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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 (1970) 31 (4): 492–503.
Published: 01 December 1970
...Ben Drake Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 1 A. L. Clements. The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. x + 232 pp. $7.00. THOMAS TRAHERNE’S SONGS OF INNOCENCE’ By BENDRAKE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 257–273.
Published: 01 September 1972
...Britton J. Harwood Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 THE WIFE OF BATH AND THE DREAM OF INNOCENCE By BRITTON J. HARWOOD The sad note some hear in the voice of the Wife of Bath ca be inte preted as “die...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 396–404.
Published: 01 December 1972
... of poet by whom critics are in- spired, therefore, to offer techniques for the reading of his poems. E. I). Hirsch has suggested that the “ ‘dialectical’ meaning of the Songs of Innocence . . . exists within the poems themselves; that is why they have their fullest impact when they are properly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 339–341.
Published: 01 June 1965
... judiciousness and circumspection with which the author has marshaled relevant sources. ANDREVON GRONICKA University of Pennsylvania Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake. By E. D. HIRSCH,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Doris Sommer Abstract During the US Cold War boom in area studies, scholars would sometimes innocently support homeland economic and political interests. In Latin America and elsewhere, the fact-finding focus often morphed into the look of love, as objects of investigation turned out to be more...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11426383.
Published: 18 September 2024
... deconstructs the melodramatic convention of a happy ending and the concomitant restoration of innocence. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 transatlantic slavery indiano Catalan nationalism melodrama memory Shameful Specters: Remembering...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 1964
... in the Rye is not only about innocence, it is actively for innocence-as if retaining one’s childness were an existential possibility. The metaphor of the title-Holden’s fantasy-vision of standing in front of a cliff and protecting playing children from falling (Falling)-is, despite...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 283–291.
Published: 01 September 1973
... encourages a nonironic I The major readings of Billy Biidd are summarized by James E. Miller, JrBilly Budd: Thecatastrophe of Innocence,” MLN, 73 (1958), 168, n. 1. * Melville’s Quarrel with God (Princeton, 1952), p. 359. 2 83 284 reading of the novel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 250–275.
Published: 01 September 1985
... of vengeance against an exclusive society, a vengeance that threatens to mar Rousseau’s alliance of personal innocence and public truth. An apostrophe to truth in the Letter to M. dxlembert on the Theatre, which serves as my epigraph, clearly separates pure and holy truth from the needs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 383–399.
Published: 01 December 1964
... a Knave) embody their central concern, England or London, in representatives of social types or “estates,” each of whom enacts that vice or abuse inherent in his area of society. The use of such “estates,” coupled with the familiar Vice or Vices and the embodiments of Virtue or Innocent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 312–317.
Published: 01 September 1979
... and Wordsworth within the framework of lyric poetry. It was built upon the foundation of Milton’s major epic [unlike the first, built upon his lyrics] and involved the reini- agining of the Miltonic theme, innocence and experience. . . . They rede- fined the marvelous within...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 298–302.
Published: 01 September 1948
...B. R. McElderry, Jr. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 COLERIDGE ON BLAKE’S SONGS By B. R. MCELDERRY,JR. In 1818 Coleridge returned to Charles Augustus Tulk, the Sweden- borgian, a copy of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experi...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 33–57.
Published: 01 March 1999
... motion-inscribed in the topographies of commonsense positivism. Thus it achieved the aspiration of the picturesque movement: it real- ized the “innocent”vision that inhabits so much picturesque theory, a vision absolutely contingent on nature. It is no coincidence that pho- tography followed so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 325–327.
Published: 01 September 1986
...). In chapter 2 Metzger plots a Romantic pastoral “spectrum” that ranges from “nostalgic longing for lost innocence and simplicity to the inspira- tional vision of an exemplary future state” (p. 44). Blake in Songs of Innocence comes “closer than any other Romantic poet to achieving a modern version...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 June 1965
... GRONICKA University of Pennsylvania Innocence and Experience: An Introduction to Blake. By E. D. HIRSCH,JR. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1964. xv + 335 pp. $6.50, cloth; $1.95, paper; 48s. The prevailing systematic or unitive approach to Blake was bound to produce...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 143–157.
Published: 01 June 1971
... phenomenologically, historically, or in terms of a theory of allegory: Harry Berger, Jr., “Marvell’s ‘Garden’: Still Another Interpretation,” MI& 28 (l967), 285-304;Earl ,Miner, “-1’he Death of Innocence in Marvell’s Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun,” MP, 65 (1967). 9-16; Ann Evans...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 392–393.
Published: 01 December 1976
... journeyings, fol- lowed (necessarily with some repetition) by an account of each man’s book: Clarel, Yusef, and The Innocents Abroad. The aim apparently is to show the relation between each man’s experience and the use he put it to in his writings. If this aim, which is a worthy one, is only...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 394–409.
Published: 01 December 1983
... will lead, not out of incorporative rela- tionships, but back to them in a form that is less passive, and therefore less innocent, than the incorporation one experiences in childhood. David’s happiness has been built in part upon belief in a God who knows him totally, and both his growth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 390–398.
Published: 01 December 1961
...” of other authors. If Vaughan had possessed an exaggerated sense that secular themes, however innocent, were unworthy of a Christian writer, would not such a sense have impelled him to condemn more vigorously poems which had been published, and which were thus the more potent forces...