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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Clair Wills Irish realism of the 1960s has often been interpreted as a continuation and rejuvenation of the tradition of Irish naturalism, particularly in its concern to undermine the perceived romanticism of revivalist myths in postindependence Ireland. While Irish realist social critique...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 201–223.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Raphaël Ingelbien; Benedicte Seynhaeve This essay explores the intertextual use of Hamlet in Sydney Owenson's Wild Irish Girl and Germaine de Staël's Corinne to shed new light on these writers' interventions in European Romantic politics. Both Owenson and Staël associated their male protagonists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Matt Eatough Bowen’s Court has most commonly been confronted through methodological paradigms stressing its affinity to traditional Irish generic and historiographical conventions. In contrast, this essay reassesses Anglo-Ireland’s contribution to early twentieth-century literature by rereading...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (3): 299–363.
Published: 01 September 1992
...Claude Rawson Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 “INDIANS” AND IRISH: MONTAIGNE, SWIFT,
AND THE CANNIBAL QUESTION
CLAUDE RAWSON
UNSPEAKllVG THE UNSPEAKABLE
Montaigne’s “Des cannibales” (1.xxxi) is one of his most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 114–118.
Published: 01 March 1997
...: Studies in Irish Culture. By Terry Eagleton.
London: Verso, 1995. xii + 355 pp. $27.95.
Over the last twenty years groundbreaking books by British, Irish, and
American academics have shaped a new field of Irish literary and cultural
studies. A series of monographic studies in the tradition...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 419–425.
Published: 01 December 1947
...Arthur C. L. Brown Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 IRISH FABULOUS HISTORY AND CHRETIEN’S
PERCE VAL*
By ARTHURC. L. BROWK
Only recently has Lebor Gabhla Erenn, “The Book of the Taking
of Ireland” (LG),become generally...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 487–488.
Published: 01 December 1947
...John Hennig Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 TWO IRISH BULLS IN KANT’S “KRITIK DER
URTHEILSKRAFT”
By JOHNHENNIG
Anmerkung § 54 of Kritik der Urtheilskraft, at the end of the
first Abschnitt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 561–571.
Published: 01 December 1942
...Walter J. Ong Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SPENSERS VIEW AND THE TRADITION
OF THE “WILD” IRISH
By WALTERJ. ONG
In A View of the Present State of Ireland’ there is a puzzling
inconsistency between Edmund Spenser’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 175–199.
Published: 01 June 2012
... world. Pound’s concerns in this respect are read in relation to those of the Irish Samuel Beckett and above all the Scottish Hugh MacDiarmid, in their elaborations of a concept of the vernacular that they both deem “synthetic.” In all cases, translation or multilingualism becomes a central element...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... plot that emerged amid the population explosion of nineteenth-century Britain to an Irish context marked by demographic decline. This adaptation of Dickens’s plot structure prepared it for a similar use in The Wire . Both Joyce and Simon use a large fictional network to periodically decenter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 33–70.
Published: 01 March 1998
... to represent Ireland: At the end of the 1790s the question
confronted Irish intellectuals with unprecedented urgency. As a
political body, Ireland could no longer be represented at all: Its sepa-
rate parliament was about to be dissolved, its status as a nation sub-
sumed, and its native population...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 547–557.
Published: 01 December 1942
...-
plication of the narratives to Ireland. The fact that Amidas and
Bracidas are called by Spenser the sons of the Irish legendary
hero Mil or Milesius (Spenser’s Milesio) would suggest an Irish
source for this episode as well.* Mr. Nelson’s statement that the
episode may be “based on an Irish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 67–93.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . 2003 . Who Reads “Ulysses”? The Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars and the Common Reader . New York : Routledge . Brown Malcolm . 1972 . The Politics of Irish Literature . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Burgess Anthony . 1965 . Here Comes Everybody . London : Faber...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 50–59.
Published: 01 March 1956
..., to anger them into asserting their
right to a better life, indeed to independence-mutual independence,
he says, from England.
Ostensibly, the Drapier’s fourth letter is an answer to two para-
graphs reported in Irish newspapers and to two pamphlets published
in England, which, according...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 366–371.
Published: 01 December 1954
...John Hennig © 1954 University of Washington 1954 GOETHE AND THE EDGEWORTHS
By JOHN HENNIG
In my note on “Two Irish Bulls in Kant’s Kritik der Urtheilskraft”
(MLQ, VIII [ 19471, 487-88) I mentioned Goethe’s letter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (1): 203–227.
Published: 01 March 1965
... the “peripheral cultures” (to adopt T. S. Eliot’s
phrase1) which have contributed to the European tradition are those
of the Celtic peoples in the British Isles. For many past centuries, the
literature composed in Irish and Welsh has been more remarkable for
the concentration and intensity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 548–550.
Published: 01 December 2017
... on how “the greatest symbolic bond among the Irish, Welsh, Scots, and Americans may have been their shared sense of secondariness to the English in an Anglocentric British Atlantic world” (15) does seem at times conceptually reductive. There is a suspicion that this “Anglocentric” world is used...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 353–355.
Published: 01 September 1945
... in the mutikre de Bretugne in Celtic, especially
Irish, sources, basing his array of evidence upon the hypothesis that
“it was natural for Frenchmen to turn to Ireland and to Irish inter-
mediaries, Welshmen and Bretons, for good stories.” Frankly, admit-
ting that “the resemblance between ancient Irish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 307–309.
Published: 01 September 1952
... treatment of the Irish background. Several times he
has relied upon F. N. Robinson or A. E. Hutson-both “competent Celtists,”
as Tatlock rightly terms them-but for the most part he has dug up his own
information. As a result his Irish findings lack the “accurate thoroughness” he
intended...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 507–515.
Published: 01 December 1942
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perience. One of those persons, I feel reasonably certain, was the
Earl of Essex. It was in 15% that Essex drew up for the Queen a
statement on Irish affairs, pointing out that one of the main dangers
to be feared from Spain was invasion through Ireland. It is signifi-
cant that in 1596...
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