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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 269–273.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Bill V. Mullen The Power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered . By Robert Shulman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 340 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Lukas Moe Abstract From the late 1930s through midcentury, poets in the United States reckoned with the decline of the political Left through a practice of elegy. The debates of interwar modernism shifted toward those of a postwar culture in which Depression-era aesthetics and politics came under...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 457–474.
Published: 01 December 1997
... in 1994. She is currently puzzling over simulations of orality, framing, and canon formation in early written fairy tales. “Out in Left Field”: Charlotte Smith’s Prefaces, Bourdieu’s Categories, and the Public Sphere Elizabeth W. Harries The writing is nothing, the being...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 3. Detail showing the Clyde and the Forth dividing Britain (left) and Hadrian’s Wall (right). Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough Gen. Top. 16. Courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. More
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 347–365.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Katherine Ibbett This essay examines the figure of the reste —the things or people left behind—in the tragedies of Pierre Corneille, in particular though not only in the late plays, which are themselves a body of work left behind by the canon. These remainders provide a new perspective...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 September 2018
... academic discourse has been invented in China on selected themes of postmodernism and Third World “national allegory.” However, as a “shadowy but central presence” in Jameson and other Western left theories, Maoism is nearly absent from China’s appropriation of Western theories. A vigorous critique...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 123–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ends with the goddess rushing off to Parliament and the powerless poet left behind in a bleak, coastal setting. Later in the century the importance of Britannia faded, but the patterns established in earlier texts continued. Anna Seward’s 1781 Monody on Major Andrè retains some features...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 403–425.
Published: 01 December 2019
... “bourgeois” modernism. It takes members of the British Writers’ International and their associated journals the Left Review and New Writing as case studies in the interplay between Moscow as putative “metropole” and the “periphery.” 8 M. Apletin (Inostrannaia komissiia, Mosvow) to John Lehmann...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... follow Marlowe and Nashe’s model in Dido, Queen of Carthage by looking to Chaucer as the poetic authority for classical myth. Like Chaucer, both playwrights foreground the destruction left in empire’s wake. A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines a retelling of Dido’s story that privileges her authority over...
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 3. Successive remediations reveal the stability of a pathos formula. Clockwise from upper left: Death of Orpheus , vase from Nola, Louvre, Paris; Death of Orpheus , after vase from Chiusi, from Annali 1871; Death of Orpheus , woodcut from 1497 Venetian edition of Ovid; Death More
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 251–254.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to cultural prominence that omits the Waverley novels can only seem incomplete. The last chapter, on Smith’s Desmond and Austen’s Persuasion, helps round out the coverage of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 254–258.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left of More. Desmond emerges as a neglected feminist classic, attacking the ancien régime (in Britain as well as in France) while pointing up the limitations of Jacobin ideology...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 258–263.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to cultural prominence that omits the Waverley novels can only seem incomplete. The last chapter, on Smith’s Desmond and Austen’s Persuasion, helps round out the coverage of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 263–266.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to cultural prominence that omits the Waverley novels can only seem incomplete. The last chapter, on Smith’s Desmond and Austen’s Persuasion, helps round out the coverage of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 266–269.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to cultural prominence that omits the Waverley novels can only seem incomplete. The last chapter, on Smith’s Desmond and Austen’s Persuasion, helps round out the coverage of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 273–276.
Published: 01 June 2002
... to cultural prominence that omits the Waverley novels can only seem incomplete. The last chapter, on Smith’s Desmond and Austen’s Persuasion, helps round out the coverage of “women’s political writing” by treating writers whose politics run explicitly (Smith) or implicitly (Austen) well to the left...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 325–326.
Published: 01 September 1945
...R. H. Super WHEN LANDOR LEFT HOME By R. H. SUPER In his recent biography of Walter Savage Landor, Mr. Malcolm Elwin gives substantially the same account of Landor’s separation from his wife as John Forster had given in 1869, but to it he adds...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 48–60.
Published: 01 March 1984
... that winning control means being left alone. Kalph finally becomes a true master not by winning or even by losing the struggle for power. He ends the novel in power, and with knowledge, but not in control. He gives up the security of identity by tautology and the fixity of identity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 303–322.
Published: 01 September 1944
... four engravings of Chaucer. Of the miniatures which Vertue knew, the two extant ones are both in early MSS of Hoccleve’s De Regimine Principunz. The one in the Harleian collection (MS Harl. 4866, f. 88a)21is a half-length to the left; rosary in left hand, pointing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (1): 88–90.
Published: 01 March 1972
...), we have our hopes dashed in the final section of the book as we discover that the cure is not to be found in the later work after all. Stephen’s liberation is private, and Leopold Bloom is “the most rounded version in literature of a sadomasochist” (p. 168). No help there. We are finally left...