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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 2018
... on “the aestheticization of violence” and “transgressive sanctity” (5, 3), Gould offers an excellent reminder of the deep history of Muslim insurgency in the Caucasus, the complexity of that history, and its influence on non-Muslim countries, such as Georgia. As Gould describes it, Russian colonial violence gives rise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1965
... and the sense of sanctification at the end. Yet his very last sentence is much too literal in referring to the conclusion as “a scene not of triumph but of abject dissolution.” One asks, what of the promise of Arthur’s healing, what of Guinevere’s death, of Lancelot’s in the odor of sanctity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 234–236.
Published: 01 June 1968
..., the social hierarchy, the school, the sanctity of property, the building of fortunes, the probing of roots, the return to “Our Old Home.” These have easily provided motivation as powerful for the American imagination as has “The Garden of the West.” Mr. Guttmann (or someone else), please write...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 232–234.
Published: 01 June 1968
... be done. From Cooper and Irving to Faulkner and Eliot, the controlling theme of American literature has been the search for “a usable past”-the house, the Church, the social hierarchy, the school, the sanctity of property, the building of fortunes, the probing of roots, the return to “Our Old...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 1949
... account of the divers factors in what seems to be an Ovidian allegorical reminiscence in Paradise Lost is the attribution of the picture of Adam “endu’d With Sanctity of Reason,” “erect Stature, and upright with Front serene,” to Ovid’s account of man’s creation, when Prometheus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 144–147.
Published: 01 March 1941
... the sanctity of hierarchy “can be appreciated by the modern reader only when he recalls the very real horror with which Renaissance writers regarded the pre-social state of disorder and bestiality.” Shakespeare’s three expansive assertions of state policy, pre- viously mentioned as quoted by Mr...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 196–199.
Published: 01 June 1981
... for deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot. The effects of this plan worked in both directions, “transferring even some of the sanctity of the Book of Common Prayer onto Keble’s volume” while serving “to renew attention to the Prayer Book itself and to the liturgical year, both of which became hallmarks...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 475–479.
Published: 01 December 1940
...-garden, hence the possible analogy to wild-cats in the kitchen. Arden ed. 11, i, 112 gives Johnson’s interpretation, “. . . you do malicious acts with an air of sanctity.” This corresponds to Nevizzano’s amplification of saticte in ecclesia. ‘?This phrase from The Arte of English...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 September 1966
... better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity Till all his Greek and Latin learning seemed A long blast upon the horn that brought A little nearer to his thought A measureless...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 1994
..., sensing that sanctity is something created by his own love, challenges even this convention. Hallam has sanctity because Ten- 16 MLQI March 1994 nyson still loves him and uses his friend to look “behind the veil” in a final push past the mysta’um trdum...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 334–338.
Published: 01 June 1965
... and the sense of sanctification at the end. Yet his very last sentence is much too literal in referring to the conclusion as “a scene not of triumph but of abject dissolution.” One asks, what of the promise of Arthur’s healing, what of Guinevere’s death, of Lancelot’s in the odor of sanctity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 451–477.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., The New Prose Bath Guide (London, 1778), 85. Wood Anna Seward and the Handelian Consensus 463 courage every violation of the sanctities of Society.”26 This is not an apolitical manifesto but a critique of factional politics. Lady Miller’s sociable ethos belongs to an eighteenth-century...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 343–348.
Published: 01 December 1954
... of realism. No- where was there less inclination for conservative critics to compromise than in surrendering the purity of woman and the sanctity of marriage to the irreverent treatment of realistic fiction. Their stubborn resist- ance against the advance of realism on this particular front...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 146–151.
Published: 01 June 1948
.... And so we all stood under its naked, incontrovertible, and gloomy sanctity.6 The life of Max Pinkus had its unhappy side, but he embodied in no small degree the best qualities and traditions, the greatest achieve- ments and services, of German Jewry. Gerhart Hauptmann’s play...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 167–196.
Published: 01 June 2002
... across the bosom lies— That rose, and now forgets to rise, Subdued by breathless harmonies Of meditative feeling; Mute strains from worlds beyond the skies, Through the pure light of female eyes, Their sanctity revealing! Two or three antecedents for that last line’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (2): 156–171.
Published: 01 June 1972
... fantasy decrees” (38). The meditation theti results in an explicit act of naming, conferring an identity on him- self and 011 the society represented by the house: We were the last romantics-chose fbr theme ‘Ivraditional sanctity ant1 loveliness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 337–352.
Published: 01 September 1951
..., and reason, practically ignoring grace and the boundless exigencies of sanctity. With Guillaume Bud6 they consider the transi- tion from Hellenism to Christianity (De transitu hellenismi ad christiunismum, 1534) a rather smooth process, interpret the lore of Christ as a docta religio...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (2): 144–150.
Published: 01 June 1963
... to advance the doctrine that the traditions of the Church have as much sanctity as do the Scriptures. The traditions we keep, says More, are the traditions of the apostles, “For which saynte Paule sayth: Ego enim accepi a domino quod & tradidi vobis, For I haue receiued yt thyng of our Lord...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 421–441.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to refute. Whereas Waller’s Charles plays God by letting the Thames and the sea beyond it into his new Eden of St. James’s Park, Milton’s God sends the real Eden downriver into the salt waves To teach thee that God attributes to place No sanctity, if none be thither brought By men who there frequent...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 46–52.
Published: 01 March 1962
... horn Roland meant no more than he did in calling Turpin a chevaler de bon aire (2252), for Roland is more impressed by the archbishop’s prowess and social status than by his sanctity or meekness. Roland is alluding directly to Turpin’s birth, rather than to any Christian or Stoic virtues...