... to language inspired, ultimately, by Goethean science. This article argues that Jolles’s study should also be recognized as an important early work of media theory. Simple Forms includes a striking number of examples drawn from the mass-market newspapers of Jolles’s day. In turning to mass media, Jolles...

...Bruce Krajewski The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii . By Victor Klemperer. Trans. Martin Brady. London: Athlone, 2000. 296 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland Greene...

...Judy Kronenfeld Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England . By Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiii + 162 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...

...Leo Spitzer Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 1 Text of an address delivered to the Philological Association of the Johns Hopkins Faculty (December 11, 1941). I have added the notes. WHY DOES LANGUAGE CHANGE ?l By LEOSPITZER...

... to Science, Language, and Human Experience. By THOMASCLARK POLLOCK. Princeton University Press, 1942. Pp. xxiv + 218. $3.00. This book is one of the rather large number of studies whose ultimate ancestor is Ogden and Richards’ Meaning of Meaning. Its primary purpose is to make...

.... EDGARSCHELL Universily of California, Inline Verbal Imagination: Coleridge and the Language of Modern Criticism. By A. C. GOODSON.New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xix + 236 pp. $29.95. This book has ambitions that are barely hinted at in its title. Besides...

...Mabel Morris Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 JEFFERSON AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN By MABELMORRIS Jefferson confesses to a vital interest in the language of the Amer- ican Indian. Evidence from...

...Herbert Lindenberger Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language . By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2010 Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. His...

...Jane K. Brown In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent .By Claudia Brodsky. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xvi + 171 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

... to literary texts illuminates how minor language modernist writing contains a self-awareness that not only addresses a cosmopolitan audience but also preserves the contingent and shifting parameters of local linguistic communities. Allison Schachter is assistant professor in the Program in Jewish...

..., and periodization in medieval and early modern Spain. Intricate Alliances: Some Spanish Formulations of Language and Empire Marina Brownlee he intricate alliances of genre and history invite us to ponder cer- Ttain questions: How is the boundary between fiction and history figured by literature...

...: A Legend and Its Legacy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992). Modern Language Quarterly 69:4 (December 2008) © 2008 by University of Washington 558 MLQ December 2008 monologues in which Shakespeare acknowledges Shylock’s darkness as his own. Set...

... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...

...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...

... students was misleading or even futile from the linguist’s point of view, whereas, as a matter of fact, one can come as close to an understanding of the actual language of the MS from Sievers’ as from Selmer’s text. If a text is designed to be read it should really be edited, in the sense in which...

... konnen. Es sol1 sich ja nicht wiederholen, was mit dem Mittelhoch- deutschen geschah, dessen Grammatik festgesetzt wurde, bevor man die Texte wirklich so las, wie sie geschrieben waren. ARNO SCHIROKAUER Yale University Foundations of Language. By LOUIS...

... (off). BERELLANG University at Albany, SUNY Language and Symbolic Power: By PIERREBOURDIEU. Edited and introduced by JOHN B. THOMPSON.Translated by GINORAYMOND and MATTHEWADAMSON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...

...Paul H. Fry Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language Paul H. Fry As an avid student of literary history, I know just how unwelcome it must be to read the opinion, in this special issue of MLQon liter- ary history...

...Denis Hollier Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 On Literature Considered as a Dead Language Denis Hollier A literature always arrives at its destination. s a working hypothesis, I’ll oppose two generic models of literary A history. According...

... story of how Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston engaged the pressures put on them by both reactionary and avant-garde white attitudes toward dialect and, more generally, toward the social impact of ideas about literary language. Whites regularly praised the vitality...