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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 December 1976
... of the Imagination: Literary Essays of Harold Clarke Goddard. Edited by ELEANORGODDARD WORTHEN and MARGARETGODDARD HOLT. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1974. vi 4- 257 pp. $10.00. For a long time now it has seemed necessary for those who wish to take Roman ticism seriously...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 400–403.
Published: 01 December 1981
...) in Kossetti’s imagination to which his poems provide a map is, of course, rich in theoretical implications. (Although these implications are not explored in The Poet9 uf Dante Gabriel Rossetti, they indicate that Rossetti in particular and the Pre- Kaphaelites in general provide a fertile field...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (2): 197–201.
Published: 01 June 1986
... typifies the seventeenth-century hatred of Word made flesh, his imagination, as Broadbent noted, tending toward the ideate and away from the incarnate, a judgment supported by other readers. This problem of the imagination, it appears, is becoming a central issue in Milton criticism-witness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 185–186.
Published: 01 June 1954
... often keeps it from its purpose of illuminating Pope’s life and work. DOUGLASXNIGHT Yale University 77ze Prefigurative Imagination of John Keats: A Study of the Beauty-Truth Identification and Its Implications. By NEWELLF...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of the ancestral imagination complicate any straightforward chronology. While The Dynastic Imagination traces the resurgence of the renegade intergenerational perspectives of the nineteenth century as far forward as 1968, the dilemma of a disavowed past that is not past is still with us. The recent reopening...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 404–422.
Published: 01 December 1991
.... Most particularly, the famous chapter 13 of the Biographia Lit- eraria, “On the Imagination,” appears as a say-nothing tract that “con- sists mostly of its [own] absence”-an elegant accusation that will receive treatment later-and that is really only propaedeutic to a revised “Ancient Mariner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 389–392.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Anston Bosman Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World,1570-1670 . By Benjamin Schmidt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2001. 450 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Bosman Review 389 sis. By examining...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Eva Geulen Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770 – 1850 . By Richard T. Gray. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 476 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Eva Geulen is professor of German literature at the University of Bonn. Her most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Rudolf D. Schier Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 NATURAL OBJECTS AND THE IMAGINATION MORIKES VIEW OF POETIC LANGUAGE By RUDOLFD. SCHIER Sie stiegen Arm in Arm uber den Graben an der StraBe und so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 212–215.
Published: 01 June 1977
... it may lack in imaginative thinking on its subject-and this is clearly asking for something quite dif- ferent from what this book has set out to do-is more than adequately made up for by the incorporation of previousiy unpublished material and the gen- erally high level of informed discussion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 300–302.
Published: 01 September 1976
... and the Literary Imagination. By LAWRENCEL. LANCER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975. xiii i-300 pp. $12.50. The fundamental assumption of The Holocaust and the Literary Imagina- tion is that the destruction of the European Jews was an unprecedented act, unique in human...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 421–422.
Published: 01 December 1978
...JAMES M. COX GARBER FREDERICK. New York: New York University Press, 1977. x + 229 pp. $15.00, cloth; $4.95, paper. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 JAMES M.COX 42 1 Thoreau’s Redemptive Imagination...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (1): 89–97.
Published: 01 March 1982
... University Press, 1981. xx + 416 pp. $16.00. The Creative Iniagznalion is an ambitious book. James Engell announces his intention (or, as his phrasing implies, his accomplishment) in the first sen- tence of his Preface: “This book shows how the idea of the imagination, as understood...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 1954
...F. Andrew Brown © 1954 University of Washington 1954 ADDISON’S “IMAGINATION” AND THE “GESELLSCHAFT DER MAHLERN” By F. ANDREWBROWN A long and enthusiastic dedication in the first volume of the “moral weekly” Die Discourse der Mahlern...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 212–214.
Published: 01 June 1984
.... By MARTINPRICE. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. xvii + 373 pp. $27.50. This is an old-fashioned, almost blithely anachronistic, book, one “about ways in which character has been imagined and presented in some novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries” (p. xi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 66–69.
Published: 01 March 1989
.... EDGARSCHELL Universily of California, Inline Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism. By A. C. GOODSON.New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xix + 236 pp. $29.95. This book has ambitions that are barely hinted at in its title. Besides...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 215–216.
Published: 01 June 1961
... be good to have someone else, or Allen himself, consider such questions some day. WALTERJ. ONG SaiH t Louis University The Imagination as a Means of Grace: Locke and the Aesthetics of Romanti- cism. By ERNESTLEE TUVESON.Berkeley...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 June 1945
... and glosses a museum piece of the period. BRENTSSTIRLING University of Washington Francis Bacon on Communication 6. Rhetoric or: The Art of Apply- ing Reason to Imagination for the Better Moving of the Will. By KARL R. WALLACE.Chapel Hill...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 562–566.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., and Manifestos (2008); and coeditor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (2005). She is working on a book about the modern epic. Race and the Modernist Imagination . By Seshagiri Urmila . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xiii + 251 pp. © 2011 by University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 392–396.
Published: 01 December 1987
..., there was not in the years that followed much of a return to older, innocent ways. One might imagine a sequel to Marcus’s study called The Politics of Pleasure; the chief player in that drama would of course be Charles 11. STEVENN. ZWICKEK Washington University...