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The Making of a Tory Humanist: William Wordsworth and the Idea of Community
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 292–295.
Published: 01 September 1980
... order and guarding against radical change, both upholding
an egalitarian model of full humanity and conserving class privilege. And
Friedman sees no drastic reorientation between the young revolutionary and
the older conservative Wordsworth; he sees the continual shaping of a Tory
humanist...
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Saint Exupery, Artist and Humanist
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 96–107.
Published: 01 March 1951
...Philip A. Wadsworth Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SAINT EXUPERY, ARTIST AND HUMANIST
By PHILIPA. WADSWORTH
The heroic death of Saint ExupCry in 1944 seemed to have cut
short the literary career of one of France’s most gifted writers. His...
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Peter Ramus the Humanist as Philosophe
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 June 1990
...George Huppert Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 PETER RAMUS
THE HUMANIST AS PHILOSOPHE
BJ GEORGEHUPPERT
In Paris, yesterday, I was standing at the top of the steep hill
known as the mountain...
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World Literature as a Speculative Literary Totality: Veselovsky, Auerbach, Said, and the Critical-Humanist Tradition
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay revisits critical-humanist approaches to literary totality that have largely been sidelined during the recent revival of world literature studies. While there has been no shortage of defenses of close reading in the face of distant reading and other positivist...
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The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638152.
Published: 06 March 2025
...Tina Young Choi [email protected] The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis . By Caroline Levine . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xv + 202 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Reviews The Activist Humanist: Form...
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Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 404–406.
Published: 01 December 1981
...Wallace Martin ALTIERI CHARLES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. viii + 344 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 404 REVIEWS
Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic...
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The Cultural Status of Scottish Gaelic a Humanistic Interpretation
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 March 1961
... Jackson. “The Situation of the Scottish Gaelic Language,” Lochlann , I (1958), 229–34. THE CULTURAL STATUS OF SCOTTISH GAELIC
A HUMANISTIC INTERPRETATION
By CHARLESW. DUNN~
For at least four centuries the Gaelic spoken in the Highlands and
Western Islands...
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New Humanism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 61–79.
Published: 01 March 2008
... relationship with hegemonic discourses by examining the literary practices of three New Humanists who demonstrated, respectively, ideal/academic, political, and transcendental ways of engagement. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Li Tonglu is a doctoral student in the Department of East Asian...
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In the Literature Lab
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Kevin Pask Abstract The most striking development in literary scholarship since the millennium is the increasing exploration of scientific models for literary research. This reflects an anxiety about the authority of humanistic research that has historical roots, some of them well described...
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A Study in Distant Reading: Genre and the Longue Durée in the Age of AI
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to contemplate and clarify the humanistic stakes of machine “reading” during what some AI commentators conceive as a fourth industrial revolution. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 References Abbott Megan . 2002 . The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction...
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The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonial in the Present Tense
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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...
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Modern Humanities and the Ancient Book: Karl Kerényi’s Media Theory
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...
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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
...Jane O. Newman Abstract The older and allegedly more conventional humanistic discipline of philology and the field of the “new” media of film that were emerging into their maturity in the early twentieth century are not commonly aligned. The institutional spaces they occupied—a cloistered academy...
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Lessons Learned from Latin America
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Oswald de Andrade formulated in his 1928 “Manifesto antropófago.” “Who eats whom?” they asked. And, “Is it bad?” For humanists, thanks to theoretical contributions in literary studies by Jorge Luis Borges, and for the range of arts by Luis Camnitzer, scholars north and south have been learning...
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Metaphysical Freedom
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 465–492.
Published: 01 December 2013
... inquiry—metaphysical freedom involves being drawn, overwhelmed, and transformed from without, all so as to enter a strange state of rest. While Arendt is ultimately humanistic in her understanding of freedom and natality, ascribing an important role to agency, freedom in metaphysical poetry plunges...
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The Protean Face of Renaissance Humanism
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 June 1990
... in consciousness
that people fantasized strange breads and occasionally hallucinated
on rotten grain, it is no wonder that the poor relied upon the
manual labor of their children.* The Italian humanist Antonio
Ivani observed in the 1460s that “to get enough food for their
stomachs is almost...
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Humanism and Public Life Introduction
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 101–104.
Published: 01 June 1990
.... Ancient
Rome provided the model for shaping the political life and a politi-
cal ideology that placed the res publica above all individual con-
cerns. It provided a model of the conduct of a statesman in the
Roman senator. A humanist can be defined as one who administers
this inheritance...
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From Humanism to the Humanities A Critique of Grafton and Jardine∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 122–143.
Published: 01 June 1990
... and important effort to interpret Renaissance
humanist education in light of a theoretical perspective that may
loosely be termed neo-Marxist: From Humanism to the Humanities:
Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Centuly Europe,
by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine.3 The book...
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Christian, Pagan, and Devout Humanism in Sixteenth-Century France
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 337–352.
Published: 01 September 1951
... considerably from
Rabelais to Ronsard and from Montaigne to St. Francis of Sales,
all of whom would be eligible for the title of humanists. French
humanism has its aristocrats and its democrats,’ its philosophers and
its rhetorician its nature-minded and its history-minded adherents,*
its...
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Civic Humanism and the Rebirth of the Ciceronian Oration ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 167–184.
Published: 01 June 1990
... of humanism from a movement of private scholars into
one participating actively in Italian public life. Whereas fourteenth-
century humanists such as Petrarch and Coluccio Salutati pursued
their humanistic interests largely within the context of private
study, with the classicizing of oratory...
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