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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 358–375.
Published: 01 December 1979
...Katherine Bailey Linehan Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THE ODD WOMEN CISSING’S IMAGINATIVE APPROACH TO FEMINISM By KATHERINEBAILEY LINEHAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 290–293.
Published: 01 September 1987
... times Mack’s),2 Pope’s wealth makes him a rich poet talking poor in his letters and imitations of Horace. He argues that Pope’s personal finances “are not detachable ‘background,’ but pervade his imaginative world” (p. 14)’ but it is precisely Pope’s imaginative world that Damrosch...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 137–152.
Published: 01 June 2003
... edited Plessy v. Ferguson: A Brief History with Documents (1997) and the volumes Literature and the Nation (1998) and Law and Literature(2002) for REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature . National Literary Histories: Imagined Communities or Imagined Societies? Brook Thomas...
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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 (2020) 81 (3): 384–386.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Marina MacKay Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction . By Catherine Gallagher . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . vii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 “Nothing I know matters more / than what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Jason Groves [email protected] The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany . By Adrian Daub . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2021 . 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The Dynastic Imagination...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 392–396.
Published: 01 December 1987
... in the Restoration. Indeed, while public mirth was vigorously encouraged in that generous and bacchanalian moment, May 29, 1660, 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 September 1943
...H. E. Briggs Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 KEATS’S “SICKLY IMAGINATION AND SICK PRIDE” By H. E. BRIGS One of the most important products of Keats’s walking tour of Scotland is his “Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns.” This, in recent...
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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 (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 (1999) 60 (3): 379–408.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Wen-chin Ouyang Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 The Imagined Modern Nation in Ycsuf Idris’s AZfarUfir Wen-chin Ouyang Since the staging and publication of AZ-Juriifir, by Yiisuf Idris (ig27-gi), in 1964-considered by many a watershed in the Egyp...
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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 (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 (2018) 79 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to be a central intellectual task of early European modernity. We have not lost the enchantment of a world made for us by God, she argues, but relocated that enchantment in human imagination and creative endeavor. The appeal of projects like Google Earth, with which Ramachandran concludes, is not far removed from...
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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 (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. $10.00. For a long time now it has seemed necessary for those who wish to take Roman ticism seriously...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (3): 306–309.
Published: 01 September 1977
... tone. This is in fact a good book, but not better than many another. ELIZABETHDIDPLE Northwestern University spenser’s Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination. By ISABELG. MAcCAF- FREY. Princeton: Princeton University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 June 1977
..., and on and on. SHERIDANBAKER University of Michigan Imagining a Sel$ Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. By PATRICIAMEYER SPACKS. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1976. 342 pp. $6 15.00. “What the text of a novel represents” or imitates, Barbara Smith...
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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 (1978) 39 (2): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 1978
...KURT HEINZELMAN Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE ECONOMICS OF THE IMAGINATION By KURT HEINZELMAN Critical studies, notably David...