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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 21–29.
Published: 01 March 1947
...Henry A. Grubbs Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 NONSENSE IN FRANCE AND IN FRENCH LITERATURE
By HENRYA. GRUBBS
That Nonsense literature and Nonsense in literature deserve more
than to be relegated permanently to the nursery, that they are worth...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of cruelty and nonsense.” Paradoxically, those twin nouns—“cruelty and nonsense”—have often been used to describe her own poetry. This essay examines Smith’s allusions to Eliot, Algernon Swinburne, and John Keats and demonstrates that such “past echoes” helped her weigh the risk of dwelling on cruelty...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 1967
...David Sonstroem Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 MAKING EARNEST OF GAME
G. M. HOPKINS AND NONSENSE POETRY
By DAVIDSONSTROEM
In the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, there is often a play...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... is merely a particular type of classification, akin but not identical to the classifications performed by terms such as mimesis or verisimilitude. Thus it is nonsensical to claim that fiction qua concept does or does not exist at any given moment: fiction is foremost a way of grouping various literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 75–97.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-drinking and hard-writing life; Cowper was a pious country moralist. Yet both were members of the literary coterie called the Nonsense Club. This club was formed in the 1750s by a group of friends (including Bonnell Thornton, George Coleman Sr., and Robert Lloyd), all ex-students at Westminster School who...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 June 1940
... consonant affect the quantity of
the preceding sounds ?
The Method: By means of an electro-acoustic system the experimenters
made graphic records of 151 pronunciations by 21 different speakers of eight
dissyllabic nonsense words having a single intervocalic consonant. Since...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 310–311.
Published: 01 September 1961
... of God and the elected of themselves are scarcely
distinguishable, and if the true oracle is nonsense to sense, so nonsense is often
taken for oracle.”
The philosophical and psychological naiveti of a poetry animated by such
views is reasonably clear. The pity is that Friedman has expended...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
... between oral and literary forms in African American
culture” (361 ) . Although sound-blind Anglo-Americans characterized
African American folklores as “lies”and “nonsense,” Chesnutt’s “nonsense”
works, as Sundquist shows, to “link . . . African and African American tradi-
tions in a cultural...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 331–339.
Published: 01 September 1969
..., that are
either imperative or interrogative, rarely assert; and when they do,
they do so in odd ways. The imperative mood is particularly difficult.
The sentence “Go away!” cannot be analyzed into subject and predi-
cate, and to ask what it is about is strangely nonsensical.
He is profitable, at least...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 409–411.
Published: 01 September 1949
... and exagger-
ated Calvinistic doctrines of determinism and the absolute autonomy of the
individual soul,” seems to me nonsense.
Unfortunately, the introduction includes a good deal of nonsense : that during
the Middle Ages the general acceptance of the doctrine of total depravity “made...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 June 1974
... in the verbal texture of the play in
a way that prefigures techniques of the drama of the absurd. Characters
are always using words like serious and nonsense in a manner that sends
out little ripples of significance. “If you dm’t take care,” Jack warns
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your friend Bunbury will get...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 411–412.
Published: 01 September 1949
... of determinism and the absolute autonomy of the
individual soul,” seems to me nonsense.
Unfortunately, the introduction includes a good deal of nonsense : that during
the Middle Ages the general acceptance of the doctrine of total depravity “made
impossible a hopeful view concerning the future...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 131–143.
Published: 01 June 1963
...-
denly be pushed into life, just as the metaphorical animal spirits
suddenly become real animals :
Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man’s sense or his
nonsense . . . depend upon their motions and activity . . . so that when once
they are set a-going . . . away...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 433–437.
Published: 01 December 1971
...; the avoidance of nonsense demanded the study of the implications
of new data and methods. The philosophers do not lead in this period; the
experimentalists and mathematically-minded astronomers do, and the cri-
teria which finally destroy the tourbillons and matikre striie of the Cartesians...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 217–227.
Published: 01 June 1947
... was
to express in its infinitely plastic tones those emotions which in art
could be expressed only in poetry, in poetry only by lyric poetry,
and which, as often as not, in lyric poetry resulted in sentimental
nonsense inadequate to the fine feelings involved. That this should
become the ultimate...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 185–196.
Published: 01 June 1966
.... By the first, I mean a fable of the inner life of man seeking salva-
tion, and by the second, the story of a heroic military enterprise which
did happen, even though not precisely as recounted (see V.564-76).
Peter’s thorough critique, based on the latter hypothesis, shows what
nonsense-in spite...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 191.
Published: 01 June 1954
... to an astonishing degree the rhythm and rhyme
pattern of the originals. He is capable of rendering equally well the majestic
stateliness of one of George’s “Spriiche” from Der Stern des Bundes, and the
charming whimsicality of Christian Morgenstern’s “nonsense.” In fact, his re-
creations of two...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 177–191.
Published: 01 June 1967
... fail’d and fled each other. Why? why, marry,
Because no man could understand his neighbour.
They are wiser now, and will not separate
For nonsense. Nay, it is their brotherhood,
Their Shibboleth-their Koran-Talmud-their
Cabala-their best...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 411–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . 1992 . The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge . Basingstoke : Macmillan . Bentham Jeremy . 2002 . “ Nonsense upon Stilts .” In Rights, Representation, and Reform: Nonsense upon Stilts and Other Writings on the French Revolution , edited by Schofield Philip , Pease...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 March 1945
... philosophy and making it gleam with that
of the great satirists-none of them cynics, all of them philan-
thropes, “shaking the foundations of the Kingdom of Hell by show-
ing it to be the kingdom of nonsense.”
In Senn’s learned notes on religious folklore in Lithuania, phil-
ology serves...
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