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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 (2019) 80 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Robert Stevick How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems . By Daniel Donoghue . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . 248 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 “Wes hal!” “Wes hal!” He laid aside his correcting pen, rubbed his eyes...
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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 (1942) 3 (3): 472–475.
Published: 01 September 1942
...Norman E. Eliason 472 Reviews Studies for William A. Read, A Miscellany Presented by Some of His Colleagues and Friends. Edited by NATHANIELM. CAFFEE and THOMASA. KIRBY. University, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 1940. Pp. x + 338. $4.50...
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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 (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. Reading Bradley after Reading Laforgue: How Eliot Transformed Symbolist Poetics into a Paradigmatic Modernism Charles Altieri When...
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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 woram@smith.edu 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 (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 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 to Mexican sociocritic Sara Sefchovich...
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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 (2009) 70 (4): 532–534.
Published: 01 December 2009
...John Watkins Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton . By Judith H. Anderson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. x + 436 pp. University of Washington 2009 John Watkins is professor of English, medieval studies, and Italian studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 2010
... less that is new. The readings of Wyatt are excellent, as is the comparative question that occurs amid them: “Why was Wyatt the only one to produce poems in which he seemed to be express- ing his own feelings?” (22). The argument that Bale was not simply copying Saint Paul in his accounts of his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Kathleen Verduin Self-consciousness was eminently John Updike's hallmark theme, the matrix of his sustained confrontation with mortality and the condition of his alliance with Christianity. As with most literate persons, Updike's self-consciousness was stimulated by reading. His extensive oeuvre...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 586–589.
Published: 01 December 2007
... poets as John Ashbery, Susan Howe, Tom Raworth, and Rosmarie Waldrop. University of Washington 2007 Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry . By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xviii + 241 pp. Reviews Dice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 377–379.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt . By Peter Murphy . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvi + 246 pp. Copyright © 2020...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Abstract This essay explores “distant reading,” first, as a project of studying genre at supratextual scales of analysis (from early conceptions to computationalist successors) and, second, through the prescient late Victorian literary persona with which the latter practices...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 235–238.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Paul Michael Johnson pauljohnson@depauw.edu Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World . By Fuchs Barbara . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 174 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 How is a reader...