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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 464–474.
Published: 01 December 1949
...Alice Stayert Brandenburg Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 THE THEME OF THE MYSTERIOUS MOTHER By ALICESTAYERT BRANDENBURG When Fanny Burney read a copy of Horace Walpole’s Th.e Myste- rious Mother, which she had...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (4): 532–533.
Published: 01 December 1949
... Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme. By VIRGIL B. HELTZEL. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No. 16, 1947. Pp. viii 4- 135. $3.00. Of England‘s royal mistresses, few have attained such literary fame, quanti- tatively...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 582–602.
Published: 01 December 1969
...G. M. Martin Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THEME AND STRUCTURE IN ASTURIAS’ HOMBRES DE MAE By G. M. MARTIN Twenty years after publication, Hombres de maiz is still more or less a mystery even...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 December 1969
.... Shea’s quotations and observa- tions will introduce the readers to some of these problems. HENRYJ. CADBURY Haverford, Pennsylvania The Demonic Imagination: Style and Theme in French Romantic Poetry. By JOHN PORTERHOUSTON. Baton Rouge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 298–307.
Published: 01 September 1970
...Rodney Delasanta Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE THEME OF JUDGMENT IN THE CANTERBURY TALES By RODNEYDELASANTA Despite some recent animadversions on the architectonic function of the Parson’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (4): 420–432.
Published: 01 December 1972
...Robert Kauf Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 ∗ An abbreviated version of this paper was read at the National Meeting of the AATG, November 24, 1972, Atlanta, Georgia. VERANTWORTUNG THE THEME OF KAFKA’S...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 1974
...Steven G. Kellman Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 IMAGINING THE NOVEL DEAD RECENT VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY PROUST By STEVENG. KELLMAN It is now twenty years since 1953, the annus mirubilis in which Alain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 169–182.
Published: 01 June 1978
...CHENG LOK CHUA Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 ∗ The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the preparation of this article. THE INTERNATIONAL THEME IN ANDR~MALRAUX’S...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 June 1978
... in its influence on the direction of future Mon taigne scholarship. FLOYDGRAY University of Michigan Ruins and Empire: The Euolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature. By LAURENCEGOLDSTEIN. Pittsburgh...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (4): 390–402.
Published: 01 December 1979
...Cynthia A. Davis Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 UNFOLDING FORM NARRATIVE APPROACH AND THEME IN THE REALMS OF GOLD By CYNTHIAA. DAVIS Halfway into Margaret Drabble’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 1988
.... Eliot’ THE RISING OF DILSEY’S BONES THE THEME OF SPARAGMOS IN THE SOUND AND THE FURY By JOSEPH ADAMSON In a famous chapter of Thus Spoke Zuruthustru, Nietzsche satirizes the myth of redemption, a myth that, though its source...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 366–367.
Published: 01 December 1956
...Edward Hubler Stirling Brents. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Pp. viii + 212. $3.75. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 REVIEWS Unity in Shakes/warian Tragedy: Thc Znterplay of Theme and Character. By BRENTSSTIRLING. New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 183–198.
Published: 01 September 1957
...Robert R. Heitner Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 LESSING’S MANIPULATION OF A SINGLE COMIC THEME By ROBERTR. HEITNER The establishment of a national theater supplied with an adequate repertory of original dramas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 305–308.
Published: 01 December 1957
... Parliatnent just prior to Richard’s return from Ireland in 1395.16 In these critical times, Chaucer’s sharp satire on a controversial theme must have stirred his audience. The Pardoner shows 11s that Chaucer could give a biting, but huniorous, criticism of a difficult issue. If we look...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 260–269.
Published: 01 September 1966
... by sacrifices another’s body is slain, whereas by obedieitce rite slay our oioii will. Gregory the Great, Moralia, Bk. XXXV THE CLERK’S TALE AND THE THEME OF OBEDIENCEX By JOHN P. MCCALL...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 September 1966
...Marjorie Perloff Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no inore, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead. . . . THE CONSOLATION THEME IN YEATS’S “IN MEMORY...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 90–91.
Published: 01 March 1961
... in Italy and France. ARTHURH. NETHERCOT Northwestern University Theme and Structure in Swift’s “Tale of a Tub.” By RONALDPAULSON. New Haven: Yale University Press, Yale Studies in English, Vol. 143, 1960. Pp. xiv + 259. $4.50...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 114–123.
Published: 01 June 1955
...Robert J. Clements Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 PRINCES AND LITERATURE: A THEME OT; RENAISSANCE EMBLEM BOOKS By ROBERTJ. CLEMENTS Even if the Renaissance did not have Marxists to view literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (4): 323–332.
Published: 01 December 1952
...Brents Stirling Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THEME AND CHARACTER IN HAMLET By BRENTSSTIRLING As the motion picture Hamlet opens, a disembodied voice is heard to say, “This is a play about a man who could not make up his mind...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 115–128.
Published: 01 June 1985
...Richard H. Osberg Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 COLLOCATION AND THEME IN THE MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRIC “FOWELES IN PE FRITH” By RICHARDH. OSBERG...