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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569 – 1791 (1992) and White Men Aren't (2002), as well as of numerous essays on early modern fiction and culture. Voltaire’s Parrot; or, How to Do Things with Birds Thomas DiPiero Is it because I speak that you judge me capable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 1998
...). “Men, Monkeys, Lapdogs, Parrots, Perish All!” Psittacine Articdacy in Early Modern Writing Bruce Boehrer Are you going to extend the limits of prejudice to include the flora and fauna of this island?-Derek Walcott, Pantomime his essay’s subject- the growing popularity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 399–400.
Published: 01 December 1962
... Hibbard gives his estimate of Nashe’s early work and passes over it quickly. Hibbard feels that An Almond for a Parrot is Nashe’s sole extant contribution to the Marprelate controversy, and he proceeds to fit this work into the main stream of the controversy and to discuss rather clearly all...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 379–380.
Published: 01 December 1955
... will appear even in good armor. Their presence must not blind us to the fact that, all considered, the author has handled a difficult subject ably, and has shed much light over an important area. His necessary and timely book intersects and in many ways completes Louis Parrot’s panoramic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 393–421.
Published: 01 December 1986
... reaches its height in a review of a book by Clement C. J. Webb that criticized Levy-Bruhl’s theories. In this review, published in 19 16, Eliot defends Levy-Bruhl by using his example of the Bororo tribe of Brazil, who held a parrot for a totem: Now, according to M. LCvy-Bruhl...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 602–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Boehrer and Laura Brown bring such questions into view and intriguingly suggest how we in literary studies might begin to address them. Animal Characters in some sense combines the approaches of Boeh- rer’s earlier works, Shakespeare among the Animals (2002) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 605–609.
Published: 01 December 2012
...) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining literary analysis and cultural history in a series of what Boehrer calls “character studies” (3). Each chapter concentrates on the changing “character” of a particular species — horse, parrot, cat, turkey, sheep — between roughly the fifteenth and seventeenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 609–612.
Published: 01 December 2012
...) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining literary analysis and cultural history in a series of what Boehrer calls “character studies” (3). Each chapter concentrates on the changing “character” of a particular species — horse, parrot, cat, turkey, sheep — between roughly the fifteenth and seventeenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 616–618.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Shakespeare among the Animals (2002) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining literary analysis and cultural history in a series of what Boehrer calls “character studies” (3). Each chapter concentrates on the changing “character” of a particular species — horse, parrot, cat, turkey, sheep — between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (2): 188–189.
Published: 01 June 1958
... with exquisite care and taste, but essentially divorced from their context. One is reminded of a collection of parrots cut into pieces, their heads displayed in one room, their claws in a second, their tail feathers in a third. This method has led Flys down a blind alley, since in the last analysis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 597–602.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the approaches of Boeh- rer’s earlier works, Shakespeare among the Animals (2002) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining literary analysis and cultural history in a series of what Boehrer calls “character studies” (3). Each chapter concentrates on the changing “character” of a particular species — horse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 612–615.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Boehrer and Laura Brown bring such questions into view and intriguingly suggest how we in literary studies might begin to address them. Animal Characters in some sense combines the approaches of Boeh- rer’s earlier works, Shakespeare among the Animals (2002) and Parrot Culture (2004), by joining...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 242–244.
Published: 01 June 1968
... been common enough in the past and has always struck me as depressing evidence of how the pigeonhole brain can mistake a Hight of eagles for a parrot. Happily, however, Frank Doggett proves superbly competent at distin• guishing between philosophical and poetic ideas, and in his final...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 380–383.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., of course. You’re supposed to find Chander’s choices perverse. A “recognizable touch of brownness” aligns Keats with “the ‘imitative’ poets of the periphery” (96). He’s the master of mimicry, after all, the callow poet killed by criticism for parroting his betters. The browns suffer a similar fate. Keats...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 379–382.
Published: 01 September 2021
... as Zilia’s effort to regain control over the meaning of the parroted sentence . . . by showing that she does not consent to the states of feeling Déterville willfully ascribes to her and by insisting that Déterville understand that the love she consents to with him is one of intimate friendship...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 362–365.
Published: 01 September 1945
... and mythology, and the “Querelle des anciens et des modernes.” He notes, especially, the influence of Boileau on Gottsched, who-through ignorance of the things he discussed-parroted the strongly rationalistic interpretation of his master. Two of the main factors involved in preparing the way...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 March 1987
... of speech hitherto. What thoughts they have not learned from England are foolish thoughts; what words they have not learned from England, unseemly words; the vile among them not being able even to be humorous parrots, but only obscene mocking-birds. (p. 64...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 377–379.
Published: 01 December 1955
... not blind us to the fact that, all considered, the author has handled a difficult subject ably, and has shed much light over an important area. His necessary and timely book intersects and in many ways completes Louis Parrot’s panoramic L’lntelligence en guewe (1945). Its vast bibliography...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 328–331.
Published: 01 September 1986
... her young daughter to sleep 330 REVIEWS by murmuring about “mountains and valleys and stars falling and parrots and antelopes and gardens, and everything lovely.” Language, Homans writes, is used by Mrs. Ramsay “not to represent mountains...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (2): 189–192.
Published: 01 June 1958
... language. In doing so, he rarely treats a poem as a unified whole. The second part of his book becomes a collection of fragments, chosen and dissected with exquisite care and taste, but essentially divorced from their context. One is reminded of a collection of parrots cut into pieces...