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Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 224–226.
Published: 01 June 1966
... complete works with a more mean-
ingful number system than that developed by Lachmann nearly a century
and a half ago.
GEORGEF. JONES
University of Maryland
Defoe 6. Spiritual Autobiography. By G. A. STARR.Princeton: Princeton
University...
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Spiritual Autobiography in Early America.
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 613–615.
Published: 01 December 1969
... University
Spiritual Autobiography in Early America. By DANIELB. SHEA,JR. Prince-
ton: Princeton University Press, 1968. xvi + 280 pp. $7.50.
The abundance of autobiography among writings in English, published
or unpublished, is now recognized. Even when selection is made of items...
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The Excremental and the Spiritual in A Passage to India
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 359–371.
Published: 01 September 1970
...C. Roland Wagner Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 -1‘herewas a niiititiy centre before we breathed.
allace Stevens
THE EXCREMENTAL AND THE SPIRITUAL...
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Eichendorff: The Spiritual Geometer
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 337–341.
Published: 01 September 1972
...).
PETERMILWARD
Sophia University, Tokyo
Eichendorfl The Spiritual Geometer. By LAWRENCERADNER. Lafayette, Ind.:
Purdue University Studies, 1970. 372 pp. $8.75.
Lawrence Kadner’s book is likely to provoke conflicting responses in its
readers. On the one hand, they will no doubt...
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In the Church of Saint Jane: Literature, Lived Religion, and the Descriptive Turn
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Alex Eric Hernandez Abstract This essay explores tensions between the practice of critique and recent calls for nonreductive engagement with global spiritualities, arguing for an approach to these experiences that is informed by the study of “lived religion.” Beginning with a discussion...
FIGURES
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From Grief to Leisure: “Lycidas” In the Eighteenth Century
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2016
...’ delight in the poem’s “ease and variety,” but it is also a fundamental misreading of the ethics of labor set out in the poem. In its enactment of the spiritual and writerly work of the shepherd, in Milton’s revisions, and in its monodic form, “Lycidas” offers readers a choice between sensual dalliance...
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How to See Global Religion: Comparativism, Connectivity, and the Undisciplining of Victorian Literary Studies
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... This more connective approach seeks to attune Victorian studies to aesthetic projects it has previously overlooked as outside its disciplinary borders. To illustrate this claim, this essay discusses the literary-spiritual project of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Self-Realization Fellowship, which flourished...
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Lu Xun and Modernism/Postmodernism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 29–44.
Published: 01 March 2008
... concern with the fate of the Chinese nation and his professed intention to be its spiritual physician, critical opinion holds that his writings are primarily political and cultural in thematics and realistic in formal representation. The scholarly consensus that he is a master of critical realism remains...
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The Role of Religious Thought in Interdisciplinary “Law and Literature” Studies
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 411–426.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Jan-Melissa Schramm Abstract This essay traces the intense interrelatedness of the three discourses that we now consider distinct but that ask similar questions about the existential value of life and the relationship between spiritual and temporal matters. Law, literature, and theology address...
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“Knowing Our Difference”: Class and the Literary Zombie
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2025
.... Although Whitehead and Ma emphasize the racial identity of their protagonists, the central concern of their novels lies in a vindication of class superiority, which the novels cast less as socioeconomic advantage than as spiritual endowment. In this way, their narratives function as allegories...
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Sin and Structure in Piers Plowman : On the Medieval Split Subject
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
... for desire and action, sin indicates the subject’s splitting by the norms that organize it. Piers Plowman , which explores the medieval split subject through formal experimentation, repeatedly encounters the demands of political, ethical, economic, and spiritual life and repeatedly problematizes all its...
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The Mysticism of Amado Nervo and Maeterlinck
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (2): 131–140.
Published: 01 June 1949
... for others and would help explain Nervo’s willingness
to accept Maeterlinck’s ideas and theories regarding the spiritual
problems wit5 which they were both preoccupied.
It was during his second residence in Europe, beginning in 1905,
that Nervo came definitely under the influence...
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The Revival of Saint John of the Cross
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 145–152.
Published: 01 June 1946
...Sidonia C. Rosenbaum Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE REVIVAL OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS
By SIDONIAC. ROSENBAUM
A revival of interest in religion, mysticism, and the spiritual life
in general-among philosophers...
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Proust, Music, and the Reader
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 181–192.
Published: 01 June 1980
... (that is, moments of spiritual
illumination, self-less, redeeming, unwilled, and unconsciously attained
1 See my article, “Fullness of Dissonance: Music and the Reader’s Experience of Modern
Fiction,”MFS, 25 (1979), 209-22.
2 Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, ed. Pierre Clarac and Andre...
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Discordia Concors on the Order of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 20–41.
Published: 01 March 1987
..., just as Plato had defined it in the
Symposium. There Plato develops a theory of two kinds of love based
on the two different myths of the birth of Aphrodite. The first is
worldly love, Aphrodite Pandemos, daughter of Dione and Zeus.
This love is sensual, vulgar. The other, higher or spiritual...
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Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in “The House of Fame.”
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 351–354.
Published: 01 September 1968
... of the Latin and
vernacular Middle Ages. The unity of the poem is seen in the Christian,
moral, or anagogical attitudes toward fame, which Koonce examines with
an eye both to the spiritual past and the secular present, and thus in a
351
352...
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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 386–389.
Published: 01 September 2023
... on coinherence allows the book not only to demonstrate the porosity of the medieval individual—an argument already made convincingly by Charles Taylor and Timothy J. Reiss, among others—but also to conduct a more granular investigation of particular kinds of medieval bodily and spiritual permeability. Some...
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How to Talk about Religion and Literature: A Modest Proposal
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 373–394.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and also for the discipline at large. But how to begin? A concrete example might be helpful. ▪ ▪ ▪ If a colleague mentions a spiritual practice like meditation or yoga or centering, if she has an icon in her office, if he teaches a class on Milton (ahem), all sorts of entirely appropriate...
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Charles Du Bos and English Literature: A Critic and His Orientation
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 526–527.
Published: 01 December 1949
...
inwardly into his model and attempted the history of a soul. “The true inter-
preter,” wrote Du Bos, “must describe, not exactly the work before him, but the
spiritual mood created by the work in the reader.” Such creative criticism, the
most ambitious but also the most valuable of all...
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E. M. Forster's Other Kingdom
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 305–307.
Published: 01 June 1969
..., nor is it a symbol of the
spiritual world; it is this world universalised, irradiated by the spirit, raised
up, as man for ever seeks to raise himself, towards the divine” @. 7).
If Godfrey’s study makes me feel uneasy (as it does), the reason is not my
inability to believe in the occult...
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