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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 380.
Published: 01 September 1944
...) IN I!. S. A.
MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY
Volume Five September, 1944 Number Three
ARTICLES
Meno Spann. Goethisches in Manns Josephzyklus 259
Anna Granville Hatcher. Je le vois sourire; je le vois qui
sourit; je le vois souriant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 1941
...Sister Mary Immaculate, C.S.C. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 “SIXTY” AS A CONVENTIONAL NUMBER
AND OTHER CHAUCERIANA
By SISTERMARY IMMACULATE, C.S.C.
I. CHAUCER’SUSE OF “SIXTY”
When Chaucer, describing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 342–349.
Published: 01 December 1963
...Michael S. Batts Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 NUMBERS AND NUMBER SYMBOLISM
IN MEDIEVAL GERMAN POETRY
By MICHAELS. BATTS
macht sich von Zeit zu Zeit eine krankhafte Sucht geltend, um jeden Preis zu
glauben...
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in Gathered by Invention: Additive Forms and Inference in Gascoigne’s Poesy
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 December 2015
Figure 2. The conclusion of “seven Sonnets in a Sequence,” with numbering that drops out in the final two poems, A Hundreth sundrie Flowres , sigs. 2X1v–2X2r. By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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in Gathered by Invention: Additive Forms and Inference in Gascoigne’s Poesy
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 December 2015
Figure 3. Pilcrows expanding a numbered sequence in Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth good poyntes of husbandry (London, 1570), sigs. D3v–D4r. RB 49623, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the Mediterranean in a campaign we would call today genocide. Rough estimates of the death toll place the number at 2–3 million. Under conditions that stagger the imagination, the survivors were taken to Rome as slaves, and some carried scarred bodies and scarred memories into the ludic sphere of the Roman theater...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 June 2008
... by earlier playwrights. Yet in spite of his pacific temper, Rowe's hero must go to war, and such necessity becomes an argument for William III's contemporary war with France. In fashioning a warrior who both hates and wages war, Rowe anticipated a number of eighteenth-century heroic figures. Tamerlane 's...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 391–413.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of a number of topological signatures of cultural practices and products also datable to 1966, among them the rediscovery of meta (self-reflection, recursiveness, strange loops) and the opening of paraworld spaces. These topological signatures constitute the building blocks of a postmodernist poetics. ©...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2013
...David L. Sedley This article interprets Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves as a response to Blaise Pascal’s arithmetic triangle. Pascal used the numbers of the triangle to determine how to divide fairly the stakes of an interrupted game of chance. He called his method “the geometry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Matthew Wickman This essay addresses the relationship between shape and number that is implicit to the conversion of statistics into forms of visual display. It does so by way of the work and legacy of Robert Burns, particularly the well-known poems “To a Louse” and “To a Mouse.” Bearing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 57–75.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Kent Puckett This essay follows several changes in the dating of “The Darkling Thrush” to ask what the number 1900 might have meant to Thomas Hardy. Although Hardy did not make many edits to the poem itself, he did change the way that it was dated at every opportunity: in manuscript, the date...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 215–237.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and George Saintsbury. By treating these “movers and shakers” as a loosely affiliated group whose career trajectories broadly conform to Pierre Bourdieu’s characterization of “losers who win,” the article elicits a number of shared attitudes and aspirations and suggests that, at a time when narrowly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
... decades experimenting with the exacting and humbling realities of media production. Spanning his abandoned collaboration with Disney, a series of Basic English teaching films (made with the artist and filmmaker Len Lye), his two educational television programs on poetry, and a number of unrealized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to language inspired, ultimately, by Goethean science. This article argues that Jolles’s study should also be recognized as an important early work of media theory. Simple Forms includes a striking number of examples drawn from the mass-market newspapers of Jolles’s day. In turning to mass media, Jolles...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 243–245.
Published: 01 June 1940
... in format (except that in
the present case the sides of the MS leaves are indicated by ro and
vo instead of by a and b), this volume differs from them chiefly in
arranging the poems according to tdpic, in the number of pieces
printed (192), and in the number of new poems presented. Seventy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 1999
...David Glimp Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Paradisal Arithmetic: Paradise Lost and
the Genesis of Populations
David Glimp
Do numbers matter to Milton’s God? While one might expect the
divine monarch not to be concerned with how many faithful sub-
jects...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 20–32.
Published: 01 March 1969
... other compositional features are
interwoven with numerical composition in the episode, which is taken
to include lines 15765-16402.
One important distinction must be emphasized. In medieval litera-
ture there are many examples of the compositional use of numbers to
which theologians...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 1970
... more. Chau-
* Chaucer’s Poetry (New York, 1958), p. 948. Russell A. Peck, “Number Symbolism in
the Prologue to Chaucer’s Parson’s Tale,” ES, 48 (1967), 205-15, interprets the numbers “as
metaphors of the spiritual welfare of the pilgrims in the company” (p. 207). He points out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 506–508.
Published: 01 December 1944
...Sverre Arestad Einar Haugen. Volume I, The Vocabularies of Sigrid Undset and Ivar Aasen; volume II, The Vocabularies of the Old Norse Sagas and of Henrik Wergeland. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1942. Mimeographed edition limited to 100 numbered copies; present copy, number 37...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 368–369.
Published: 01 September 1947
... a surprisingly
kindred spirit in quite a number of the poems, particularly the shorter
ones, though by no means only there. “Meeting Glance” is a little
gem. Very satisfactory are: “Jesus and the Carrion-Path,” “To a
Lark in War-Time “The Wolfhound “Exaltation,” “The Pain,”
“The World-Friend Knows...
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