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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 373–394.
Published: 01 September 2012
... recent book is Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (2009). She is working on a comparative study of postwar migration to Britain. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Realism and the Irish Immigrant:
Documentary, Fiction, and Postwar Irish Labor
Clair Wills
They have no home life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 517–540.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jasper Bernes The early poems of John Ashbery must be read, in part, as a meditation on the plight of labor, particularly white-collar labor, in the postwar United States. Beginning with a very early poem, “The Instruction Manual” (1956), and its exploration of the ambiguous class position of white...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 552–555.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750 - 1830 . By Batchelor Jennie . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2010 . x + 249 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews
A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner
Sollors. Cambridge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 82–84.
Published: 01 March 1975
... free
of posturing and vanity. He is neither afraid to say the obvious nor inclined
to labor it; he wastes no time on staking his claim to his own contributions,
or on belittling those of his predecessors, or in flourishing the fraternal signs
of the linguists’ guild. Altogether...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 202–204.
Published: 01 June 1973
.... Likewise, the repeated complaints of “structural slack-
ness and verbal waste” in Love’s Labour’s Lost (p. 120), or about its “formless-
ness” (p. 113), relate to the brilliant analogical structure Calderwood has
created rather than the plot Shakespeare has exposed. The whole distinc-
tion, indeed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read. Domestic Georgic is ultimately a book about labor: the mundane, if Sisyphean...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 435–482.
Published: 01 December 1993
... Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture, ed.
482 MLQ I December 1993
In this respect, too, rereading the Shakespearean “preposterous”-in
Love’s Labor’s Lost as in the plays that were to ensue-involves a labor
that is at once...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2016
...’ delight in the poem’s “ease and variety,” but it is also a fundamental misreading of the ethics of labor set out in the poem. In its enactment of the spiritual and writerly work of the shepherd, in Milton’s revisions, and in its monodic form, “Lycidas” offers readers a choice between sensual dalliance...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 465–489.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and of academic labor when considered against the backdrop of an unstable neoliberal hegemony, particularly that of the mass automatization and shedding of labor. The essay concludes by considering political and literary examples of collaborative authorship before addressing the question of WReC’s own process...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11540310.
Published: 28 January 2025
... fabrication and mental image-breaking. This essay is concerned with Petty’s theorization of surplus or “supernumerary” population and with the enduring motif of a “useless pyramid upon Salisbury Plain” that was its superfluous product. The double status of Petty’s supernumerary labor, at once evacuated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 203–226.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Ben Parker Abstract The production of abstract value—not limited to the transformation of labor under the exigencies of capitalism but extending to modes of signification undermined by abstract equivalence—plays an unprecedented yet overlooked role in the major novels of Thomas Hardy: unprecedented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 491–515.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the creation of a system of kitchenless homes in California and the subsequent emancipation of women from forced domesticity. Gilman’s prose reflects on, and even formally replicates, the drudgery and repetition she associates with household labor. Gilman proposes an analogy between novels and kitchens...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 453–478.
Published: 01 December 2019
... rumbling through her work, Chukhrov’s theses are consistent: art must be communist; all desire, even faked, is political eros; and the post-Soviet subject is not even dead. Chukhrov embeds her politics in institutional critique, lends her labor to collectives and collaborations, and refracts her poetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... transnational position, the first conceiving of the Protestant Ascendancy as neofeudal landlords who transform Irish labor into capitalist wealth, the second characterizing the Anglo-Irish as a cosmopolitan class of professional managers. By regarding these socioeconomic roles as affective dispositions between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 351–372.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the novel’s conception of reality in the Mexican borderlands: first, the Ciudad Juárez femicides as objects of representation; second, the economic conditions underlying the systemic violence perpetrated against female maquiladora workers and the rift between labor and capital; and third, the relation of art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 193–214.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of Browning—his difficulty—into an argument for the value of interpretative labor that not only continued a tradition in nineteenth-century Browning criticism of emphasizing the active cooperation of reader and interpreter but also transferred the idea of “discipline,” formerly associated with the classics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... creative God or passive scribe must be replaced by a focus on the middle ranges of literary agency, which in turn requires theoretical elaboration. Premodern tropes of authorial activity, such as the metaphor of authorship as textile labor, gain a much fuller range of complexity and nuance when...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 459–486.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . Denning Michael . 2007 . “ Representing Global Labor .” Social Text 25 , no. 3 : 125 – 45 . DuBois W. E. B. 1899 . The Philadelphia Negro . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Ely Richard T. 1885 . “ Pullman: A Social Study .” Harper’s Magazine , February...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 1978
... the
economic process which represents labor by means of commodities
(material goods) and the imaginative process which represents “what
Eternally Exists” by means of artistic labor and the commodities of
Art? To assess the “economic side of Blake’s myth,” we need to know
how economic terms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 169–189.
Published: 01 June 1994
... was
genius the originator of the division of labor; for D’Israeli and Dun-
can, as well as for English romantic poets and critics, genius was strictly
literary genius.
genius the ideology of the marketplace. Following her lead, other scholars have also
accepted that the discourse of genius...
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