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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (2): 115–124.
Published: 01 June 1961
..., in which Moll Flanders initiates her career as a thief. By leading to her arrest, to her reunion with Jemmy in Newgate, and finally to her return to America, these adventures in theft serve to connect Moll’s later life 1Moll Flunders, Modern Library College Edition (New York, 1950)’ p. xii...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 225–261.
Published: 01 September 1991
... by building on another man’s ground is also here an image of adultery in the sense that it was under- stood during this same period as a form of theft.18 In a context in which wives were a form of property, and their chastity the guarantee of a legitimate line linked with the proper...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 151–170.
Published: 01 June 2013
... increasingly find ways to make active use of action games. A particularly ambitious melding of litera- ture and new media can be found in a performance piece called Grand Theft Ovid, presented in various forms in New York City and elsewhere since 2009. Grand Theft Ovid is the brainchild of Edward Kim...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 3–14.
Published: 01 March 1976
... playwright had Mak and Gyl bind the legs of their sheep, swaddling his “foure feytt in the medyll” (599), for “l’agneau aux pattes li6es” was a familiar image of Christ crucified,* as well as an image of lost mankind. And thus, through the discovery of Mak’s theft and the unbinding of the sheep, he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 259–284.
Published: 01 September 2001
... literature is usually associated with Arlt, we quickly realize, is not limited to him at all. Borges, too, works with an aesthetics based on a kind of theft; his essays and fic- tions repeatedly demonstrate the potential for writers in the periphery to appropriate...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 35–46.
Published: 01 March 1976
... the former to live off their wives and the latter to cuckold their husbands (V.ii.79-80, 83-85). Even the running stage business concerning the suc- cessive thefts of Fi tsgrave’s jewel and Katherine’s necklace reinforces the theme, since it enacts in physical terms Pursenet’s cynical theory of human...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 3–15.
Published: 01 March 1955
... to tradition when he let his miller squabble with the reeve. Because of his strategic position, the miller was often accused of theft. Of all the medieval works I have found mentioning him, only two try to defend him. One of these is the Schachzabelbuch, a long allegorical “Chess-Book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 434–450.
Published: 01 December 1964
... CAMUS Although the self-trial in Amsterdam is in some ways an extension of that earlier self-trial in Paris, it is built around its own symbolic crime: the theft of a painting. That there are actually two incidents or “crimes” to be considered separately in La Chute is emphasized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (3): 295–317.
Published: 01 September 1991
... imperial-ideological overlay of Faux’s devices to the register of orality where there are only two alternatives: to ingest or not to ingest. David’s decision to bury the guineas, while tactically sensible, is also a way of repressing the fact of theft, of creating a cleavage between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 87–110.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., they are aware of a temporal displacement as new motifs (globalized theft, virtual vio- lence) are inserted into a framework dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Indeed, one aspect of the popular genre is its self-conscious allusion to predecessors, Poe and Eugène Sue foremost, who erected...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (3): 295–319.
Published: 01 September 1999
... with the theft of Sancho’s ass.23 It is not enough to say that the loss of the ass is a mechanical error or even an error of revision, because the Sierra Morena episode depends thematically and symbolically on the ways in which objects like the ass are misdirected, mislaid, and mistaken. What Quijote...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 29–31.
Published: 01 March 1955
... (a condensed analysis of over 300 passages parallel in varying degrees) is easily available, there is no need to summarize it here. It demonstrates be- yond any reasonable doubt that the bulk of the Smollett translation was a poorly disguised theft from that of Jarvis. Cordasco’s three sets...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 1952
... such as we find them in BruCs. Aubert was virtually inviting to theft, when he maintained that the laws “nous ont persuadC que c’est pechC de me vouloir ayder du bien que tu dis estre tien, comme si la nature t’en avoit fait un present special.”6 The Premier Forgat of Pasquier...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and right and left Two poor fellows hang for theft: All the same’s the luck we prove, Though the midmost hangs for love. (Housman 1997 : 50) The final line need not be taken as a reference to homosexuality. Indeed, the poem could simply be read as part of a long tradition of ballads recounting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (1): 37–40.
Published: 01 March 1952
.... 37 38 Note on Keats and Chaucer The ever-smitten Hermes empty left His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft: From high Olympus had he stolen light, On this side of Jove’s clouds, to escape the sight...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 412–415.
Published: 01 December 1982
... from Owens and a month’s hard labor that followed on the discovery of his thefts, and his near starvation while attempting to launch himself as a writer in the United States, brought little additional wis- dom. Feeling that he had excluded himself forever from the level of society to which he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 193–196.
Published: 01 June 1984
..., for example). Calderwood also asserts that Hamlet’s “rash theft of the comniis- sion at sea was, he now realizes, endorsed by that ‘divinity that shapes our ends’” (p. 107). Does this diviniry also endorse Hamlet’s plot to send Kosen- crantz and Guildenstern to their deaths? Calderwood accuses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 1994
... bravura formal perfection. Not the professional detective, the redoubtable Sergeant Cuff, but an outcast, the weird Ezra Jennings, succeeds in accounting for the dia- mond’s theft, through sympathy and sheer luck as much as through scientific ratiocination.’ Nor is the Moonstone restored to its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., but it is just and admirable when the wealthy farmers do not calculate their losses to the gleaners. Giving and taking prove strangely unequal flows of inputs and outputs: litter, theft, depletion, generosity, and inversion again and again take the place of calculable exchange. Rhyme and meter are especially...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Rape was among the crimes most affected by jurisdictional variety, and its sense was ambiguous, ranging from sin to theft to personal injury. English common law eventually defined rape in terms of consent, as male penetration of a woman’s body against her will (see Coke 1644 : 60). But the older...