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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 449–463.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Peter Stoicheff Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 BETWEEN ORIGINALITY AND INDEBTEDNESS:
ALLEGORIES OF AUTHORSHIP IN WILLIAM
FAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY
By PETERSTOICHEFF
As Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury, his...
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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 (1968) 29 (4): 439–449.
Published: 01 December 1968
...Beverly Gross Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 FORM AND FULFILLMENT IN
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
By BEVERLYGROSS
The ending of any novel is the place where the success of its form is
most fully...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 1988
.... Eliot’
THE RISING OF DILSEY’S BONES
THE THEME OF SPARAGMOS
IN THE SOUND AND THE FURY
By JOSEPH ADAMSON
In a famous chapter of Thus Spoke Zuruthustru, Nietzsche satirizes
the myth of redemption, a myth that, though its source...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 March 1969
... critiques, 2“ sCrie
(1924), and N&l Richard, A I‘aube du symbolisme (1961).
SEYMOURS. WEINER
University of Massachusetts
The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in Modern Literature. By DENIS
DONOGHUE.New York: Macmillan, 1968. 320 pp. $6.95...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 279–301.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and proponents of New Formalism stress the importance of experiencing poetic sound and rhythm in real time. This essay, building on Stevens’s example, argues that the concept of acoustic resonance can help reconcile synchronic and diachronic methodologies and thereby generate sophisticated new ways to analyze...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and the Cartesian model of human beings as both body and spirit, since language consisted of material sounds as vehicles for abstract ideas. By the eighteenth century the talking bird in literature had become a metaphor for a natural language that could express the truth in any and all circumstances. In later works...
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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...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 17–46.
Published: 01 March 1994
... of their prosodic effec-
tiveness is natural, and no doubt led William K. Wimsatt to match their
rhymes in his well-known essay, “One Relation of Rhyme to Reason
In demonstrating Pope’s superior use of sound in support of verbal
symbolism, the essay implicitly denigrates Chaucer’s rhymes in favor...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 413–431.
Published: 01 December 1943
... as the only
phonetic criterion was the aesthetic correspondence of sound with
meaning (for example, according to Varro the h in horror was
excellently suited to express horror, the word mel was a fitting rep-
resentation of the thing “honey”) ;2 so long as one failed to perceive
that sound...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 32–36.
Published: 01 March 1961
... completes the strophic idea by giving a reason for
the demands of the first two; it also replaces movement with rest, for
the argument is based on a vision of the results of turning back, the
lovers intertwining on the lawn.
Some interesting effects are created by several repeated sounds...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 345–347.
Published: 01 June 1941
....
The author’s explanations are sometimes involved, and lacking
in clarity. I quote from p. 7:
This continued flight of the differentiating sound from the sound which
originally threatened to cause an assimilation or from any other sound which,
being encountered in the original flight-movement...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 90–92.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the musical sublime sounds like and answers: it depends. Writers configured their understandings of Longinus and other classical authors’ precepts so diversely in their intermedial encounters that the sublime might be construed as harmonious, as dissonant, or as concordia discors ; noisy or silent; orderly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 360–364.
Published: 01 September 1968
... generally explains what the reservations are. What he says is
clearly expressed, and his general estimate of Johnson is sound. It is to be
hoped that some of the stimulation he finds and conveys in his careful ex-
amination of Johnson’s essays may be transmitted to a generation of stu-
dents...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 266–267.
Published: 01 June 1940
..., indeed, make a useful contribution to our knowl-
edge of the duration of speech sounds, but its greater significance
lies in the direction and method of the research. Eliason and Davis
have made one of the few attempts to correlate historical and ex-
perimental approaches in phonetic...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 522–524.
Published: 01 September 1941
...),
the urge toward clarity (understandability ; effectiveness) mani-
fests itself by bringing about the process of dissimilation (differen-
tiation). The formula holds whether the sounds be contiguous
or not.
In the case of non-contiguous sounds, it is proposed that the
assimilation takes...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 1940
...
one) of sound change. This is above all the case when, in the pro-
duction of a particular vowel or diphthong, two organs are concerned,
and one is active at the front of the mouth while the other is active
at the back of it. Concentration results here in the process of fronting...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 281–313.
Published: 01 September 2021
... sound, and leave him well alone. The result is that Murray’s performances—the fact that they happened and their significance for early Wagnerism and Victorian society culture—have dropped off the historical record. This can be amended by encountering Forman and Murray as Vereinsmenschen . Forman...
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Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (2): 192–206.
Published: 01 June 1967
... with
words and their sounds that comes very close to nonsense a verbal
play comparable to that of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or Sir W. S.
Gilbert. Hopkins loses nothing in the comparison with iis fellow
Victorians: play is seldom if ever trivial or meaningless, and it is
entirely compatible...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 417–418.
Published: 01 December 1952
... vowels do not occur in German.
The short vowel of Engl. ‘up’ [ap], ‘hut’ [bt] is an [a] sound, while u in S.E.
‘man’ [maen], though often classed as a sub-member of [a], is more correctly
an independent sound between [a] and [el, as the ligature serves to suggest.
(P. 71)
The first two...
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