scholarly examinations of Rousseau’s musical career, which explains the link between his tem- poral vision and his notion of music as an emotive experience. In chapter 13 of the Essai, the writer describes the cosmos as a fundamental system of harmony...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 20–41.
Published: 01 March 1987
.... The Neoplatonist rarely stepped directly from lower to higher love, however; instead the movement toward transcendence pro- ceeded through a rather fluid dialectic known as the coincidentia eositmm, the harmony of opposites. Such harmonization-of sensual and spiritual love, of sensual love...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 158–166.
Published: 01 June 1961
... a per- sonally satisfying solution to the problem. In La pata de la raposa itself, this takes the form of a tripartite pattern of evolution culminating in the reintegration of Alberto into society through his discovery of a vocation with which to “fill the box” and thereby of a harmonious...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Heninger S. K. Jr. 1974 . Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics . San Marino, CA : Huntington Library . Hesiod . 1936 . Theogony . In Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited and translated by Evelyn-White H. G. , 78 – 155 . Loeb Classical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 March 1961
... of all Lotte’s visitors, who gives us the one word needed to sum up the effects of the disease of the artist upon Goethe as Thomas Mann sees it: that word is harmony. This Goethe is the “true-life” harmonious whole for which Thomas Mann had striven in his own life, the harmonious whole...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 349–372.
Published: 01 September 2017
... babe and the inauguration of the young author’s voice. References Allen Don Cameron . 1954 . The Harmonious Vision: Studies in Milton’s Poetry . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press . Attali Jacques . 1985 . Noise: The Political Economy of Music , translated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 90–92.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the musical sublime sounds like and answers: it depends. Writers configured their understandings of Longinus and other classical authors’ precepts so diversely in their intermedial encounters that the sublime might be construed as harmonious, as dissonant, or as concordia discors ; noisy or silent; orderly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 219–236.
Published: 01 September 1979
... in the eclogue for August. The emblem offers contending assertions of vic- tory by two singers, Perigot and Willye, followed by Cuddie’s enigmatic Felice chi puo (happy who can). The eclogue itself, however, focuses on art’s power to bring harmony out of such conflict. For his pledge in the singing match...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1981
... compared to the parts of broken mu- sic. “The Altar” presents the ensuing poems as poetry of praise in the form of part-music emerging from the shards of the poet’s heart, re- constituted as musical parts harmoniously fitted together (“Meets in this frame The idea is echoed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 March 1989
... weight to words like harmony and ceremonious, steep themselves more fully in historical context, outgrow a form of simple-minded romanticism, and de- velop a more sophisticated appreciation of the comic mode. Tall orders, unlikely to be filled. Another approach, very different but potentially...