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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 582–585.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Andrew H. Miller The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel . By Catherine Gallagher. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 209 pp. How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719-1900 . By Nancy Armstrong. New...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 602–605.
Published: 01 December 2012
...James Kuzner James Kuzner is assistant professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is author of Open Subjects: English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods, and the Virtue of Vulnerability (2011); of a forthcoming book tentatively titled How Shakespeare Thinks...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Balzac is that his novels demonstrate that while men may “make their own history … they do not make it just as they please” (Marx 1994 : 188). In this direction, La peau de chagrin entangles its protagonist’s wish for economic sovereignty with the magical thinking that the novel everywhere paints...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 65–80.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the repetitions of political power. Poetry is especially productive terrain for this investigation. Poetic “numbers” and “measures” are intrinsically quantitative. There are certain thoughts about the repetitive character of political and economic power that poetry is particularly adept at thinking. 1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 250–256.
Published: 01 June 2020
... on sentences, and one could imagine our species at one point or another getting along fine without it. Elsewhere I’ve said why I think poetry persists, and won’t revisit my thesis. But in her introduction Levinson gives a lot of subtle and interesting attention to the many senses both of “thinking...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (4): 454–456.
Published: 01 December 1991
...Harry Levin Angus Fletcher. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. xi + 310 pp. $37.50. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 REVIEWS
Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. By ANGUS FLETCHER.
Cambridge, Mass...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 567–572.
Published: 01 December 1993
...Bruce Robbins Bromwich David. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992. 257 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Politics Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking. By David
Bromwich. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992. 257 pp. $30.00...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 277–304.
Published: 01 September 1995
... of Heterodox Thinking
Ruth Shklar
For the most part, critics have approached the problem of dissent in
The Book of Margery Kempe as something curiously external to its
author’s purpose. Either they accept Kempe’s orthodoxy at face value,
reading the accusations of heresy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 June 1975
...Enoch Brater Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE THINKING EYE IN BECKETT’S FILM
By ENOCHI~RATER
Samuel Beckett’s twenty-two-minute “comic and unreal” Film,’ pre-
sentirig Buster Keaton in his last performarice on screen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... thinking” in the novel. References Alexander Sam . 2012 . “ Joyce’s Census: Character, Demography, and the Problem of Population in Ulysses .” Novel 45 , no. 3 : 433 – 54 . Alexander Sam . 2019 . “ Social Network Analysis and the Scale of Modernist Fiction .” Modernism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2011
... assumed the power he did in Eliot's thinking because he addressed many of the concerns Eliot had begun to develop from symbolist poetics, particularly its critiques of empiricism and its engagement in the infinite ironies involving the status of subjectivity. Bradley also transformed these concerns...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 225–251.
Published: 01 June 2021
... approaches, this essay argues that it is precisely the hermeneutic attention to particular works that has allowed critical humanists to think about literary practice within the most encompassing purview. For those in this tradition, “world literature” can never be a stable object but is a speculative...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... becoming human as a temporary letting go of his divinity; for Rossetti and Hopkins, this models a way of being and thinking in which the subject is untied from an ego desirous of control and power. Both writers consequently embraced the interdependence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Trinity...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of both literature and natural history, talking birds—and also monkeys—symbolized the point where thinking and material substances met. However, instead of offering a synthesis of those two substances, as the human does in Cartesian philosophy, talking animals highlighted a point of contention where...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 309–328.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Rather, these categories constituted different ways of thinking about time, place, and identity. Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA . His most recent book is Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011). © 2012 by University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
...-translated, first, because they appear simultaneously in multiple languages and, second, because they engage formally, thematically, and typographically with the theory and practice of translation. Chang and Voge help us think about the relationship between modernism and world literature. They show...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 277–292.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the bankruptcy of the category of minor literature when one thinks about world literature. Several examples from lusophone writers and others point to the need to rethink the national categorization of literature. Instead of seeing some literatures as minor, Medeiros proposes seeing them as “eccentric...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 239–257.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., folks”—en route from Romanticism to Leavisism and New Criticism, with a quick nod to Matthew Arnold. This essay works against this habit, introducing and analyzing the intellectual legacy of the idealist philosopher T. H. Green, whose life and work inspired generations of liberal-thinking students...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (1): 81–104.
Published: 01 March 2016
... intellectual engagement with the work of Henry Hallam. Barrett Browning’s remarks in the margins of Hallam’s books and in a historiographical essay of her own reveal a poet thinking about her craft in the context of a transnational history of poetry. Barrett Browning’s idiosyncratic prosody becomes another...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (2): 143–173.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents...
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