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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2013
...” appeared in the September 1994 issue of MLQ . This essay is part of a book in progress on early English deism. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Aaron R. I. 1941 . “ The ‘Autobiography’ of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Original Manuscript Material...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 353–355.
Published: 01 September 1945
... of the philosophy of history are given neither in the text nor in the notes. P. 147: If H. Brenckman was really Dutch, he would hardly like to have his name spelled “Heinrich.” HARCOURTBROWN Brown University The Origin of the Grail Legend. By ARTHURC. L...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 449–455.
Published: 01 September 1942
...H. A. Basilius Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 A NOTE CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF UVULAR-R IN GERMAN By H. A. BASILIUS The standard grammars of German leave us in the dark con- cerning the moot question of the origin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 378–379.
Published: 01 September 1950
... Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin. By OmJESPERSEN. London : George Allen & Unwin, 1947 (seventh impression) ; New York: Macmillan Company, 1949. Pp. 448. $4.50. This famous work, already a linguistic classic though first published in 1922, was never revised during its author’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 March 1962
...: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origin of American Fiction. By TERENCEMARTIN. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1961. Pp. 197. $4.50. As a study of early American fiction, Terence Martin’s book is entertaining and informative. As a presentation of Scottish Common Sense...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 September 1965
...David J. DeLaura Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 PATER AND ELIOT THE ORIGIN OF THE “OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE” By DAVIDJ. DELAURA Conjectures have been made concerning possible sources for T S. Eliot’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (4): 346–362.
Published: 01 December 1980
...William G. Karanikolas Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 SAMUEL JOHNSON AND THE ORIGIN OF MORALE A HYPOTHETICAL ETYMOLOGY By WILLIAMG. KARANIKOLAS It is not as easy as it once was to confuse...
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Published: 01 March 2016
Figure 6. Harry Furniss, “The Origin of Pan.” From Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy: An Artistic Joke ( 1887 ) More
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 505–526.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Kevin Pask Literary history has largely ignored its own origins in the late Renaissance, and we still lack a full account of how literary history, based in the European vernacular literatures, emerged during the early modern period. Pask attempts to redress this lack by arguing, primarily through...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 527–543.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., mostly under the influence of German Romanticism, looked back to the northern Saxons as a mythical origin of American culture, while the southern states, spurred in part by Walter Scott’s popular reversal of the Norman-Saxon equation, followed a more cavalier mythology. As nineteenth-century historical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 515–517.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Jeffrey Todd Knight Recursive Origins: Writing at the Transition to Modernity . By Kuskin William . Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2013 . xv + 278 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Recursive Origins tells a compelling story with a clear...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 293–297.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Wilson T. Bell; Thomas Lahusen The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture . By Evgeny Dobrenko. Translated by Jesse M. Savage. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 484 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Wilson T...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 323–328.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Claire F. Fox Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing . By Kirsten Silva Gruesz. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. 293 pp. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Claire F. Fox is associate professor of English and codirector of Latin...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 March 1955
...Heinzr Politze Written with the support of a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 PRAGUE AND THE ORIGINS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE, FRANZ KAFKA, AND FRANZ WERFEL By HEINZPOLITZER...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 June 2024
... [ 2015 ] concept of “suspended development”). 7 Positioned on the threshold of the story world, the witness-protagonist bears comparison with the ideal of the “participant observer,” whose methodological origins James Buzard discovers in the narrative techniques of the nineteenth-century novel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 September 1943
...Douglas W. Alden Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ORIGINS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS IN PROUST By DOUGLASW. ALDEN In the interview which he gave Elie-J. Bois of the Temps (Nov. 12, 1913) just prior...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 1991
... and analysis of so many examples of the epitaph itself as well as of its social-historical and cultural dimensions. In this regard, his is clearly an original, definitive, and indispensable work. PETERSACKS Johns Hoptcins University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 227–245.
Published: 01 June 1992
...Judith Ryan Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 DEAD POETS’ VOICES: RILKE’S “LOST FROM THE OUTSET” AND THE ORIGINALITY EFFECT By JUDITH RYAN Harold Bloom’s model of intertextuality has rightly been described as “deeply psychological...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 449–463.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Peter Stoicheff Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 BETWEEN ORIGINALITY AND INDEBTEDNESS: ALLEGORIES OF AUTHORSHIP IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY By PETERSTOICHEFF As Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury, his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 217–219.
Published: 01 June 1994
... is rarely straightfor- ward. Challenging even when he does not fully persuade, einthas written a wonderful book, a model of the integration of literary and political his- tory. G. W. Pigman 111, California Institute of Technology Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieual Drama...