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The Woolfs in the Jungle: Intertextuality, Sexuality, and the Emergence of Female Modernism in The Voyage Out, the Village in the Jungle , And heart of Darkness
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (1): 33–69.
Published: 01 March 2003
...: Intertextuality,
Sexuality, and the Emergence of Female
Modernism in The Voyage Out, The Village in
the Jungle, and Heart of Darkness
Mark A. Wollaeger
n A Room of One’s Own (1929) Virginia Woolf advises women writers
I to “think back” through their mothers, but the tortuous composition...
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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 560–562.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Christopher Matthews Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart . By Kirstie Blair. Oxford: Clarendon, 2006. vi + 273 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Christopher Matthews teaches at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He has published on Arthur Hugh Clough...
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“Mars His Heart Inflam'd with Venus”: Ideology and Eros in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 209–226.
Published: 01 September 1989
...LARRY R. CLARKE Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 “MARS HIS HEART INFLAM’D WITH VENUS”:
IDEOLOGY AND EROS IN SHAKESPEARE’S
7ROILU.S AND CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida is a play about a people whose eroticized
ideology leads...
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 112–114.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Angela Sorby Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem. By Catherine Robson.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. xv + 295 pp.
Catherine Robson’s Heart Beats uses specific poems (Felicia Hemans’s “Casa-
bianca,” Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” Charles...
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Inward Sky: The Mind and Heart of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 413–414.
Published: 01 December 1963
...
University of Washington
Inward Sky: Tlte Mind and Heart of Nuthaniel Hawthome. By HUBERTH.
HOELTJE.Durham: Duke University Press, 1962. Pp. 579. $10.00.
Students of English literature are often slightly patronizing toward “Ameri-
canists” and American literature. Hubert H. Hoeltje’s...
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The Lesser Nightmare Marlow's Lie in Heart of Darkness
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 322–329.
Published: 01 September 1964
...Kenneth A. Bruffee Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 THE LESSER NIGHTMARE
MARLOW’S LIE IN HEART OF DARKNESS
By KENNETHA. BRUFFEE
Late in Conrad’s story Heart of Darkness, Marlow expresses the
belief...
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Robert Greene’s Ghosts
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the charisma of Greene’s persona, their acts of ventriloquism exposing the fiction behind his performance of sincerity. At the same time, they confronted the fictionality at the heart of public discourse itself—the imaginary presence that grounded the increasingly diffuse readerships of the early modern book...
FIGURES
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Milton and the Divisions of History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 321–348.
Published: 01 September 2017
... operations, controlled and repeatable experiments, and measurement-based, post-Baconian science. Milton’s Eve sins as the world’s first experimentalist and in effect breaks the World-Soul’s cosmic heart: even as Spenser’s Agape had previously re-created it allegorically, Neoplatonically, and metaphysically...
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Philology Goes to the Movies: The Task of the Critic in Kracauer and Auerbach
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 December 2023
...-century French classicisme and the mass-produced cinema of the early twentieth century, respectively, in critical fashion. Auerbach’s familiarity with Kracauer’s early essays may have alerted him to questions at the heart of the latter’s critique of the culture industry and helps explain the remarkable...
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The Surface of the World: W. H. Auden and the Umwelt
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 177–203.
Published: 01 June 2024
... on his biographical and intellectual adjacency to the biologist Jakob von Uexküll. Several close readings illustrate the resonance between Uexküll’s theory of the Umwelt and an epistemological shift at the heart of Auden’s poetry, wherein the idea of the self is reconfigured in terms of the embodied...
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“Almost Worthless”: Edward Upward’s Failures
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638096.
Published: 06 March 2025
... realism, only to return to his fantastic style late in life. While Upward is often held up as a patron saint of lost potential, this essay argues that failure lies at the very heart of his aesthetic. Teetering between hope and unspeakable regret, Upward’s “art of failure” is remarkably ambivalent. Where...
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Hert-Huntyng in the Book of the Duchess
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 131–139.
Published: 01 June 1964
..., but because he wishes fully to realize the impli-
cations of what has happened. The Knight is the will or heart of
the poet which sees the death of Blanche at first as a loss to For-
tune. The dreamer is the reason. The poem becomes a medita-
1 Helge KokeIitz, “Rhetorical Word Play...
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Heartsick: The Language of French Disgust
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 421–444.
Published: 01 December 2018
... . Mon cœur à l’étroit . Paris : Gallimard . NDiaye Marie . 2017 . My Heart Hemmed In , translated by Stump Jordan . San Francisco : Two Lines . Ngai Sianne . 2005 . Ugly Feelings . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Nixon Rob . 2011 . Slow Violence...
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Polyphonic Psalm Settings and the Voice of George Herbert's The Temple
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (3): 227–246.
Published: 01 September 1981
... voice unconnected to a divine support, Herbert
seeks, as he says in “Easter,” to correct the “defects” of his poetic voice
by “twisting” his heart and lute into three-part counterpoint with the
voice of the Holy Spirit. Similarly, in many poems of The Temple, God
makes himself manifest...
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Goethe's “Iphigenia” And the Humane Ideal 1
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 307–320.
Published: 01 September 1949
..., the fearful
pains of a tormented heart, are the subsoil from which his Iplzigcni(i
had grown, as they are so often the subsoil of his works which he
himself, in his autobiography, called “but fragments of one great
confession.” Yet in his correspondence with Schiller in which he
discusses...
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Diminishing Epiphanies of Odin Carlyle's Reveries of Primal Fire
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 51–64.
Published: 01 March 1983
... is fire. The focal point is a center, usually of an implied sphere,
or else the center may itself be a sort of sphere: a heart or an eye. Or
the central focus-point may enlarge into a section of a sphere: a vor-
tex, a cone, or a pillar. The surrounding, contrasting milieu is gener-
ally darkness...
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On Speaking the Good Goethe's Iphigenie as “Moralisches UrphÅnomen”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 162–180.
Published: 01 June 1980
... as “personality” with the attribute of conscience, as well as the
refinement of feeling evolved in the highest achievements of Christian
civilization.3 The culture of the human heart stands at the center of
Goethe’s drama, bearing witness to this development. Thus, although
not a single line speaks...
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Shylock Is Shakespeare
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 557–559.
Published: 01 December 2008
... affiliations with his subject matter, but he never, as it were, wears his
circumcised heart on his sleeve. Rather than dip into anecdote or memoir,
Gross invites us to enter the generous and thoughtful circle drawn by noth-
ing more or less than the frank and assiduous unfolding of the interpretive...
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Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 563–567.
Published: 01 December 2008
... exercised in this brave little book.
If Shylock is Shakespeare, Gross unabashedly finds himself in both.
This book is intimate without being personal. Gross sounds the depths of
his own affiliations with his subject matter, but he never, as it were, wears his
circumcised heart on his sleeve...
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Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 567–569.
Published: 01 December 2008
... exercised in this brave little book.
If Shylock is Shakespeare, Gross unabashedly finds himself in both.
This book is intimate without being personal. Gross sounds the depths of
his own affiliations with his subject matter, but he never, as it were, wears his
circumcised heart on his sleeve...
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