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A Response by Timothy J. Reiss

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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 404–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-54-3-404
Published: 01 September 1993
..., 19753,387). Reiss I Response 405 way, and such legitimation entangles politics, ethics, epistemology, aes- thetics, and much more besides, in a particular (European) history. The term maning stresses-expresses-the fact that when we nowa- days (still...
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A Response by Anthony J. Cascardi

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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 414–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-54-3-414
Published: 01 September 1993
... simply to “historicize” modernity, thereby missing at least half of its main points. The theo- retical work that leads to an informed and responsible politics is ignored. Moreover, Reiss approaches history with an agenda that is nei- ther theoretically nor historically, nor even politically...
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Historical Poetics and the Dream of Interpretation: A Response to Paul Fry

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Virginia Jackson
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 289–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8351520
Published: 01 September 2020
...Virginia Jackson Abstract As a response to Paul Fry’s essay “The New Metacriticisms and the Fate of Interpretation,” this essay asks a few questions: (1) Isn’t “metacriticism” what the twentieth century meant by literary criticism? (2) Why is modern literary criticism so defensive when it comes...
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“Feminism in Time”: A Response

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Jonathan Culler
Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 177–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-65-1-177
Published: 01 March 2004
... (1988), Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997), and other works of literary theory and criticism. He is at work on books on Baudelaire and on the theory of the lyric. “Feminism in Time”: A Response Jonathan Culler collection of essays on feminism in time promises an account...
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Literature and Responsibility: The French Novelist in the Twentieth Century

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Hazel E. Barnes
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 519–520.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-31-4-519
Published: 01 December 1970
... of the responsibility of the novelist was to ask to what degree he was morally obligated, even in his fiction, to commit him- self on con temporary issues. Keck argues that this narrow concept of what a writer owes to his society has resulted in inadequate and faulty appraisals of the genuine worth...
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A New Look at Howells's A Fearful Responsibility

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ALLEN F. STEIN
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 121–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-39-2-121
Published: 01 June 1978
...ALLEN F. STEIN Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 A NEW LOOK AT HOWELLS’S A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY By ALLENF. STEIN When discussed at all, William Dean Howells’s short novel A Fear- ful Responsibility...
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The Sword of the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible

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Ilona Bell
Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 90–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-42-1-90
Published: 01 March 1981
..., this book demonstrates the inadequacy of the critic as would-be poet. HELENVENDLER Boston University The Sword of the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible. By JOHN R. KNOTT, JR. Chi- cago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. ix...
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The London Muse: Victorian Pietic Responses to the City

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G. B. Tennyson
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (2): 215–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-44-2-215
Published: 01 June 1983
... The London Muse: Victorian Poelic Responses to the City. By WILLIAMB. THES- ING. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. xviii + 230 pp. $20.00. Of the unearthing of “traditions” and “themes” in the literature of earlier periods there is no end. To his credit, William Thesing in The London...
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Taking Responsibility in Desire and Domestic Fiction

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Rachel Ablow
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 7–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7247217
Published: 01 March 2019
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Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics

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Marc Redfield
Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 288–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-60-2-288
Published: 01 June 1999
...Marc Redfield Keenan Thomas. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. xii + 251 pp. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 288 MLQ IJune 1999 Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations...
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Milton, Waller, and the Fate of Eden

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David Quint
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3898268
Published: 01 September 2017
...David Quint Abstract Milton shapes his depiction of Eden in Paradise Lost as a response to Edmund Waller’s On St. James’s Park , a celebrated poem of the Restoration. Waller’s description of the royal park, newly improved by Charles II—a a new Eden, a sacred, oracular grove next to the temple-like...
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Form and History: Reading as an Aesthetic Experience and Historical Act

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Paul B. Armstrong
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 195–219.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2007-032
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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How to Live with the Infinite Regress of Strong Misreading

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Paul H. Fry
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 437–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2008-011
Published: 01 December 2008
... for this widespread response to Bloom—and to Eliot—is that although Bloom is as authentic a historian of literature as Hans-Georg Gadamer, as the late Russian formalists (e.g., Jurij Tynjanov), or as Hans Robert Jauss, he shares with all these figures a sense of a fundamental and unchanging intertextual dynamic...
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Against the Bildungsroman

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Ian Duncan
Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 13–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7247230
Published: 01 March 2019
... stages occupied by the story’s women. In a militant response, Germaine de Staël’s Corinne refeminizes the novelistic protagonist, investing the role with the developmental imperative of Bildung and the claim on universal human representativeness, realized through the heroine’s artistic vocation. Corinne...
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Robert Lowth’s Bible: Between Seraphic Choirs and Prophetic Weakness

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Yosefa Raz
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8151546
Published: 01 June 2020
... poetry, which he imagined as originating in the responsive singing of the seraphim. At a time when the divine authority of the Bible was waning, the reclassification of large swaths of prophecy as poetry helped Lowth extol the human figure of the prophet as a literary genius. Lowth idealized...
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The Age of the Author: Print and Precocity in the English Renaissance

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Julianne Werlin
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 303–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9791003
Published: 01 September 2022
... of debut authorship, adding concrete detail to the much-discussed association between youth and literature in this era. It also shows how ideals such as precocity and categories such as juvenilia arose in response to the new possibilities and problems opened by dated publication. [email protected]...
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Extinction Panic: C. S. Lewis and Planetary Nihilism

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Tyler Austin Harper
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 27–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10189315
Published: 01 March 2023
... developments with a wary eye, a young C. S. Lewis was increasingly skeptical of both the “extinction panic” that gripped his contemporaries and the utilitarian and environmentally exploitative imagination of planetary conquest they championed. In response Lewis penned Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel...
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In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn

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Alex Eric Hernandez
Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10088705
Published: 01 December 2022
... of contemporary devotional readings centered on Jane Austen’s oeuvre, it asks how literary criticism might productively read the long-standing entanglement of Austen studies with practices typically dismissed as problematically cultic, religious, or spiritually syncretic. In response to this, the essay places...
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Two Gardens: An Experiment in Calamity Form

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Anahid Nersessian
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2153482
Published: 01 September 2013
...Anahid Nersessian Recent calls to understand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry as a response to deteriorating environmental conditions insist on a problematic continuity between our own time and the time of Romanticism. This essay explores the aesthetic and ethical possibilities...
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Judging, Inevitably: Aesthetic Judgment and Novelistic Form in Fielding’s Joseph Andrews

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Vivasvan Soni
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 159–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2865008
Published: 01 June 2015
... for the advent of a commercial modernity that renders judgment all but obsolete. Refusing the sentimental (Richardsonian) and aesthetic (Shaftesburian) responses to this social theory as also complicit in the elision of judgment, Fielding works to transform the emerging novel into a narrative and aesthetic form...
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