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The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 88–91.
Published: 01 March 1979
...Steven Weisenburger William M. Plater The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon . Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. xvii + 268 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 88 REVIEWS
sistence...
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Imprinting Mortality: Updike Reading Books
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 329–366.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and recurrent confessional impulse permit reconstruction of much of his reading experience, recording not simply his internalization of formative texts but also his attraction to books as auratic objects for consumption. For students of book history, Updike's “story of reading” yields a quarry of information...
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The Peripheral Realism of Two Chinas
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 395–414.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Petrus Liu Reconstructing modernist fiction from 1970s Taiwan as a critical realism, this essay proposes that the historical creation of two Chinas (the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China) provided a formative stage for vibrant literary ruminations on the dissonance...
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The Shelley Society, Literary Lectures, and the Global Circulation of English Literature and Scholarly Practice
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 279–296.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Angela Dunstan This essay examines the contribution of the Shelley Society to the rise of English studies in the late nineteenth century. It reconstructs what “studying English literature” signified outside the university at the time, offering a parallel history to the well-documented institutional...
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Today We Fly, Tomorrow We Fall: William Faulkner’s Pylon in Fascist Italy
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 141–164.
Published: 01 June 2022
... postwar period, which sought to mobilize the novel for the purposes of national reconstruction, confirms the inherent antifascist potential of the translation. But that confidence depended on the belief that Italian readers would not relate the literature they read to their own lives...
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Reinventing Modernism: Randall Jarrell’s Unwritten Essay on T. S. Eliot
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 81–117.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., Jarrell’s underestimated and enduring creative debt to T. S. Eliot by reconstructing, for the first time, a book-length essay that he planned to write about Eliot but abandoned. The article shows that Jarrell regarded Eliot’s work as the result of a psychological struggle with “obsessional neurosis...
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French Theories in China and the Chinese Theoretical (Re)construction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 249–267.
Published: 01 September 2018
... on substantial studies of world literatures and theories, that can be used to interpret all literary phenomena, Eastern and Western alike. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 French theories reception China reconstruction world poetics The critical and creative reception of French...
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Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 386–395.
Published: 01 December 1988
...” based on the study of the historical
sense of genre, literary-political context, and mimetic character (pp. 7-8, n.
9). Such efforts to reconstruct the meaning of past language are only
“traditional literary history . . . supplemented with a comparison of the
work to ‘reality’ ” (p. 8, n. 9...
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Vision and Revision: Coleridge's Art of Immanence
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (1): 99–102.
Published: 01 March 1983
..., of many distinct and di-
vergent voices, only some of them authentically Coleridgean. It attempts to
reconstruct a Coleridge, immanent in his works, who can stand within the
discourse of modern criticism and yet remain true to the claim for ultimate
signification grounded in an unquestioned...
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Goethes Novelle “Die Wahlverwandtschaften”: Ein Rekonstruktionsversuch
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 347–349.
Published: 01 December 1957
... “Die Wahlvewandtschaften”: Ein Rekonstruktionmersltch.
By HANSM. WOLFF.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California
Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 43, 1955. Pp. 86. $1.00.
Hans Wolff has made a bold attempt to “reconstruct” by fiat a novel which
very probably...
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Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 475–481.
Published: 01 December 1992
.... The critical anthol-
ogy Conjuring, edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers, for example,
proposes to reconstruct an African-American women’s literary tradition; it
endeavors to chronicle the development of black women’s fiction. As Pryse
states in her introduction, “The essays . . . attempt...
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A Tale of Wonder: A Source Study of “The Wife of Bath's Tale”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (1): 97–98.
Published: 01 March 1959
... audience and realizing that Irish political allegory
“would have been wasted on the new audience,” supplied the new domestic
context for sovereignty.
Eisner reconstructs the source of the four English versions of the loathly
lady tale. One important result of his reconstruction for The Wife...
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From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 514–518.
Published: 01 December 1998
...-
ously wrong with contemporary philosophy and that knowledge of its true
origins either would have prevented it from going astray or will still do so.
The narrative he reconstructs is to have a remedial effect by virtue of its
truth. The living continuity of intellectual history in which Bowie...
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To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
... of linguistic and social custom perhaps accelerated-in the
aftermath of Reconstruction” (273). Cakewalking, as Sundquist insightfully
demonstrates, thus serves Chesnutt both as a central aesthetic metaphor
and as an analytic wedge into Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction
interrace relations. Studying...
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Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 285–287.
Published: 01 June 1999
... be said about later feminist reconstructions of the GDR’s literary his-
tory: they also privilege the period from 1960 to 1980 and women authors’
break with the world of patriarchal politics.
Hell criticizes both of these narratives and instead insists on the need to
include the early period...
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A Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919–1928
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 534–536.
Published: 01 December 1999
... himself. Moreover, he has produced the best-written academic
book I have read in a long while-a genuine model for writing literary his-
tory.
A [email protected] locates Murry and Eliot within the framework of the
problem of reconstruction in Britain after the First World War. Murry’s edi...
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Politics and Poetry in Restoration England: The Case of Dryden's “Annus Mirabilis”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 290–293.
Published: 01 September 1976
... of the simple world envisaged in Astraea Redux. No summary can
do justice to McKeon’s elaborate reconstruction. The result does not greatly
change our basic sense of what Annus Mirabilis is and does. Rather, one goes
back to the poem with a greatly enhanced sense of its richness in meaning
and detail...
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Meier Helmbrecht. A Poem
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 506–510.
Published: 01 December 1947
... had
given us more information about his text reconstruction. He states
that his plan was to get a text based on MS A, which he considers
(with others) more reliable than MS 23. In his introductory remarks
on text reconstruction, the editions of Haupt, Keinz, and Panzer are
mentioned...
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Mysteries' End: An Investigation of the Last Days of the Medieval Stage
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (4): 502–503.
Published: 01 December 1946
...
“will depend on F almost exclusively. It will hesitantly use Q where
F is manifestly corrupt and where F manifestly omits inadvertently;
of necessity, it will use Q where F has been cut” (p. 79). It is his
contention that Q prints a memorial reconstruction which no doubt
would transmit a less...
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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 241–245.
Published: 01 June 1995
... inspiration. Thus, post-Reconstruction domestic fictions by Frances
Watkins Harper, Pauline E:. Hopkins, Amelia E. Johnson, Emma Dunham
Kelley-Hawkins, and Katherine Tillman were not regarded by these first
readers as escapist and self-delusional or as abnegations of the crusade for
racial uplift...
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