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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 214–215.
Published: 01 June 1961
... and the like-have any relation to the text. FREDSONBOWERS University of Virginia Image and Meaning : Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry. By DON CAMERONALLEN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1960. Pp. viii + 175...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (3): 227–247.
Published: 01 September 1989
... resentment: What is it like to be born in a place and to live there more or less forever, to know that you are of it?” -Edward W. Said‘ THE DYNAMICS OF EXILE AND DESIRE: NARRATIVE FORM AND MEANING...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 March 1993
...Jerome J. McGann Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Literature, Meaning, and the Discontinuity of Fact Jerome J. McGann extual studies and editing are two exemplary fields of historical Tcriticism. They are also fundamental, since all literary work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 165–179.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Roberto Schwarz © 1996 University of Washington 1996 The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis Roberto Schwarz Sah ein Knab’ ein Riislein stehn, Riislein auf der Heiden.-Goethe, “Heidenriislein” He is poor. . . , therefore he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (3): 275–276.
Published: 01 September 1954
... a history of English lyrics from their beginning until today. HALDEENBRADDY Texas Western College, El Paso Elizabethan Poetry: A Study in Conventions, Meaning, and Expression. By HAUETTSMITH. Cambridge : Harvard University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 1976
...William F. Hall Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THE MEANING OF THE SACRED FOUNT “ITS OWN LITTLE LAW OF COMPOSITION’’ By WILLIAMF. HALL The psychological interpretation of The Sacred Fount is still...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 336–347.
Published: 01 December 1977
... of Queens, New York, several of whose insights into the inner dynamics of Tam Lin have been incorporated into the presented essay. TAM LIN: FORM AND MEANING IN A TRADITIONAL BALLADX By JOHN D. NILES Whether or not the great...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 418–420.
Published: 01 December 1979
... Heinrich von Klekt: Studies in the Characjer and Meaning of His Writings. By JOHN M. ELLIS.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Studies in the Ger- manic Languages and Literatures, 94, 1979. xvii + 194 pp. $13.50. In this book John M. Ellis sets out vigorously to corral...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 298–300.
Published: 01 September 1980
... distilled from this book have sufficed; it would have been a superior performance of the critic’s task. PEI Haruard University LOMNY The Fragile Thread: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner’s Novels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 263–273.
Published: 01 September 1968
...James F. Knapp Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 THE MEANING OF SIR ORFEO By JAMES F. KNAPP In an article on the sources and analogues oE Sir Orfeo, J. Burke Severs calls the poem “the best of the Middle English Breton lays...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 448–451.
Published: 01 September 1969
... drama. L. L. BARRETT Washington and Lee University Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning. By DAVIDBEVINGTON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. 360 pp. $1 0.00. In his opening sentence, David...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 603–605.
Published: 01 December 1969
...John E. Keller By T. Anthony Perry. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Romanic Studies, Second Series, No. 19, 1968. viii + 231 pp. $6.50; 58s. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 REVIEWS Art and Meaning in Berceo’s “Vida de Santa...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 June 1970
...Patrick O'Flaherty Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 DR. JOHNSON AS EQUIVOCATOR THE MEANING OF RASSELAS By PATRICKO’FLAHERTY Biographers have long recognized that the death of Sarah Johnson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 404–406.
Published: 01 December 1981
...Wallace Martin ALTIERI CHARLES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. viii + 344 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 404 REVIEWS Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 231–243.
Published: 01 September 1958
...Leo Spitzer Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 MARVELL’S “NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN”: SOURCES VERSUS MEANING By LEOSPITZER In the considerable literature in which attempts have been...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 27–29.
Published: 01 March 1960
...David C. Fowler Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ON THE MEANING OF PEARL, 139-40 By DAVIDC. FOWLER In the Middle English dream-vision poem, Pearl, the dreamer falls asleep and finds himself in a strange, wonderful country: crystal...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 363–365.
Published: 01 September 1950
.... It may be, as Spargo suggests, that the original audience associated the knocking at the gate in Macbeth with the knocking of searchers for the dead during the plague of 1603 and therefore understood it to be an omen of death, but that does not exhaust its meaning in the play nor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 260–263.
Published: 01 June 1970
... BrowningS Voices in “The Ring and the Book”: A Study of Method and Meaning. By MARYROSE SULLIVAN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969. xv + 226 pp. $7.50. At first glance, this study promises to be doggedly, aridly mechanical. Mary Kose Sullivan proposes, she says...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 180–190.
Published: 01 June 1973
...K. A. Bruffee Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 FORM AND MEANING IN NABOKOV’S REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT AN EXAMPLE OF ELEGIAC ROMANCE By K. A. BRUFFEE The Real Lzfe ofsebastian Knight is one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 217–224.
Published: 01 September 1962
...; they escape us as soon as we attempt to interpret or to use them in a subjectively meaningful way. (The other senses are not considered as reliable means of apperception.) Robbe-Grillet is against psychologizing, against behavioristic inter- pretation, against a vocabulary of a “caract6re...