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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2024
... to fester unseen. Through a reading of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and David Jones’s World War I epic In Parenthesis , this essay interrogates that duality through the way in which the parenthetical, repressed violence of World War I steals into the home, threatening to undermine its foundations...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 115–124.
Published: 01 June 1961
... operates as an attempt
to win back the relative security of the first part: Moll’s desire for
economic security manifests itself in a series of adventures which
testify to the quality of this desire by falling into a significant episodic
pattern.
Moll begins her career of stealing...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 225–261.
Published: 01 September 1991
...? Stealing a wife, as such descriptions
make clear, has to do with “purloyning” a man’s “most p-olberposses-
sion,” as it does with leaving (like the cuckoo) one’s offspring in
another’s houseConcern with women as “moveable” property-as
crossing boundaries from a father’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
... not
live in the house are welcomed within, guests at its table and partici-
pants in its vision; and the poor, rather than sneaking through the
door to steal, receive charity at it:
And though thy walls be of the countrey stone...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 March 1955
... it is not good for any-
swer si gemeinlich alle one to call them all thieves, either seri-
in ernste oder in schalle ously or in fun. I won’t do that here : I
wil dieben. des tuon ich niht hie: shall call thieves only those who steal
ich zelle niiwen ze dieben die, and not those who...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (3): 370–385.
Published: 01 September 1969
... clearly illustrate this divergence
between the narrator’s view and the child’s. All three involve stealing:
stealing woodcocks from another boy’s trap, stealing ravens’ eggs from
a nest, and stealing a boat. In the first case, nature seems to use the
echoes of the boy’s footsteps to reinforce...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 1940
... and steals the accent from it-
for it is axiomatic that, of two adjacent vocalic elements, the more
sonorous will strive to steal the accent from the less sonorous that
has it. With the shift of accent the o is thrown into a proclitic
position and becomes the semi-vowel 9, so that we have now...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 437–459.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., for the best starting place is not perhaps in the famous
essay mentioned above but in “Philip Massinger”: “Immature poets
imitate; mature poets steal” (125). Here is the relation of ephebe to
strong poet in the life cycle of the poet-as-poet, the only difference
being the stronger determination...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 345–350.
Published: 01 December 1961
... that it is a larger coin. Then with one hand
he withdraws a dozen (half-dozen in the Parangon) deniers, liards, or
doubles and with the other hand three or four dozen similar coins.
Curiously, in Nicolas’ version the literal-minded parishioner steals
in direct proportion to the amount of his offering...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 369–375.
Published: 01 December 1975
... with Horatiari precedent)13 to soften the break between
stanzas three and four: “Quiet by day, // Sound sleep by night . .
A similar blurring is the subject of the final stanm
l’hus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye;
Steal from the world, arid...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 368–369.
Published: 01 September 1943
... is the sky: the trees are very calm”; or in “Sweet
music steals along the yielding soul, / Like the brisk wind that sows
autumnal seeds . . . .” His themes are few, and all familiar, but they
are genuine.
Little in the way of editorial apparatus accompanies the poems.
A few quotations from...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 March 2016
... stanza, the poet imagines himself as a gleaner, stealing odds and ends from the muse’s harvest: “Oh, could I soar me on the Muse’s wing / What riffel’d charms should my researches bring!” (ll. 67–68). The poet, like the gleaner, longs to pilfer from those who have so much that they will not miss...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 77–105.
Published: 01 March 1996
..., photograph becomes snap
shot, a lethal blow to history. In the second part, the photograph
records movement-an homage to the narrative sequence of “what
happened”:
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination
stealing like the tide across a map
to his...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 259–284.
Published: 01 September 2001
... plays
with translation and displacement in stories such as “The Approach to
Almotásim,” “Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain,” and “Pierre
Menard: Author of the Quijote.” The aesthetics of stealing and plagia-
Magnus and K. Walter and published...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 439–447.
Published: 01 December 1944
... tries unsuccessfully to imitate Chaucer’s
superb ability to concentrate pathos into a simple speech : his
‘For cruel, ?is,’ said she,
‘To steal my Basil-pot away from me!’
and
‘0 cruelty,
To steal my Basil-pot away from...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 498–499.
Published: 01 December 1947
... as proofs of
guilt.” One might guess as much from the very repetitiousness of
the accusations brought against Malory, twice charged with raping
the same woman and four times charged with stealing precisely f40.
Chambers admits that the Duke of Buckingham was Malory’s chief
local enemy...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 June 1954
...
images “stealing” into speeches or “sunk beneath the surface” (pp. 76, 77),
uncommon metaphors, “the associative rise of the image” (p. 74), the increase
in “ambiguity [as] . . . an important factor” (p. SO), and the use of imagery in
a preparatory and premonitory function (pp. 81 ff...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 145–171.
Published: 01 June 2018
... 2018 by University of Washington 2018 William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton Immanuel Kant’s sublime Edmund Husserl’s onlooker Early in “The Ruined Cottage” Armytage exhorts the narrator to heed the “sympathies” that “steal upon the meditative mind / And grow with thought...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (1): 61–63.
Published: 01 March 1946
... was disguised or had discarded his pro-
fessional costume when first entering the Forest of Arden. Some
time must have elapsed between scene 4 and scene 7, though no one
has been able to determine how much. If the fool had covered his
motley with a harden smock before stealing away from the palace...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 337–339.
Published: 01 September 1973
... provocative, but, I think, inadequately
explained remarks, such as the following: “(the fear in the boat-stealing scene
[from The Prelude] is actually quite different from that in ‘Nutting (pp.
16-17); “The Prelude is ultimately about Wordsworth ‘unparadis’d’ and the
specifics of a return to a higher...
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