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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 214.
Published: 01 June 1961
...Fredson Bowers P. M. Handover. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. 224. $4.75. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 REVIEWS
Printing in London froin 1476 to Modern Times: Coinpctitive Practice and
Technical Invention...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 123–129.
Published: 01 March 1941
...Frederick M. Padelford By Herbert David Rix. The Pennsylvania State College Studies, No. 7, State College, Pennsylvania, 1940. Pp. 88. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS
Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. Classicism in the Rheto...
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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 (2014) 75 (1): 112–115.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Cassidy Picken Cassidy Picken is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill . By Adams Edward . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2011 . x + 322 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 279–296.
Published: 01 June 2014
... account of the evolution of English studies. This essay builds and tests the theory that literary societies were agents for disseminating not only literature but scholarly practice, spreading productive debate about curricula, relevance, and the public benefit of literature over the English-speaking world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 473–498.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Eric Weiskott Abstract Since the sixteenth century, the history of English poetics has had two sides: a history of theory and a history of practice. Contemporary literary scholars are mapping new connections between the history of theory and the history of practice, under the rubric of “historical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 369–373.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Marcy J. Dinius [email protected] To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship . By McHenry Elizabeth . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . xv + 295 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Elizabeth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 233–235.
Published: 01 June 1943
...Edward F. Meylan Robert J. Clements. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 288. $3.00. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 REVIEWS
Critical Theory and Practice of the PI&zde. By ROBERTJ. CLEM-
ENTS. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (1): 82–87.
Published: 01 March 1990
...Lance Bertelsen Paulson Ronald. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 1989. xiv + 363 pp, ukkys, $35.00 Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 REVIEWS
Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 285–290.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the meaning that it
has today. This broad history of the practice and theory of allusion in West-
ern literary culture may be too hastily sketched to be fully satisfying, but it
does propose an interesting solution to an interesting question and under-
score...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 309–322.
Published: 01 September 2018
... predominantly from Western theories to Chinese practice. To different degrees, and with varying urgency, all three Chinese scholars lodge a plea for greater recognition of Chinese theories in the West and for Chinese scholarship to construct a theory of its own, rooted in the Chinese tradition. By way of a new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Alex Eric Hernandez Abstract This essay explores tensions between the practice of critique and recent calls for nonreductive engagement with global spiritualities, arguing for an approach to these experiences that is informed by the study of “lived religion.” Beginning with a discussion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2018
... cognition. Yet constructing Chinese literary theoretical discourse should discriminate among and examine various contemporary Western literary theories, actively draw on its useful achievements and experiences, and return to Chinese literary practice in an overall way. It is also necessary to adhere...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 233–259.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to this, translating some of Crashaw’s Latin epigrams into English.” Grammar schools and universities actively promoted the endless and excessive variation of epigrams during the first half of the seventeenth century. Crashaw’s schoolboy practice of epigrammatic variation carried on into his next book of poetry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 527–552.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Tim Dean Abstract This essay considers the “descriptive turn” in literary studies from the vantage point of poetics, arguing that the history of Western poetry, from the Greeks to the present, offers through the category of epideixis a theory and practice of description that illuminates some...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2016
... “marketplace,” say, or one “public sphere”) is unhelpful. Rather, literary artifacts have potentially multiple social lives that differ in their relation to “sacralized” and “everyday” practices. An aesthetic object can thrive in many simultaneous or successive practice spaces that use and value it differently...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... conceptually sophisticated or forward-thinking than their counterparts in the majority. And their minority practice didn’t pull their contemporaries along with them. Until, that is, it did, and the system itself changed—which is to say that people’s values and behavior, in the aggregate, changed. One can...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 145–171.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Edmund Husserl’s deepenings of aspects of these Kantian theories are apt for understanding what Wordsworth saw in Kant and what he achieved in “The Ruined Cottage,” going even beyond Kant—and Husserl as well. Wordsworth’s meditative activity produces, in practice, the distinctive consciousness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Lukas Moe Abstract From the late 1930s through midcentury, poets in the United States reckoned with the decline of the political Left through a practice of elegy. The debates of interwar modernism shifted toward those of a postwar culture in which Depression-era aesthetics and politics came under...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 117–131.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Joseph Roach Performance and memory share a practice of disguise best described by the word surrogation . Surrogation occurs when more or less plausible substitutes appear in place of the dead, the fugitive, or the banished. Properly disguised, persons can even stand in as surrogates for themselves...
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