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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 493–520.
Published: 01 December 2011
... challenges received understandings of the linguistic purchase of modernist innovation. The author examines Hebrew and Yiddish modernist literary texts by Devorah Baron and Dovid Bergelson that employ nonreferential indexicality in order to chart the ruptures in two textual communities, in two particular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Yosefa Raz Abstract Between 1741 and 1750 Robert Lowth, Oxford’s fifth chair of poetry, presented a series of groundbreaking lectures that reimagined the Hebrew Bible as literature, emphasizing its artful formal qualities. Today he is best known for rediscovering the parallelism of ancient Hebrew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 223–249.
Published: 01 June 1999
... by an equally pow- erful ideological formation, toward which, as a work of Israeli fiction written in Hebrew, that representation may well seem to point: political Zionism. For this reason Badenhaim has itself been accused of ideolog- ical determinism. Yet it is an extraordinarily well crafted...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 234–247.
Published: 01 June 1969
... in Hebrew (to a God still identified with Zion and a historical Promised Land), but their common speech began to reflect the wanderings of the Diaspora. Thus, Germanic words crept into the language (although the linguistic structure of the original Hebrew was preserved where possible) and soon...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 158–163.
Published: 01 June 1963
... : Smart’s back- ground in Greek and Hebrew, and the letters in the order in which they stand. “We may believe that Smart went up to Cambridge with a mastery of Greek and Latin grammar and translation, some knowl- edge of Hebrew, and a familiarity with . . . Xenophon, Homer, Sophocles, Euripides...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 1942
... and was splendidly received by the citizens at the Guildhall. Most fulsome in their tribute to the Returning Hero were the two universities. His Oxford admirers issued a volume called Ezccharistica Oxoniensia and containing panegyrics in the usual variety of languages-Greek, Latin, Hebrew...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (4): 501–536.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Barbara Mann © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Barbara Mann is assistant professor of Hebrew literature and Jewish studies at Princeton University. Portions of a book in progress titled A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space have appeared...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (3): 199–203.
Published: 01 September 1956
... in SpPn.srr (Calcutta and London, 1935) : Joseph B. Collins, Christimt Mysticism in thr Elizabrfhotr 199 200 Spemrer‘s Sabaoth’s Red The idea of a Sabbath day (Hebrew, Shabbdth, from sbbath “to rest”) greater than the weekly holy day may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: Oxford University Press, 2003), 1:70. Damrosch    Scriptworlds: Writing Systems and World Literature 199 societies along the eastern Mediterranean coast shared a West Semitic alphabetic system, comprising Hebrew, Aramaic, alphabetic Ugaritic, and Phoenician. The separations between these groups...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 149–162.
Published: 01 June 1952
... tradition, unlike that of Ettore Schmitz. Eugene Jolas reports that Joyce studied Hebrew, but does not say when, nor how thoroughly. See “My Friend James Joyce,” Partisan Review, VIII ( March-April, 1941), 90. PAGE79: “Something like those mazzoth: it’s that sort of bread: unleavened...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 1996
... Tmuh and Law in “ParadiseLost” brings compelling energy to the topic of Milton’s Hebraism. While he believes “that Milton’s competence in biblical Hebrew would have enabled him to read Rashi’s Commentary which appeared in more edi- tions of the Hebrew Bible than any other,” Rosenblatt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 458–463.
Published: 01 December 1949
... the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,n and since Oxford published more and larger miscellanies and was generally more eager to please royalty than was her sister university. Though the number of French poems is far smaller than that of Latin, Greek, or even Hebrew, it is the largest number...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 March 1995
... attempt to refute historians from Herodotus to the eighteenth- century deist John Toland who attribute alphabetic priority to the Egyptians, Chaldeans, or Phoenicians.’ But in arguing for the divine priority of Hebrew writing and Judaic culture, Defoe shifts the alpha- bet’s history from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 425–429.
Published: 01 December 1983
... affirmation of Christ’s ultimate victory, and (3) the legend of a Hebrew hero who in the seventeenth century became an honorary Puritan saint. Correspondingly, Samson Agonistes is here regarded as “an ‘opened’ version of Old Testament history,” “a Protestant Purgutorio Y John Calvin,A Hamonkupon...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 307–312.
Published: 01 June 1941
...John Webster Spargo H. Munro Chadwick and N. Kershaw Chadwick. Three volumes. Volume I, The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932), pp. xx + 672; Volume II, Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936), pp. xvii + 783; Volume III, Oral...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 91–93.
Published: 01 March 1975
... of Modtm Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. By DANMIRON. New York: Schocken, 1973. xv 4- 347 pp. $10.95. A Traveler Disguised is a book about Yiddish litmature written in English by an Israeli critic whose normal language of communication must surely be Hebrew. Dan NIiron...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 June 2003
... compatriot share a joint project of reimagining the liberal subject. In Russia the failure of Jewish enlightenment leads S. Y. Abramovitch to turn to novel writing to create a Hebrew vernacular. That these themes describe the chapters of a single critical study cannot but signal an important contribution...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 258–260.
Published: 01 June 2003
... compatriot share a joint project of reimagining the liberal subject. In Russia the failure of Jewish enlightenment leads S. Y. Abramovitch to turn to novel writing to create a Hebrew vernacular. That these themes describe the chapters of a single critical study cannot but signal an important contribution...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 260–265.
Published: 01 June 2003
... compatriot share a joint project of reimagining the liberal subject. In Russia the failure of Jewish enlightenment leads S. Y. Abramovitch to turn to novel writing to create a Hebrew vernacular. That these themes describe the chapters of a single critical study cannot but signal an important contribution...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2003
... compatriot share a joint project of reimagining the liberal subject. In Russia the failure of Jewish enlightenment leads S. Y. Abramovitch to turn to novel writing to create a Hebrew vernacular. That these themes describe the chapters of a single critical study cannot but signal an important contribution...