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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 288–290.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2019
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 121–131.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (4): 519–520.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 289–318.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 404–408.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 414–418.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 90–93.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (2): 215–217.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... 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. © 2004 University of Washington 2004 “Feminism in Time”: A Response
Jonathan Culler
collection of essays on feminism in time promises an account...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (3): 303–334.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 27–51.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 13–19.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (3): 307–329.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 493–516.
Published: 01 December 2013
...David L. Sedley This article interprets Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves as a response to Blaise Pascal’s arithmetic triangle. Pascal used the numbers of the triangle to determine how to divide fairly the stakes of an interrupted game of chance. He called his method “the geometry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 459–486.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Sarah Wilson This essay traces the ideas underlying Jane Addams’s theory of cosmopolitanism from a variety of her early works. In these works Addams meditates on the generosity of industrial-era laborers to imagine relations of social responsibility that extend beyond familiar ties; she appreciates...
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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 (2008) 69 (4): 437–459.
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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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 159–180.
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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