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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (1): 66–78.
Published: 01 March 1963
...Henry Kratz Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 1 A shortened version of this paper was read at the Pacific Northwest Conference of Foreign Language Teachers in Portland, Oregon, April 14, 1962. THE SECOND SOUND SHIFT IN OLD FRANCONIAN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Paul H. Fry Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. By Susan J. Wolfson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xxii + 430 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Paul H. Fry is William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University. His most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 June 1991
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Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory. By PETERUWE
HOHENDAHL.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. 247 pp. $35.00
cloth, $10.95 paper.
In the introduction to this new volume, Peter Uwe Hohendahl acknowl-
edges that in this country the critical theory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 76–79.
Published: 01 March 1988
... to readers of theLegend and indeed of
far more accessible Chaucerian works.
SHEILADELANY
Simon Fraser University
Shifting Perspectives and the Stylish Style: Mannerism in Shakespeare and His Jaco-
bean Contemporaries. By JOHN GREENWOOD...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 277–295.
Published: 01 September 2016
... units to the forefront of research, as when early attempts to understand the cultural role of television occasioned a shift from the individual program as the primary unit of analysis to what Raymond Williams ( 1989 [1971]: 133) termed the “general flow” of programming: “the organization, the methods...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Anthony Kubiak The recent past has seen a shift away from more philosophically complex, theoretically dense approaches to literary criticism (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, phenomenology) in favor of more material or “empirical” (historiographical, historical materialist) approaches...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 151–170.
Published: 01 June 2013
...David Damrosch This essay considers the shifting valences of “world” and “literature” in the American academic context of the past half century. The first part of the essay, which takes up the debates during the 1950s and 1960s on the teaching of world literature in translation, looks particularly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2015
... extensive middle-period treatments of erotic relationships, even dramatized by the indeterminacy of Claudio and Juliet’s union in Measure for Measure . We have been dismantling this re-formation since the 1960s. In each transitional era relationship and courtship codes shifted, the boundaries between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., possible to produce an illuminating map of the field through statistical analysis of midsize, handmade data sets. On such a map one sees a striking shift in the typical temporal setting of the novel, a shift that corresponds to major rearrangements of the relation of literary commerce to literary prestige...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... By focusing less on the rumble and verve of an incipient modernism than on the creaky cadences of a realism not long for the world, we begin to discern tectonic shifts at the level of the sentence within and beyond Gissing’s late novels (and the triple-decker). Such shifts allow us to understand how...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and auctoritas . A crucial prerequisite of this evolution was the shift in the presumed medium of European rhetorical poetics, from orality to writing to print. This argument has consequences for Habermas's general account of communicative rationality and is intended to suggest an alternate theoretical framework...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 13–27.
Published: 01 March 2008
... literary and theoretical writings. By investigating the assimilation of translations into the Chinese literary canon, this essay focuses on a hybridized political and cultural discourse that marks a radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities in modern Chinese literature. The call for reshaping...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Yomi Braester The essay examines films produced during the Seventeen Years period (1949–66) and suggests that political campaigns may be akin to film genres. Insofar as generic distinctions of theme and style are produced according to the shifting interests of critics and producers, campaigns have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of primitive aesthetics identified drama as the primal art form. The definition of drama, in its newly primitivist guise, expanded to include dance, narration with gesture, and indeed ritual itself. The new attention to ritual coincided with larger shifts in anthropological methodology, captured in the turn...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 363–386.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Thomas J. Otten Ekphrasis undergoes a decisive shift in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his contemporaries. Whereas Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers (John Dryden, Alexander Pope) distinguished between verbal and visual arts through metaphors of realms...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 319–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jeffrey T. Schnapp The essay explores how literary practices of listing, cataloging, and inventorying are altered by the shift from classical, premodern, and early modern regimes of data scarcity (within which every piece of information is considered valuable a priori) to modern regimes of data...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 493–520.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to literary texts illuminates how minor language modernist writing contains a self-awareness that not only addresses a cosmopolitan audience but also preserves the contingent and shifting parameters of local linguistic communities. Allison Schachter is assistant professor in the Program in Jewish...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of African novels to realism is not simply naive. What happens when readers shift their attention away from the question of resistance that has so defined the field and ask instead: How does the novel produce its effects? Where does realism lie in this constellation of aesthetics and politics? Andrade’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (4): 517–540.
Published: 01 December 2013
...-collar workers, the essay tracks themes and formalizations of both labor and management as they continue in Ashbery’s highly experimental second book, The Tennis Court Oath (1962). In this book the standpoint of the earlier poem gives way to an explosion of shifting voices as Ashbery’s distinctive use...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 511–539.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., are read as symptomatic of a broad cultural and historical shift. While realism registers the knowability and transformability of the present, modernism captures anxiety and the disintegration of agency. As decolonizing and emancipatory hopes shrink in the Middle East, Palestinian modernism emerges...
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