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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...