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The Chatter of People and Things
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 319–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... (2009) and tunnel RE vision (2010). The Electric Information Age Book (An Inventory of Inventories) is forthcoming. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 The Chatter of People and Things
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
nventories of aphorisms; the names of gods, philosophers, and schol-
Iars...
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The Same People Living in Different Places: Allen Curnow's Anthology and New Zealand Literary History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 219–237.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and New Zealand film, culture, and literature. The Same People Living in Different Places: Allen Curnow s Anthology and New Zealand Literary History Hugh Roberts N ew Zealand has produced few literary histories, and only one of those, E. H. McCormick s 1940 Letters and Art in New Zealand, is suf...
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In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 442–445.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of Whiteness (2001). Her next book is tentatively titled The Fort Marion Sketchbooks: Plains Pictography and the Emergence of the Carceral State . In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery . By Kolodny Annette...
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Alternative Antiquarianisms of Scotland and the North
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Janet Sorensen In dominant accounts, the eighteenth-century “ballad revival” brought a dead form back to life by digging up old songs and restoring their force and meaning. It also brought “the people,” as producers or consumers of ballads, to a kind of national public life but relegated them...
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The Peripheral Realism of Two Chinas
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 395–414.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Petrus Liu Reconstructing modernist fiction from 1970s Taiwan as a critical realism, this essay proposes that the historical creation of two Chinas (the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China) provided a formative stage for vibrant literary ruminations on the dissonance...
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Heroes and History's Remainders: The Restes of Pierre Corneille
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 347–365.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Katherine Ibbett This essay examines the figure of the reste —the things or people left behind—in the tragedies of Pierre Corneille, in particular though not only in the late plays, which are themselves a body of work left behind by the canon. These remainders provide a new perspective...
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Axiologies: Past and Present Concepts of Literary Value
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 139–172.
Published: 01 June 2017
... is unavoidable: people differ, and so do aesthetic and moral preferences. So if subjectivity is inescapable, we should accept chaotic diversity in a spirit of courteous toleration. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 axiology literary value methods of reading revaluation aesthetic...
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Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of how “exotic” details in Asian American fiction turn Asian American characters and people into objects of entertainment and edification for predominantly white readerships. Yet works of Asian American metafiction such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior , Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats , and Nam...
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Milton's “Advocatum Nescio Quem”: Milton, Salmasius, and John Cook
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 559–600.
Published: 01 December 1941
...Samuel L. Wolff Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ∗ Deceased August 16, 1941. MILTON’S “ADVOCATUM NESCIO QUEM” : MILTON,
SALMASIUS, AND JOHN COOK
By SAMUELL. WOLFF*
Milton’s (First) Defence of the English People...
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Le Message Humain de Georges Duhamel
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 106–107.
Published: 01 March 1949
... strength and courage of the French people, and a refutation of
the conviction so often expressed after 1940 that France is effete and
doomed to inevitable decline.
As one to whom French culture and the French people have always
been dear, the author was deeply distressed by his fellow...
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American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism: The Cambridge of American Literature . Vol. I, 1590–1820
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 207–220.
Published: 01 June 1995
..., movements, or epochs; they have to account for what
certain kinds of writing did to the people who used it and the things
and people thereby represented. The imperative to historicize the very
category of literature places editors and contributors in something of a
dilemma. The poststructuralist...
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America in the Works of Gerstäcker
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 213–224.
Published: 01 June 1943
... as
their sole purpose the aim of advising people who wished to make
America their new home and were anxious to gain an accurate pic-
ture of conditions there. We shall begin with the latter approach.
Large numbers of Germans came to the United States about the
middle of the past century...
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The Maryland Germans
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 507.
Published: 01 December 1950
...;
Part Two, The Middle Ages of Immigration, 1790-1865; Part Three, The Last
Generations, 1865-1940. The most noticeable impulse behind all German immi-
gration seems to have been the search for freedom. A desperate longing for
political, religious, and economic freedom drove people to risk...
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Missing Persons on Dover Beach?
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 264–266.
Published: 01 June 1965
... is without any cast the
first stone. Some tensions dramatized in the poem are aesthetically
fruitful exactly because of such universality. Are they warm people or
cold people? Are they confused people or sure people? Are they com-
mitted people or hesitant and diffident people? Are they people...
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The “Palm-Oil” Of Language Proverbs in Chinua Achebe's Novels
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 86–111.
Published: 01 March 1969
... by relating the literary works to cultural contexts. Since
Achebe uses so many customary proverbs along with those of his own
invention or adaptation (a minimum of 29 in Things Fall Afiart, 42
in No Longer at Ease, 129 in Arrow of God, 27 in Man of the People,
and 11 in his short stories), I have...
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The Aims, Audience, and Structure of the Drapier's Fourth Letter
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 50–59.
Published: 01 March 1956
... audience on the structure of A Letter to the Whole
People of Ireland. It will be necessary, incidentally, to examine a
question frequently ignored : Who were “the Whole People of
Ireland” ?
Largely discounting the Drupier’s Letters as outside Swift’s general
literary and rhetorical practice...
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As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 110–112.
Published: 01 March 1949
... the depths, never disturbs the
inner truths by means of which nice people maintain their self-respect.
He conforms with prevailing moral convictions. His scheme of Moral
Justice is popularly satisfying. So, besides a pleasurable moral re-
sponse, the wise, the comfortable, and the frugal...
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Milton on King James the Second
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 41–44.
Published: 01 March 1942
... and
last item of which was “The right of the People over Tyrants,
printed lately in qu [ arto] .” This title, although ignored by sub-
sequent biographers (including Milton’s nephew, Edward Phillips),
was noticed by the indefatigable William Oldys, who added it in
manuscript to Phillips...
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The Plague Narratives of Defoe and Camus Illness as Metaphor
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 224–241.
Published: 01 September 1987
... of this magnitude, it is natural for humans to ask:
what does the plague mean?
Literature has reflected the tendency to make plague a vehicle
for allegory, and the interpretive bent is usually religious: plague
is the punishment of a sinful people by an angry god. Such is the
meaning of plague in Book...
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Whose Resistance Theory?
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 335–348.
Published: 01 September 2022
... salutary. Studying literature, art, and philosophy, this well-worn story goes, will make us better people. We will have more empathy for others and a more robust sense of civic duty. 5 While claims about the virtue of the humanities may help humanists secure grant funding and fill out annual activity...
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