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French Theories in China and the Chinese Theoretical (Re)construction
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 249–267.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to reflect on the legacy of Maoism. Inspired by these theorists, this article puts forward a theoretical construction of world poetics that is not founded merely on Western or Eastern literature, and is not simply Eastern and Western literary poetics put together, but offers a new theory, based...
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On Imposed Interpretation and Chinese Construction of Literary Theory
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2018
... its literary significations. It is characterized by interpreting literary texts with a prepositioned mode of subjective intention in an attempt to reach a conclusion conforming to the critic’s intentions and theoretical doctrines taken off-field and from the critic’s own preconditioned logical...
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Ethos, Poetics, and the Literary Public Sphere
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (2): 221–243.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and auctoritas . A crucial prerequisite of this evolution was the shift in the presumed medium of European rhetorical poetics, from orality to writing to print. This argument has consequences for Habermas's general account of communicative rationality and is intended to suggest an alternate theoretical framework...
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Opening the Cultural Mind: Translation and the Modern Chinese Literary Canon
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 13–27.
Published: 01 March 2008
... literary and theoretical writings. By investigating the assimilation of translations into the Chinese literary canon, this essay focuses on a hybridized political and cultural discourse that marks a radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities in modern Chinese literature. The call for reshaping...
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Becoming-Obscure: A Constant in the Development of Modern Chinese Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Chen Yongguo Both historically and theoretically, this essay traces the development of modern Chinese poetry, including the Chinese symbolists of the 1920s, the modernists of the 1930s, the Nine Leaves of the 1940s, the obscurists of the 1970s, and the post-obscurists of the Third Generation...
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On the Discrimination of Influences
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 481–507.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Andrew Elfenbein Although influence remains a pervasive term in literary criticism, little has changed in its theoretical framework since the work of Harold Bloom in the early 1970s. This essay argues that adaptations of findings in cognitive and social science open up more finely nuanced means...
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The Sacred Clade and the Rhizomatic Dis-ease of History
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 43–66.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Anthony Kubiak The recent past has seen a shift away from more philosophically complex, theoretically dense approaches to literary criticism (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, phenomenology) in favor of more material or “empirical” (historiographical, historical materialist) approaches...
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Maravall's Post-Hegelian Roots
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 319–340.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-Hegelian historiography illuminates the original stakes of early modern periodization and their radical deformation over time. In the process, his work not only facilitates a reassessment of many of the conventional claims made for the Spanish baroque but, more important, establishes a theoretical...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and journalistic articles, authors and studios alike reflected on the importance of preparing fiction for adaptation. The capacity of authors to imagine the afterlives of their prose works at the moment of composition may be called the “transmedial possibility” of fiction. Transmedial possibility, the theoretical...
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Return to Tiraboschi: On Italian Literary Canon Formation and National Identity
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 285–304.
Published: 01 September 2015
...- and nineteenth-century literary historiography, analyzing the political, teleological agenda of De Sanctis’s Storia della letteratura italiana (1870–71) while revealing the equally powerful theoretical underpinnings of Tiraboschi’s vision of the Italian canon. Tiraboschi’s own Storia della letteratura italiana...
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Lessons Learned from Latin America
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 175–191.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Oswald de Andrade formulated in his 1928 “Manifesto antropófago.” “Who eats whom?” they asked. And, “Is it bad?” For humanists, thanks to theoretical contributions in literary studies by Jorge Luis Borges, and for the range of arts by Luis Camnitzer, scholars north and south have been learning...
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With Chinese Characteristics
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 309–322.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Theo D’haen Abstract The articles at the center of this issue of MLQ , Wang Ning’s “French Theories in China and the Chinese Theoretical (Re)construction,” Zhang Jiang’s “On Imposed Interpretation and Chinese Construction of Literary Theory,” and Zhu Liyuan’s “Hillis Miller on the End of Literature...
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What Is an Author? Old Answers to a New Question
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... creative God or passive scribe must be replaced by a focus on the middle ranges of literary agency, which in turn requires theoretical elaboration. Premodern tropes of authorial activity, such as the metaphor of authorship as textile labor, gain a much fuller range of complexity and nuance when...
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Translating Style: Flaubert’s Influence on English Narrative Prose
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 193–217.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of the nineteenth century shows that the novels and stories alone did not bring about a widespread shift in English prose style. Before such a transformation could happen, his theoretical statements about style in the correspondence needed to be shared with and interpreted for a new audience. Flaubert’s fiction did...
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Form and Contentment
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Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 2000
... reader bereft of the category of form, the subject matter of literary
and cultural analysis loses all standing as a theoretical object, an object
1 The label New Formalist is old. In “The Heresy of Paraphrase,” Cleanth Brooks
reports it as an “epithet” that Alfred...
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The Ghosts of Modernity
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 270–276.
Published: 01 June 1999
... of
“the book to come” [ ki liure d’auenir], and Derrida’s theoretical economies,
first that of supplementarity (invoked by Rabatk) and then that of the spec-
trality of ghosts as vestiges of the past that has never been present in several
subsequent works, most recently in Specters of Marx.4 Indeed...
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Diglossia: The Early Modern Reinvention of Mythological Discourse
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and even brilliant close readings. Here, as elsewhere in the more theoretical sections of her study, unwieldy technical expositions diminish the efficacy of her larger historical analysis. Yet the erudition on display in both her assessment of the critical tradition and her interpretations of primary texts...
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Post-Marxism: The Opiate of the Intellectuals
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 201–225.
Published: 01 June 1997
...-forming, emerging and disappearing in
the wake of the failure of economic class as the essential and perma-
nent form of collective identity.
This theoretical move beyond the fundamental Marxist claim that
history is intelligible in terms of the development of productive forces
may appear...
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Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 March 2014
... copious and subtle to be bound by any single category
or method” (112). Johnson is sensing a kindred spirit. The animating force
of the book is not so much a commitment to its theoretical agenda as a
genuine affinity for the kind of turbulent writing that the theory tries to
explain, and when...
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Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 106–111.
Published: 01 March 2014
... a subject too copious and subtle to be bound by any single category
or method” (112). Johnson is sensing a kindred spirit. The animating force
of the book is not so much a commitment to its theoretical agenda as a
genuine affinity for the kind of turbulent writing that the theory tries to
explain...
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