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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 278–282.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Robert L. Caserio Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 . By Mark Wollaeger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxv + 335 pp. University of Washington 2009 Robert L. Caserio, professor of English at Pennsylvania State University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 479–482.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Masha Raskolnikov Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions .By Jody Enders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxiii + 285 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 1967
... de la litel-atura espaiiola. Tom0 I: Edad media y renacimiento. By JUAN LUISALBORG. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1966. 622 pp. Juan Luis Alborg’s four-volume Historia de la Ziteratura espafiola, when completed, will cover Spanish literature from the jarchas of the Middle Ages...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 491–514.
Published: 01 December 2015
...: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms . New York : Palgrave . Barnhisel Greg . 2015 . Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy . New York : Columbia University Press . Brinkley Alan . 2010 . The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century . New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... perceived as a crisis of the humanities: a disciplinary fragmentation combined with the growing influence of the social sciences in the study of culture. Before he would have turned to the study of myth, Kerényi proposed media history as the foundation for the renewal of classical studies and the humanities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
...András Kiséry; David Nee Abstract New media played an important but largely understudied role in the formation of literary studies as a discipline. The dominant tradition of literary criticism has implied that literature was superior to and fully distinct from competing media and that the methods...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 509–527.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of new media, chiefly visual media. Richards attempted in this later work to adapt new media such as television to the teaching of language, as well as to the teaching of literature. In the 1950s he attempted to use television to teach his audience how to read works of poetry. These experiments failed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Jonathan Foltz Abstract This article explores the overlapping histories of close reading and mass media by attending to the late-career film and television experiments of I. A. Richards. A lifelong critic of the entertainment industry and (arguably reactionary) media theorist, Richards also spent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to language inspired, ultimately, by Goethean science. This article argues that Jolles’s study should also be recognized as an important early work of media theory. Simple Forms includes a striking number of examples drawn from the mass-market newspapers of Jolles’s day. In turning to mass media, Jolles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and the circumstances of its production bear closer scrutiny within the intertwining histories of textual criticism, art-historical study, and media theory in the history of the humanities (Camille 1996 ; Dolezal 1998 ), particularly because the Eibingen facsimile lies beneath the radar of both textual critics who...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 341–353.
Published: 01 September 2018
... “end of literature” essay. “Western Literary Theory in China” ends with a section about something the three Chinese authors do not stress, namely, the major changes in literary theory in every country, including China, brought about willy-nilly by the shift from print media to digital media. What...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 147–161.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Daniel H. Foster This essay focuses on how aural and visual media intersected with class when, in 1843, blackface performers began to call themselves minstrels. Not merely a rebaptism, this new name marked a rebirth. Whereas blackface was originally a working-class theatrical experience passed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 363–386.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of relationships between persons. Similarly, the fullness and the insecurity of friendship are conveyed by verbal pictures that borrow a sense of plenitude from the visual arts even as they fail to achieve the direct presence of those media. An analysis of words and images in The Token , the gift book in which so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 151–170.
Published: 01 June 2013
... languages but media. David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is coeditor of The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011) and general editor of Gateways to World Literature (2 vols., 2012). His...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 June 2014
... disciplines, it is incumbent on English studies now to see that these practices flourish in the field of media studies that seems likely to succeed it during the century ahead. Herbert F. Tucker is John C. Coleman Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Virginia, where he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of character as an aesthetic form. Character-details beckon for queer uptake , or the recirculation of character-details into contexts, genres, and media to unlock new narrative trajectories for queerness. Character-details thus highlight the promiscuously queer relationality of character as an aesthetic form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Jane O. Newman Abstract The older and allegedly more conventional humanistic discipline of philology and the field of the “new” media of film that were emerging into their maturity in the early twentieth century are not commonly aligned. The institutional spaces they occupied—a cloistered academy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 September 2024
... performances in the present. This tension, bound up in the history of the reed organ and the book that bears its name, can help us interpret a similar tension in contemporary poetry studies, where scholars of historical poetics seek to read poetic form against the media conditions of narrow historical moments...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 479–494.
Published: 01 December 2019
... by University of Washington 2019 literature nation history media video games Enumerate the announced forces of the nation’s dissolution. In the positive direction, cosmopolitanism, internationalism, the global unification of the proletariat or the multitude, the impact of migration...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 394–397.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of Baetens’s chapters, “Illustrations: A Rhetorical Tool,” a lucid and concise account of the various ways an image contributes to the meaning of a text within a broader network of media. That this chapter is not limited to novelizations per se—Baetens refers here to W. G. Sebald, not a known novelizer...