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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 439–445.
Published: 01 September 1969
... action as
freedom. The Sartrean counterpoint almost systematically refuses any
resolution. Contradictions, issueless situations, fatal dilemmas-these
are stressed with untiring inventiveness. No quarter is given OUT
natural tendency to settle into the comforts of bad faith and to seek
alibis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 388–400.
Published: 01 September 1965
...Robert A. Erickson Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 SITUATIONS OF IDENTITY IN THE
MEMOIRS OF MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS
By ROBERTA. ERICKSON
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, as Charles Kerby-Miller has
shown...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 289–318.
Published: 01 September 2020
... to lyric poetry? (3) What happens when the historical situation of a lyric literalizes apostrophic address? The answer to the first of these questions is yes. The answer to the second question depends on the critic, but this essay points out that defenses of lyric began in the early nineteenth century, so...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 123–149.
Published: 01 June 2024
... action to lyric power, Lear’s speech renders the ability and willingness to understand one’s situation, and to act efficaciously in that situation, irrelevant to accessing what is beautiful and true. Shakespeare thus separates the question of mental capacity from that of felicitous choice. The irony...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 129–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... almost exclusively of contributions from Hispanic authors and artists, and exported to its readers—suggest a Spanish American literary landscape built on an allegorical appropriation of Paris. By physically and discursively situating Paris as the nodal point for literature and art made in and destined...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 461–492.
Published: 01 December 2011
... expectations and desires of readers to whom the gestures were addressed. It argues that if the aristocratic airs adopted by writers situate them squarely in the Old Regime, the readerly practices to which they appealed (and which they in turn shaped)—individualized and moralized as well as commercialized—might...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 493–520.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Allison Schachter By focusing on what Michael Silverstein calls nonreferential indexicality—those “features of speech independent of any referential speech event” that point to the “sociological relations of personae in the speech situation” and “accomplish socially constituted ends”—this essay...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 201–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
... . Serial forms synchronize naturalist representation through a slow temporality that enables viewers and characters to share a deferred longing for the social transformations once symbolized by the 1960s. Mad Men ’s objective situation is today’s neoliberal condition, connected to the longue durée...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Gerald L. Bruns This essay attempts to situate Samuel Beckett’s fiction in the Parisian intellectual and literary milieu of Maurice Blanchot, particularly with respect to the experience of the materiality of language and the double bind of writing in which—as Blanchot wrote in Faux pas (1943...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 369–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of information selection, historical contextualization, and epistemological configuration, this essay discusses the merits and limitations of the three analytic perspectives and proposes the paradigmatic image of the constellation to situate Hong Kong literary history more suitably in the multiple dimensions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 165–190.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Mark Gamsa Abstract Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Letters from the Ming Dynasty” (1977) stands out among his work for its prominent Chinese theme. This essay considers the poem against the background of some distant European precedents in order to situate it in the history of world literature. It explains...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... an interest in persons, situations, and worlds imagined at a level of detail and complexity well beyond the fictional placeholders other disciplines employ in their thought experiments. This raises ethical and ontological questions about the “reality” of our objects of study. Dominant Western epistemological...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... social situation. Drawing on recent work on the politics of style, this essay argues that Gissing’s narrative style is best understood in terms of two motivating forces powerfully at work in late nineteenth-century Britain: an ascendant popular culture and the massive expansion of the imperial regime...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 443–464.
Published: 01 December 2023
... renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s visionary summa, Scivias . This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 291–300.
Published: 01 December 1960
... for what it is worth.
The debt is in respect to some of the situations in The Rivals; the
creditor is Smollett ; and the correspondences are sometimes indeed
very close. Lydia Languish’s circulating library had a copy of Hum-
phry Clinker, and it seems that Sheridan’s personal library...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 283–291.
Published: 01 September 1961
... to avoid all his life: the “Hell”
of ultimate and painful self-discernment beyond the crumbling walls
of artfully constructed rationalizations.
And since Sartre is careful to point out that we are dealing with a
“theatre of situation” rather than the former type of “theatre of ‘char-
acters...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (3): 407–415.
Published: 01 September 1942
... drama In a Balcony as well as the interpretation of it. In
1940 I had written of it as follows, at the conclusion of a discus-
sion of the tragic situation, involving conventions or postulates, in
both the Edipus Tyrannus and Othello:
Browning the psychologist, the impressionist before...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 146–150.
Published: 01 June 1947
... to the composition of The Generall
Boyle had employed situations strongly reminiscent of Romeo and
Juliet in his imitation heroico-historical romance Parthenism, and
that one of those situations parallels in detail a key situation in The
Generall.
Artabanes, the hero of Parthenism, like Romeo, fights...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 137–157.
Published: 01 June 2015
... simple: through this type of character (and through this variant form of the historical novel) we gain access to a form of “experiencing” the nondisjunctive plurality of human life across those multiple forms of existence collectively constituting the situation and the problem of being in our times...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 475–485.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., was the oppo-
site of the situation of the Greeks, who found themselves obliged to
draw abstractions and general ideas out of the mass of particulars and
the pensée sauvage of their everyday life: we ourselves are, on the other
hand, drowning in abstractions of all kinds, the accumulation of cen...
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