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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the dramatic debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson in 1922 and a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s experiments with the relationality of space and time in her fiction. Multidimensional, layered, and disjunctive concepts of time are better suited for the study of planetary modernisms that incorporate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 207–238.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of character as an aesthetic form. Character-details beckon for queer uptake , or the recirculation of character-details into contexts, genres, and media to unlock new narrative trajectories for queerness. Character-details thus highlight the promiscuously queer relationality of character as an aesthetic form...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 3. The minor characters of Pregnant Butch respond to their representation within the text, highlighting the affective and temporal relationalities that shape queer character. Illustration from A. K. Summers, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag . Copyright © 2014 by A. K
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 441–464.
Published: 01 December 2020
... circuitry of literature, especially if we are to establish its specific literary provenance and rescue it from reductionist neomaterialist readings” (78). She understands world literature through its ambition to break open new forms of relationality and ethical being, to go beyond “this enlarged material...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 81–116.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., the opacity of our primary relationality. As Judith Butler ( 2005 : 20) puts it, “If we are formed in the context of relations that become partially irrecoverable to us, then that opacity seems built into our formation and follows from our status as beings who are formed in relations of dependency.” We know...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 329–331.
Published: 01 September 1945
... uns ins Gesicht gekommen ware die schone
Insel von S. Helena, welche man mit Recht nennen konte das irrdische Para-
* Zur Seltzamen Traumgeschicht, Euphorion, Siebzehntes Erganzungsheft
[Grimmelshausen], 1924, pp. 97-99.
6 1594-1664.
6 E. W. Happel, Relationes curiosae, 1682.
7...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2003
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and matter for imitation, with starting points for their own innovations
and transformations of received material.
However, generic systems do not, as some structuralists have implied,
map essential and immutable kinds of writing. Rather, generic differ-
ences are established relationally, and a given...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the complexity of the object of knowledge.’” Arguing that practices of comparison reaffirm putative human hierarchies, Weheliye proposes relationality—“novel assemblages of relation”—as an alternative structuring logic and language (13). A resonant proposition appears in Jasbir K. Puar’s theorization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
... relationality of its particulars. The overall form of totality is never fixed but evolves as its particulars interact with and negate each other. What are the particulars that produce literary totality? If the answer seems straightforward—literary objects—we will see that there are as many notions of literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (3): 329–340.
Published: 01 September 2004
... the crucial moments of rupture, for instance, the “originary”
moment of 1492, realign these times in their relationality? What should
be included and excluded from the postcolonial as it is set within and
“after” the variegated temporality of colonialism? As Robert Markley
points out in this issue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 481–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., the deceased parents, the watchful ghosts—who meaningfully relate individuals to human history and divine reality. When we merge Orsi’s focus on religion as sacred relationality with Hervieu-Léger’s claim that religion resides in collective memory, these complementary synchronic and diachronic perspectives...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 191–207.
Published: 01 June 1991
... requisite omnidirectional exchange and growth.
Isabel opposes this analysis of human relationality, but the conversa-
tion’s end implies not only that the “cluster of appurtenances” making
up a person is economic but that Isabel, despite resisting these larger
symbolic discourses posed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
...,
are typically relational in that they define themselves against other gen-
res; in the country house poem, this relationality is often manifest in
the significance of what is not written, the alternative genre toward
which the text gestures. In particular, as James Grantham Turner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 367–371.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be
another mark of the book’s breadth and strength. One of its chief prem-
ises, for instance, concerns “the erosion of associational life in the United
States” (299): “the death of social relations” (40), “the denigration of the
unprecedented” (256) in the realm of relationality, and the subsequently...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 371–373.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be
another mark of the book’s breadth and strength. One of its chief prem-
ises, for instance, concerns “the erosion of associational life in the United
States” (299): “the death of social relations” (40), “the denigration of the
unprecedented” (256) in the realm of relationality, and the subsequently...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 374–376.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be
another mark of the book’s breadth and strength. One of its chief prem-
ises, for instance, concerns “the erosion of associational life in the United
States” (299): “the death of social relations” (40), “the denigration of the
unprecedented” (256) in the realm of relationality, and the subsequently...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be
another mark of the book’s breadth and strength. One of its chief prem-
ises, for instance, concerns “the erosion of associational life in the United
States” (299): “the death of social relations” (40), “the denigration of the
unprecedented” (256) in the realm of relationality, and the subsequently...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 380–384.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to be
another mark of the book’s breadth and strength. One of its chief prem-
ises, for instance, concerns “the erosion of associational life in the United
States” (299): “the death of social relations” (40), “the denigration of the
unprecedented” (256) in the realm of relationality, and the subsequently...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and the pragmatic virtue of intersectional analysis? Part of
the raison d’être for this special issue is to press the possible advantage
of peripherality for thinking relationally across different kinds of sub-
ordinated positions on different scales. We have chosen...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 351–372.
Published: 01 September 2012
...
but denies poetic catharsis. The bodies are reduced to things, objects
of halfhearted investigation emptied of human personality; the causes
of the women’s deaths remain incomprehensible, since they are not
understood relationally. Even the general description...
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