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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Jon Klancher Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies . By Underwood Ted . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2013 . viii + 199 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 One of many questions raised...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 321–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ted Underwood; Jordan Sellers Abstract A history of literary prestige needs to study both works that achieved distinction and the mass of volumes from which they were distinguished. To understand how those patterns of preference changed across a century, we gathered two samples of English-language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 129–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... for the Hispanic world, Mundial harnessed its prestige as a cultural capital and as a modern publishing center to promote a global, pan-Hispanic culture. Understanding the aesthetic, technological, and commercial transactions undertaken by periodicals like Mundial can lead to a more nuanced account of the uses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., possible to produce an illuminating map of the field through statistical analysis of midsize, handmade data sets. On such a map one sees a striking shift in the typical temporal setting of the novel, a shift that corresponds to major rearrangements of the relation of literary commerce to literary prestige...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 401–404.
Published: 01 September 2021
... 77 , no. 3 : 447 – 71 . Moretti Franco . 2000 . “ The Slaughterhouse of Literature .” MLQ 61 , no. 1 : 207 – 28 . Underwood Ted , and Sellers Jordan . 2016 . “ The Longue Durée of Literary Prestige .” MLQ 77 , no. 3 : 321 – 44 . katherine.bode...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... we need to organize our research projects and structure our intellectual and institutional divisions of labor. The degree of prestige attaching to these built units of study is hierarchized, such that some national literatures, historical periods, genres, and individual works hold more value...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 321–326.
Published: 01 September 1994
... axes: that of institutional-
social prestige and that of intellectual-scientific prestige. Guillory appeals to
Bourdieu, but does not discuss his study of the French academic system,
Homo Academicus, because to do so would broach the question of the con-
326...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 479–494.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to the circulation of both individual and national prestige. Writers like James F. English ( 2005 ) and Pascale Casanova ( 2007 ) have shown how the recognition systems affect not only the circulation of texts but even their production. Any number of comparatists have written about both the seductive entry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 505–526.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-
uity. During the Renaissance visual art often seemed to synthesize the
classical past and the present, but literature remained more painfully
aware of its distance from the prestige of past achievements. Literary
history was in part an attempt to overcome the perceived disadvantages
of European...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 255–268.
Published: 01 September 2012
... English novels that took, say, matters
such as the abolition of slavery or the Indian Mutiny as subjects. But Robinson Crusoe
excepted, novels of empire failed to attain the institutional prestige of the major
works of domestic English realism. Thus the British Empire in its heyday seems to
have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 437–456.
Published: 01 December 1997
... of a British bardic past, while Spenser claimed to
have drawn from Chaucer’s well of English undefiled.
Drayton and Spenser, however, wrote within a social formation
whose main currency was symbolic capital, that is, the measure of accu-
mulated fame, prestige, honor, or other...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2021
... with various sorts of truth—the Aristotelian truth of known heroes, the pseudofactual truth pretense—is particularly surprising. What we see in the vogue for somebody novels, first off, is merely the increasing prestige of the novel form, as its subject matter became more closely allied with that of epic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (1): 57–82.
Published: 01 March 1992
... to TheFaZZ
ofPn’nces he locates his own work on a historical continuum of English
poetry, in which Chaucer is the progenitor of English eloquence. The
long account of Chaucerian poetics (11. 246-35’7) leads to a brief dis-
quisition on the historical prestige of poets who were in ancient times...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (4): 497–508.
Published: 01 December 1997
... de Beauvoir. In my view, she has greater prestige in the American
academic field, yet even in the United States existentialism is hardly theoretically
prestigious at the moment.
12 Bourdieu, “Censorship,” in Sociology in Question, trans. Richard Nice (Lon-
don: Sage, igg3), g 1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Sedgwick, and Homi K. Bhabha are all to be found
pursuing much the same goal: elucidating a work.
Gorman Future of Literary Study 3
ology of literary study have changed than by how little the support-
ing disciplinary structure has. The prestige activity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 March 1940
... of Mark Twain, 1920.
This leads me to take a single exception to the arrangement
of Hemminghaus’ work. Part one is called the “Pre-war reception”
and contains four chapters : I, “Early reception 1874-1921” ;. 11,
“Extension of Mark Twain’s prestige, 1892-1904” ; 111, “Seventieth
birthday...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 362–363.
Published: 01 September 1944
...), he credits, I am
afraid, the mediocre craftsman of the novel with improvements
which actually were merely new performances of the neat prose
writer. This last qualification carried prestige between 1630 and
1640, but cannot blind us today. How unfair it would be to poor
Gomberville...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 150–151.
Published: 01 March 1942
... irony is al-
ways easy? However, the Abb6 Le Blanc emerges from this study
as a living person. We realize that he draws much of his prestige
from his numerous and important acquaintances : the Abb6 Du Bos,
Melon, Buffon, the Duchesse du Maine and Madame de Tencin, but
in spite of this, he...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 June 2014
... The jury of journals is decidedly out on this question, even or especially
in the rarer precincts of high scholarly prestige. PMLA 128, no. 1 (2013): 5, calls
for “submissions, prepared according to the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Schol-
arly Publishing...
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