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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 409–412.
Published: 01 September 1999
...Gordon Braden Grossman Marshall. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 1998. xxiii + 347 pp. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reviews The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry. By Marshall Grossman...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 254–258.
Published: 01 June 2002
...David Lindley The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-factor. By Bruce R. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiv + 386 pp; The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance. By Michele Sharon Jaffe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 215–218.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Nicholas Halmi The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism . By Adam Potkay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 304 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (3): 263–277.
Published: 01 September 1992
...Catherine Gallagher Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 ∗Originally presented as a lecture before the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Seattle, March 1992. NOBODY’S STORY GENDER, PROPERTY, AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (3): 316–318.
Published: 01 September 1975
...Richard D. Altick David Buchanan. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. xix + 371 pp. $14.95 Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 REVIEWS The Treasure of Auchinleck: The Story of the Boswell Papers. By DAVID BUCHANAN.New York: McGraw-Hill...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 15–26.
Published: 01 March 1978
...Dino S. Cervigni Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 CELLINI’S VITA, OR THE UNFINISHED STORY OF A DISILLUSIONED HERO By DINOS. CERVIGNI Benvenuto Cellini, the narrator-protagonist of the Vita, was born...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Robert J. Ellrich B. Ellis Madeline. Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. xiii + 199 pp. $6.00; 48s. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 REVIEWS Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay upon Art and Truth in “Les Confes- sions.” By MADELEINEB...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 238–246.
Published: 01 September 1957
...R. M. Lumiansky Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 THE STORY OF TROILUS AND BRISEIDA IN THE LAUD TROY-BOOK By R. M. LUMIANSKY Published comment upon the handling of the story of Troilus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 50–57.
Published: 01 March 1950
...W. P. Albrecht Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE TITLES OF LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL: A STORY OF THE BURIED LIFE By W. P. ALBRECHT For his first novel Thomas Wolfe considered the titles The Building...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 248–252.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Alexander Mazzaferro [email protected] Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas . By Kirsten Silva Gruesz . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2022 . 326 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 March 1945
.... BAYERSCHMIDT Columbia University Icelandic Poems and Stories. Translations from Modern Icelandic Literature. Edited by RICHARDBECK. Princeton and New York: Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foun- dation, 1943. Pp. 8-315. $3.00. In 1930 Professor Richard Beck...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 247–269.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Christian Thorne Abstract Narratologists often profess a distaste for stories that end unambiguously. The emphatic ending is thought simplistic, politically retrograde, and more common in traditional and commercial narrative forms (the folk tale, the realist novel, the feature film) and accordingly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (1): 115.
Published: 01 March 1948
... Twelve Stories. By STEENSTEENSEN BLICHER. Translated from the Danish by HANNAASTRUP LARSEN. With an Introduction by SIGRIDUNDSET. Princeton : Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1945. Pp. 305. $3.00. The American-Scandinavian Foundation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 439–442.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in Renaissance France (2011), won an honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize. She has articles forthcoming on the significance of animals in Renaissance humanist epistemologies. Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture . By Melzer Sara...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 85–87.
Published: 01 March 1979
...Janice H. Harris Keith Cushman. D. H. Lawrence at Work: The Emergence of the Prussian Officer Stories . Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. xiv + 239 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 JACOB KOKG 85...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 321–324.
Published: 01 September 1986
... of Renaissance studies in the 1980s fosters a privileging of the evidence for careerism and a discounting of the evidence for emotional, intellectual, and spiritual concerns. CAMILLEWELLS SLIGHTS Saskatoon God’s Plot and Man’s Stories: Studies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 259–266.
Published: 01 September 1959
...L. A. Murillo © 1959 University of Washington 1959 THE LABYRINTHS OF JORGE LUIS BORGES AN INTRODUCTORY TO THE STORIES OF THE ALEPH By L. A. MURILLO Jorge Luis Borges is the outstanding writer of Spanish America today. He...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 303–325.
Published: 01 September 2024
... translated into Chinese at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound influence on Chinese readers’ perception of romance, marriage, and life. Chinese readers were obsessed with reading translated love stories that shed light on the way romantic love was conceived and expressed in the West...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 499–522.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Peter Murphy Abstract In the late 1790s Wordsworth and Coleridge conduct a common storytelling experiment: to see if stories can tell their own meaning, without explanations or morals attached. The resulting stories are, fundamentally, rewrites of the stories of sentimental encounter so common...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Hogarth Press was the first to publish Svevo’s work in English. His story “The Hoax” marked their first translation from Italian and his short story collection The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and Other Stories their second, helping shape the press’s international modernist program. Despite residing...