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Paul Claudel and the Sensory Paradox
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 267–272.
Published: 01 September 1959
...Harold A. Waters © 1959 University of Washington 1959 PAUL CLAUDEL AND THE SENSORY PARADOX
By HAROLDA. WATERS
In the theater and poetry of Paul Claude1 there are so many state-
ments and situations that seem to go against...
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Jovial Fanatics: Hume, Warton, Cowper
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 1998
... beliefs that are ordinary (dependent on sensory input) and
those that are visionary (achieved without it) (123).6 His journey has
taken him deep into the epistemology of poetic forms, and his jaunti-
ness has been tempered by episodes of delusional melancholy in his
writing closet. Hume’s...
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Consciousness in the Monologues of Ulysses
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 March 1963
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of consciousness by a stratagem which Lawrence Bowling has called
“sensory impression.”6 When using this device, the author simply
lists the objects of sensation, imagination, or memory as the character
becomes aware of them, with nouns signifying motionless objects, and
participles added to indicate...
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The Last European: Erich Auerbach as Precursor in the History of Cultural Criticism
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 371–391.
Published: 01 September 1993
... is closely tied
to the philosophical idea of qualia, sensory data or feelings distinctive
to the point of uniqueness. The specific way chicory tastes to individu-
als, for example, will never be exactly the same, but the difference is so
fine that it cannot be rendered in the shared medium...
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Romantic Sobriety
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 469–493.
Published: 01 December 1999
... the
“colours” and “forms” of mountain and woods as an “appetite,” this
remembered younger self connects the state of childhood to one of
sensory diversion, hallucination, and overload. Of course, the present
narrator recognizes his distance from that former epistemological
state-the “coarser pleasures...
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Words and “Languageless” Meanings: Limits of Expression in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 1977
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resorts to two modes of language which, though mixing with each
other, remain relatively distinct. When he is deeply immersed in his
past and oblivious to his auditor, he speaks in a language that is pri-
marily sensorial and concrete. Objects and actions are named as they
52...
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Close Reading/Mass Media: I. A. Richards’s Screen Tests
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., juxtaposition, synchronization, and sequencing. Grammatical and syntactic distinctions introduced at the level of the spoken phrases are elucidated through the images and reinforced as text. Viewers can read, watch, and hear the meanings of the phrases simultaneously, yielding a layered sensory approach...
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Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis and the Value of Scale
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 2016
... historical forces that structure everyday life are not visible as such, Auerbach valorizes texts that “embed” inner events “in concrete contemporary reality” (72). This is where description comes in, but Auerbach praises the sensory, the visual, the graphic, the random, the particular, and the concrete only...
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Containing the Unnamable
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2023
... defined alpha function as the unconscious ego activity devoted to converting sensory experience into emotional experience—transforming the purely sensorial to the point that it reaches the category of the experiential, where it can then be addressed in thought and language (Brown 2012 : 1201). Bion...
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Deciphering the Middle English Narrative Poem Two Approaches 1
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 395–403.
Published: 01 December 1984
... Auerbach and D. W.
Robertson to the criticism of medieval literature.
The argument of Style and Consciousness starts from the medieval
distinction between an absolute standard (or realm) of truth, or-
dained by God and accessible to faith and reason, and the muddled,
illusory world of sensory...
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The Limits of the Intellect Housman's Name and Nature of Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 March 1971
... of such an undertaking, however, is the
loss of the sensory experience, the deadening of the sensibilities, which
“Against Interpretation,” Against Interpretation and Other Essays (New York, 1961), p. 7.
Housman saw as having taken place in the eighteenth century and
which Sontag sees taking place...
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Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (4): 521–525.
Published: 01 December 1999
... the traditional, the sensory, the bodily, and their frequent
symbolic epitome, the “feminine.” The chapter on Herbert is especially sen-
sitive and compelling in its account of these tensions, but Guibbory’s read-
ing of Browne reveals a certain conceptual turbulence and anxiety refresh-
ingly at odds...
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Skullduggery: Goethe and Oken, Natural Philosophy and Freedom of the Press
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 231–259.
Published: 01 June 1998
... every-
thing else, in which the electrical, chemical, or magnetic properties of
the earth recur in the sensory equipment of the human being, who,
consequently, is but an abbreviated earth, and the earth nothing but a
drawn-out human being. These chains of analogies often read like the
memoirs...
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One Relation of Rhyme to Reason Alexander Pope
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 September 1944
... irrelevant performance, but in virtue of a studiously and
accurately alogical character by which it imposes upon the meaning
a counterpattern and acts as a fixative or preservative of the sensory
1 Cf. notes 15 and 58.
2The most formal statement seems to be that of J. S. Schiitze, Versuch...
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Sexual Disguise in Cymbeline
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 231–247.
Published: 01 September 1980
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the way others perceive her, but the way she herself perceives. In the
scenes where Imogen is in disguise, the characters’ understanding of
the underlying relationships comes, not from sensory perception and
reasoning, but from intuition of a more irrational, mysterious kind. In-
deed...
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Conrad's Revisions of the Secret Agent a Study in Literary Impressionism
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 244–254.
Published: 01 September 1958
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* The Novel and the Modern World (Chicago, 1947), p. 53.
0 Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus, p. vii.
250 Conrad’s Revisions of ‘The Secret Agent’
tion but with impressionistic description. The details are not hap-
hazard “moods” ; they are carefully selected sensory impressions...
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Unfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 532–537.
Published: 01 December 2021
... broadly, the opposition between world and mind, outside and inside, starts to break down” (30). On its way down it meets another empirical philosopher, also a Christian, who tried to become the first neuroscientist, describing what Locke could only hint at—a real account of how the brain’s sensory inlets...
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The Mysticism of Amado Nervo and Maeterlinck
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 131–140.
Published: 01 June 1949
... in the world about him, learned
what he could from the natural scientists, and made his own careful
observations. Deeper than his interest in the physical world was his
interest in man’s moral and religious problems; for the solution of
these his sensory and reasoning faculties were of no avail...
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The Enjoyment of the Arts
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 502–503.
Published: 01 December 1945
... for different grades
of “sensory equipment,” but aoes not permit any belittling of the
person who happens to be poorly endowed in that respect. Thus a
kind of Bill of Rights is established for the spectator. Some of the
writers, however, leave one with the feeling that they believe theo-
retically...
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Frank Norris: A Study
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 246–247.
Published: 01 June 1944
..., to say that Dick-
ens is often worse.
After comment on Norris’ well-known predilection for vastness
and superlatives, for sensory vividness of diction and prodigal opu-
lence of imagery, Professor Marchand reviews Norris’ reputation.
This chapter, together with the first, virtually...
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