1-20 of 52

Search Results for prussian

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 March 1979
...Janice H. Harris Keith Cushman. D. H. Lawrence at Work: The Emergence of the Prussian Officer Stories . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. xiv + 239 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 JACOB KOKG 85...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (4): 366–381.
Published: 01 December 1986
... in 1880 immediately following Storm’s retirement as a lower court judge in his native Husum and his change of residency to Hademarschen. For the first time in twenty-seven years he was not in the employ of the Prussian govern- ment. After his license to practice law had been revoked by Danish...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 508–511.
Published: 01 December 1949
... inability to recognize the importance of contemporary German literature by saying that the Prussian king had formulated his opinions a generation earlier, at a time when the criticisms were largely justified, and that he was too inflexible to permit himself to develop beyond this point...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (2): 180–181.
Published: 01 June 1956
... with antiquated lies and pretentions. He is thoroughly annoyed by the Prussian nobility whose time he believes has passed. He bitterly denounces Prussian militarism and bureaucracy. He raves against a reactionary clergy lacking in real Christianity, and he calls anti-Semitism rabid nonsense...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (2): 178–180.
Published: 01 June 1956
... with antiquated lies and pretentions. He is thoroughly annoyed by the Prussian nobility whose time he believes has passed. He bitterly denounces Prussian militarism and bureaucracy. He raves against a reactionary clergy lacking in real Christianity, and he calls anti-Semitism rabid nonsense...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 129–159.
Published: 01 June 1999
... to staunchly Lutheran families and were raised in small Prussian towns a few miles apart,34 and both were the sons of educated, middle-class fathers; both, after attending the Gym- nasium, made their way through a number of universities, finally set- tling in Berlin to earn their doctorates...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 569–570.
Published: 01 December 1940
... are inclining. Mulot is as ardently anti-Rehberg as anti- George. Hans Rehberg, with his widely acclaimed Prussian dramas, is relegated to the ignominious period of Expressionism ; “Preul3en . . . verdankt ihm nichts” (p. 71). Mirko Jelusich and Kurt Eggers are accused of injecting modern thought...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 495–496.
Published: 01 December 1947
.... 25), can-onnade (p. 47), ouv-ertes (p. 51), ouv-ertes and intdr-ieur (p. 52), vcn-ait (p. 53), and pris-ence (p. 77) ; elision at end of line of pages 4, 17, 18, 58, and 72; misuse of comma on pages 25 and 102 ; inconsistent capitalization (Saxon and Prussian) on page 23...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 March 1951
... was great because the Prussian King was great-and was not Goethe’s Prince a grand-nephew of Frederick the Great. This servile interpretation of Goethe as an admirer and worshiper of the ruling dynasty was pawned off on educated circles for a great number of years, since Scherer’s students...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 March 1951
... history as an intellectual science (Marholz, quoted on p. 9), saw Goethe through Hohenzollern eyes. Goethe was great because the Prussian King was great-and was not Goethe’s Prince a grand-nephew of Frederick the Great. This servile interpretation of Goethe as an admirer and worshiper...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 81–88.
Published: 01 March 1949
... the shutters.l3 Again, Ruskin says we can see the “essential character” of every war of modern times if we think of it as a fight between two districts of a single country. We may see the character of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, for instance, by supposing it to be a dispute between Lancashire...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 499–501.
Published: 01 December 1964
... in the notes, which also contain a useful critical bibliography of studies on Fontane’s social and political views. This study stresses Fontane’s capacity to see both good and bad in the Germany of his day. In his chapter entitled “The Two Faces of the Prussian Squire,” the author catalogues...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 496–498.
Published: 01 December 1947
... and Prussian) on page 23 ; and an incoherent sentence (“When the facts . . on page 34. LLTKLINEV. SIMPSON University of Washington English Litcrnture at thr Close of the Middlc Ages. Ry E. Ii. CIiAnfmRs. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1945...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 1979
... of what I see as problems with individual interpretations and a limited view of the essential relationship between Lawrence’s thinking and writing, Cushman’s study is of genuine value. His assertion and demonstration of the links among the stories in The Prussian Of$cer and between...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 539–549.
Published: 01 December 1940
... in the Prussian Rhine- provinces. In that part of the country the population protested vig- orously against the Prussian governmental system, comparing it with the 1il;eral rule under Napoleon. Every trace of the French admin- istration, including the Code Nufolkon, was eradicated after 1815. While...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 566–569.
Published: 01 December 1940
... Arminius to Hitler. Mulot’s opinions of his fellow Third Reichers are signifi- cant, since these opinions may indicate which way professional atti- tudes are inclining. Mulot is as ardently anti-Rehberg as anti- George. Hans Rehberg, with his widely acclaimed Prussian dramas, is relegated...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 82–85.
Published: 01 March 1979
... JACOB D. H. Lawrence at Work: The Emergence of the “Prussian Officer” Stories. By KEITH CUSHMAN.Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. xiv + 239 pp. $12.50. As a guide to the development of D. H. Lawrence’s early short fiction, Keith Cushman’s study is indeed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 187–190.
Published: 01 June 1982
... pessimism, and sense of life as a Manichean choice “be- tween Prussian materialism and Gallic altruism” (p. 75). But clearly the cen- terpieces of Green’s study are his chapters on The Good Soldier and Parade’s End; when he gets to these, he writes with sure hand and sharp logic. The Good Soldier...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2004
... (1788–1857), too, was not just a lyrical poet and nar- rator of wanderlust, nostalgia, and the ironic vagaries of coincidence; he also wrote a German literary history, Geschichte der poetischen Litteratur Deutschlands (1857). What is more, as a Prussian official (he had a law degree), he took part...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 413–431.
Published: 01 December 1943
... of Prussian grenadiers.” Since, according to Schuchardt, it is not legitimate to accept phonetic laws as representing blind, irresistible forces of nature, then these laws must be considered as themselves determined by deeper forces active in language. It is true that even the neo- grammarian...