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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 111.
Published: 01 March 1943
... Literature. By JOSEPH
G. FUCILLA. New York: S. F. Vanni, 1941. Pp. 534. $10.00.
Motif-Index of the Italian “Novella” in Prose. By D. P. ROTUNDA.
Bloomington : Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series
No. 2, 1942. Pp. xxxii + 216. $2.00.
Professor Fucilla’s latest...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 133–147.
Published: 01 June 1975
...Sherwyn T. Carr Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH NATIVITY CHERRY TREE
THE DISSEMINATION OF A POPULAR MOTIF
By SHERWYNT. CARR
The fifteenth pageant of the Middle English dramatic cycle...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 1951
...Par Marcel Francon Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SUR UN MOTIF LITTERAIRE
Par MARCELFRANCON
Parmi les Dernsres chunsons de Louis Bouilhet, une pike1 retient
l’attention : “L’amour noir” : Vulcain, jaloux des amours de VCnus...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 461–473.
Published: 01 December 1970
...Horst S. Daemmrich Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 FERTILITY-STERILITY: A SEQUENCE OF MOTIFS
IN THOMAS MANN’S JOSEPH NOVELS
By HORSTS. DAEMMRICH
Ever...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2010
... literary motifs. Featuring a moderately successful painter who produces his one truly outstanding piece, ironically, when driven to despair by a financial swindle, At His Gates was not merely Oliphant's most fully realized fictional engagement with sensational narratives of Victorian economic crises...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 201–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad This essay connects the television series Mad Men to Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary . All are serialized narratives of capitalist globalization in which motifs of exile articulate the experience of breached sovereignty in a modern world...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
Published: 01 September 2017
... a habitation of devils. Milton’s point-by-point response to the antimodel of Waller’s poem reveals specific topicality and political engagement in the motifs of Paradise Lost : in this sense, Milton is a poet of the restoration he opposes. Waller, too, internalizes the oracle that he sets in St. James’s Park...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of complementary coupling providing a formal and thematic model for the dialectical engagements necessary for navigating social conflict. At the same time, Gaskell uses Austenian motifs to dramatize the “marriageability” of different generic frameworks during a time of regional fragmentation while also envisioning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to include mass media by providing him with a morphological version of the motif concept that still has generative applications. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 morphology media André Jolles Aby Warburg motif The Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby Warburg (1866–1929) is one...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 370–372.
Published: 01 December 1955
... realize for the first time the volume and significance of these manu-
scripts.
Motif and tneme, here carefully distinguished, are something like warp and
woof in Meyer’s fabric. The motifs (symbols) are primary, the themes sec-
ondary ; the motif is the constant, the theme the variable...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 March 1963
...; Amphitryout; Marionettentheater) ; there follows a long,
central essay, easily the most valuable in the book, on recurrent Kleistian motifs ;
three further essays are devoted to Kohlhaus and Homburg. A coda of two
general studies-ne on Kleist’s sense and use of the plastic arts, the other on
what...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 March 1942
... is ignominiously defeated in a duel
with the messenger.
No direct source for Heinrich‘s drinking test has ever been
found in Old French. The motif occurs in the Lui du Copo and in
the first continuation of Crestien’s Percevd, but neither of these
has much in common with Heinrich’s story...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 369–370.
Published: 01 December 1955
... for the first time the volume and significance of these manu-
scripts.
Motif and tneme, here carefully distinguished, are something like warp and
woof in Meyer’s fabric. The motifs (symbols) are primary, the themes sec-
ondary ; the motif is the constant, the theme the variable. The first two...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 384–405.
Published: 01 December 1973
... by
the rebellious plebeians. It begins with (a) the motif of “order arid de-
gree violated”: “There hath been in Rome strange insurrections: the
people against the senators, patricians, and nobles” (1V.iii. 13-15). Motif
(d), that of voracious monsters, occurs when Coriolanus tells Aufidius...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 336–352.
Published: 01 December 1960
... (Kanelangres and
Blenzinbil in Tristrams saga), we find the first of several interesting
combinations of motifs derived from sources other than Brother
R6bert’s translation. Among the noteworthy personages who attend
the tournament are King HloBvir of Spain, his faithful but elderly
knight...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 566–569.
Published: 01 December 1940
... dubious is the use of leit-motifs . . . This not only
tends to bore if not irritate the rcader, it limits the characters” (p.
346). To admire Nlann’s writings, so closely knit that scarcely a
sentence or word could be changed without destroying the whole
fahic, and yet be bored 1)y the leit...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 373–375.
Published: 01 September 1968
... themes in Hesse’s
writings and to demonstrate their precipitation in the structure of his major
novels. Boulby, by contrast, is interested in archetypal patterns, motifs,
and images that recur in Hesse’s fiction. This sophisticated approach, which
is critically in vogue today, has led Boulby...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 355–371.
Published: 01 December 1973
... of the themes that form the
threads of the poem’s weave. Cynewulf, dilating upon the curt and
strictly informational Latin sentence, lists the motifs which become cen-
tral to the interpretation of the narrative as a whole: love and affection,
wisdom and judgment, vanity, wealth and treasures...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1987
...
of this continuum are moral insight and historical truth” (p. 72).
The moral concerns of the alliterative poets often led them into
didacticism. But the poets made use of the narrative form, rather
than the typical sermon or religious lyric, to convey their message.
Certain motifs, well known in art...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 345–350.
Published: 01 December 1961
..., “Sur des variantes
de Panfagruel Bull. folklorique d’lle de France, XX (1957), 1052-53; K.
Kasprzyk, “Le Motif du ’Don r6cupCt-6 par I’amant’ chez Nicolas de Troyes,”
Kwartalnik Neofilologicmy, V (1958), 187.
345
346 N icolas de Troyes...
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