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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Jessica Burstein Jessica Burstein is associate professor in the department of English and the department of Women Studies at the University of Washington. The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism . By Duffy Enda . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . 306 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 110–114.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ross Lerner References Finlayson Angus . 2022 . “ Friends, Not Samples: The Soft Pink Truth on Collaboration and Pleasure .” Ableton , November 8 . https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/friends-not-samples-the-soft-pink-truth-on-collaboration-and-pleasure/ . Gewertz Ken . 2002...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 247–275.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of English at Gustavus Adolphus College. The Rhetorics of Sexual Pleasure
and Intolerance in the Middle
English Cleanness
Michael Calabrese and Eric Eliason
Introduction
The fourteenth-century Middle English homiletic poem Cleanness is
the least popular of the Gawain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (3): 322–324.
Published: 01 September 1974
... argument.
ARNOLDSTEIN
TheJohns Hopltins University
“Tristram Shandy”: The Games of Pleasure. By RICHARDA. LANHAM.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. x + 174 pp. $7.95.
Richard Lanham’s “Tristram Shandy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 December 1964
...Arthur W. Hoffman Frank Harper Moore. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. 264 pp. $6.00. Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 498 REVIEWS
The Nobler Pleasure: Dryden’s Comedy in Theory and Practice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 404–406.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Rosemarie Bodenheimer The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt . By Caroline Levine. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,2003. xi + 237 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Rosemarie Bodenheimer is professor of English at Boston College...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 204–205.
Published: 01 June 1977
...Robert W. Uphaus W. P. Albrecht. Lawrence, Manhattan, Wichita: University Press of Kansas, 1975. x + 205 pp. $10.50. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 204 KEVIEWS
The Sublime Pleasures oj Tragedy: A Study...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Katherine G. Charles Abstract Across her career the modernist Edith Sitwell iterated eccentricity as a category of reclaimed value that sanctions an expansive array of previously overlooked and frequently unshared pleasures. These intimate appetites are broadly conceived as operating in variable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 331–362.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Wife ), ideological argumentation ( The Country Gentleman ), and ambivalent or ironic presentation of conflicted or unstable values ( The Man of Mode ). London can be fun ( The Shoemaker’s Holiday ), glamorous ( The Lady of Pleasure ), wicked ( Friendship in Fashion ), low ( The Roaring Girl ), ugly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 177–200.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Charles Altieri Abstract In Theory of the Lyric Jonathan Culler makes powerful arguments for analogies between lyric and song, especially with regard to each medium’s commitment to producing pleasure and separating the speaking voice from individual psychology. But his case runs the risk...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... an occasional letting go. Johnson uses the proliferation and Austen the suspension of points of view to defend the value of reading materials that solicit relaxation and afford cheap pleasures for the many, or at least the many more. Both the Idler and Mansfield Park advocate for the redistribution of leisure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 301–319.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and pleasures of fiction, of literary study, and of metaphor. The alternative to what has been called “the poverty of context” is the richness and variety of poetic contexts, understood diachronically. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 anachronism diachronic Dryden Milton modernity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to the point of morbidity against that of finding too much pleasure in the cruel and absurd. More broadly, Smith’s allusiveness presents a significant alternative to Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence. Her attitude toward her predecessors is not agonistic but playful, elusive, and polyvalent. She writes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 292–309.
Published: 01 September 1951
... are the inevitable conse-
quences of natural law and that they are the inevitable consequences
of passion, had already been published. This treatise was Benjamin
Franklin’s A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and
Pain, which appeared in London in 1725 as a reply to William
Wollaston’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 175–181.
Published: 01 June 1944
... to
Coleridge’s doctrine, enunciated in the Biographia Literaria, that poetry must
produce pleasure to the reader ; and to Wordsworth’s insistence that the primi-
tive language of the plain people is the very stuff of which poetry is made.”
These varying judgments are given without the support...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (4): 558–570.
Published: 01 December 1965
..., is
precisely what brings about pleasure (“Vergniigen
Pleasure, rather than knowledge or improvement, becomes the focus
of each man’s subsequent critical work. In his essay “Uber den Grund
des Vergnugens an tragischen Gegenstanden,” Schiller has difficulty
coping with his earlier claim that art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 525–527.
Published: 01 December 1999
....
526 MLQ I December iggg
connection between “the moment” and pleasure, whether sentimental or
sexual. The idea of pleasure discussed in the first chapter, on Marivaux’s Le
Jeu de l’umour et du hasard, is sentimental (“lovewhile in the second chap...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 417–436.
Published: 01 December 1997
... as the negative opposite of the Kantian aesthetic, and
that the popular ethos implicitly answers each proposition of the ‘Ana-
lytic of the Beautiful’ with a thesis contradicting it” (41 ). He then con-
trasts Kant’s distinction between aesthetic pleasure and pleasure that is
merely physically gratifying...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 1954
... that Addison’s papers
on “The Pleasures of the Imagination” (Spectator, Nos. 41 1-421)
provided the Swiss critics, and more particularly Bodmer, with many
of the details for the treatment of imagination first outlined in the
Discourse and thereafter reiterated with embellishments, notably in
his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 321–352.
Published: 01 September 1999
... experience inheres in a
dynamic interaction between the work’s progressively more complex
and reflexive morphological units and the associated protoconscious,
disinterested pleasure. The question at issue concerns the relation
between the form of the aesthetic and the possibility of giving articula...
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