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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (3): 481–518.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Sanford Budick © 2000 University of Washington 2000 03-Budick 10/3/00 9:44 AM Page 481
Kant’s Miltonic Test of Talent: The Presence of
“When I Consider” in the Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals
Sanford Budick...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 March 1971
...Alexander Leggatt Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
THE TESTING OF ROMANCE
By ALEXANDERLEGGATT
It has been commonly observed that romance and realism are in con-
flict in ‘411...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of contemporaneous film theory, that the innovation of sound films would represent “a new opportunity . . . of testing public interest in the question of a Universal language,” precisely because Hollywood studios, which had grown dependent on foreign markets, would now find themselves incentivized to train...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 291–317.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Aaron Kunin This essay defines character as a device that collects every example of a kind of person. This formalist definition derives from seventeenth-century books of characteristic writings. The essay tests this definition against the antiformalist one derived from the realist novel, in which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2011
... test case is a reading of how The Waste Land fleshes out the potential in emphasizing the power of relations over the power of foundational thinking. Charles Altieri teaches English at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 129–148.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to the latter at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet even after standardized tests had replaced it as a key to college admissions, Silas Marner remained in high schools to furnish an idealized image of education, in which a nonbiological parent successfully replaced unsuitable biological ones. Although...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (1): 57–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Zoe Beenstock H. G. Wells’s diverse works of literature and political theory make him a test case for lines of intersection between modernity and the Enlightenment, a period concerned with the relations between the two genres. Traditionally, studies of Wells go back only as far as Victorianism...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 279–296.
Published: 01 June 2014
... account of the evolution of English studies. This essay builds and tests the theory that literary societies were agents for disseminating not only literature but scholarly practice, spreading productive debate about curricula, relevance, and the public benefit of literature over the English-speaking world...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 481–507.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of analyzing literary influence. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the test case for such adaptations. I examine two forms of influence: local allusion and global revision of thematic and narrative structures. The psychology of memory for language provides tools for distinguishing among allusions by stressing...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 March 1962
... of Gawain’s journey and the
significance of the castle, and the motive and nature of the test.
The artistic brilliance of Gawain and the Green Knight is due in
large measure to the unity both of incident and of character into
which the author has welded diverse materials. From the viewpoint...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 260–269.
Published: 01 September 1966
...,
stated in baldest terms, indicate that the work is a complete failure.
One critic suggests not only that Walter is criminal in testing Griselde,
but that she is as much to blame for putting up with him.l Another
argues along Freudian lines to describe Walter in terms of “the
Oedipal syndrome...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 1994
... presents some prac-
tical obstacles. My remedy suggests that the most authoritative critical
histories have already been written: they are encoded-and waiting
for decipherment by scholars and critics-in the elegy’s own testing of
conventions. We can trace the outlines of a critical history of elegy...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 449–457.
Published: 01 December 1966
... the inheritance consist
of Episodes and Tests, but of a good plot, ambiguous hero and chal-
lenger, important subject, and themes of foolishness, identity, and self-
discovery. As a critic who understands the dynamics of a literary
tradition, Benson can show how the poet used his inheritance, adopt...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 345–367.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in which “foreign form[s] and local materials” are combined according to the laws of a hierarchical market of literary exchange (Moretti 2000 : 60; Casanova 2004 ). In this article we test this hypothesis using a computational approach. First, we develop an abstract model of SOC so as to identify...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 379–382.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Bekker-Wolff, Agatha Deken, Sophie von La Roche, Frances Burney, Charlotte Lennox, and others. Their narratives feature three typical situations challenging a heroine’s virtue: Conditions of adversity test whether she can remain virtuous when, for example, she is starving or unprotected. Conditions...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1954) 15 (4): 343–348.
Published: 01 December 1954
... it to become realistic in fact.”3
The extent of the American girl’s control over literature and criti-
cism may be estimated by the almost universal respect which editors
and critics had for the “daughter test,” or the “family fireside test.”
In Maurice Thompson’s definition of this criterion...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 March 1942
... episodes may be arranged in
the following clear plan:
Preface and introduction. l-259 ; 260-465
First feast at the court (drinking test) .466-3272
The Gasozein story. .3273-5459 ; 10,113-12,610
Gawein’s first quest ( Amurfina episode) 546O-10,112
Gawein’s second quest...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 218–225.
Published: 01 September 1955
... to be whole, without gap or inconsistency. This
reputation was now to be put to the test. It was to be assayed in a
predicament singularly adapted to the eques Pentagondis. From this
predicament was to emerge not only the moral of the poem but its
suspense, its humor, its irony-its delight...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 March 1967
... teaching
to the test:
Why this bond is forfeit,
And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Nearest the merchant’s heart: be merciful,
Take thrice thy money, bid me tear the bond...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (2): 154–191.
Published: 01 June 1986
...-
tion cannot by itself account for the power of belief, the unifying
force that presides over the will. In Mill’s view the only test suffi-
ciently exacting for this force is what “we are safe in acting on as
universal provisionallyor probabilities of a high order. 10 Follow-
ing Hume, Mill...
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