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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2003
...William Flesch Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities . By Kevin Jackson. New York: Dunne, 2000. xxii + 310 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 229–269.
Published: 01 September 2010
...David Quint Milton tightly structures book 3 of Paradise Lost around analogies and distinctions between divine and solar light, the invisible heaven beheld by the poet's blind faith in the book's first half and the visible universe and sun visited by Satan in its second, vision down and up...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 99–119.
Published: 01 March 1998
... United States” recently appeared in Modern Fiction Studies . Race Man, Organization Man, Invisible Man Andrew Hoberek The organization had given the world a new shape, and me a vital role. -Invisible Man Since the 1952 publication of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 487–509.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of Stowe and white sentimentality from unpublished drafts of a book review he wrote of John Beecher’s All Brave Sailors (1945). It then argues that this critique reappears in Invisible Man in the form of a literary pedagogy that simultaneously depends and signifies on some of the central tropes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 441–472.
Published: 01 December 2021
... reviews and a publisher’s archive, the essay sheds light on the novels’ invisible translators and reveals the fiscal and legal viability of “domesticated decadence.” Doing so models how translation studies and book-historical methods can revise deep-set tenets of literary history. These “poisonous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 245–248.
Published: 01 June 1940
...Margaret Bushnell The Invisible World: A Study of Pneumatology in Elizabeth Drama . By Robert Hunter West. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1939. Pp. xi+275. Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 Henry A. Person 245...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 277–292.
Published: 01 June 2013
...,” questioning the division between center and periphery. Blindness, Invisibility, and the Negative Inheritance of World Literature Paulo de Medeiros Ah, die Vernunft, der Ernst, die Herrschaft über die Affekte, diese ganze düstere Sache, welche Nachdenken heisst, alle diese Vorrechte und...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 19 percent of his staged work (five of twenty-six plays) and 16 percent of his published work (four of twenty-five), was comic or metacomic. It is no wonder, then, that the metacomic O’Neill has remained invisible, at cost to our understanding of his early dramatic practice. The other plays...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... contribute to society’s well-being and demonstrates the centrality of empiricist political theory for the modernist novel. Through close readings of The Invisible Man and Love and Mr. Lewisham , and broader discussion of Wells’s oeuvre, his engagement with empiricist values, conflicts, and literary forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
... such as Theosophy. However, the highly relevant concept of global or globalized religion is not yet a part of Victorian literary scholarship. This speculative essay explores why this topic has been relatively invisible in Victorian literary studies and how the field might better encounter globalized religion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 1946
...” of French schoolmasters. A short selection, quoted, then translated, is followed by a detailed exegesis. For example : Et quand nous respirons, la mort dans nos poumons Descend, fleuve invisible, avec de sourdes plaintes. And when we breathe, death into the lungs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 400.
Published: 01 September 1949
... and vigorous, the spirit tends to evaporate in the translation. A comparison of the last lines of Goethe’s work will show the difference, however slight, between the 1933 Bohn and the new version: “The coursers of time, lashed, as it were, by invisible spirits, hurry on the light car of our...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... T. M. 2020 . How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Mahan David C. 2010 . An Unexpected Light: Theology and Witness in the Poetry and Thought of Charles Williams, Michael O’Siadhail, and Geoffrey Hill...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 223–249.
Published: 01 June 1999
... at the station. Its appearance was as sudden as if it had risen from a pit in the ground. “Get in!” yelled invisible voices. And the people were sucked in. Even those who were standing with a bottle of lemonade in their hands, a bar of chocolate, the headwaiter with his dog-they were all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 543–547.
Published: 01 December 2017
... is in heaven” ( Disknowledge , 60). Aquinas and those who thought like him, and by extension Eggert herself, may be exaggerating the problem. In Colossians 1:15–17 (KJV) Paul writes that Christ “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 264–268.
Published: 01 September 1961
... are those specula- tions about the Angelic World and its arrangement. Into how many divisions of the highest rank, into how many inferior classes is the heavenly hierarchy distributed: What do they do? What places do they inhabit? I readily believe that there are more invisible beings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as an argument that spirits are real. (I am agnostic on that point.) The detour is designed simply to point out that not all thought worlds will struggle quite so much as ours with invisible beings, be they spirits, phantoms, or the fictional creatures generated by the enthusiasm of poets. 13...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 400–401.
Published: 01 September 1949
... in the translation. A comparison of the last lines of Goethe’s work will show the difference, however slight, between the 1933 Bohn and the new version: “The coursers of time, lashed, as it were, by invisible spirits, hurry on the light car of our destiny, and all that we can do is with calm courage...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 March 1961
... novels shifts away from the country aristocracy of Branden- burg, whose life, in so far as it was governed by tradition and convention, had social rank and distinction, to the cultured and intellectual elite of Dresden, whose life acquires its meaning from such intangibles as the invisible...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 March 1961
..., to the cultured and intellectual elite of Dresden, whose life acquires its meaning from such intangibles as the invisible, the miracu- lous, and even faith, which becomes a creative force in the lives of individuals. Tieck’s religious convictions do not stem from theories and dogmas, but from...