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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 March 1943
...Sophus Keith Winther Frederick A. Pottle. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 139. $2.00. Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 Sophus Keith Wirtther 123 The Idiom of Poetry. By FREDERICK A. POTTLE. Ithaca, N. Y...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., Cowper as the preeminent poet of sensibility. The conversational idiom they share, however, holds together even contrasting ideas in unreconciled suspension, and the two poets’ use of that idiom thus accommodates the radical differences in their attitudes. The resulting continuity between their bodies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 425–428.
Published: 01 December 1971
...Otto Reinert Thomas F. Van Laan. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1970. xiv + 374 pp. $11.75; 112s. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 REVIEWS The Idiom of Drnmn. Hy THOMASF. VAN LAAN. Ithaca and London: Cornell...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 365–369.
Published: 01 September 1944
... and excellent illustrations. HELENANDREWS QHIN University of Washington A Dictionary of Words and Idioms Associated with Judas Iscariot: A Compilation Based Mainly on Material Found in the Germanic Languages. By WAYLANDD. HAND. Berkeley and Los Angeles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 363–386.
Published: 01 September 2009
... many of Hawthorne's early tales first appeared, suggests that to read ekphrasis attentively in Hawthorne is to read the idiom of the interpersonal realm. Ekphrasis thus emerges not as a timeless figure to be cherished only by formalists but as a powerful tool for the historian, a moment that compresses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 53–80.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on a desire to regain access to things in themselves—or, in a more recent idiom, to what Quentin Meillassoux calls “the great outdoors ” and Jane Bennett calls “the out-side .” This story does not stand up to scrutiny. A reexamination of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry and philosophy reveals that he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 293–306.
Published: 01 June 2013
... literature as differential idiom, an integral part of a heterogeneous corpus in contestation; and (3) world literature as unitary and universal concept projected globally from particular sites of discourse. Each aspect has had a degree of epochal primacy in literary history. All three aspects seem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 March 1968
... is absent, the other words work a little harder on that account. There is fellowship among the words as there is unity in the mind. It is my impression that in his new book Hoffman has moved boldly into modern poetry with his attendant words, calling upon the poets who share his idiom. Yeats...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 1944
... Voyages to Vinland. The first American saga newly translated and interpreted. By EINARHAUGEN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Pp. x + 181. $3.50. Part I of Voyages to Vinland presents, in modern American idiom, that portion of the material from Hauk’s Book, the Flatey Book and AM. 557...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 532–537.
Published: 01 December 2021
... frames Unfelt as the history of an adverb, insensibly , used “to describe what could look, if described broadly and roughly enough, like the basic components of the ideology of modern Western liberalism” (192). As a mere adverb grows into an idiom and from there into an ideological force, so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 1947
....” There can be no objection to such limitation, if the method of selecting the words of “highest importance and frequency in current usage” is valid. IVe are told (pp. viii, ix) that the selections are based upon (a) word and idiom counts (for German the well-known lists by Morgan, Purin. Hauch...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 388–392.
Published: 01 December 1987
... 389 both participated in and were explicated by that controversy. The “politics of mirth” not only shaped individual texts and arguments but, as Marcus shows, inflected the use of whole genres, modes, and idioms. To suggest that cultural forms are, at times, most finely explicated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 92–94.
Published: 01 March 1962
...” idioms, but the author is obviously more familiar with British than with American usage. Some citations are unfamiliar to me in either usage: “to patch a fox’s tail to a lion’s skin” meaning “to use craft when force will not avail” (p. 36) ; “to live beyond one’s measures” (p. 185...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 December 1975
...). A rather interesting invented German adjective appears in the same story: “von ihrer flimsigen Kleidung” or “of her flimsy clothes” (Der Busch, p. 164). Interesting also is an occasional English or American idiom used as if it were a German idiom. For example: “Aber, und dm ist der Punkt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 175–199.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., and modes of transfer, translation, and interference between idioms and the spaces they imply links his concerns to those of modernists such as Beckett, Joyce, and MacDiarmid in ways still not fully articulated.17 Far more dif cult to grasp, however, is how well Pound seizes the political...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 116–120.
Published: 01 March 1968
... that in his new book Hoffman has moved boldly into modern poetry with his attendant words, calling upon the poets who share his idiom. Yeats, Graves, and Muir are ready with an answerable style. So the question is: how much of each poet can Hoffman touch with his chwen words, given reasonable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 622–627.
Published: 01 December 1969
.... C. Shakespeare the Craftsman. The Clark Lectures, 1968. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969. vii + 187 pp. $5.00. Brett, R. L. Fancy 6. Imagination. London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble, The Critical Idiom, No. 6, 1969. 72 pp. $2.50, cloth; $1.25, paper. Cavitch, David. D. H. Lawrence...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 380–383.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., to the agellations of students learning music at the hands (both literal and meta- phoric) of their masters. Behind all these bodies lies erotic life, and the third major purpose of this book is to locate a history of same-sex desire in the medieval musical idiom. The sinuous melodies of the church, coupled...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 31–34.
Published: 01 March 1945
... to Mr. Heckewelder’s correspondence to prove that the forms [of the languages] as exemplified by him in the Delaware . . . are rich, copious, expressive and particularly that the greatest order and method reign through them. . . . Indeed, from the views of the Leqni-Lenape idiom, it would...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 140–156.
Published: 01 June 1974
... poetry. The introductory observations that both translators make with regard to the language of the Commedia are, on the whole, just. Dante’s idiom is, as Ciardi observes, one of directness and brevity. And as Sayers points out, it achieves many of its effects by its enormous range of diction...