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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 (1945) 6 (3): 319–324.
Published: 01 September 1945
...Huntington Brown THE GLOSS TO THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER By HUNTINGTONBROWN When we read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, we are invited to imagine that the poet was a minstrel of long ago. The poem has enough of the features of a popular ballad to convey...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 339–353.
Published: 01 December 1975
... of the Middle English romances is the loose assumption that the extant texts caririot represent the stories in their “pristine integri- ty.” Instead, we have been left only with the awkwardly combined ef- forts of bourgeois minstrels and inaccurate scribes. The dire conse- quences of such an unhappy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 349–350.
Published: 01 September 1945
... behind them both to a “churchman” and explain their only important innovations, changes in the order of events, as due to minstrels after the transla- tion had become “their common property.” This is to forget that in early fourteenth-century England piety still paid better than secularity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 350–351.
Published: 01 September 1945
... of the Fillingham OR, he would attribute (p. 432) the English translation behind them both to a “churchman” and explain their only important innovations, changes in the order of events, as due to minstrels after the transla- tion had become “their common property.” This is to forget that in early...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1940
... independently of the versions of the husband’s magic return found in “Heimkehr des Ehemannes” and “Der edle Moringer”18 and was later contaminated with them. The theme is very popular with minstrel singers of the Middle ages, eg., “Hind Horn,” “Horn Child,” “Herzog Heinrich.” “Fair...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 March 1945
... from yonder gate I hear? From yonder bridge, what lay? Let minstrel sing to ev’ry ear In this hall may he stay! The King thus spoke, the page he ran The page returned, the King began : Hand...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 239–260.
Published: 01 September 1975
...., or there be any in your Parish that doth violate or breake the Lordes Day by any kind of worke or pastime whatsoever, or any Minstrels that use any playinge upon their Instrumentes in your Churche or Chappell, or your Churchyard, or other that hath made any fray, or used any brawlings...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 348–366.
Published: 01 December 1977
..., And Gledswood bank ilk morrow, May chant and sing, Sweet Leader-haughs, And bonny howms of Yarrow. But minstrel Burn cannot asswage His grief while life endureth, To see the changes of this age, That fleeting time procureth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 1999
....4 “Jim’sGab” brought minstrel, medicine-show, and other popular the- atrical traditions into the palatably middle-class milieu of the lyceum lecture series. Instead of evoking medicine-show Indians or blackface “Jakes,”however, Riley spoke primarily through children or infantilized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
... contortionist narratives regarding the noble origins of the English minstrels, Percy nonetheless defends the “rude” “select remains,” as he refers to the ballads he has assembled, by main- taining that they were “meerly written for the people” (ix).9 The low- est classes, even if not the makers, were...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 397–419.
Published: 01 December 2018
... tradition. Percy (and Ritson in his turn) regarded these songs as the remains of an earlier English (or Scottish, or Irish) poetry, supposing that they were first sung by minstrels in great houses and elsewhere, to audiences both elite and popular, though by the sixteenth century they were most commonly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 510–512.
Published: 01 December 1947
... (who thinks Wernher was a wandering minstrel), I did not feel that P’s case had been weakened. If Gough rules out 780 f. because they are spoken in character, then the same applies to all inferences drawn from what the old Meier says about other things. The introductory lines of the poem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 272–273.
Published: 01 September 1962
... of mundane affairs, until with the Easter uprising of 1916 he threw himself, in Miss Stock’s phrase, “dreams and all,” into the struggle for Irish freedom. To be sure, he never overtly participated in armed conflict. Rather, he was content to assume the roles of a sustaining minstrel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., Mansfield Park, ed. Tony Tanner (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966), 114. Jager ❙ Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology 35 Fanny’s imagination is schooled by Walter Scott’s gothic descrip- tion of a chapel in The Lay of the Last Minstrel, his first important work. Given Austen’s generally low...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 411–444.
Published: 01 December 1946
... to Guiraut’s. After all, there need not necessarily be an antagonism between the Catalan and Provenqal poets, one defending, the other condemning, minstrels. It is not impossible that, though making no distinction be- tween good and bad joglars, as Guiraut did, Cerveri, too, had in mind the higher...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 603–605.
Published: 01 December 1969
... composition as much as any epic minstrel. But Perry goes further, pointing out the differences between for- mulaic usage in oral poetry of the folk and in the literary versification of Berceo. “In contrast to the rapid oral composition of the illiterate epic poet, Berceo worked slowly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 333–341.
Published: 01 December 1963
... the poet may well have planned his work to be read aloud. But GGK exhibits none of the clumsy devices of a minstrel’s oral literature ; see Bertram H. Bronson, “Chaucer’s Art in Relation to his Audience,” in Five Studies i Literature, University of California Publications in English (Berkeley...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 124–126.
Published: 01 March 1943
.... On the contrary, Professor Odell is as sweeping in his inclusiveness as a broad definition of the word “theatre” will permit. He gives full attention to opera, vaudeville, burlesque, concerts, dramatic re- citals, and minstrel shows, and even finds space for such phenomena as stereopticon lectures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 73–82.
Published: 01 March 1960
..., a medieval French personification of the power of money. Since he seems to have been created, or at least popularized, by the jongleurs, many money satires in which he figured may have died with the minstrels themselves or been dispersed with their notebooks, never having found the comfortable...