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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 359–360.
Published: 01 September 1948
...George R. Potter Rosemond Tuve. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. xiv + 442. $6.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 H. T Price 359 However, in spite of any defect, this is the richest and soundest body...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 317–319.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Robert Potter Peter W. Travis. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. xvi + 310 pp. $20.00, paper. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 ROBERT POTTER 317 velops more dramatically, and establishes greater...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 433–436.
Published: 01 December 1986
...Joy Hambuechen Potter Mazzotta Giuseppe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xvi + 280 pp. $32.50. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 BERNARD A. HIRSCH 443 The most troubling aspect of Messenger’s analysis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 221–222.
Published: 01 June 1953
...George R. Potter Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Douglas Bush. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Pp. viii + 166. $3.50. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 404–405.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Stavros Deligiorgis HAMBUECHEN POTTER JOY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. x + 230 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS Five Frames for the “Decameron”: Communication and Social Systems in the “Cor- nice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 1968
..., 1916), pp. 154, 784, and supplemenu. 3 4 SIR DEGARE it belongs.”2 Nor was Potter, in his seminal study of the folklore of the Sohrab and Rustem story, disturbed by SD’s thematic balance, finding it a variant of a strain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 March 1944
... of Erasmus’ satire. Professor Paul E. Kocher, in “Backgrounds for Marlowe’s Atheist Lecture,” re-examines in the light of ancient precedents and contemporary parallels the atheistic opinions attributed to Marlowe. Professor George R. Potter offers 120 Reviews...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 March 1944
... of Erasmus’ satire. Professor Paul E. Kocher, in “Backgrounds for Marlowe’s Atheist Lecture,” re-examines in the light of ancient precedents and contemporary parallels the atheistic opinions attributed to Marlowe. Professor George R. Potter offers ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 325–331.
Published: 01 December 1955
..., was followed in the Transcript by a list of works which included these erudite items: “a philosophical romance, ‘Redburn’ ; ‘Plute [sic] Jacket ; or the World on [sic] a Man-of-War’ ; ‘Moby Dick’ ; ‘Pierre’ ; ‘Israel Potter’ ; ‘The Prazza [sic] Tales’ . . . .” The Albany Argus, by the same day, had...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 395–419.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the campaign to keep the public theaters closed, efforts to imagine a reformed and republican drama continued even as royalist culture aimed to unite nostalgia for the theater to nostalgia for the king (Potter 1981 ; Randall 1995 ; Wiseman 1998 ). Milton himself described such a reformed theater during one...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 376–377.
Published: 01 September 1968
... Publishing in Two Centuries”; Herbert M. Schueller, “An American in Rome: The Experiments of W. W. Story”; Frederick J. Hoffman, “The Cure of ‘Nothing The Fiction of William Styron”; Ray B. Browne, “Zsruel Potter: Metamorphosis of Superman”; James Sandoe, “Charlie, a Little Fellow...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 June 1953
... poet “made use of these terms pretty much at random.” Simeon Potter, “King Alfred‘s Last Preface” (pp. 25-30), corrects the errors in the text of Alfred’s preface to the Old English version of St. Augustine’s Soliloquies and gives an accurate translation, which, let us hope, will stop future...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (2): 162–185.
Published: 01 June 1987
... Prodicctio?ls at St rarford-upon-Avon ( Manc hes ter : Ma nchester University Press, 1977), pp. 43-63; Lois Potter, Twelfth Night: Text and Pefonnniice (London: Macmillan, 1985), pp. 43-72. Speaking of the play’s great emotional range, Barton has said, “I wantecl to sound‘all the notes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 405–407.
Published: 01 December 1982
...) recedes before another (Man-in-the-world). Almost one-third of the book is taken up by the conclusion, the critical survey of past Boccaccio studies, the notes, and the index. Potter traces such terms as “liminality,” “metanarrative,” and frame “downkeying” to their original users...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 335–338.
Published: 01 September 1985
... this was what Spencer recognized or not, a great change did take place in Beatrice’s life and perhaps even in her personality at this time. In ceasing to be Beatrice Potter and in abandoning those incognito expeditions into the working-class world in which she anticipated George Orwell fifty years...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (3): 363–396.
Published: 01 September 2006
... “system” the author of his novel. His words echoed those of Paul Potter, issued a year earlier, perhaps even with The Man- churian Candidate  in mind. Speaking of “the price extracted from us in exchange for the right to use words,” Potter lamented that “the experi- ence of growing up [in the United...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 221–231.
Published: 01 June 1995
...- cific aporia is to valorize the ancient in the study of etyrnologies, whereas the content of his message is the radical newness of the new religion. The impossibility of coherent totalization, his crucial heritage for thc Middle Ages, catches the very etymology of “fiction”: the potter’s making...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (2): 118–127.
Published: 01 June 1956
... Potter and most of the Piazza Tales, is a throwback. Israel Potter also has a secret chamber in a chimney, which at once preserves and nearly entombs Israel because of the death of the only person who knows its secret. Bursting out as from the white jacket, Israel, before gaining his freedom...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 1958
... Press, 1958. Pp. xi + 194. $4.50. Potter, Simeon. Modern Linguistics. Fair Lawn, N. J. : Essential Books, Inc., Language Library, 1957. Pp. 192. $5.25. Tilander, Gunnar. Nouveaux essais d’fitymologie cynkgtitique. Lund : Carl Bloms Boktryckeri, Cynegetica IV, 1957. Pp. 240. ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (3): 314–317.
Published: 01 September 1983
...” (p. 148) that allows the hero more freedom, de- 1 “The Pre-Romanesque Church of St-Riquier: The Documentary Evidence,”Juunznl of the British Archaeological Assuciation, 130 ( 1977), 2 1-5 1. ROBERT POTTER 317 velops more dramatically...