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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 147–161.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in the History
of Transatlantic Minstrelsy
Daniel H. Foster
his essay focuses on how aural and visual media intersected with
Tclass at a crucial moment in the history of blackface, when its per-
formers began to call themselves minstrels. What is now generally called
a minstrel show...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 403–413.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and American Writing . Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002 . Maxwell, Richard. The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650–1950 . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009 . ———. “Scott in France,” in Pittock, Reception , 11 -30. McLane, Maureen N. Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 197–222.
Published: 01 June 1999
... the popular: medicine shows, ethnic humor, minstrelsy, and
other nonedi fyi ng forms of entertainment .
In other words, by ventriloquizing children and naive “Hoosiers,”
Riley could appear to dismiss the increasingly “hifalutin,” Arnoldian
aspects of American culture while keeping them in play...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 397–419.
Published: 01 December 2018
... by Villon and English versions of two other songs taken from Old French by Gérard de Nerval. Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry were favorite volumes in the Rossetti family, and Rossetti wrote a number of ballads based on English and Scottish as well...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 March 1969
... emerged. What he does is
try to establish a chronological pattern of ballad evolution by examining
a large number of Child texts from the breakdown of medieval minstrelsy
to the start of the late eighteenth-century literary vogue. To make this sur-
vey possible, he assumes as a working hypothesis...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 244–245.
Published: 01 June 1949
... a dictionary knowledge of the language, but
“simply substituted his imagination for scholarship and evolved . . . his own
world of skaldic minstrelsy and Viking heroism.” The influence of Icelandic
literature on Longfellow is impressive, viewed in its entirety, and far out of
proportion...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 473–494.
Published: 01 December 1943
.... Walter Scott, editor of the “Minstrelsy of the Border,”
who besides an inexhaustible fund of spectres, has a rich store of
horrid murders, robberies, and other bloody exploits committed by
‘The entire poem is printed in my “Walter Scott in Pandemonium,”
Modern Language Review, XXXVIII (1M3...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 284–287.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Circulated in the “global network of anti-slavery poets” (64) or in the intricate minstrelsy of the Civil War’s “contraband songs” transcribed, or imagined to have been transcribed, directly from the mouths of former slaves, ballads served as “vehicles of collective belonging, rather than as verbal icons...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
... the politics of its permutations in black-face minstrelsy
and back into black musical theater. He sees this somersaulting tradition as
a “complex dialectical process by which African American culture defined
itself in relation to the paradigm of white mastery that lingered-and from
the perspective...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 146–148.
Published: 01 March 1969
... of ballad evolution by examining
a large number of Child texts from the breakdown of medieval minstrelsy
to the start of the late eighteenth-century literary vogue. To make this sur-
vey possible, he assumes as a working hypothesis that “a given ballad took
the particular shape it has about...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 390–393.
Published: 01 September 1995
... voices and a
general threatening otherness of what has been repressed, and popular cul-
ture a matter of vaudeville more than minstrelsy. And North’s claim that
Frobenius on Africa gives Pound a version of tradition not bound to regula-
tion, and hence ultimately to be contained by building...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 312–314.
Published: 01 June 1941
.... The audiences may well have been critical; for princes
frequently cultivated minstrelsy themselves. Where narrative poetry was in
use, it was evidently the chief entertainment of the courts; and it attained
a perfection which has not since been equalled (111, 749).
Antiquarian learning is found...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 195–207.
Published: 01 September 1960
... Courtship” recalls “La Belle
Dame”:
He lighted off his milk-white steed,
And set this lady on;
And held her by the milk-white hand,
Even as they rade along. . . .
In Jamieson, in Cromek‘s Remains, and in Scott’s Minstrelsy...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Fenimore Cooper’s America to Aleksandr
Pushkin’s Russia. But the Scott whose posthumous fame rests on his-
torical poetry and novels was also an antiquarian of note, editing bal-
lad material in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802–3) and English
Minstrelsy (1810), writing a history of the French...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Louis Chude-Sokei Louis Chude-Sokei is associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is author of The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2006) and a forthcoming book tentatively titled The Sound of Culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 185–196.
Published: 01 June 1966
... with it that belongs to creatures; and Satan with libel: “Sedi-
tious angel . . . Minstrelsy of Heav’n.” The epithets that occur in Ab-
diel’s speech, “Proud . . . fool . . . Apostate,” are but the names literally
describing what we have seen of Satan’s policy; hence they have an
expository role...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 401–413.
Published: 01 September 1965
..., represent
the commonplace world of human companionship and love. Amid
the ordinary noises of life, food is set out and the rosy bride paces the
hall in time with the jogging minstrelsy.
Against this background the Mariner stands out as a “grey-beard
loon”-an epithet, however, that tells...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 September 1986
... broadcast by minstrelsy exposing Mark’s cowardice and
treachery. The knights themselves are the most devoted reporters
and recorders of all. As soon as Bors and Lancelot return from the
Grail quest, for example, they give an account of all their adven-
tures. Indeed, every knightly adventurer adds...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 3–20.
Published: 01 March 1971
...
to a point this is true, but David C. Fowler is more accurate when he
points out that the “new minstrelsy,” of which the “Gest” is an exam-
ple, “is patterned after medieval romance, and it can be expected to
reflect its motifs and narrative structure The imitation is on the
whole admiring...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1940
... possess in
common a very ancient class of ballads (the riddle-ballads), several
themes belonging to the oldest level of Germanic minstrelsy, other
themes belonging to an international stock of folk-song (“Lady
Isabel and the Elf-Knight,” “Lord Randal,” “The Maid Freed From
the Gallows which...
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