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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 319–322.
Published: 01 September 1978
... horror” (p. 162). Keiss is not advocating any thesis, apart from the implicit thesis that the concern with art and the artist is central to modern German literature. Kather, in a series of chapters he surveys the various responses of six impor- tant writers to problems first exposed in all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 597–602.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and Critical Inquiry . She is editor of the Animals volume of the collection British It-Narratives, 1750–1830 (2012). Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature . By Boehrer Bruce Thomas . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2010 . 238 pp . Homeless Dogs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 254–258.
Published: 01 June 2002
...David Lindley The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-factor. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 386 pp; The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance. By Michele Sharon Jaffe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 258–263.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Judy Kronenfeld Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England . By Ramie Targoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xiii + 162 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 263–266.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Patricia Meyer Spacks Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry . By Barbara M. Benedict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ix + 321 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture. By Christo...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 388–391.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Geraldo U. de Sousa From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England . By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2000. xviii + 293 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 181–191.
Published: 01 June 1961
...Werner L. Schlotthaus Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 INGEBORG BACHMANN’S POEM “MEIN VOGEL” AN ANALYSIS OF MODERN POETIC METAPHOR By WERNERL. SCHLOTTHAUS The history of lyric poetry shows strikingly that the modernity of a poem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 214.
Published: 01 June 1961
...Fredson Bowers P. M. Handover. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. 224. $4.75. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 REVIEWS Printing in London froin 1476 to Modern Times: Coinpctitive Practice and Technical Invention...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 177–200.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... Modernism’s Exemplary Struggles with Materialist Theory: The Importance of Constructivist Values . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . Bradley F. H. 2012 . “ On Our Knowledge of Immediate Experience .” In Essays on Truth and Reality , 159 – 201 . Cambridge : Cambridge University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 257–260.
Published: 01 June 2021
... historical perspective suggests that high modernism and the self-help industry evolved into mutually compensating extremes: at the period when self-help developed into a commercial juggernaut (between the 1880s and the 1920s), the tradition of literary experimenters from Gustave Flaubert and Henry James...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 527–531.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Nathaniel Likert [email protected] Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England . By Timothy M. Harrison , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . vii + 337 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 What if poetry invented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 117–119.
Published: 01 March 2022
...John Yargo [email protected] Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England . By Megan Heffernan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 336 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Megan...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 221–222.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Christopher Braider [email protected] The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics . By Jessie Hock . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 234 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 The focus of Jessie...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 235–238.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Paul Michael Johnson [email protected] Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World . By Fuchs Barbara . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 174 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 How is a reader...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 374–376.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Andrea Frisch [email protected] Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage . By Rosensweig Anna . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2021 . ix + 234 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 The central topic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Joseph M. Ortiz [email protected] Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England . By Urvashi Chakravarty . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2022 . 295 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 This book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 79–93.
Published: 01 March 2024
... culture of “systemic whiteness.” References Bloom Gina . 2007 . Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Bloom Gina . 2018 . Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 110–114.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of such conjunctions, and I don’t think it’s dishonest to refrain from sharing all the resonances one has found and focus on those that will more assuredly expand or refine the reader’s understanding. At the same time, some early modern examples of self-killing that might contain the generic and affective fusions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Seth Jacobowitz [email protected] The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form . By Scott Mehl . Ithaca, NY : Cornell East Asia Series , 2021 . xvi + 235 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 This book carves out a distinct...