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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 (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 (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): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
....” The ambivalent and perhaps self-defeating traditionalism driving Richards’s multimedia experiments points to the awkward place he occupies in the disciplinary history of media studies. McLuhan, as Guillory notes, had been one of Richards’s students at Cambridge. Compelling arguments have been made that McLuhan’s...
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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 (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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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Because creators of media objects can think about other media objects in allegorical or formal terms, close analysis and interpretation must be central to the future of adaptation studies and to media studies generally. Simone Murray ( 2012 : 16), in her fine work on the contemporary “adaptation industry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 151–170.
Published: 01 June 2013
... forgotten debates of that era may
help us do a better job of fostering the study of literature itself amid
the upheavals brought about by the rising tide of new media, for which
video games provide my examples here.1
The world literature courses of the 1950s involved both a pedagogy...
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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 (2023) 84 (4): 509–527.
Published: 01 December 2023
...—A Literature Review .” Australian Academic and Research Libraries 47 , no. 3 : 160 – 73 . media screen page reading literature My subject in this essay is the later writings of I. A. Richards, but I think it is safe to assume that in literary study today there is little interest...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2021
... ten years or so, taking shape as a coherent set of methodologies in book and print-culture history, literary criticism, and media studies. If it has not yet achieved the explanatory comprehensiveness of such well-established approaches as queer studies and narrative studies, seriality studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 359–377.
Published: 01 December 2019
... media, and using different genres, she suggests that we need to loosen our attachment to the literary. The skills of close reading and book history must learn to coexist with the techniques of ethnographic writing, cultural sociology, and new media studies, as well as with the old standby of social...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 479–494.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the challenges posed to it by new and emergent media—mainly film and television—by to some extent absorbing them into its field. The methods developed for the study of literature translated pretty well to those mainly narrative media, as long as one was willing to take seriously differences in material medium...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 393–399.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., ethnic studies and cultural studies in the 1990s or media studies, disability studies, trans studies, book history, and digital humanities in the 2010s. 3 Two recent special issues exemplify the point I want to make about the journal’s scope. One is “Literary History after the Nation?,” edited...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 399–418.
Published: 01 December 2020
...”—will “constitute a significant part of whatever is made.” Alongside the contributors to this special issue, in concert with the ecocritics we have cited, and in solidarity with scholars in many other fields that inspire future possibility—disability studies; psychoanalysis; new media studies; the curating...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 394–397.
Published: 01 September 2020
...—indicates its usefulness beyond the specific domain of this study. This is not the book’s only virtue. Baetens’s attention to early novelizations, described in his first chapter and collected in appendixes, will be a boon to students of this supposedly understudied media form in French. As I’ve already...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., “Cultural Studies and the Cen-
ter: Some Problematics and Problems,” in Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in
Cultural Studies, 1972–79, ed. Stuart Hall et al. (London: Hutchinson; Birmingham:
University of Birmingham, Centre for Contemporary Cultural...
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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 (2018) 79 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in the Age of Image) . Beijing : Renmin chubanshe . Jin Huimin . 2004 . “ Qulin Juli yu Wenxue de Dangqian Weiji: ‘Di er Meijie Shidai’ de Wenxue he Wenxue Yanjiu ” (“The Diminishing of Distance and the Current Crisis of Literature: Literature and Literary Study in ‘the Era of the Second Media...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 81–83.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in genetic text criticism than a media-attentive study of note-taking as an aesthetic and ethical practice. As a contribution to scholarship on the history of information and literary study, Reader’s book takes a formalist approach to material often seen as the handmaiden of historicist argument...
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