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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (2): 120–141.
Published: 01 June 1988
...Heath Moon Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 SAVING JAMES FROM MODERNISM HOW TO READ THE SACRED FOUNT By HEATHMOON The subject for decades of the most painstaking analysis, The Sacred Fount, one would expect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 226–228.
Published: 01 June 2010
...John T. Hamilton The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 353–377.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Julie Candler Hayes Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Look but Don’t Read: Chinese Characters and the Translating Drive from John Wilkins to Peter Greenaway Julie Candler Hayes n Europe, increasing knowledge of and contacts with China in the Iseventeenth...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 June 2019
...” to text (62, and reiterated several times). In front of our eyes is careful text copied and corrected by a masterful scribe who quite possibly was the author of the text. How fortunate we are to have this final-form narrative to read and hear again, without change. Begin rather with how Anglo-Saxons...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 96–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Francesca T. Royster [email protected] Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature . By Farah Jasmine Griffin . New York : Norton , 2021 . xii + 257 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Farah Jasmine Griffin’s literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 September 1942
...Norman E. Eliason Nathaniel M. Caffee and Thomas A. Kirby. University, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1940. Pp. x + 338. $4.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 472 Reviews Studies for William A. Read, A Miscellany Presented by Some...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 125–147.
Published: 01 June 1994
... to the social, economic, and literary histories of the ancien régime. Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading in Gdfigny‘s L&tres d9unePh~- Thomas M. Kavanagh ew works reveal more about the convoluted relations between Fexperience and expression, reading and writing, reception...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 289–303.
Published: 01 June 1996
...Debra A. Castillo © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Reading Loose Women Reading Debra A. Castillo Who reads novels in Latin America these days? In view of the post- boom disillusion with the role of the writer in society, what is the use value of fiction? According...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2011
... test case is a reading of how The Waste Land fleshes out the potential in emphasizing the power of relations over the power of foundational thinking. Charles Altieri teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2004
... (2002). The Time of Commitment: Reading “Sapho 1900” Reading Sappho Joan DeJean To the memory of Jack Winkler, who set an example by taking a political stand without sacrificing scholarly standards hose of us who work on the first manifestations of what is now Tknown...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 September 2021
...William A. Oram [email protected] Reading and Not Reading “The Faerie Queene”: Spenser and the Making of Literary Criticism . By Catherine Nicholson . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . vii + 311 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 409–425.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Bill Readings Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 SUBLIME POLITICS: THE END OF THE PAR” LINE By BILL READINGS THE POLITICS OF THE SUBUME An interest in the sublime...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 321–326.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Bill Readings Guillory John. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp. $36.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. By John Guillory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 392 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 129–139.
Published: 01 June 1974
...Ralph R. Read HEINRICH VON DEM WRLIN’Smu KRONE AND WOLFRAM’S PARZIVAL By RALPHR. READ Heinrich von dem Turl‘in’s strange epic, Diu KrGne, has not received kind treatment from its critics. As Rosemary Wallbank notes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 349–376.
Published: 01 September 2003
...,and autobiography. “Books and Bad Company”: Reading the Female Plot in Teresa de la Parra’s IŽgenia Kristine Byron La pretendida autora de esa nueva IÞgenia . . . [c]ometió es cierto, la horrible indiscreción de hacer editar en París bajo su nombre, ese diario íntimo que yo había...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Paul B. Armstrong Although form and history are joined in reading, the profession of literary studies has regularly regarded formalism and historicism as opposites and even antagonists. When dichotomous terms replicate themselves without mediation, a phenomenological approach to resolving...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 187–194.
Published: 01 March 2008
... include On Literature (2002), Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (2005), and The J. Hillis Miller Reader (2005). Reading (about) Modern Chinese Literature in a Time of Globalization J. Hillis Miller hy should I (or any American or European, for that matter) Wwant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (4): 513–534.
Published: 01 December 1990
... OF (NOT) KEEPING IN STEP READING THE CONSUMER MOBOCRACY OF POE’S “THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY” AGAINST PEACOCK By KATRINA E. BACHINGER Everybody agrees and nobody agrees on what is attacked when the dashing little dandy in Edgar Allan Poe’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 March 1991
..., RELATIONAL WHISPER A READING OF EDITH WHARTON’S THE HOUSE OFMIRTH* By ELAINEN. ORR “But you belittle me, don’t you, . . . in being so sure.” -Lily Bart1 “Must the multiple nature of female desire and language...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 217–221.
Published: 01 June 1991
...-importance. His witty and lucid prose is a pleasure to read. Consider the “Deranger”with which he slyly improves on David Hayman’s “Arranger” (p. 99) ,for example, or the description of much of the information in ‘Wandering Rocks” as ”what the F.B.I. calls ‘raw unevaluated data”’ (p. 125); or enjoy...