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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 538–542.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Elisa Tamarkin One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic . By Martha Banta. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. xxx + 306 pp. University of Washington 2009 Elisa Tamarkin is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 271–295.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of the Ancient Mariner,” as well as other literary texts, to transform the failure of his quest for a transantarctic crossing into a glorious triumph. Shackleton's allusions and structural borrowings substitute the truth of literature for the reality of the polar experience. While this substitution is typical...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 486–488.
Published: 01 September 1942
....
LOUISB. WRIGHT
The Huntington Library
The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. By MONTAGUE
SUMMERS.London: The Fortune Press; New York: Colum-
bit University Press, 1938. Pp. 443. $7.50.
A Gothic BibEiography. By MONTAGUESUMMERS. London : The
Fortune Press ; New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (2): 157–177.
Published: 01 June 1983
...?’
“FREE AND EASY”?
SPONTANEITY AND THE QUEST FOR MATURITY
IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN2
By R. J. FERTEL
At the heart of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn con-
tradictory assessments of spontaneity’s...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 168–174.
Published: 01 June 1971
...Albert B. Smith Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 GAUTIER’S MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN
THE QUEST FOR HAPPINESS
By ALBERTB. SMITH
Attempts to achieve...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (3): 305–319.
Published: 01 September 1971
...Nancy Topping Bazin Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 VIRGINIA WOOLF’S QUEST FOR EQUILIBRIUM
By NANCYTOPPING BAZIN
Virginia Woolf would agree with D. H. Lawrence that human beings
have two ways of knowing, “knowing in terms...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 60–72.
Published: 01 March 1956
...Van Akin Burd Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 RUSKIN’S QUEST FOR A THEORY OF IMAGINATION
By V-4N AKIN BURD
Ruskin’s plan to work out Turner’s theory of beauty for the second
volume of Modern Painters failed to materialize as quickly as he had...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 99.
Published: 01 March 1949
...Lawrence M. Price Heinrich Schneider. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1947. Pp. 178. $2.50. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Lawrence M. Price 99
Quest for Mysteries: The Masonic Background for Literature i?t...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 163–200.
Published: 01 June 2011
... son of the murdered king is limited in his freedom to maneuver and whose quest for freedom is both fueled and stymied by the Ghost's command that he kill his uncle. Hamlet dramatizes the felt connections between external constraints on freedom of action and internal states that inhibit or foster...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 53–80.
Published: 01 March 2018
... was positively invested in a poetic praxis of skeptical ignorance derived from David Hume and that this praxis allowed him to vacate the question of the way things really are. Eschewing the masculinist quest to penetrate the secrets of the natural world, this skeptical praxis offers a quiet solution to the mind...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 81–117.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Anthony Cuda Abstract Despite a wealth of new primary-source publications and archival discoveries, many scholars persist in the belief that midcentury poets like Randall Jarrell rejected their modernist predecessors in a quest for originality and novelty. This article demonstrates, on the contrary...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 March 1996
...-
that is, if it made it over into a figure for anticipation of the aca-
demic zeitgeist of the late seventies and early eighties’-then romantic
New Historicism has embarked on a quest to historicize the very impe-
tus of irony.* Imagination, be&$ and any number of other heuristic
terms are being...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 180–190.
Published: 01 June 1973
... Stegner
describes it, “a book . . . about the process of preparing to write a
book.” As such, the novel turns out to be, Stegner feels, a “quest
leading to ambiguity rather than truth? Certainly the narrator
seems highly unreliable, and certainly Nabokov sets out to make us
identify...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 485–486.
Published: 01 September 1942
... initials (p. 108) are incorrect. But on the
whole, the book presents a mass of obscure and unknown material
with clarity and understanding.
LOUISB. WRIGHT
The Huntington Library
The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel. By MONTAGUE...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 312–328.
Published: 01 September 1968
... of detection and a quest for self-knowledge. The title
itself points in both these directions, and the clues that are accumu-
lated as the novel progresses lead us toward the identity, not of a
murderer exactly, but of a man who, Narcissus-like, has died of self-
awareness. They likewise lead us...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (4): 625–638.
Published: 01 December 1941
... of
Melville and Hawthorne, New England Quarterly, IX (June, 1936) , 255.
This contains a suggestive analysis of the “quest” in Mardi that approximates
most nearly the interpretation presented here, although it has not benefited
from the identifications of the flower symbolism.
8 Ralph...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 488–490.
Published: 01 September 1942
... and subsequent editions, data about dramatizations,
translations, etc. The “Index of Authors” gives the dates of birth
and death, chronological lists of titles, and, in cases deemed impor-
tant, additional information.
The Bibliography is at once more than a bibliography for the
Quest, and less...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (4): 309–336.
Published: 01 December 1989
...; they behaved properly in order
to discourage attention, to pass almost unnoticed” (Aries, HPL, 3:4-5;
my italics).8
In the sixth book of TheFaen’e Queene this double function seems to
underlie the ambiguously public-yet-private nature of Calidore’s
quest. That Calidore’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 497–498.
Published: 01 September 1942
... to regard science
and literature, not in terms of “influence,” but in their “physiogno-
mic identity” as two aspects of Germany’s cultural life at the turn
of the 18th/19th centuries.
The quest of this age for a “new Lucretius,” i.e., a new under-
standing of the nature of things...
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