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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Colin Jager © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Colin Jager is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is at work on a book titled Natural Designs: Romanticism and Secularism from Hume to Austen . Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Colin Jager...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 173–202.
Published: 01 June 2018
... not unite society in any functional way, for this is not, as Leopardi writes in a phrase also dear to Foscolo, poetry’s ufficio naturale (natural duty). 20 In the Zibaldone Leopardi ( 1949b , 3: sec. 21; 2013: 21) writes that poetry should aim not to teach directly but to lead along through aesthetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 355–372.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Esei Murakishi Abstract In A Dialogue concerning Heresies (1529) and The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer (1532–33), Thomas More proffers an account of natural language: the writing, speaking collectivity determines the meanings of words, and words picture the contents of the individual...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 572–575.
Published: 01 December 1993
... of the Natural Sign. By Murray Krieger. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xvii + 292 pp. $38.00. Krieger’s book’s declared intention is to offer a straightforward critical his tory of ekphrasis, or at least the sketch of such a history, from antiquity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 82–109.
Published: 01 March 1997
...), a collection of essays on early German film. Emil Jannings, Falstaff, and the Spectacle of the Body Natural Kenneth S. Calhoon To say that Emil Jannings dominated the German screen during and after the Weimar period is to allude to his imposing physical size but also to acknowledge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 231–259.
Published: 01 June 1998
... is currently working on a book-length study of Georg Büchner. Skullduggery: Goethe and Oken, Natural Philosophy and Freedom of the Press Helmut Muller-Sievers For Giza von MolnPr on his sixty-fifth birthday There seems to be a blemish on Goethe’s portrait as the benign elder...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 149–170.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., ON : Pandora . Corson Hiram . 1889 . An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning’s Poetry . New York : Heath . Escher Edwin . 1920 . “ The ‘Invention’ of the Natural Method of Language Teaching .” Modern Language Journal 4 , no. 6 : 295 – 301 . Friedland Martin L...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 1975
... of Washington A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson. By MAR- GARET ANNEDOODY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. viii + 410 pp. $25.75. In this very long and seemingly exhaustive study of Richardson’s writings, Margaret Anne Doody attacks her subject...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 498–501.
Published: 01 September 1942
.... PRICE University of California at Berkeley Natural Science in German Romanticism. By ALEXANDERGODE- VON AESCH. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. xiii + 302. $3.00. Believing that the problems of Goethe’s era, like those of Goethe’s thought, can best...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 407–410.
Published: 01 December 1984
... been a major one, a vade mecum for a very important dimension of Shakespeare’s art. JOHN W. VELZ University of Texas Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relation- ships between Natural Science...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 340–355.
Published: 01 September 1969
...Mary L. Livingston Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE NATURAL ART OF THE WZNTER’S TALE By MARYL. LIVINGSTON As several readers have recognized, the debate between Perdita and Polixenes in Act IV, scene iv, of The Winter‘s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 206–213.
Published: 01 June 1973
..., careful poetry. GARYL. LITT Moorhead State College Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Rewolution in Romantic Litera- ture. By M. H. ABRAMS.New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.550 pp. $10.00. Meyer Abrams points out several times...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 45–59.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Rudolf D. Schier Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 NATURAL OBJECTS AND THE IMAGINATION MORIKES VIEW OF POETIC LANGUAGE By RUDOLFD. SCHIER Sie stiegen Arm in Arm uber den Graben an der StraBe und so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 49–61.
Published: 01 March 1940
... hath giuen to naturall things, are such as where hee also bestoweth the knowledge to vnderstand their hidden and best ver- tues, many things by them are brought to passe, which seeme alto- gether impossible, and aboue nature or art : which two speculations of works of nature, and of miracle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 265–267.
Published: 01 September 1960
... careful choices between the serials primarily concerned with archeology and/or natural history or with expository studies and those pre- vailingly composed of transcripts-in text or calendar form-of the original records. Fortunately, the plan calls for inclusion of all titles of a selected...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 1951
...Ernest Tuveson Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SPACE, DEITY, AND THE “NATURAL SUBLIME” By ERNESTTWESON I. “Reaching Out After the Infinite” Over seventy years ago, Edward Bellamy described a great change in sensibility...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 236–237.
Published: 01 June 1951
...Robert C. Elliott John Arthos. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Publications in Language and Literature, Volume XXIV, 1949. Pp. xiv + 463. $6.00. Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 236 Reviews The Language of Natural Description...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 361–367.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Wolfram Schmidgen [email protected] The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels . By Yoon Sun Lee . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2023 . 258 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 In the last twenty-five years or so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 252–253.
Published: 01 June 1943
... for Thackeray’s personal tragedy, there is understanding of his limitations, admira- tion for his genius, and all is portrayed in a manner that is lucid and sat is f ying. SOPHUSKEITH WINTHER University of Washington The Nature of Literature: Its Relation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Linda Woodbridge Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance . By Robert N. Watson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 436 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Linda Woodbridge is Weiss Chair in the Humanities and professor...