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Structures All the Way Down: Literary Methods and the Detail

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Caroline Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 129–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335715
Published: 01 June 2023
...Caroline Levine Abstract This essay makes the case that most methods in literary studies explicitly privilege the detail but covertly depend on structures. The article turns to structuralism, specifically to the debate between Vladimir Propp and Claude Lévi-Strauss about the role of the detail...
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The Great Unwritten: World Literature and the Effacement of Orality

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Caroline Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 217–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2072998
Published: 01 June 2013
...Caroline Levine Many scholars have embraced world literature as a project to understand literature’s role in a large-scale story of global inequality. Yet critics have paid remarkably little attention to one of the most unevenly distributed of the world’s resources: literacy itself. For most...
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What Counts as World Literature?

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Caroline Levine, B. Venkat Mani
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 141–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2073043
Published: 01 June 2013
...Caroline Levine; B. Venkat Mani Caroline Levine is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an editor of the newly revised Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012) and author of two books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative...
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Revaluing Repetition: John Clare’s Verse-Thinking

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Caroline Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 65–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3331595
Published: 01 March 2016
...Caroline Levine Abstract This essay seeks to revalue repetition in literary studies. Critics have often treated repetition—clichés, rules, norms, mechanization, monotony—as the painful or oppressive backdrop against which their best values emerge: originality, distinctiveness, resistance...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Historiographical Poetics

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Naomi Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 81–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3331604
Published: 01 March 2016
...Naomi Levine Abstract Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s imperfect rhymes, criticized since the nineteenth century, strangely resemble her blank verse. This essay argues that her experiments in poetic form should be viewed in relation to her reading and writing of literary history, particularly her...
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The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form

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George Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 383–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-41-4-383
Published: 01 December 1980
...George Levine K. GARRETT PETER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. ix + 227 pp. $17.50. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 HEATHER DUBROW 383 the image of the wheel in that tragedy. But many of his other...
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Rómulo Gallegos: Vida Y Obra

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Gloria Aledort Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (1): 105–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-20-1-105
Published: 01 March 1959
...Gloria Aledort Levine Lowell Dunham, Gonzalo Barrios, and Ricardo Montilla. México: Ediciones de Andrea, “Colección Studium,” No. 15, 1957. Pp. 327. $3.85. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1959 Gloria Aledort Levine 105...
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Yeats at the Crossroads the Debate of Self and Anti-Self in “ego Dominus Tuus”

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HERBERT J. LEVINE
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 132–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-2-132
Published: 01 June 1978
...HERBERT J. LEVINE Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 YEATS AT THE CROSSROADS THE DEBATE OF SELF AND ANTI-SELF IN “EGO DOMINUS TUUS” By HERBERTJ. LEVINE Soon after the turn of the century...
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A View of Victorian Literature

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George Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 422–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-4-422
Published: 01 December 1978
...George Levine TILLOTSON GEOFFREY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. x + 396 pp. $15.95. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 K EVI E LVS recognition, Thoreau engaged in perennial reconnoi terings for a stronger...
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“Sartor” Called “Resartus” the Genesis, Structure, and Style of Thomas Carlyle's First Major Work

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George Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 482–485.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-27-4-482
Published: 01 December 1966
...George Levine B. Tennyson G.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. viii + 354 pp. $8.50; 68 s. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 482 REVIEWS Mudrick, I confess, rarely gives me the shock of recognition...
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George Eliot: A Biography.

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GEORGE LEVINE
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 151–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-30-1-151
Published: 01 March 1969
...GEORGE LEVINE Gordon S. Haight. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. xvi + 616 pp. $12.50. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 MARTIN C. BATTESTIN 151 If this is not quite a flawless book, it comes so close...
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Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot

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George Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 328–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-32-3-328
Published: 01 September 1971
...George Levine Auster Henry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970, ix + 232 pp. $10.00. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 328 REVIEWS of history, a forward as well as a circular component” (p. l55), one...
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“Song of Myself” As Whitman's American Bible ∗

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Herbert J. Levine
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 145–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-48-2-145
Published: 01 June 1987
...Herbert J. Levine Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 ∗ I am indebted to the American Council on Learned Societies and the Committee on Grants, Franklin and Marshall College, for funding a year's leave spent at Brandeis University, where a seminar and conversations...
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The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis

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Tina Young Choi
Modern Language Quarterly 11638152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-11638152
Published: 06 March 2025
...Tina Young Choi [email protected] The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis . By Caroline Levine . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . xv + 202 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 Reviews The Activist Humanist: Form...
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The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley

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Avrom Fleishman
Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 400–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-42-4-400
Published: 01 December 1981
...Avrom Fleishman LEVINE GEORGE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1981. x + 357 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 400 REVIEWS assumption that there is a Chomskian “deep structure” (p. 194...
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Reading Historical Poetics

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V. Joshua Adams, Joel Calahan, Michael Hansen
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 1–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3331568
Published: 01 March 2016
... , and Maslov Boris , eds. 2015 . Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics . New York : Fordham University Press . Levine Caroline . 2006 . “ Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies .” Victorian Poetry 44 , no. 2 : 625 – 57 . Levine Caroline...
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Small Change: Realism, Immanence, and the Politics of the Micro

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Heather Love
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 419–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3570678
Published: 01 September 2016
... for themselves with the antiliterary quality that both Levine and Jameson identify with realism. We can also trace this realist, documentary, and antiliterary impulse in the lyric tradition: from the “Preface to Lyrical Ballads ,” in which William Wordsworth ( 1965 : 450) announces his intention to avoid...
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To Detail a Dollhouse

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Paul K. Saint-Amour
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 261–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335679
Published: 01 June 2023
.... As Zhang reads it, Toni Morrison’s only short story, “Recitatif” (1983), issues an implicit demand for intersectional reading by pointing up the nonequivalence and context dependence of hypotheses about race based on the circumstantial evidence that details afford. Caroline Levine observes that whereas...
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The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt

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Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 404–406.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-66-3-404
Published: 01 September 2005
...Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt . By Caroline Levine. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,2003. xi + 237 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Rosemarie Bodenheimer is professor of English at Boston College...
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Keeping Secrets

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Jesse Rosenthal
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 29–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7247256
Published: 01 March 2019
... University Press . Kramnick Jonathan . 2017 . “ The Interdisciplinary Fallacy .” Representations , no. 140 : 67 – 83 . Levin Harry . 1963 . The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists . New York : Oxford University Press . McGurl Mark . 2009 . The Program Era...
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