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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 213–215.
Published: 01 June 2010
...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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 1984
.... S -1- LTA K-I- <; ~1 R K A N Uniz)ersit?qf Penrisylzmiia Tennyson and Madness. By ANNC. COI,LF.I,.Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 176 pp. $20.00. Tennyson’s Camelot: The “Idylls of thP King” and Its Medieval SourcPJ. By DAVIDSTAINVES. Waterloo, Ont., Canada...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 201–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad This essay connects the television series Mad Men to Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary . All are serialized narratives of capitalist globalization in which motifs of exile articulate the experience of breached sovereignty in a modern world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 1986
...P. K. AYERS Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 PLOT, SUBPLOT, AND THE USES OF DRAMATIC DISCORD IN A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS AND A TRLCK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE By P. K. AYERS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 405–419.
Published: 01 December 1972
... to for echoes of Swift. Never- theless, canto 3 contains lines strikingly reminiscent of the “Digression on Madness,” where the lunatic is pictured as a man unwilling to “pass his Life in the common Forms” and intent on “subduing Multitudes to his own Power, his Reasons or his Visions,” and where...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 153–174.
Published: 01 June 1946
...Roland M. Smith Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 KING LEAR AND THE MERLIN TRADITION By ROLAND&I. SMITH It has been generally believed that the great scenes of King Lear which unfold the madness of Lear, Edgar, and the Fool sprang from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 222–233.
Published: 01 June 1969
... 1E. 1: A. Hoflfmann: Das Leben eines Kunstlers (Berlin, 1920)’ 11, 222-35. 222 PETER J. GRAVES 223 to the society in which he lives. Too many critics have simply assumed that he would eventually go mad. This may or may...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 100–106.
Published: 01 June 1957
... simplicity in the matter of Sancho’s mystification about the village girls, mad doings (locuras) that go beyond the maddest that can be conceived; while the lion adventure is all through treated as his very maddest freak; one compared with which, as Sancho says, all the rest were “cakes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 215–218.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Nicholas Halmi The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism . By Adam Potkay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 304 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 218–222.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Charles Rzepka The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol . By Nicholas Halmi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 206 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 222–225.
Published: 01 June 2010
... include articles on John Keats, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred döblin, and literary aesthetics. Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. This superb book is a worthy successor to John T. Hamilton’s first...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 226–228.
Published: 01 June 2010
...John T. Hamilton The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 June 1962
... will hear nothing of comfort when she learns of her son Arthur’s imprisonment, but taunts Cardinal Pan- dulph : “Preach some philosophy to make me mad” (III.iv.51). Finally, in Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato, falsely informed of his daughter’s death, rejects his brother’s attempted consolation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 28–35.
Published: 01 March 1954
..., this being granted, that all the world is melancholy, or mad, dotes, and every member of it, I have ended my task, and sufficiently illustrated that which I took upon me to demonstrate at first” (I, 137) .l To accept this statement is to acknowledge the great need for the partitions to come...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 29–30.
Published: 01 March 1945
... of mad dogs, which had little basis in truth but which was engendered and promoted by exaggeration and a readiness of the people to believe the rumors they heard. Numerous pamphlets dealing with the situation had appeared, and periodicals were filled with letters from readers urg- ing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 404–408.
Published: 01 September 1993
... that that history is given as happening “autonomously and almost magically, not to say impersonally.” “‘Mad- ness,’ ‘language,’ and ‘reason he claims, “become the principal actors on the historical stage.” Interestingly enough, he bases these assertions on a generalizing passage on dissolution and decay...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (2): 179–195.
Published: 01 June 1976
...,” “recumbency,” and “dissection.” Roethke was not able to transmute his “madness” into poetry success- fully until he viewed himself as belonging to the tradition of mad poets in whom the extraordinary capacity for imaginative creation is linked with insanity.lg In “Heard in a Violent Ward” (CP,p...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 191–213.
Published: 01 June 1994
..., the European-educated psychia- trist Bacamarte moves into the colonial village of Itaguai and, promising liberation, begins to lock people up in the Casa Verde in accordance with his theory of madness. Liberation movements are formed to oust the psychiatrist, but once in power they find the social...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 193–200.
Published: 01 June 1944
..., and Klopstock, “this German Milton.” Croft (1751-1816) owes his own fame, whatever it may be, to “A Memoir of Dr. Young, the Poet,” contributed to Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, to his Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters between Parties, whose Names would perhaps...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 167–177.
Published: 01 June 1977
...; The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. In these lines all the destructive forces are reborn as tendencies vithin Yeats which might have ruined his poetry. The “parish of rich women” is the “brokers . , . roaring like beasts” in a genteel...