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The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
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Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 400–403.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Jesse Matz The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel . By Alex Woloch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ix + 391 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Jesse Matz is associate professor of English at Kenyon College. He...
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Books in Space and Time: Bibliomania and Early Modern Histories of Learning and “Literature” In France
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (2): 253–286.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Neil Kenny © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-01Kenny.ak 5/26/00 3:49 PM Page 253
Books in Space and Time:
Bibliomania and Early Modern Histories
of Learning and “Literature” in France
Neil Kenny...
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The Symbolism of Space and Motion in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (4): 434–436.
Published: 01 December 1974
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The Mind a Department Store: Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 227–250.
Published: 01 June 2002
...: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility . The Mind a Department Store:
Reconfiguring Space in the Gilded Age
Gail McDonald
’ve been spending a month,” Henry James wrote to a correspondent
I in 1905, “in the horrific, the unspeakable, extraordinary, yet partly
interesting...
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The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 400–405.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Joan Ramon Resina The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture . By Paul Julian Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii+ 206 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews
How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...
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Virginia Woolf, David Jones, and the Parenthetical Space of War
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Ron Ben-Tovim Abstract Home and war seem to be spaces set apart, one defined by the rules and order of society and the other by the absolute, order-undoing destruction of battle. Yet for those families who endure war even from afar, and for those who return from war, its violence continues...
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The South European Orient: A Comparative Reflection on Space in Literary History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 419–449.
Published: 01 December 2006
... literary geography. The South European Orient:
A Comparative Reflection
on Space in Literary History
César Domínguez
istorical narration would seem to be a natural focus for narratol-
Hogy, yet narratologists have generally left it to philosophers of his-
tory and literary...
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Space, Deity, and the “Natural Sublime”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 1951
...Ernest Tuveson Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 SPACE, DEITY, AND THE “NATURAL SUBLIME”
By ERNESTTWESON
I. “Reaching Out After the Infinite”
Over seventy years ago, Edward Bellamy described a great change
in sensibility...
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The Politics of “Neutral Space” In Byron's Vision of Judgment ∗
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 275–291.
Published: 01 September 1979
... concurrently with the MLA convention of that year. THE POLITICS OF “NEUTRAL SPACE”
IN BYRON’S VISION OF JUDGMENT”
By STUARTPEI-ERFREUND
Byron shares with the other Romantics the need to revise...
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Eugène Ionesco and the Dialectic of Space
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 312–326.
Published: 01 September 1972
...Mary Ann Witt Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 EUGENE IONESCO AND THE DIALECTIC OF SPACE
By MARYANN WITT
Throughout his journals and in his notes on the theater, Eughe
Ionesco refers to the two basic states...
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The Pictorial Mode: Space and Time in the Art of Bryant, Irving, and Cooper
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 473–475.
Published: 01 December 1973
... their striictural context in ;I paiiitiiig, lie misses the aria-
logical ricliiiess and is doonietl to liiiiitecl or superficial comparisons, dam-
itgilig to I~oththe sister arts. Because Kirigc does not think Iiard enough
ilIttt pictorial scillc, thc relation of the figure 10 space, or because lie sepa...
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Eastward Journeys: Literary Crossings of the International Date Line
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 June 2012
... journeys. Uneasily yoking together the past and the present in the same physical space, the date line served as a flashpoint for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates over whether time was productively rooted in local and regional values and experiences or was universally abstract and placeless...
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Degrees of Public Relevance: Walter Scott and Toni Morrison
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Günter Leypoldt Abstract How can we relate the quantitative presence of literary artifacts to their ability to make a difference, and how does the problem of scale define public accounts of what can be considered relevant literary value? The idea of a singular space of reception (one literary...
FIGURES
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Phantom Belief and Belief in Phantoms: The Strange Objects of Literary Study
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... traditions, which get their leverage from a distinction between illusion and reality, struggle with such in-between spaces. However, this is the space in which literary studies lives, and acknowledging that may help us decide why literature is a compelling and disturbing maker of religious sense. ▪ ▪ ▪...
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Alternative Antiquarianisms of Scotland and the North
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (4): 415–441.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to an anterior temporal space. This essay offers a more differentiated history, examining Scottish and northern song collectors who differed from these formulations and provided distinct understandings of “the people” and of class. David Herd, for instance, used Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense...
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On Literary Worlds
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 129–161.
Published: 01 June 2011
... totality of the work's diegetic space. Eric Hayot is professor of comparative literature and director of Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel (2004) and The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (2009); he...
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1966 Nervous Breakdown; Or, When Did Postmodernism Begin?
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 391–413.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of a number of topological signatures of cultural practices and products also datable to 1966, among them the rediscovery of meta (self-reflection, recursiveness, strange loops) and the opening of paraworld spaces. These topological signatures constitute the building blocks of a postmodernist poetics. ©...
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The Hong Kong Dilemma and a Constellation Solution
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 369–391.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of world literary space. It recommends the same paradigm for an effective history that forges connections beyond binarisms like East-West, mainland China–Hong Kong, and center-periphery. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Hong Kong literature constellation paradigm effective...
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Alternatives to Periodization: Literary History, Modernism, and the “New” Temporalities
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 379–402.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the dramatic debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson in 1922 and a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s experiments with the relationality of space and time in her fiction. Multidimensional, layered, and disjunctive concepts of time are better suited for the study of planetary modernisms that incorporate...
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Did God Write Moby-Dick ?
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 443–459.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of gentle suasion, private consciousness-raising, influence. Moby-Dick is a novel shouting not into the void of a world abandoned by God—or not only—but into the empty space where the theocratic authority of the pulpit once was, where words fired by the titanic power of Godliness itself narrated, shaped...
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