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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (4): 476–478.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of the American Educational System . By Morgan Day Frank . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xvii + 342 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 For at least the last thirty-five years English departments have been in a state of crisis, roiled by curricular debates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jesse Molesworth System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge . By Siskin Clifford . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2016 . xii + 318 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Clifford Siskin’s new monograph continues the project begun in his earlier collection...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 488–490.
Published: 01 December 1944
... is offering in printed form lines
8879-10,822, with a study of the noun declensional system as found
in one thousand lines of his text. It is to be much regretted that
circumstances have not yet permitted the publication of all nine
parts of this project. We hope that, when they are published...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 499–526.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Liam Lanigan Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity...
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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 3. Illustration of the progressive development of the vascular system of a goose embryo. Plate 71 of Owen 1840 . “The beautiful drawing here engraved,” writes Owen, illustrates the artful nature as well as the scientific facts of embryogenesis (232).
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 69–94.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Elizabeth Bowen’s text within the context of an international cultural and economic world-system. It argues that two historical narratives inform Bowen’s Court : a gothic chronicle of decline and a protoprofessional story of detached expertise. These narratives correspond to two visions of Anglo-Ireland’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 255–268.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Companion to Irish Modernism and working on a book on modernism, empire, and world-systems. Realism after Modernism
and the Literary World- System
Joe Cleary
e need, but lack, comprehensive theories and historical atlases
Wof twentieth- century realism. Many of the magisterial...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 327–354.
Published: 01 September 2014
... .” In Day of the Leopards: Essays in Defense of Poems , 183 – 204 . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . The System Cannot Withstand Close Scrutiny:
1966, the Hopkins Conference, and the
Anomalous Rise of Theory
Nicholas Birns
his essay challenges certain truisms in the history...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638104.
Published: 06 March 2025
... 2025 Review Essay The Broom of the System: Literary Sociology, Contemporary Publishing, and Dan Sinykin s Big Fiction Jeremy Rosen Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. By Dan Sinykin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xii + 313 pp...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 404–405.
Published: 01 December 1982
...Stavros Deligiorgis HAMBUECHEN POTTER JOY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. x + 230 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS
Five Frames for the “Decameron”: Communication and Social Systems in the “Cor-
nice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 195–219.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). He is general editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004). Scriptworlds: Writing Systems and the
Formation of World Literature
David Damrosch
hrough most of recorded history, literature has not been written...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (4): 544–546.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Thurmond (2004). University of Washington 2006 A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought . By Stephen Kern. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. 437 pp. Reviews
Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2015
... pragmatic options. At the beginning of the seventeenth century cultural momentum turned from an imprecise system of relationships toward a monolithic, homogenizing institution of marriage and strict distinctions, which began to exclude homoeroticism. This sexual re-formation is critiqued in Shakespeare’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 129–161.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Eric Hayot Is it possible to come up with a better theory of the world than the ones governing contemporary debates on world literature and world-systems, to invent one more closely connected to the literary itself? This essay rethinks the relationship between “world” and literature, not to produce...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 351–372.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the novel’s conception of reality in the Mexican borderlands: first, the Ciudad Juárez femicides as objects of representation; second, the economic conditions underlying the systemic violence perpetrated against female maquiladora workers and the rift between labor and capital; and third, the relation of art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 491–515.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the creation of a system of kitchenless homes in California and the subsequent emancipation of women from forced domesticity. Gilman’s prose reflects on, and even formally replicates, the drudgery and repetition she associates with household labor. Gilman proposes an analogy between novels and kitchens...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and their acute attention to the role of women, particularly daughters, within the patriarchal family and its attendant economic systems. They share Woolf’s interest in the economic, inheritable underpinnings of female authority, the social forms of a patrilineal culture that help demarcate the possibilities...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 333–368.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of aesthetic autonomy to declare their freedom from colonial bondage, from systems of racial discrimination, and even from the new postcolonial state. In the geopolitical context of the Cold War, modernist ideals of aesthetic detachment also gave these writers a language of ideological neutrality. The literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 413–445.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., this paratactic structure uses poetry to span the physical juxtapositions of books made by diverse agents of the press. By forging an inferential engagement with the design of the volume, Gascoigne resisted a system of publication bent on dispersing his writing and folded nonauthorial devices into the most...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 323–346.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the residual realism of nineteenth-century social-problem fiction attempts to map the world-system. A discussion of Gissing’s style is thus an opportunity to specify the motivating forces at work in his writing and to speculate more broadly about how novelistic prose registers working-class massification...
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