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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 387–390.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Robert Appelbaum Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton . By Benedict S. Robinson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xi + 236 pp. University of Washington 2009 Robert Appelbaum is senior lecturer in Renaissance studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (4): 385–405.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Daniel Javitch This essay challenges the view that the last part of Orlando furioso takes an “epic” turn and abandons many of the “romance” features that characterize its first half. The essay does so by considering (1) the anachronism of projecting onto the Furioso a desire on Ariosto's part...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (1): 124–127.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Elizabeth Freeman Everybody's Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America . By Gillian Harkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xx + 316 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Elizabeth Freeman is professor of English at the University of California...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 309–328.
Published: 01 September 2012
... that what might seem conceptual separations (romance/realism or realism/modernism) were complicated by the terms of the colonial cultural and literary relationship itself — by the encounter between forms codified in Europe and the incomplete colonial project. Colonized writers needed an aesthetic ideology...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: Diaspora and Black Techno-Poetics . Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature . By Goyal Yogita . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . ix + 277 pp. © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reviews Chance and the Eighteenth-­Century Novel: Realism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (1): 119–124.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Bruce Holsinger Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain . By Patricia Clare Ingham. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. vi + 288 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Bruce Holsinger is associate professor of English at the University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (4): 465–467.
Published: 01 December 1953
... was not only, as has so often been said, “a martyr of free thought,” but the creator of poetry of subtle and cameo-like beauty. JOHN C. LAPP Oberlin College Tlze Mirror of Love: A Reinterpretafion of The Romance of the Rose.” By ALANM...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (3): 341–361.
Published: 01 September 1990
...Mary Hamel Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 ∗ A shorter version of this paper was read at the 16th International Arthurian Congress, Durham, England, 17 August 1990. ARTHURIAN ROMANCE IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY LINDSEY THE BOOKS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 427–430.
Published: 01 September 1993
... and, in the process, map the terrain of our profession. Seth Lerer The Art of Medieval French Romance. By Douglas Kelly. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.471 pp. $65.00. Douglas Kelly’s new book will prove useful to specialists...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 345–382.
Published: 01 December 1994
... and precapitalist household. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: Romance, Anthropology, and Literary Theory Vincent P. Pecora This small mystical elite not only directs the community’s religious life but, as it were, guards its “soul.” The shaman is the great specialist in the human...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 145–166.
Published: 01 June 1995
... romanticism and the institutions of cultural transmission. Godwin and the Republican Romance: Genre, Politics, and Contingency in Cultural History Jon Klancher [The] "possible" is, so to speak, a "gentrified," pacified contingency, a contin- gency...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 455–458.
Published: 01 December 1994
...Gordon Braden Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp. $53.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic Romance: Homer to Milton. By Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp- $53.00. Burrow’s subtitle has an old-fashioned sound, though...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (4): 605–631.
Published: 01 December 1996
... translation of Emilio Betti's General Theory of Hermeneutics is forthcoming, and she is presently at work on Dante's Manhood and Boccaccio's Money: Banking and Sexuality in the Later Middle Ages . Trial Tmcript, Romance, Propaganda: Joan of Arc and the French Body Politic Barbara...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 341–353.
Published: 01 June 1996
...José E. Limón © 1996 University of Washington 1996 Mexicans, Foundational Fictions, and the United States: Caballero, a Late Border Romance Jose E. Lim6n n the nineteenth century the romance novel became a socially sig- Inificant literary presence in Latin America...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 276–278.
Published: 01 June 1998
...Ian Duncan David H. Richter. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996. xii + 242 pp. $39.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 276 MLQI June 1998 The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 295–319.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Elizabeth A. Spiller Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Cervantes avant la Lettre: The Material Transformation of Romance Reading Culture in Don Quijote Elizabeth A. Spiller f Don Qugote as a whole narrates the literary-historical transforma- Ition...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 118–124.
Published: 01 June 1954
...Thomas P. Haviland © 1954 University of Washington 1954 ELKANAH SETTLE AND THE LEAST HEROIC ROMANCE By THOMASP. HAVILAND Of those heroic romances at once the delight and guide of circles prkcieuses, not only in their native France but in seventeenth-century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 197–211.
Published: 01 June 1966
...Charles A. Berst Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 ROMANCE AND REALITY IN ARMS AND THE MAN By CHARLESA. BERST The tightly knit humor of incident and character in Arms and the Man has tended to obscure the more inclusive range...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 419–422.
Published: 01 December 1983
...Janet Jesmok Ness Ihle Sandra. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. xii + 199 pp. $22.50. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 REVIEWS Malory’s Grail Quest: Inuention and Adaptation in Medieual Prose Romance. By SANDRANESS IHLE...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (3): 308–311.
Published: 01 September 1984
.... JAMESGINDIN University of Michigan Elepac Romance: Cultural Change and Loss of the Hero in Modern Fiction. By KENNETHA. BRUFFEE.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. 230 pp. $19.95. In a brief but intensive demonstration, Elegzac Romance develops a striking...