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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 479–504.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., as well as on a book about Romantic narrative. “The Prose of the World”: Romanticism, the Nineteenth Century, and the Reorganization of Knowledge Tilottama Rajan hat does it mean when Romanticism becomes part of the W“Nineteenth Century” and relinquishes its links...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 111.
Published: 01 March 1943
... Literature. By JOSEPH G. FUCILLA. New York: S. F. Vanni, 1941. Pp. 534. $10.00. Motif-Index of the Italian “Novella” in Prose. By D. P. ROTUNDA. Bloomington : Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series No. 2, 1942. Pp. xxxii + 216. $2.00. Professor Fucilla’s latest...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Spencer Lee-Lenfield Abstract General accounts of Gustave Flaubert’s influence on English-language writers have tended to assume that the publication of his fiction was enough to change the style of English prose. However, close examination of Flaubert’s reception in the second half...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 1. Lowth’s Isaiah is printed in a mix of poetry and prose (Lowth 1778 : 15–16). © British Library Board 3054.dd.6. Used with permission. More
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 251–252.
Published: 01 June 1944
...Alfred Foulet Charles J. Liebman, Jr., Geneva, N. Y.: Humphrey Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 246. $3.50. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 Alfred Foulet 25 1 Etude sur la Vie en prose de saint Denis. By CHARLESJ. LIEBMAN, JR. Geneva...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 361–363.
Published: 01 September 1948
...Edward S. Le Comte Merritt Y. Hughes. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1947. Pp. cxci + 454. $2.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Edward S. Le Comte 361 John Milton : Prose Selections. Edited by MERRITTY. HUGHES.New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 1942
... TJae Prose Style of Samuel Johnson. By W. K. WIMSATT.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. Pp. xvi + 166. $3.00. In his “Introduction” Mr. Wimsatt insists that style and mean- ing are interdependent and proposes to show the effect of Dr. John- son’s prose style on his meaning. Since...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 1942
...Paul H. Kocher NASHE’S AUTHORSHIP OF THE PROSE SCENES IN FAUSTUS” By PAULH. KOCHER The greater number of students of Fazistus have long doubted that Marlowe wrote all of the prose passages of the play. Cut there has been...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 419–422.
Published: 01 December 1983
...Janet Jesmok Ness Ihle Sandra. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xii + 199 pp. $22.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS Malory’s Grail Quest: Inuention and Adaptation in Medieual Prose Romance. By SANDRANESS IHLE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 372–373.
Published: 01 December 1960
... University of Cincinnati Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy. By JONAS A. BARISH.Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 335. $5.00. Jonas A. Barish’s book has usefulness beyond the field of Jonson studies. It defines a mode of which Jonson was unquestionably...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 282–283.
Published: 01 September 1962
...Urban T. Holmes, Jr. 282 Reviews L’Evolution du romarthurien en prose vers la fin du moyen-dge d’apr2s le manuscrit 112 du fonds francais de la Bibliothkque Nationale. By CEDRIC EDWARDPICKFORD. Paris: A. G. Nizet, 1959. Pp. 368. This volume...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (2): 115–133.
Published: 01 June 1958
...Theodore Ziolkowski HERMANN HESSE’S STEPPENWOLF A SONATA IN PROSE By THEODOREZIOLKOWSKI The critical and popular reception of Hesse’s Steppenwolf, when it appeared in 1927, was so hostile that the author felt himself obliged...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (1): 43–59.
Published: 01 March 1953
...Esther Shephard Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 AN INQUIRY INTO WHITMAN’S METHOD OF TURNING PROSE INTO POETRY By ESTHERSHEPHARD Turning prose into poetry has always been a legitimate activity of poets. The names...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 341–347.
Published: 01 December 1953
...Allen R. Benham “THINGS UNATTEMPTED YET IN PROSE OR RIME” By ALLENR. BENHAM The first twenty-six lines of the first book of Paradise Lost intro- duce the whole poem. In them Milton states his subject, alludes to his biblical and classical sources...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 74–75.
Published: 01 March 1956
... on those who have elected to use it. ROBERTW. ACKERMAN Stanford University Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Vol. I: 1624-1642. Edited by DONM. WOLFE New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 107–112.
Published: 01 June 1957
...Louis Tenenbaum LOVE IN THE PROSE FICTION OF GOBINEAU By LOUISTENENBAUM Gobineau has justly been recognized as the successor to Stendhal and Mkimbe, the outstanding representatives of la tradition siche in nineteenth-century prose fiction. In all three...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 467–475.
Published: 01 December 1968
...Kenneth Muir Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 1 Brian Vickerst. he Artist of Shakespeares PYOSGL. ondon: Methuen, 1968. ix + 452 pp. $12.00; 755. Distributed in?JSA. by Barnes & Noble. SHAKESPEARE: PROSE AND VERSE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 1969
... Cruz Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose. By BRIANVICKERS. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1968. xi + 316 pp. $7.50. Brian Vickers follows the salutary trend, exemplified recently in the work of Stanley Edgar Hyman, I,eonard Nathanson, and Joan Webber, of treat- ing discursive...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 33–52.
Published: 01 March 1969
...CHARLES R. FORKER Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 “WIT’S DESCANT ON ANY PLAIN SONG” THE PROSE CHARACTERS OF JOHN WEBSTER By CHARLESR. FORKER Ever since Lamb admired the “innocence-resembling boldness” of Vittoria...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 662–664.
Published: 01 December 1941
.... HERBERTMERI~T Stanford University The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of Its Criticism and a Guide for Its Study, with an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800. By PHILIPBAB- COCK GOVE. (Columbia University Studies in English and Com...