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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...