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Evil in Exile: Fiction, Franzen, Faust
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Daniel DiMassa Abstract Serious fiction, according to Frank Kermode, avoids the apocalyptic paradigm of beginning, middle, and end. Part of the paradigm that escaped Kermode’s attention, however, is the inevitable defeat of evil by forces of good. The present essay inquires after the narratological...
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The Subject of Violence: The “song of Roland” and the Birth of the State
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 March 1995
... narratology, Haidu distinguishes “two fundamental actantial
functions- that of destinator and that of the subject 133). The destina-
tor is the figure or actor within the narrative who “forwards”a certain set of
values to the subject. Conversely, the subject undertakes a narrative pro-
gram...
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Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 431–434.
Published: 01 September 1993
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most specific adversaries, feature the narratology of Barthes, Greimas, and
company, as well as the cultural anthropology of Livi-Strauss. (If it seems a
bit late in the day to counterargue structuralism, Kroeber should be for-
given; these remain the most recent and influential thinkers about...
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The Future of Literary Study: An Experiment in Guesswork
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2011
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and methods that, at present, are all that remain of poetics in literary
study. Specifically, I have in mind narratology, the sole survivor of the
brief efflorescence of “structuralist poetics” in the late 1960s and early
1970s, where the trend is toward hybrid narratologies — feminist, cog-
nitive...
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The Queerness of Character-Details
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Chatman 1978 : 107–45. For queer narratology informed by systems theory, see Roof 2015 . 15 All quotations and page citations of Pregnant Butch are taken from and refer to Summers 2014 . 16 For an insightful meditation on Tintin’s “characterless” iconicity, see Hendrix 2011 . 17...
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The Art of Failure: Conrad's Fiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 447–449.
Published: 01 December 1986
... of political history in Conrad’s novels. Indeed,
Raval’s insistence on Conrad’s political engagement fruitfully complicates
the arguments of those scholars who have treated the failure of knowing in
Conrad as essentially philosophic, linguistic, or narratological.’ Raval
opens a potentially rewarding...
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Formalism and Time
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 229–251.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 2d ed. (Toronto: Univer-
sity of Toronto Press, 1997), 101.
Modern Language Quarterly 61:1, March 2000. © 2000 University of Washington.
MLQ 61.1-11Gallagher.ak 6/1/00 2:33 PM Page 230
230...
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Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 243–245.
Published: 01 June 2020
... effortlessly avails himself of relevant theoretical paradigms—discourse analysis and narratology, phenomenology and performance theory, deconstruction, political theory, and metaethics—in a manner that is neither desultory nor trendy but boldly astute and often ingenious. His reflections on Troilus...
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Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 74–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the medical fears, frustrations, and aspirations of their own era. As an exploration of both health and illness and of the representation of bodies, Fratto’s volume relies on vocabulary from narratology as well as from the medical humanities. But it speaks primarily to students and scholars of literature...
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Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 March 1994
... the historians for avoiding the work on narratology being
done by Genette and Todorov right there at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes
(34). The New Historians neglect issues of textualization, rhetoric, episte-
mology, or process in general. “They are still, in sum, waiting for their
Gdel,” muses Carrard...
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Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing in Victorian and Modern England
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 325–327.
Published: 01 September 1983
... that the matured Ernest Pontifex returns to his friend
Towneley. But these are small blemishes in a long and learned book. More
regrettable is a determined and not infrequent resort to citrrent jargon:
“narrativizations,” “synchronic analysis by structuralist narratology,” “narra-
tological...
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The English Novel in History, 1840–1895
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (3): 391–393.
Published: 01 September 1998
..., variations determined in part by the
other kinds of narrative time to which it is compared in each of her books.
Throughout her career Ermarth has established a welcome territory
between taxonomical (and ahistorical) narratology and cultural analyses of
the novel that depend primarily on plot...
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The New Metacriticisms and the Fate of Interpretation
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 267–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
... is misplaced effort, and neither he nor his contemporaries yield new interpretations in the way that, say, Wordsworth does, for all his seeming simplicity. Sterne is an important precursor of modernism, showing that in modernism we are back in an age when “narratology, stylistics, and prosody” are once again...
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Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815–1848
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 542–545.
Published: 01 December 2021
... approach, as is Graham Law’s ( 2000 ) Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press . Jennifer Hayward’s ( 2009 ) cross-media account of serial productions from Dickens to twentieth-century pop culture, as well as my own (Warhol 2003 ) feminist-narratological take on popular serial forms, traces...
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 327–330.
Published: 01 September 1983
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Towneley. But these are small blemishes in a long and learned book. More
regrettable is a determined and not infrequent resort to citrrent jargon:
“narrativizations,” “synchronic analysis by structuralist narratology,” “narra-
tological,” “autobiographicality,” “foregrounded,” “valorized...
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The Art of Medieval French Romance
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 427–430.
Published: 01 September 1993
..., was extremely thin in its consideration
of narrative, particularly in the context-our context-of a century’s theo-
retical reflection, in which various rhetorics of fiction (from Henry James to
Gerard Genette) have combined with narratologies of different types to
produce a highly developed...
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The Morals of History
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 September 1997
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tion matches a general turn to ethics in recent literary criticism. However, it
is also a stunning confirmation of how the mighty have fallen. Todorov was
the prime exponent of literary science as structuralism and narratology.
Now, parsing the finer points of ethicopolitical criticism late...
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Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 99–102.
Published: 01 March 1995
... narratology, which opens an
inviting, fresh path for medieval literary and cultural studies.
Michel-Andri Bossy, Brown University
Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literatuw,
I 660-1730. By Richard Braverman. Cambridge...
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In Saecula Saeculorum: On How Stories End
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 247–269.
Published: 01 June 2015
... is pointing to the incremental formation of a certain kind of plot—except no, not a “kind of plot,” because there is for Barthes only one plot, after all, the mystery-suspense plot that he thinks the classical text strictly requires. The old narratological argument, disavowed on page 1, thus reappears intact...
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Genre Blindness in the New Descriptivism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 2006 , Dubrow 2015 , and Stewart 2002 . For an exemplary instance of the poetry of metadeixis, see Howe 2010 . 7 In a superb narratological account of description, Mieke Bal ( 2006 : 596) inverts the hierarchy that subordinates description to narrative, moving from a descriptive narratology...
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