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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (3): 479–504.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Catherine Jurca Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Catherine Jurca is assistant professor of English at the California Institute of Technology. This article is part of a larger project on the construction of the suburb in the American novel. Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 365–382.
Published: 01 September 2002
...;Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London. By Sharon Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. x + 323 pp; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel. By Catherine Jurca. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,2001. viii + 238 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that One simple way to present the difference between the two poems, then, would be to say that while “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” is energized by the poet’s disgust, “Suburb” attempts to counter that disgust with a frank delight in what others would most likely recoil from. Smith’s point is still...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 547–572.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Anthropocene E. M. Forster climate change apocalypse back to the land E. M. Forster’s Howards End anticipates an apocalypse. Many of the novel’s critics have noted this when scrutinizing its conclusion, in which Margaret and Helen Schlegel fret about the suburbs encroaching on Howards End. 1 Its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 297–311.
Published: 01 September 1968
..., dimly-imagined suburb of ‘culture,’ peopled by un-
pleasant phrasemongers . . . to be held up in the comic press, which was
probably restrained by decorum from touching upon the worst of their
aberrations” (p. 589). It must be emphasized that Nick “never dis-
covered his academy, nor the suburb...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (3): 322–323.
Published: 01 September 1979
.... Goode’s lack of bi-
ographical information puts him at a disadvantage in discussing a number of
the novels (e.g., he does not know that The Nether World was largely inspired by
the grisly death of Cissing’s first wife, or that In the Year of Jubilee is set in a
suburb in which Gissing himself...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 100–101.
Published: 01 March 1961
... Casmurro, the protagonist and narrator, Bento Sant-
iago-a recluse living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro-describes his tale as
that of Othello. But for Santiago there is an important difference: his Des-
demona (Capitli) was guilty, and so skillfully does he plead his case that for
nearly...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 459–460.
Published: 01 December 1940
... absence as deeply as a
child his mother’s, . , .”g suggests that during this period More may
have been a resident of the suburb. The conjecture is given weight
by More’s dislike of city life which is made evident in this letter
to Colet, a dislike which later resulted in his famous...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (2): 167–177.
Published: 01 June 1977
...,
The squares of his mind were empty,
Silence invaded the suburbs,
The current of his feeling failed: he became his admirers.
The perspective is detached and scientific: the self appears as a flat map
examined from above. The impersonality of the image fulfills the im...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 101–102.
Published: 01 March 1961
...
admired. The Othello story, for example, appears in twenty-eight of his tales,
plays, and articles. In Dom Casmurro, the protagonist and narrator, Bento Sant-
iago-a recluse living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro-describes his tale as
that of Othello. But for Santiago there is an important...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 101–103.
Published: 01 March 1966
....
For example, such phrases as “immortal distances,” “everlasting plain,”
and “tired suburb” suggest Borges’ feeling of “anguish and uselessness”
(p. 26); “farthest frontiers,” “lateral night,” and “penultimate streets”
add up to “a veiled allusion to the infernal region” (p. 28). In “I come
from...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2004
... with the advent (in some places and in different degrees) of moder-
nity. But in the postmodern world a geographic nexus of city and
suburb has replaced a temporal axis of city and village, commercial and
communicational webs now connect men and women alike with their
peers around the world, and time has...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 March 1970
... playhouses in the London suburbs,
where a personal acquaintance with tlie players helped to distinguish tlie
real bloods among them. Probably it was on some such excursion that
William Shakespeare and tlie young Earl of Southampton first saw each
other. (p. 31)
Despite able...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 305–308.
Published: 01 December 1957
..., including an exemplum of a priest named Ralph in
a suburb of Oxford in 1250. There are several texts which lead me
to believe that the collection was made for an order of friars: the
well-known sermon of Robert Grosseteste which he wrote for the
Council of Lyons in 1250;* notes from Holcot...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 197–215.
Published: 01 June 2013
... by adding programs, concentrations, or minors out-
side the major departments (urban centers) without effectively chang-
ing the curriculum. Similarly, today’s world literature (or global lit)
programs inhabit these curricular suburbs (of English and language
departments) and are prone to afflictions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (4): 401–408.
Published: 01 December 1971
...
astonishingly complete series of maps of Zenith, so that the city, the
suburbs, the state” were perfectly clear in his mind.l The maps Sinclair
Lewis made for Babbitt (1922) have often been referred to by critics
and biographers, but until now...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 443–476.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., has to be rejected.
In this recontextualization The Younger Sister makes much more
of the urban discomfort experienced by the heroine after her reloca-
tion to Croydon, a suburb favored by Victorian businessmen, where
she suffers the effects of rapidly encroaching industrialization. Most...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (2): 129–152.
Published: 01 June 2010
... 2010 by University of Washington
130 MLQ June 2010
Paris’s cultural scene in effect establishes the present of modern liter-
ary time. It has the power both to consecrate authors from the periph-
ery (or, as Casanova often terms it, the “suburbs”) who...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2001
...
educated audiences. And as improved mass transportation from the
middle-class suburbs facilitated access to the theaters of London, plays
once again became profitable products.
The profits did not, however, immediately flow into the pockets of
playwrights...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 June 2023
... controlled, in a highly class-stratified group of schoolchildren whose values largely reflect those of their parents—all of them, so far as we know, members of the white settler population in Karori, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. 5 As the middle Burnell sister, Kezia must let her older sister tell...
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