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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 517–540.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of free indirect discourse and other techniques of point of view registers the contemporary breakdown in labor relations and the crisis for established modes of management. In Ashbery’s mature style of the 1970s, this chaotic play of voices yields to a comparatively measured technology of point of view...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 June 2013
... ( A Library of World Literature , 1929). Direct and indirect censorship, the cultural politics of intimidation, and the ethnicization of German national literature make Hesse’s essay, and its afterlife, an exemplary means of evaluating world literature through the politics of (in)accessibility. B...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 229–239.
Published: 01 June 1967
... a mere chronicle of facts and acts. Perhaps because of this awkwardness, several distinct methods of rendering interior monologue have been employed by different writers at different times. Robert Humphrey lists these as soliloquy, omnis- cient description, indirect interior monologue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 157–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
...—style indirect libre, also known as “free indi- rect style” or represented speech and thought—in such a way as to stunt the force of its identifiability as a form. Since I believe that free indirect style is the novel’s one and only formal contribution to litera...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 376–377.
Published: 01 September 1946
... can be evoked by creating with sounds or words . . . or by taking mystery itself as the object of art. The first method, which works by sug- gestion, implicitly, I call the indirect method; the second which is explicit, I label direct.” Thus Homer is the master of the indirect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 47–67.
Published: 01 March 1976
... and spiritual consolation. The language of confession is deliberately impoverished but oblique. Since the mourner’s grief cannot be told directly, it must be told indi- rectly. And in the indirection of his verse, in words that “half reveal / And half conceal” their meaning (5.3-4),3 the mourner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 571–585.
Published: 01 December 1965
... his squeamishness. His sense of honor prevents him from releasing his strong, dammed-up passion (from reduc- ing “his tributaries faster He feels a restraint that is quite incongru- ous to the art of love-making. “Reeling with the sap of April” continues the ambitious indirection...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 260–261.
Published: 01 June 1947
...) are split into the “unreal” and the “quotative” on the basis of using such forms as er sunge in contrary- to-fact sentences and er singe in indirect discourse. This is a good solution of a vexing problem, but it might be better to choose other designations, because the “unreal” is also used...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 545–557.
Published: 01 December 1965
... the girl cannot employ Mr. Jarndyce’s pleasant crotchet of the “east wind” in the face of evil or pain. Instead, she must rely on her repertory of indirect evaluation and commentary, which necessarily exposes such a character to charges of hypocrisy, “mock-modesty,” “revolting virtue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 318–325.
Published: 01 December 1956
...., compound utterances each of which consists of a governing clause (GC) plus an indirect clause (IC). A traditional example of such sentences is : er sagbe, er sei krank. Fourquet writes as follows : Si le verb de la principale [clause] est A la lre personne et en prCsent, on ne peut...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... indirect discourse, free association, imagery and symbols, irregular punctuation, fragmented sentences, ellipses, paratactical paragraphs, discontinuous syntax, onomatopoeia, sensory perception, lexical opaqueness, or lexical bombardment. These features, we are told, are used in varying degrees...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 1947
... singe in indirect discourse. This is a good solution of a vexing problem, but it might be better to choose other designations, because the “unreal” is also used in indirect discourse, as Dr. Moulton points out (p. 490, 5 8.5b), and the “quotative” is not only used in indirect discourse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 308–321.
Published: 01 September 1964
... illusion, indirect or symbolic representation, and distance in a context close enough to Brecht’s to make rather direct comparisons possible. It is the intent of this study to make such com- parisons and to indicate to what a surprising extent Ludwig, whose practice could scarcely differ more from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 198–200.
Published: 01 June 1979
... studies of this poetry as a form of indirect moral suasion. As these comments imply, the book’s emphasis upon devotional modes may blur distinctions that more properly might be termed rhetorical. Some of love’s architecture may have more solid footings in literary conventions than in con...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 420–422.
Published: 01 December 1979
... of strained and inhuman purity. Though Tile Sacred Fount can be made to yield one indirect and five direct confirmations of the narrator’s view, balanced by the same number of indirect and direct repudiations (p. 172), the mathematical neatness of such “perfect balance” (p. 174) is itself...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., as “an indirect semantic factor.”9 In Theory of Literature, a once influential polemic for “intrinsic study,” René Wellek and Austin War- ren called for a reading of the “work of art” as “a whole system of signs, or structure of signs, serving a specific aesthetic purpose...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 337–351.
Published: 01 December 1982
..., or Catholicism.19 So Byron’s spiritual homelessness poetically resulted in the kind of ironic indirection we find in Cain, where critics have so often bobbed for dogmas like children for Halloween apples, with less success. By- ron always slips away from us. Lucifer is both rebel and demon; Cain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 1947
... of Restoration drama : he describes its downfall through personification and a kind of indirection of thought : Till Shame regain’d the Post that Sense betray’d, And Virtue call’d Oblivion to her Aid (27-28). These are, however, but flashes-for the most part the Prologue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 March 1996
... in political action. At the same time, however, the fact that we are dealing with a Machiavellianism that has itself become indirect and, indeed, symbolic -detached from the historical participants’ actual knowledge of Machiavelli-accentuates the role of the modern interpreter. Kahn’s thinking...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 43–46.
Published: 01 March 1949
... to a minimum ; indirect quotation or even “style indirect libre” are com- paratively rare.’ Renard avoided the cumbersome “said he,” “said she,” and the numerous near synonyms to which authors resort for the sake of variety; instead, he wrote dialogue exactly as one would in a play. Thus...