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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 September 2024
... poetic sound. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 poetry prosody sound studies music technology Wallace Stevens Suppose you are exploring an old house and come across an antique foot-pumped organ. Some of its features are legible enough...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 June 1984
... (or counterculture), one characterized by openness to contingency, harmless trances of communion, and an agrarian closeness to the processes of nature. It is the fertile re- cycling of Uroboros, as opposed to the steady entropic decline associated with technological bureaucracy. The banana molecules...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Heather Fielding Henry James often criticizes mass culture for having instrumentalized the novel by conditioning readers to reduce the text to its ending. Yet he also suggests that popular visual technologies—cinema and its predecessor, the magic lantern—are uniquely able to compensate for mass...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 262–263.
Published: 01 September 1957
... of the medieval spilman and the importance of music for humanism, reformation, and baroque are so lightly touched upon that it is questionable whether the whole introductory chapter might not have been omitted altogether. In the Gcniekrrlt of Storm and Stress and romanticism, however...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 343–363.
Published: 01 September 2002
... at historically unique rates (the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Guggen- heims, the Experience Music Project, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum), and so on—recent culture actually reveals an “obsession with the past.”15 Implicitly, the ideal form of contemporary memory is technological, a mode of total...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... poetries. These are linked loosely, in the manner of Marjorie Perloff’s Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1991), to social trends regarding digital technology, to workplace issues in the information economy (as mediated by poets), and sometimes to the political-historical moment...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 286–288.
Published: 01 September 1955
.... $5.00. Kinsley, James (editor). Scottish Poetry : A Critical Survey. London : Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1955. Pp. ix + 330. 30s. Long, John H. Shakespeare’s Use of Music: A Study of the Music and Its Performance in the Original Production of Seven Comedies. Gainesville...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Review ) (Miller 2001 ), where it stimulated an unprecedented discussion of the future of literary studies. Miller ( 2015 : 57) opens by quoting Jacques Derrida’s Post Card : “An entire epoch of so-called literature, if not all of it, cannot survive a certain technological regime of telecommunications...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
... they are offered in what seem to be bilingual editions: “English/Korean” or “Francais/English.” Sometimes they are offered in musical editions: “With Drums” or “With Strings” or “Tango Version.” Sometimes no choice among editions is offered. There is no information about the chronology or location...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 245–268.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Transcendence and Antebellum Technology Paul Gilmore n January 1839, after frequently defending Ralph Waldo Emerson Iagainst the attacks of the Unitarian establishment, Orestes Brownson offered his own critique of the Concord transcendentalist. Insisting that “the scholar must have an end to which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 359–394.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 1988). 3 Secondarily, the visual arts; it is much harder to treat music in these terms, let alone dance or architecture. As to music, see, e.g., Stephen Davies’s discussion in his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 427–452.
Published: 01 December 2019
... University Press . Burnshaw Stanley , ed. 1960 . The Poem Itself: Forty-Five Modern Poets in a New Presentation . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Byrne David . 1999 . “ Crossing Music’s Borders in Search of Identity; ‘I Hate World Music.’ ” New York Times , October 3...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 117–164.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that is at home in the artificial worlds of publicity that have come to surround those technologies, film most of all, that amplified fame and its effects out of all historical proportion in the twentieth century. And America is a kind of native land for any celebrity, a place where...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... primitive of the literary arts. In Primitive Music (1893), for instance, Richard Wallaschek explained that “the historical order of all the branches of poetry does not begin with the epos — as frequently taught — but with the drama, lyric coming next, the epos lastly.” This was at once...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 225–246.
Published: 01 June 2015
... . Heine Christopher . 2014 . “ Geico’s Talking Pig Runs for Mayor of ‘Portlandia’: #Maxwell4Mayor Debuts over the Weekend .” Adweek , March 3 . www.adweek.com/news/technology/geicos-talking-pig-runs-mayor-portlandia-156037 . Herzl Theodor . 1997 . Old New Land , translated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 369–388.
Published: 01 December 1981
..., projected televised images on a gargantuan screen, and belted out a concluding musical number which might bring down the house in Las Vegas. Jumpers, in short, is a good show. Whether or not it is more than a facile revue-sketch, its overt theatricality assures it of a successful place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s visionary summa, Scivias . This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and Luna” as a poem about reading other poems about Pan, among them “A Musical Instrument,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In the composition and reception of her poem, we see how Victorian poetry foregrounds its multiple mediations, including the mediation of voice by meter as a musical instrument...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 85–86.
Published: 01 March 1955
... price and in an attractive format, a good and complete text of an important fourteenth-century poem. ROBERTWORTH FRANK, JR. Illinois Iwtitute of Technology 7ke Harmonww Vision: Studies in Milton’s Poetry. By DONCAMERON ALLEN. Baltimore...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
...), having concluded that Hughes sought to write authentically black poetry, turns his attention to the complicity of Hughes’s form in this project: “Authenticity is also guaranteed by the form, the rhythmic stresses, the rhyme scheme, and the tropes of the blues itself, a musical genre associated...