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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2008
... meaning of a literary work includes the history of its reception. (3) Reading literature entails a response to value and form. (4) The form of a literary work is integral to its moral, social, and political meaning. (5) Unmasking is not an end in itself but a means to various kinds of revelations. I...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
... .” Essays in Criticism 60 , no. 4 : 336 – 60 . Hurst Isobel . 2015 . “ Elizabeth Barrett Browning .” In The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature , edited by Vance Norman and Wallace Jennifer , 449 – 70 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Jackson...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2016
... was converted to entertainment, a moment whose legacies may be perceived in some contemporary theories of lyric. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 elegy pastoral leisure reception history John Milton Milton’s elegy for Edward King, written in 1637, was widely admired...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and reception histories. In the close readings of these figures, often across several novels and languages, the force of Hill’s argument can best be sensed. In fact, told in this way, the impressive diversity of the spread of naturalism resists reception history as we know it, which is to say that Hill...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 June 2013
...B. Venkat Mani This essay addresses a major gap in the recent scholarship on world literature: the neglect of libraries and print cultural institutions to determine world-literary circulation and reception. Mani makes a case for the dual role of libraries as instrumental to and as instruments...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 253–278.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Keru Cai Abstract This article posits modern Chinese realism as heteromodal, capable of encompassing many modes of narration from a plurality of literary movements. Heteromodality results from the heterochronic Chinese importation of Western literary history, the simultaneous reception of what were...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 133–139.
Published: 01 March 1993
... is said against my own work
also, for I dabbled in literary history for twenty years. Moreover,
though I convinced myself of its limitations, I am still content to par-
ticipate in the gold rush in one way. The complaints voiced above
apply to the history of reception, but with a diminished...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 381–385.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Lucretius, or Thomson’s borrowings from Milton, signify differently in the subsequent poet’s changed ecological circumstances. Menely’s mastery of the very extensive critical traditions and reception histories of these poets is one of the great strengths of this study: if there is a deep time in literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 55–80.
Published: 01 March 2021
... translation reception history Abraham Cowley is known for his endnotes. 1 They serve him in many ways: they contextualize work written decades before publication; explicate images, allusions, and metaphors; explain and defend his theories of genre and form; and negotiate his relation to literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 253–256.
Published: 01 June 2021
...” (11) when Richard Bentley released her work as part of his Standard Novels reprint series in 1833; in fact, his not-so-very-cheap authorized reprints “were quickly joined by far cheaper versions with a wider impact” (9). Barchas therefore urges “a more inclusive reception history” that takes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 376–378.
Published: 01 September 2021
... This book is partly a reception history of The Faerie Queene and partly a reading of the poem. Catherine Nicholson defamiliarizes Spenser’s work by describing what readers have done with it: how they have glossed it, excerpted it, edited it, discussed it, quarreled over it, reviewed it, deplored...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 115–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
... well imagine nonmedievalist readers being drawn into this work through their interest in modern fantasies of Babylon. The underlying opposition of the “Western eyes” of the title and the “Eastern” object of study is not fully contextualized here. Instead, Scheil provides a “reception history...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 197–215.
Published: 01 June 2013
... from their sites of origin and follow certain trajectories
has helped us map histories of reception and understand not only their
predictable and measurable courses but also their chance encounters
with other texts. Translation is the indispensable intermediary of these
encounters. Apter (2005...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 426–428.
Published: 01 September 1999
... haunted a reception history that (wrongly) tends to
segregate the form into symbolic (Ciceronian) and allegorical (Quintilian)
modes, Kelley conflates their conflict with allegory’s tendency to disrupt our
“ordinary expectations that outward appearances might accurately convey
meaning” (22...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 263–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... advances, teasing out now one similarity, now another. Both were freedom-loving visionaries, and their differences matter less than their mutual heroisms, although there are nice nuances to the affinities model. Each chapter of this exuberant book offers a reception history of the British author under...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 119–127.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and moral challenges, like George Eliot,
George Meredith, and Browning, should find support among scholars,
Dale and McDonell Lessons from the Past? 123
or that academics should emphasize the complexity of that work. The
reception history of Browning’s poetry is dominated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 449–451.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., German, and Old Norse texts. To explore aspects of the reception history and add nuances to her textual analyses, McCracken presents a set of well-chosen manuscript illustrations. In chapter 1, “Wearing Animals: Skin, Survival and Sovereignty,” McCracken envisions medieval biopolitics as a matter...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and interpretations recovered from history more than their own readings. This is a coherent position, philosophically speaking, and a modest one, since it marks these critics’ sense of their work (and their reading group) as only one chapter in a reception history. But even if this position might satisfy worries...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 September 1995
... narrative tradition. For many critics
(and even more classroom syllabi), this left Frankenstein as a curiously soli-
tary instance of genuine romantic fiction in England. Such recent revisions
of this reception history as have occurred can be credited largely to feminist
critics, whose excavatory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 March 1993
... be understood as the loci of presentness and pastness.
Texts, for example, like the readings of the texts, are invariably multiple.
When criticism constructs a “textual history” or a “reception history,”
the differential of the here and now is forced to confront a host of ear-
lier, analogous...
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