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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (2): 183–214.
Published: 01 June 1993
...Marjorie Levinson Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Romantic Poetry: The State of the Art
Marjorie Levinson
The scope of this essay is at once ambitious and rather modest. I
want to isolate some large, basic, and very complex issues and to
address them...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 250–256.
Published: 01 June 2020
... and persists. It’s an odd business, after all, this imposition of lines on sentences, and one could imagine our species at one point or another getting along fine without it. Elsewhere I’ve said why I think poetry persists, and won’t revisit my thesis. But in her introduction Levinson gives a lot of subtle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 347–360.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... In her frequently cited review essay “What Is New Formalism?,” Marjorie Levinson ( 2007 : 559) read widely among recent formalist criticism and confirmed Wolfson’s observation: such studies “aim to recover for teaching and scholarship in English some version of their traditional address to aesthetic form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . 2015 . Form: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Levinson Marjorie . 2007 . “ What Is New Formalism? ” PMLA 122 , no. 2 : 558 – 69 . Martin Meredith . 2012 . The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 March 1996
... con-
struction of the romantic.
The romantic epic, more so even than the romantic lyric, stands
behind much contemporary anxiety over our inherited cultural norms
3 For Marjorie Levinson, the historicizing of our reading is our last chance for
what seems a moral wakefulness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 135–137.
Published: 01 March 1998
... satisfied with its sum-
maries of complex careers (and there are a lot of them) and downright per-
verse in complaining about what Levinson and Ross (for instance) don’t do
(and don’t try to do) rather than considering the usefulness of what they do
say. Here Edmundson feels that nothing less than...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 215–224.
Published: 01 September 1957
... the typical traits of the Soviet
people. These were: Chapayev, in the novel of that name by Fur-
manov; Levinson, commander of the detachment in The Rout and
one of the first outstanding portraits of a Communist in Soviet litera-
ture; Metelitsa, the cowherd and Levinson’s right-hand man...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 1996
..., in Marjorie Levinson’s wish to promote
in her Keats book an “antiromantic argument’’ by reviving, perhaps
romantically, the “antiromantic accomplishment” she sees in poems
like “The Eve of St. Agnes.”l A genealogy of Levinson’s tactic might
1 Levinson, fiats’s Life of Allegory: The Origins...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 March 2014
...;
Yet it is but one mask of many worn
By the Great Face behind.
(ll. 21 – 24)
The bird, too, is kind of a mask — strange, impassive, and ecstatically
impersonal. Insofar as such a mask looks but does not see, it — whether
13 Marjorie Levinson (2006: 555...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Marjorie Levinson see the poem as political (Pfau through the almost subliminal creation of a new kind of sensibility, Levinson through the poem’s complex negotiations with historical realities [325–30]). The chapter’s wisdom resides in Culler’s awareness of how difficult it often is to assess...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 335–339.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., ideology, and agency that ties Mary Wollstonecraft’s and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s applications of the body to history both to William Godwin’s tenacious worrying of the terms history and romance and to twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates involving the likes of Karl Popper, Marjorie Levinson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . Levine Caroline . 2006 . “ Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies .” Victorian Studies 48 , no. 4 : 625 – 57 . Levinson Marjorie . 2007 . “ What Is New Formalism? ” PMLA 122 , no. 2 : 558 – 69 . Liu Alan . 1989 . Wordsworth: The Sense of History...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 225–229.
Published: 01 June 1994
... of circumstantial gravity. I hope
this ground becomes a commonplace. In the last chapter, responding to
Marjorie Levinson’s claim that Byron’s effects can always be recuperated by
“the biographical subject-form coded in all the poems” (351), Christensen
wittily reviews contemporary accounts of Byron...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 450–455.
Published: 01 December 1986
....
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, Utrecht Publications in Gen-
eral and Comparative Literature, 22, 1986. xvii + 535 pp. $76.00.
Levinson, Marjorie. Wordsworth’s Great Period Poem: Four Essays. Cambridge,
London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. x + 170 pp. $32.50.
Marcus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 388–392.
Published: 01 December 1987
... of poetry, property, and labor. Like James K. Chandler and Marjorie
Levinson, Simpson grounds Wordsworth’s imagination in the socio-
historical moment of its origins; and like Alan Liu, Simpson is especially
sensitive to how social relations in the Lake District were influenced by what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 392–396.
Published: 01 December 1987
... of poetry, property, and labor. Like James K. Chandler and Marjorie
Levinson, Simpson grounds Wordsworth’s imagination in the socio-
historical moment of its origins; and like Alan Liu, Simpson is especially
sensitive to how social relations in the Lake District were influenced by what...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
...
Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 6.
10 Cf. Arthur C. Danto, “The Naked Truth,” in Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the
Intersection, ed. Jerrold Levinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998),
257–82.
11 See, e.g...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 91–96.
Published: 01 March 1988
..., 1987. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. viii + 150. pp. $29.95.
Labriola, Albert C., and Edward Sichi, Jr. (editors). Milton’s Legacy in the Arts.
University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988. xii +
239 pp. $24.95.
Levinson, Marjorie. Keats’s Lfe of Allegory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
... are not reflective but productive (Levinson 2007 : 563). This is not in itself a new insight—“old” formalism and varieties of Marxist and cultural criticism have also seen forms as productive of content and of ideological patterns, respectively—but the new-formalist insistence on the “agency” of forms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of depopulating the Welsh countryside in the name of improvement. In response to Marjorie Levinson’s ( 1986 ) influential critique of the depopulation of the Wye Valley in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” (1798), Charles J. Rzepka ( 2003 ) points out that laboring bodies were often celebrated in picturesque...
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