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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 187–205.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Shirley Lau Wong Abstract Literary settings are often celebrated for richly representing the many details of a particular place. The close association between detail and setting stems from the realist presumption that detail constitutes what Roland Barthes calls an “index of . . . atmosphere...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (1): 97–121.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., and Ford (1987), and Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (1990). He is also editor of the Norton critical edition of E. M. Forster's novel Howards End (1998). He is at work on a book about the politics of reading and the modern novel. Being “Out of Place”: Edward W. Said...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 125–135.
Published: 01 June 1966
...J. L. Simmons Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE PLACE OF THE POET
IN CHAUCER’S HOUSE OF FAME
By J. L. SIMMONS
It has long been out of fashion to urge an autobiographical signifi-
cance...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 1996
... more important than speculative reason or
imagination, who appealed to the Victorians. Perkins, in restoring him to us
in this form, changes our picture of him and of his place in intellectual his-
tory. His definition of imagination, influential as it has been, is seen to be
but a small part...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 418–421.
Published: 01 September 2013
... (2013).
DOI 10.1215/00267929-2153518
The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France.
By Louisa Mackenzie. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 324 pp.
Louisa Mackenzie’s brilliant treatment...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 September 1947
... pretty startling fish.
University of Pcnnsylz pania
ALFREDHARBAGE
The Peace of thc Augzcstans: ’4 Surzvy of Eighteenth Century Liter-
ature as a Place of Rest and Refreslznaent. By GEORGESAINTSBURY.
With an Introduction...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 482–485.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Jane K. Brown In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent .By Claudia Brodsky. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xvi + 171 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews
Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 492–495.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Gary Handwerk Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global .By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 250 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews
Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (4): 564–567.
Published: 01 December 1990
... at appropriate places
deal, however, only with the development of Goethe’s ideas, not with his
development as a poet. Thus plot summary and analysis of ideas receive
far more attention than specifically literary categories and their implica-
tions, such as genre, style, or connection to particular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 1943
...Edwin B. Place 500 Reviews
has been called to the rhetorical qualities of his style (e.g., by W.
Schneider ) , and his technique and his relationship to psycho-analysis
has been touched upon by Walzel-these problems could have been
considered fully and profitably...
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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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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Doris Sommer © 1996 University of Washington 1996 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Places of History: Regionalism
Revisited in Latin America
Doris Sommer
Latin American literatures...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (4): 519–523.
Published: 01 December 1995
... cultural than literary. Specifically, Common Places deals with the
“everyday mythologies and rituals of ordinary life” found in contemporary
Russia, as seen “from the double perspective of a cultural critic and a former
Leningrader, a resident of a communal apartment who often forgot to turn
off...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 545–549.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and Postcolonial Theory (2009). Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture . By Dobie Madeleine . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . xv + 336 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 References Aravamudan Srinivas . 2012...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 1973
...Samuel Hynes Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 1 DENYS KAY-ROBINSON. Hardy's Wessex Reappraised. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. 275 pp. $7.95. HARDY IN HIS TIMES AND PLACES’
By SAMUELHYNES
The problem of Hardy’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the local and the nonlocal and to examine how knowledge is made in and transacted between specific places. Taking I City , a 1975 nationalist allegory of Hong Kong, as an example, the essay shows that the principle of modernist collage enables Xi Xi to construct a narrative of the local that retains myriad...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in comparative religion posed a challenge to the dominant linear and evolutionary historiography of the human, at the same time placing the global primitive at the center of the idea of culture. Advocating a utilitarian theory of art (challenging the Kantian autotelic definition), the period's numerous studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 267–287.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to the “historical poetics” of Virginia Jackson’s Dickinson’s Misery , with its reconsideration of the lyric poem and its place in the canon and reading practices of modern criticism. Neither direct interpretation of a text that lacks focus on its modes of circulation and transmission nor indeed any sort...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 205–242.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Jonah Siegel Abstract This essay is a study of two interrelated phenomena, the influence of Walter Pater on two notable postwar European critics, Ernst Robert Curtius and Mario Praz, and the place of war on the imagination of cultural continuity and rupture in the work of the later authors...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... a quantitative diachronic analysis of 230 years of French novels. While these trends cannot by their very nature show the birth of the concept of fiction—which was never born in the first place—they are the type of evidence that should be central to any future history of fiction. Are trends in the use...
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