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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 3. Detail showing the Clyde and the Forth dividing Britain (left) and Hadrian’s Wall (right). Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gough Gen. Top. 16. Courtesy of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
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in War and the Domestic Interior: Pater, Curtius, and Praz in the House of Life
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Published: 01 June 2017
Figure 13. Giuseppe Molteni, An Old Man Showing a Little Girl a Bust of the Duchess Marie Louise , 1830 (Praz 1971 : 223)
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 81–117.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., Jarrell’s underestimated and enduring creative debt to T. S. Eliot by reconstructing, for the first time, a book-length essay that he planned to write about Eliot but abandoned. The article shows that Jarrell regarded Eliot’s work as the result of a psychological struggle with “obsessional neurosis...
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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 1. Vertebrate endoskeletons. Plate 1 of Owen 1849 : 120. Owen’s vertebrate archetype is illustrated at the top right; the rest of the plate shows, Owen explains, “the modifications of [the archetype] characteristic of the four great divisions of the vertebrate subkingdom, viz. fishes
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and evanescent. This alternative Ovidian scenario offers a model of lyric that capitalizes on the brief resonance that the female voice acquires at the point of vanishing. By deploying it in her song, Wroth not only rewrites Petrarch through Ovid in order to articulate a gendered lyric voice but shows herself...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of historical narration. This recuperation of his persona intervenes in an ongoing dispute in the field of historical poetics about the value of formalism and cognitivism. The essay aims to show that the concept of thinking in verse is valuable where it has been least applied: in reclaiming the value...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of the nineteenth century shows that the novels and stories alone did not bring about a widespread shift in English prose style. Before such a transformation could happen, his theoretical statements about style in the correspondence needed to be shared with and interpreted for a new audience. Flaubert’s fiction did...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 September 2020
... shows how this tragicomic paradigm functions in the theater—and how it inspires future dramatists. Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Samuel Beckett tragicomedy Waiting for Godot theater philosophy In her epigraph on Beckett’s humor, Laura Salisbury ( 2012 : 3...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 419–440.
Published: 01 December 2020
... events. Similarly, Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte famously uses literary and theatrical tropes to explain the same events as Flaubert as they unfolded. Both Flaubert and Marx show us that literary form (irony, farce, attention to linguistic repetition) participates in the politicization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (4): 491–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Victorian statistical innovations that remain central to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) today. Doyle’s generically split novella shows that the charismatic detective who dominates its first part is the merely partial virtuoso of a limited form. As such, A Study in Scarlet invites us...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 27–53.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... The essay’s conclusion compares Herbert’s poem with another strange praise poem, Paul Celan’s “Psalm.” The essay claims that if Cavell sees praise as signaling a triumph over doubt, “The Flower” shows, as only verse can, how praise and doubt accompany each other, using doubt to keep praise at a distance from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... reviews the role of magic in similar episodes to show the enormity of Spenser’s seemingly conservative storytelling. It also defends Spenser’s hero from charges of intemperance and immaturity. The question of intemperance stems from misunderstanding Aristotle. That of immaturity is more complicated...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 417–440.
Published: 01 December 2021
... intersected during the Revolution and shows how radicalized versions of Voltaire’s Roman-themed tragedies and Afro-Caribbean mythology and rituals played a prominent part in the fight for equality. References Ardouin Beaubrun . 1853–60 . Études sur l’histoire d’Haïti, suivies de la vie du général...
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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 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of “orality” in tandem with new techniques for transcribing sound, to twentieth-century literary scholars’ extensive experiments with film and video as novel pedagogical aids. Along with the contributions to this special issue, this introduction shows that revisiting the false starts and dead ends of media...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2024
... without God is summed up in the strikingly Hobbesian chiasmus “Lacking the might to compel obedience to right, we’ve made it right to compel obedience to might.” However, Pascal turns demoralizing insights like this to apologetic purposes by showing how they’re the natural effect of a lack of specifically...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (3): 373–393.
Published: 01 September 2017
... culmination and inaugural disruption. In Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained the phrase much revolving becomes iconic of revolution as period-defining movement. Milton’s characters pivot, roll, twist, contort, resist, and return. In doing so, they show, and not simply describe, the lived experience...
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A (Meta)commentary on Western Literary Theories in China: The Case of Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Liu Kang Abstract This essay takes Fredric Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism as a case in point to illustrate the Chinese anxiety of influence with Western theory and the battle between (Western) universalism and Chinese exceptionalism. Chinese Jamesonism shows how an eclectic American neo-Marxist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 421–444.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and the novelist and playwright Marie NDiaye. These thinkers embrace heartsickness as a state of exposure that unsettles discourses of philosophical mastery and practices of social refinement. The essay thus shows that the language of disgust is not necessarily reactionary...
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