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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 131–145.
Published: 01 June 1973
...Glyn P. Norton Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 RETROSPECTIVE TIME AND THE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE IN ROUSSEAU By GLYNP. NORTON There are few places in Rousseau’s autobiographical writings where he appears to take...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 299–304.
Published: 01 September 1952
...Nan Cooke Carpenter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ∗ Paper read at the meeting of the Modern Language Association in Detroit, December 28, 1951. THE AUTHENTICITY OF RABELAIS’ FIFTH BOOK: MUSICAL CRITERIA* By NAN...
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Figure 2. “A Musical Instrument,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. From Cornhill Magazine ( 1860 ) More
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Figure 3. Engraving by Frederic Leighton for “A Musical Instrument.” From Cornhill Magazine ( 1860 ) More
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Figure 4. George Saintsbury, footnote on “A Musical Instrument.” From A History of English Prosody ( 1910 ) More
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Figure 5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, drafts of “A Musical Instrument.” Courtesy of The Morgan Library and Museum, New York More
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 147–161.
Published: 01 March 2009
... on orally from performer to performer and from performer to audience, blackface minstrels sought to reassure the middle classes that they were emulating more sophisticated European musical traditions. What both the covers and the contents of post-1843 blackface sheet music reveal is that these minstrels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Brian M. Reed Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts . By Daniel Albright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 395 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas. By Roland...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 380–383.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Seth Lerer Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer . By Bruce W. Holsinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xviii + 472 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 380 MLQ September 2003...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (2): 195–221.
Published: 01 June 2009
... ) reveals the shortcomings of any interpretive desire to fix the text, not simply because the story delights in Romantic instability but because it posits phenomena of music and their effects as forces that frustrate every effort to localize. What Eichendorff presents to the reader is itself a “marble...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 213–215.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Herbert Lindenberger Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language . By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xviii + 252 pp. University of Washington 2010 Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. His...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 367–389.
Published: 01 September 2008
... on the aesthetics of transgression in Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and Arthur Symons and is working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Salome's Modernity: Modernism and the Aesthetics of Transgression . “The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text”? The Aesthetic Relationship between Wilde’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 261–276.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Peter Höyng In Beethoven’s last symphony one encounters a prototype in which music serves as a powerful catalyst for literature. It is his music that transported Schiller’s poem “An die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) beyond its temporal, linguistic, and geographic origin. If one dubs this phenomenon “world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 90–92.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Leslie Ritchie [email protected] Resounding the Sublime: Music in English and German Literature and Aesthetic Theory, 1670–1850 . By Miranda Eva Stanyon . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . x + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 415–417.
Published: 01 December 1979
...?” MARTINSTEVENS Bernard M. Baruch College City Uniuersity of New York 2 The Aims oflnlerpretatzon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), p. 130. The Music of the Close: The Final Scenes of Shakespeare’s Tragedies. By WALTERC. FOREMAN,JR. Lexington: University Press...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 181–192.
Published: 01 June 1980
...DANIEL MELNICK Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 PROUST, MUSIC, AND THE READER By DANIELMELNICK Proust’s attempt was, as purely as possible, to embody a musical aes- thetic in A lu recherche du temps perdu, and the combination...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 March 1970
...- standing and complex in the best of Shaw’s plays, are yet to be explored. CHARLESA. BERST University of California, Los Angeles Music and the Musician in “Jean-Christophe”: The Harmony of Contrasts. By DAVIDSICES. New Haven...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 513–514.
Published: 01 December 1970
.... JEAN SAKEIL Columbia University Verbal Music in German Literature. By SIEVENPAUL SCHER. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Yale Germanic Studies, No. 2, 1968. viii -t I81 pp. $6.75; 62s. Steven Scher’s Yale dissertation is a skillful exercise in descriptive...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 1968
... on Lessing by reawakening our appreciation of him as a writer of comedies, thus pm viding ballast for the more traditional conception of Lessing as a theore- tician and tragedian. EDWARDDVORETZKY University of Iowa Schiller and Music. By R...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 494–496.
Published: 01 December 1964
...- tioned one, since he occasionally uses the latter term out of chronological context. But these are the risks of thoroughness, and they are worth running. GLAUCOCAMRON Rutgers Uniuersity Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. By JOHN...