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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 403–405.
Published: 01 December 1961
...-to our own apocalyptic situation in the nuclear age. AUGUSTCLOSS Uiiiversity of Bristol Some Graver Subject: An Essay on Paradise Lost. By J. B. BROADBENT.New York: Barnes and Noble, 1960. Pp. 268. $6.00. In this critical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 376–403.
Published: 01 December 1991
... for their kind, daily assistance and singular expertise. THE PROBLEM OF BIOGRAPHICAL MASTERING: THE CASE FOR BOSWELL AS SUBJECT* B’ PHILIPE. BARUTH After Boswell had been heaped with scorn for two centuries, Fred- erick A. Pottle finally...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 March 1992
...A. C. Spearing Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 ∗I am indebted to Lisa Samuels for her assistance with this article. PRISON, WRITING, ABSENCE: REPRESENTING THE SUBJECT IN THE ENGLISH POEMS OF CHARLES D’ORL&WS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (3): 422–427.
Published: 01 September 1993
...- ning if the problems of history and change, of determinacy and indetermi- nacy, were not so evident. A great editor takes risks, and Cohen has taken more than any other, to better effect. Marshall Brown Chaucer and the Subject of History...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 579–583.
Published: 01 December 1993
... to Freudian, within the grid of the CH discourse, but he also demonstrates the force of agency in the powerfully deterministic world of discourses. As opposed to a materialism that (as he puts it in an earlier essay) “conceives of subjects as constrained by the discourses they articulate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 579–583.
Published: 01 December 1993
... the force of agency in the powerfully deterministic world of discourses. As opposed to a materialism that (as he puts it in an earlier essay) “conceives of subjects as constrained by the discourses they articulate and by the ideology inscribed within those discourses,” he undertakes an account which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (2): 167–188.
Published: 01 June 1995
...Tamar Katz Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Tamar Katz is assistant professor of English at Brown University. She is writing a book on gender and subjectivity in modernist fiction. “In the House and Garden of His Dream”: Pater’s Domestic Subject Tamar Katz...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 March 1995
...Michel-André Bossy Haidu Peter. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. x + 257 pp. $39.95. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews The Subject of Violence: The “Song of Roland * and the Birth of the State. By Peter Haidu. Bloomington: Indiana University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Mark Miller Abstract The inevitable emerges in this issue as a name for the troubled intersection of agency and structural necessity. The most prominent medieval name for that intersection is sin. Far from grounding the medieval subject in a set of theological norms that give it stable coordinates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (1): 49–55.
Published: 01 March 1943
...Henry Bosley Woolf Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN BEOWULF By HENRYBOSLEY WOOLF In the introduction to his edition of Beowlf Klaeber notes that our greatest Old English poem shows occasional “lack of concord...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 September 1945
...Eugene M. Waith Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 A TRAGICOMEDY OF HUMORS : FLETCHER’S THE LOYAL SUBJECT By EUGENEM. WAITH The Loyal Subject was one of John Fletcher’s most successful tragicomedies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 June 1997
... is, and how historically suggestive are its failures to apply, not only its successes, Lamb’s book should amply reward his readers. Eric Rothstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideologacal IAeg2timationin German Bourgeois...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 251–254.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Julia Reinhard Lupton The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture . By Christopher Pye. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. xii + 199 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 373–374.
Published: 01 September 1947
... WILBVRH. ODA.Philadelphia : University of F‘ennsylvania. 1933. Pp. s + 94. A decade ago Du lral examined The Subject of Rcalism iiz th,. “Revues des Dew Mondes,” and Weinberg, French Rcalisui: TIic Critical Reaction. No IIr. Oda offers a study of the Rcae dc Paris, the dates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (2): 194–197.
Published: 01 June 1986
... eye, a language of suspicious word rather than a language of true vision. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, 1 argue, the poet “give[s] the lie to my true sight” (150), and in doing so he develops, or he comes upon, a genuinely new poetic subjectivity that I call, using the themes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 467–469.
Published: 01 December 1994
... Trolander, Berry College Agonies of the Intellectual: Commitment, Subjectivity, and the Perfmative in the Twentieth-Century French Tradition. By Allan Stoekl. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 384 pp. $40.00. Agonies of the Intellectual attempts an intellectual history, wary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 374–376.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Andrea Frisch [email protected] Subjects of Affection: Rights of Resistance on the Early Modern French Stage . By Rosensweig Anna . Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 2021 . ix + 234 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 The central topic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 380–384.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rachel Price Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities .By Laura Lomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xvii + 379 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. By Joseph Luzzi. New Haven, CT...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (4): 545–548.
Published: 01 December 2011
.... Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600 - 1800 . By Hayes Julie Candler . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . x + 321 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 June 1999
...Diana de Armas Wilson Lezra Jacques. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. vi + 413 pp. $55.00. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Wilson 0 Review 291 Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Eurly...