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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 479–482.
Published: 01 December 2010
... unconvinced that
the enemy of calling intention a fallacy truly deserves the army of examples,
arguments, and ideas that Enders marshals. She repeatedly makes the point
that intentionality matters in theater studies, and that paying attention to
it “offers a remedy of sorts to the moral relativism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 375–412.
Published: 01 December 1953
...Elmer Edgar Stoll Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 INTENTIONS AND INSTINCT
By ELMEREDGAR STOLL
And no man can be a rhapsode who does not understand the meaning of the poet.
For the rhapsode ought...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 176–178.
Published: 01 June 1955
... work.
CURTISC. D. VAIL
University of Washington
The Esthetic Intent of Tieck’s Fantastic Comedy. By RAYMONDM. IMMERWAHR.
Saint Louis : Washington University Studies, New Series, Language and
Literature, No. 22, 1953. Pp. ix...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 March 1943
...J. C. Chessex Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 LES INTENTIONS DE MOLIfiRE
By J. C. CHESSEX
De nos jours, on dklare volontiers que Molicre Ctait avant tout
un homme de th&tre-nC, un acteur, et un auteur comique qui cher-
chait surtout...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2018
... its literary significations. It is characterized by interpreting literary texts with a prepositioned mode of subjective intention in an attempt to reach a conclusion conforming to the critic’s intentions and theoretical doctrines taken off-field and from the critic’s own preconditioned logical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 267–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
... © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 conversation historical poetics interpretation lyric intention Systems theory (Luhmann 1991 ), discourse networks (Warner 2002 ), historical poetics (Jackson 2005 ), distant reading (Moretti 2013 ), language ideologies (Silverstein 2017...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 173–204.
Published: 01 June 2017
...-eighteenth century as it is of the late sixteenth—and that its relation to Spenser’s intentions is less clear than the role it has played in securing norms of scholarly rigor, historical accuracy, and textual precision. Despite what most modern editions imply, attending to “Spenser’s spelling” tells us less...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 429–451.
Published: 01 December 2010
... with strangers, transforming her ethics into an illiberal form of internationalist expansionism. By entwining these incompatible phenomena, Baum creates a lasting metaphor for U.S. foreign policy: Dorothy as the reluctant traveler who selflessly intervenes in the affairs of strangers with the intention...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 29–44.
Published: 01 March 2008
... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
... over McKay’s memories of his childhood and of his native Jamaica, Dover failed to uphold not only the most rudimentary principles of scholarship but his own best intentions. East Indian, West Indian offers a distinctive vantage on the history of “world literature” and on the challenge of reconciling...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the theme of technological critique and implicitly asserts its relevance for contemporary Italy. A closer examination of publisher and translator complicates the picture, revealing contradictory intentions and casting subversive aims into doubt. Nevertheless, an ambitious publishing project in the immediate...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 130–136.
Published: 01 June 1955
... intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
There are two problems involved. The first has two aspects: the
resemblances between pity and the strange babe and between pity and
the active cherubin; and the activity of pity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the authorship and the textual history of this famously sincere, intentions-obsessed document. I won’t ruin the surprise, but it involves unexpected punctuation and, in both its unusually lively tone and its commitment to archival rigor, goes farther, I think, than any of the previous chapters to vindicate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 368–371.
Published: 01 September 2024
... God to a deity of good intentions. Gone is the omnipotent, all-loving God of traditional theology. Instead, we discover in Cullen’s sonnet the possibility of a bumbling God who, for all his “well-meaning” ways, wreaks havoc. I begin with Cullen because Ana Schwartz’s Unmoored offers a similar...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 404–406.
Published: 01 December 1981
... be guaranteed only by authorial intention; for
Jacques Derrida, the sign’s lack of a “propre sens” generates interminable dis-
placements in a deluded search for certainty. Between these extremes we can
range proponents of conventionalism, pluralism, historical relativism, ideologi-
cal analysis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 482–485.
Published: 01 December 2010
... unconvinced that
the enemy of calling intention a fallacy truly deserves the army of examples,
arguments, and ideas that Enders marshals. She repeatedly makes the point
that intentionality matters in theater studies, and that paying attention to
it “offers a remedy of sorts to the moral relativism...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 485–488.
Published: 01 December 2010
... unconvinced that
the enemy of calling intention a fallacy truly deserves the army of examples,
arguments, and ideas that Enders marshals. She repeatedly makes the point
that intentionality matters in theater studies, and that paying attention to
it “offers a remedy of sorts to the moral relativism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 489–492.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of calling intention a fallacy truly deserves the army of examples,
arguments, and ideas that Enders marshals. She repeatedly makes the point
that intentionality matters in theater studies, and that paying attention to
it “offers a remedy of sorts to the moral relativism that has dogged theater...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 492–495.
Published: 01 December 2010
... unconvinced that
the enemy of calling intention a fallacy truly deserves the army of examples,
arguments, and ideas that Enders marshals. She repeatedly makes the point
that intentionality matters in theater studies, and that paying attention to
it “offers a remedy of sorts to the moral relativism...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 367–373.
Published: 01 September 1968
... modern and artificial times, like Lewis Mumford. The references of
the master himself are comparatively sparse and inexplicit, and mostly ex-
pressive of an intention only incidentally to be associated with uty con-
cerns. Emerson believed in life and did not despair of finding the city...
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