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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
... with the movies in mind . Authors are becoming canny. Why not kill three birds with one rock, they say, as they proceed to write with the serial rights, the book rights, and last but not least the movie rights in mind. —William Lord Wright, “Hints for Scenario Writers” twentieth-century American...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the enduring role of the Enlightenment and its tensions with Protestantism in the shaping of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature (17). One reason for this is that the Enlightenment is frequently conflated with the liberal republican ideals that sprang from it (autonomy, rationalism, free...
View articletitled, The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of <span class="search-highlight">American</span> <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 171–195.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Press . Huang Yunte . 2002 . Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature . Berkeley : University of California Press . Jacobs Carol . 2004 . “ What Does It Mean to Count? W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants .” MLN...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 491–515.
Published: 01 December 2017
... On the racial and class politics of What Diantha Did , see Rich 2005 and Scharnhurst 2000 . 15 On the scientific “experimentalism” of early twentieth-century American literature, see Cecire 2015 . 16 On the appropriation of scientific language and objectivity by modernist writers, see...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 256–259.
Published: 01 June 2011
... theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory, the other on Jack Kerouac's transcultural poetics. Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe . By Hampton Timothy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (2): 239–254.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... For instance, the account of seventeenth-century English literature includes some religious, philosophical, historical, and scienti c writing, but that of twentieth-century American literature covers only poetry, drama, and ction. Of course, this is the general tendency in literary histories: while one...
View articletitled, Cultivating a Common Literary Heritage: British Histories of English <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span> since World War II
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 266–268.
Published: 01 June 2011
... writes about cinema, recent and con-
temporary critical theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack Kerouac’s transcultural poetics.
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The Key...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 253–255.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., of The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early
Modern France and England (2010). He also writes about cinema, recent and con-
temporary critical theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 269–272.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., of The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early
Modern France and England (2010). He also writes about cinema, recent and con-
temporary critical theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., of The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early
Modern France and England (2010). He also writes about cinema, recent and con-
temporary critical theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 262–265.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack Kerouac’s transcultural poetics.
doi 10.1215/00267929-1161378
The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture.
By Bruce R...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (2): 272–276.
Published: 01 June 2011
... writes about cinema, recent and con-
temporary critical theory, and twentieth-century American literature. He is working
on two books, one on Montaigne, Shakespeare, and early modern political theory,
the other on Jack Kerouac’s transcultural poetics.
doi 10.1215/00267929-1161378
The Key...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 369–373.
Published: 01 September 2023
... in the canon of early twentieth-century African American literature,” but “to think critically about the terms and conditions of her ‘failure’” (190). Doing so opens up space for literary history to “account for writers that ‘opted out’ or otherwise refused to make the sort of compromises in their writing...
View articletitled, To Make Negro <span class="search-highlight">Literature</span>: Writing, Literary Practice, and African <span class="search-highlight">American</span> Authorship
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 255–268.
Published: 01 September 2012
... or working- class
realisms; and South American testimonio are just some of the more
notable expressions of this broader relationship of realism with com-
munist or left- subaltern politics in the twentieth century. Most of these
movements looked in some degree to European realist, naturalist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (1): 37–67.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in English at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Critical Conditions: Politics and the Death of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.” She has published articles in journals such as Against the Current and has essays forthcoming in Paideuma and in the collection Reading...
View articletitled, Making It Old: The Victorian/Modern Divide in <span class="search-highlight">Twentieth</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Century</span> <span class="search-highlight">American</span> Poetry
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
... (Bohrer 2005 ; Edwards 1992 ). Literary study has been slow to situate its history in these terms. There are several reasons for this. The dominant tradition of twentieth-century criticism demanded an exclusive focus on the written quality of literature, asserting its distinctness from...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 221–241.
Published: 01 June 2007
... new book projects: Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest , edited with Lois Parkinson Zamora (forthcoming), and American Neobaroques: Twentieth-Century Cycles of Rearticulation . “The Future Is Entirely Fabulous”:
The Baroque Genealogy of
Latin America’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (3): 259–284.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to English (in my translation, as I tried to imagine
Arlt through Piglia in late-twentieth-century American English)—is
like a hall of broken mirrors, or a perverted version of the children’s
game of telephone. As confusing as the connections may get, however...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 365–382.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... By
Sharon Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. x + 323 pp.
White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel. By Cather-
ine Jurca. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. viii + 238 pp.
The city is one of the great subjects of literature, both ancient...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 407–412.
Published: 01 December 1962
.... $5.00.
Brown, Deming. Soviet Attitudes toward American Writing. Princeton :
Princeton University Press, 1962. Pp. ix + 338. $6.00.
Chase, Richard (editor). Melville : A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood
Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., Twentieth Century Views, Spectrum...
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