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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 353–355.
Published: 01 September 1945
... his name spelled “Heinrich.” HARCOURTBROWN Brown University The Origin of the Grail Legend. By ARTHURC. L. BROWN.Cam- bridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1943. Pp. viii + 476. $5.00. The Origin of the Grail Legend...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 364–365.
Published: 01 September 1946
...Waldo H. Dunn Robert Metcalf Smith, Martha Mary Schlegel, Theodore George Ehrsam, and Louis Addison Waters. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Pp. vii + 343. $5.00. Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 364 Reviews The Shelley Legend...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 73–76.
Published: 01 March 1988
...Sheila Delany W. Rowe Donald. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. x + 218 pp. $22.95. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Through Nature’to Eternity: Chaucer’s “Legend of Good Women.” By DONALDW. ROWE.Lincoln...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 355–383.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of as a “Dutch Black Legend”—that is, as a deliberate repetition of the Hispanophobic topoi known as the Spanish Black Legend. Only by acknowledging the intimate relationship between these two phenomena can we make sense of Hollandophobia’s peculiar features while discerning how this seventeenth-century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 289–301.
Published: 01 September 1974
...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 354–368.
Published: 01 December 1975
...Stephen F. Lappert Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 MALORY’S TREATMENT OF THE LEGEND OF ARTHUR’S SURVIVAL By STEPHENF. LAPPERT Although much critical analysis has focused in recent years 011...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (4): 525–533.
Published: 01 December 1942
... FOX FORTUNE: A ROMAN CATHOLIC LEGEND OF HOLINESS* By FREDERICKMORGAN PADELFORD The imitations of the Faerie Queene were inaugurated in 15% with the publication of an audacious poem entitled A Fig for Fortune, wherein the author, Anthony Copley, a Roman...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 402–403.
Published: 01 December 1961
.... By HELENADOLF. University Park : Pennsylvaiiia State University Press, 1960. Pp. 217. $5.00. In this iinagiiiative and challenging study, Helen Atlolf introduces her genetic approach to the Grail story with the lapidary statement: “The Grail legend is a fruit of the Crusades.” She shows how...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 461–474.
Published: 01 December 1940
...Alexander M. Buchan Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 RALEGH’S CYNTHIA-FACTS OR LEGEND By ALEXANDER34. BUCHAN Assigning a precise date to the Hatfield Cynthia does far more than satisfy the curiosity of scholars as to whether...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 218–219.
Published: 01 June 1961
.... VICTORE. HANZELI University of Washington The Geographical and Ethnic Names in the Pidriks Saga: A Study in Germanic Heroic Legend. By WILLIAMJ. PAFF. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Harvard Germanic Studies, Vol. 11, 1959. Pp. vi + 238. $6.00. PiBriks saga, which is one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 309–336.
Published: 01 December 1989
...GEORGE E. ROWE Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 PRIVACY, VISION, AND GENDER IN SPENSER’S LEGEND OF COURTESY By GEORGEE. ROWE That the sixth book of The Faerie Queene ends in bitterness and cynicism few readers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 108.
Published: 01 March 1951
... Legend. By C. GRANTLOOMIS. Cambridge : The Medieval Academy of America, 1949. Pp. vi + 250. $5.00; to members of the Academy, $4.00. Students of saints’ legends have been looking forward for some years to the appearance of Professor Loomis’ book. They have known that he was making...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 199–208.
Published: 01 June 1953
...HAAKON M. Chevalier Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ANDRE MALRAUX: THE LEGEND AND THE MAN By HAAKONM. CHEVALIER Professor W. M. Frohock’s Andrk Malraux and the Tragic Imagi- nation‘ is, as the publisher’s release announces, the first...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 73–74.
Published: 01 March 1956
...Robert W. Ackerman Nathan Comfort Starr. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1954. Pp. xvii + 218. $4.50. cloth; $3.50, paper. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS King Arthur Today: The Arthurian Legend in English and Americair...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (2): 177–178.
Published: 01 June 1956
... the appeal of the book for the English lay reader. A. M. SAUERLANDER University of Washington The English Legend of Heinrich Hkne. By SOL LIPTZIN. New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1954. Pp. ix + 191. $3.00. In reading and reviewing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (3): 277–278.
Published: 01 September 1956
..., and it is evident from the subtitle, as well as from a special essay in the introduction, that Professor Zeydcl regards the Oedipus legend as all-important in the interpretation of both works, although neither of the original authors made refererice to Oedipus. With the exception of lines 1537-1738...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 225–226.
Published: 01 June 1945
...Stanley Rypins REVIEWS The Legends of Ermanwic. By CAROLINEBRADY. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. Pp. x + 341. $3.00. Concerning Ermanaric (tca. A.D. 376), powerful king of the Ostrogoths, the residue of historical facts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 401–402.
Published: 01 December 1962
... stylistic criteria for determining Peele’s relationship to this play. J. LEEDSBARROLL University of Cincinnati Arthur of Albion: An Introduction to the Arthurian Literature and Legends of Englmd. By R. W. BARBER.With a foreword...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Aeneas in Dares Phrygius. —Philip Sidney, A Defense of Poetry 13 See, for instance, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s ( 1554 ) translation of only the Dido books of the Aeneid . 14 Aeneas appears in The House of Fame , 1.165–387, 427–67, and in “Legend of Dido,” in The Legend of Good...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 582–602.
Published: 01 December 1969
... de mah, in Obras escogidas, I (Madrid, 1955), 558. G. M. MARTIN 585 that the continuity given to life by the growth of legend is one of the principal themes of this novel. Thus legends are one of the novel’s most important sources of unity...