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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 (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 (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 (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 (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in literature and culture. Emma.Mason@warwick.ac.uk Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 kenosis Trinity Christina Rossetti Gerard Manley Hopkins weakness This essay concerns how we read Christian experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture. As a context...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (1): 84–86.
Published: 01 March 1975
... such a child as this. , These Hymnes may worke on future wits, and so May great Grand children of thy prayses grow. STEPHENBOOTH University of California, Berkeley The Blaze of Noon: A Reading of “Samson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 443–444.
Published: 01 December 1975
... Virginia WOOFA Critical Reading. By AVROMFLEISHMAN. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xiii + 232 pp. $10.00. In his foreword to Virginia Wooy A Critical Reading, Avrom Fleishman describes his approach as “principled, rather than unprincipled, eclecticism” (p...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 June 1942
...- ment as it was brought to its highly efficient state for the decisive occasion-by much speaking, to be sure, but also by much writing, much experience in great affairs, “diffuse” reading, and reflection. Evidently many things go into the making of a great speaker, not taught in courses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 388–401.
Published: 01 December 1966
...John T. Shawcross Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 THE SON IN HIS ASCENDANCE A READING OF PARADISE LOST By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS The stated subject of Paradise Lost is Man’s disobedience, and there- fore...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 365–373.
Published: 01 December 1963
...W. G. Stobie Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 A READING OF THE PRELUDE, BOOK V By W. G. STOBIE In all the principal manuscripts of The Prelude there occurs at the end of Book V a passage of eight lines...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 163–164.
Published: 01 June 1957
.... ECONSCHWARZ Haruard University Nietzsche and the French: A Study of the Influence of Nietzsche’s French Reading on His Thought and Writing. By W. D. WILLIAMS.Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952. Pp. xxi + 206. 25s. More than a thousand books have been written about Nietzsche, yet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 545–563.
Published: 01 December 1969
...Sondra J. Stang A READING OF FORD'S THE GOOD SOLDIER By SONDRA J. STANG The subject of The Good Soldier is the fall of a great civilization and the consequent necessity that the narrator feels to make some sense of what has happened and why...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 278–280.
Published: 01 June 2017
... or legislatures—the starting point has to be affirmative.) Nevertheless answers are abundant in Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton . Even where one might demur from aspects of Warley’s project or its articulation, the book’s intellectual demands and critical insights are consistently...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
... that the reading methods we bring to born-translated writing are symbiotic with dominant accounts of modernism, and they give us the opportunity to develop new methods and new approaches to literary history. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is associate professor of English at Rutgers University and Walter Jackson...
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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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 329–333.
Published: 01 September 1994
... useful” privileges. Evan Watkins, University of Washington Reading between the Lines. By Annabel Patterson. Madison: University of Wis- consin Press, 1993. x + 339 pp. $48.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. In a wide-ranging and theoretically informed collection, Annabel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 429–453.
Published: 01 December 1994
...Jonathan Brody Kramnick Reading Shakespeare’s Novels: Literary History and Cultural Politics in the Lennox-Johnson Debate Jonathan Brody Kramnick ew cultural products are as important for the discipline of English Fas the novel and Shakespeare, yet...