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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 269–278.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Francine Masiello © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Melodrama, Sex, and Nation in Latin America’s Fin de Siglo Francine Masiello ossip and public opinion come to play a distinguished role in GLatin American narrative of the lastJin de siglo. The gossip colum- nist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 June 1980
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 451–454.
Published: 01 September 1969
.... ALAN6. DESSEN Northwestern University Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience. By ROBERTBECHTOLD HEILMAN.Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968. xiii + 326 pp. $8.95. P began reading this book with feelings of considerable enthusiasm. Here...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 78–91.
Published: 01 March 1970
...E. Freeman Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 CAMUS’S LES JUSTES MODERN TRAGEDY OR OLD-FASHIONED MELODRAMA? By E. FREEMAN Les Justes is the third and last of his original plays...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11426383.
Published: 18 September 2024
...Laura Hydak Abstract This article reveals a new figure in the contemporary Spanish imaginary, the indiana , and a new literary mode, the indiana melodrama. It argues that the incarnation of the indiana as a virtuous, melodramatic heroine in Àngels Aymar’s 2007 play La indiana rebukes Spanish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: the melodrama of his father’s generation and the melodramatic-cum-realistic Broadway fare of his own youth. Textual history has impeded their categorical recognition: in 1924, when Desire under the Elms was first published and performed, 39 percent of O’Neill’s oeuvre (seventeen of forty-four plays), but just...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 88–90.
Published: 01 March 1980
... most fill-thright wording Heilnian generously credits to Anthony Burgess, is a definition that arises from and enriches the author’s earlier treatments of tragedy and melodrama: ‘Comedy has a mean- “ ing in ternis of-not of content...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 311–322.
Published: 01 September 1940
... Retiro with a performance of La Clemenza di Tito in the Spanish translation of Luzin. Charles I1 was too obsessed with the pleasures of the chase to take any active interest in the Italian opera, but he allowed the staging of melodramas to go on until 1777 when operatic performances were...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 March 1994
... after ig 17. He also expands the picture considerably by drawing attention to various aspects of narrative that become visible once one accepts realism’s incapacity to fulfill the terms of its own mandate. His accounts of subgenres such as melodrama, farce, historiography, and the lyric combat...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 161–166.
Published: 01 June 1945
... continues, it is evident that his own conditional approval of firdad was not meant to imply satisfaction with it, much less enthusiasm. He even goes so far as to condemn it carefully, along with Santiago Rusifiol’s Buena gente : “Porque ambos son melodramas, dramones rnejor diria, que...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 51–67.
Published: 01 March 1966
.... It is reported that Goethe urged Werner to write a drama based on the story of a crime published in a new~paper.~Werner referred to the subject of his play as a “bekannte Anekd~teIndeed, the story of a son 1Eric Bentley, “Camus: The Melodrama of Ideas,” New York Times Book Review, August 29...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the theaters through much of the century’s first half and who responded to the action and broad acting of melodrama and the crude comedy of farce more read- ily than to psychological subtlety. All of these factors surely had their effects, but the terms under which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (4): 395–398.
Published: 01 December 1976
... incleecl dramatize his life and the lives of his fi-iencls, Harris approaches Yeats’s 130- etry as if it were either clrama or (all too often in Harris’s hands) melodrama. Maid Gonne-whom Harris casts as the villain of the piece, a cross between Little Orphan Annie and Lady Macbeth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 107–111.
Published: 01 March 2015
...- and highbrow melodrama: a mixture by which means the specters of kitsch stage a fierce spectacle of resistance against petit bourgeois middle-browness. Kaup strikes me as caught in full jouissance mode at the interstices between the lure of commodity and the high spectacle of the prestige arts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 115–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
... challenging interpretation of this novella, but her assertion of the link between the fl uidities and the tensions of identity in this cultural and geographic setting is convincing. To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish religious and gender-based rigidities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 March 2005
... challenging interpretation of this novella, but her assertion of the link between the fl uidities and the tensions of identity in this cultural and geographic setting is convincing. To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish religious and gender-based rigidities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 124–129.
Published: 01 March 2005
... could be said about Fuchs’s challenging interpretation of this novella, but her assertion of the link between the fl uidities and the tensions of identity in this cultural and geographic setting is convincing. To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish religious and gender-based rigidities is a question that readers will have to consider for themselves. The section of the chapter dealing with La gran sultana pursues the theme of Christian European versus Ottoman...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 March 2005
... challenging interpretation of this novella, but her assertion of the link between the fl uidities and the tensions of identity in this cultural and geographic setting is convincing. To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish religious and gender-based rigidities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 136–142.
Published: 01 March 2005
... could be said about Fuchs’s challenging interpretation of this novella, but her assertion of the link between the fl uidities and the tensions of identity in this cultural and geographic setting is convincing. To what extent the melodrama of Ricardo and Leonisa masks a critique of Spanish...