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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 169–192.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the picturesque’s antihistorical drive to eradicate local difference. Renewed critical attention to early attempts to establish an antipicturesque aesthetic may uncover important precursors to present-day postcolonial and transnational theory, precursors that can enrich the ongoing global turn in literary history...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 33–57.
Published: 01 March 1999
...
motion-inscribed in the topographies of commonsense positivism.
Thus it achieved the aspiration of the picturesque movement: it real-
ized the “innocent”vision that inhabits so much picturesque theory, a
vision absolutely contingent on nature. It is no coincidence that pho-
tography followed so...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 422.
Published: 01 September 1940
...
the dominant figure was the schoolmaster and vicar, William Gilpin.
The importance of this movement and of the theory behind it
(the theory of the picturesque) has been made clear by Christopher
Hussey, Elizabeth Manwaring, and others. It influenced painting,
landscape architecture, literature...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 263–294.
Published: 01 September 1991
... include Walter J. Hipple, The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Ficturesque in
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957);
Christopher Hussey, The Picturesque: Studies in a Point of Viav (1927; rpt. Hamden, Conn.:
Archon, 1967); Martin Price...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 376–389.
Published: 01 December 1975
... its companion, Descriptive Sketches, have often bee11 cte-
clared important failures. But what exactly constitutes their impor-
tance, arid what occasioned their failure? Our impatience with the two
poems, bolstered by Wordsworth’s deriuiiciatiotis of the picturesque
(first printed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 575–579.
Published: 01 December 1993
... of a series of computer-gener-
ated illustrations supplied by the author’s wife. Biting his own tail, Krieger
not only wouldgive himself the last (first) word but, in some magical way,
would envelop the postmodern in his own career, returning at the end from
the desert of contemporary theory...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 301–314.
Published: 01 December 1960
..., in effect, two of the main literary traditions of the eight-
eenth century : on the one hand, the poetry of natural description and
the theories of the picturesque and “pictorialism” centering about ut
pictura poesis;12 and, on the other, the concept of the poet as an in-
spired bard, moved...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 367–380.
Published: 01 December 1977
..., 559)17
In describing the “single impression and the imperceptible adven-
ture” of which he was so fond, James repeatedly employed the word
composition, a term he inherited from eighteenth-century theories...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 422–426.
Published: 01 June 2000
... phenomenon of postmodernism, which sub-
verts the constitutive principles of systems, in relation to Gödel’s incom-
pleteness theorem, information science, and chaos theory.
In the discussion of postmodernism and information theory Martin’s
range...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 March 1960
...?
Some quotations bearing on these questions are shown in the
parallel columns below. They are from a German Theorie der Garten-
kunst’ published from 1779 to 1785 and from the creative and critical
writings of Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis a generation later.
‘This paper was first...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 415–419.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of the European
epic tradition; (3) the aesthetic phenomenon of postmodernism, which sub-
verts the constitutive principles of systems, in relation to Gödel’s incom-
pleteness theorem, information science, and chaos theory.
In the discussion...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2000
...; (3) the aesthetic phenomenon of postmodernism, which sub-
verts the constitutive principles of systems, in relation to Gödel’s incom-
pleteness theorem, information science, and chaos theory.
In the discussion of postmodernism and information theory...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 426–432.
Published: 01 June 2000
...; (3) the aesthetic phenomenon of postmodernism, which sub-
verts the constitutive principles of systems, in relation to Gödel’s incom-
pleteness theorem, information science, and chaos theory.
In the discussion of postmodernism and information theory...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 1942
... of the Renaissance they had, through long posturing as solid
facts, become accepted as received experiences, and as such they
helped to guide the intellectual conquest of the New World as well
as the actual conduct of an expedition. Their picturesqueness and
freedom from check offered riches like...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 305–327.
Published: 01 September 1995
... they differ from one another”-are central to
picturesque landscape theory, with its fine discriminations of light and
shade in nature. Conceived on picturesque principles, Guide to the
Lakes evaluates scenery on the basis of diversity. Of Ambleside, for
example, Wordsworth enthusiastically notes...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (1): 22–33.
Published: 01 March 1964
... to an
“agreeable horror” at the sight of precipices. Moreover, science was
now beginning to try to explain the “rude undigested’ lumps of rock,13
and it was in all respects time for Addison, once safely home, to evolve
the theory which would later be used to justify pleasure in wild
scenery. In his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 231–232.
Published: 01 June 1971
... carefully enough to Sainte-Beuve in now bygone days.
BENJAMINF. BART
University of Pittsburgh
The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Buskin. By GEORGEP. LANDOW.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. xii + 468 pp. $14.50...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 535–536.
Published: 01 December 1949
..., insofar as Mr. Wasserman uses his data to illustrate
general tendencies in eighteenth-century thought and taste, his book resembles
that of Manwaring or Hussey on the picturesque, of Monk on the sublime,
Wellek on literary historiography, Swedenberg on epic theory, and others. As in
all...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 238–239.
Published: 01 June 1951
... discontent into solid comfort, the subduing of passions and
attitudes to the innocuous proprieties of the domestic-picturesque. We have, I
believe, still much to learn of the sources and agents of this change, a chapter in
the history of sensibility still to write. It is pretty clear that Leigh...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 109–110.
Published: 01 March 1945
... theory of
the Romantic School. In general, she follows the lines already laid
down in Manwaring, Hussey, and Allen; and if her view of Ro-
manticism had not been so confined to painting, certain types of
poetry, and gardening, she might have explained more adequately
the evolution...
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