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Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 243–245.
Published: 01 June 2020
...John T. Hamilton To take Wiggins at his word, the varied recognitions that result from his painstaking analyses are both decisively conclusive and tantalizingly open-ended. The point is to learn to be amenable to change in all its potentiality—that is, without settling for a substantial...
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Comedy and Metacomedy: Eugene O’neill’s Desire Under the Elms and Its Antecedents
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: the melodrama of his father’s generation and the melodramatic-cum-realistic Broadway fare of his own youth. Textual history has impeded their categorical recognition: in 1924, when Desire under the Elms was first published and performed, 39 percent of O’Neill’s oeuvre (seventeen of forty-four plays), but just...
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Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 143–173.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Ottmar Ette Abstract As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production...
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“What Is Historical Poetics?”
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 13–40.
Published: 01 March 2016
... reading by generic recognition, a reading of poetry as a form of cognition emerges among later critics like I. A. Richards, who illustrates how a line from Robert Browning is read in the mind’s eye, as if in the present tense. But Browning was already doing a version of historical poetics, in writing “Pan...
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Britannia, the Individual, and the Public Sphere: Thomson to Coleridge
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 123–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the tradition, but rather than move toward hope, in the manner of most earlier texts, it ends with Seward’s melancholy recognition of her own weakness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 “Fears in Solitude,” which also retains some features of the tradition, is a sustained reflection on the individual’s limited...
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With Chinese Characteristics
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 309–322.
Published: 01 September 2018
... predominantly from Western theories to Chinese practice. To different degrees, and with varying urgency, all three Chinese scholars lodge a plea for greater recognition of Chinese theories in the West and for Chinese scholarship to construct a theory of its own, rooted in the Chinese tradition. By way of a new...
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The Virtuosity of Langston Hughes: Persona, Rhetoric, and Iconography in The Weary Blues
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... The essay uses a new system of rhetorically driven scansion to identify elaborate rhetorical symmetries and polyrhythms that shape the cognition of Hughes’s persona and the recognition of his readers in ways that prose language cannot. Hughes employs rhetoric and iconography as alternative modes...
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Everybody’s Autotheory
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 81–116.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and reorients the autobiographical pursuit of (self-)recognition away from the scripts of neoliberal individualism and toward the self’s more radical and formative intersubjectivity. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 autobiography autotheory feminism...
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“To Consort with Eccentricities”: Edith Sitwell’s Eighteenth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 245–273.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and erotic attachment that are not circumscribed by physical contact or heteronormative consummation. In doing so, Sitwell develops eccentricity as a framework oppositionally defined by the mystification of its peers but angled to claim future recognition. References Annual Register: Or a View...
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Who Stood over Eliot's Shoulder?
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 329–364.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of The Waste
Land, when the “third” appears suddenly at the shoulder of the nar-
rator’s companion.2 As different as they may seem, both scenes are
instances of what Eliot eventually calls spiritual “recognition,” a phe-
nomenon that occurs when the mind’s eye is caught off-guard by a pres-
ence in its...
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Seeing Doubles Reflections of the Self in James's Sense of the Past
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 48–60.
Published: 01 March 1984
... by acknowledging aspects of his identity. Over-
mastering others finalizes, rather than finishes, dependency: he is
only what others can recognize. Further, when others exist only to
recognize him and are not themselves recognized, their servantlike
recognition is necessarily inadequate. Ralph finds...
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A Romantic View of Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 360–361.
Published: 01 September 1945
...; on the positive, it
affirms what the author calls the Romantic view, a belief in the need
of having “some positive ideal of good,” not a dogma based “on mere
prohibitions and inhibitions,” a recognition of the importance of the
emotions, a view of poetry as a “form of living,” not a thing by
itself...
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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 369–373.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the word ‘Negro,’ as I deliberately do in this study, is to evoke a particular moment in which African Americans embraced the word, insisting that its first letter be capitalized as a means of both controlling its meaning and signifying the recognition and respect due to people of African descent” (7...
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Jane Austen: The Six Novels
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 480–482.
Published: 01 December 1966
...-the old
things said in the old way merely for the familiar pleasures of recognition.
There is certainly nothing new in the way of saying here. Indeed, the
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book’s main weakness is the imprecision of its critical method...
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Complicity of Voice in Paradise Lost
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 153–170.
Published: 01 June 1964
...)
The “tragedy” collapses because tragedy depends ultimately upon
the dignity of the sufferer, upon self-recognition or anagnorisis, and
upon cathartic release. None of these is quite possible in Hell. Milton
brings about the collapse of the tragic here not only by interjecting
doctrine (“Which God...
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Stanley Fish's Reading of Seventeenth-Century Literature 1
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 December 1974
... to feel that some-
thing has happened within me as well as on the page-and Fish demon-
strated in Surprised by Sin (1967) how much a recognition of such “de-
signs” can add to our reading of Paradise Lost. I am made uneasy, how-
ever, by Fish’s apparent assumptions that admirable literary designs...
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The Triumph of the English Language: A Survey of Opinions concerning the Vernacular from the Introduction of Printing to the Restoration
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 360–362.
Published: 01 December 1955
... by the Reformation in general,
ad Puritanism in particular. The major impulse toward recognition of the
educational function of the vernacular is to be found in the religious controversy
of the age. Thus translations of the Bible, together with commentaries on it,
and much of Reformation apologetics, can...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Self, Love and Art
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (1): 82–85.
Published: 01 March 1974
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ling revelations about a work or neatens it beyond recognition. iMartin is a
model in whom they can see that analysis need not do anything to a work in
order to justify itself; he does not decode, repair, or try to replace the poems
he discusses; he does for literary experience what artists...
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Interventionist Literary Histories: Nostalgic, Pragmatic, or Utopian?
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 401–417.
Published: 01 December 1998
...) and language (French literary history), these two projects
have worked comparatively and thus outside such boundaries.22 They
have done so in recognition of the cultural and literary realities of
Great Tree is the Great Peace, and Good Tidings of Peace and Power, and the
Nations...
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Henry James and the Expanding Horizon
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 March 1949
..., and fame.
All of these, be it noted, are good or bad not so much in theniselves
as in the effect which they have on the consciousness of the individual :
“The uniqueness of James, the single new thought in the world to
which his fiction gives expression, consists in his recognition that sensi...
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