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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 383–386.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Timothy Attanucci [email protected] The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary . By Jason Groves . New York : Fordham University Press , 2020 . vii + 174 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 Since its coining...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (3): 343–357.
Published: 01 September 1943
...Douglas W. Alden Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ORIGINS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS
IN PROUST
By DOUGLASW. ALDEN
In the interview which he gave Elie-J. Bois of the Temps (Nov.
12, 1913) just prior...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 530–533.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Kurt Koenigsberger The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious . By Lawtoo Nidesh . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2013 . x + 366 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 “An embrace in death” punctuates the closing pages...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 299–322.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Valerio Amoretti Abstract This essay uses W. R. Bion’s object-relations theory to argue that the formal experiments in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable demand a distinctive kind of psychic work from readers. It describes this work in terms of containment , an unconscious mechanism that supports...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and unconscious mind. It follows the history of such criticism through the rise of psychoanalysis in the humanities to the waning of its influence in the early years of the present century. The article argues that our postpsychoanalytic present is the ideal moment to reexamine the parallels and divergences...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 477–479.
Published: 01 December 1973
... and the Unconscious,” is divided in to the following chap-
ters: “The Mythic Perspective of the Microcosm: Preciosa and the Wind”;
“The Mythic Perspective of the Macrocosm: CicadaThe Esthetic Perspec-
tive: Girl Drowned in the Well”; and “The Psychological Perspective: As
Soon As Five Years Pass.” Part...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 372–374.
Published: 01 September 1964
... critical tradition, he can postulate rather than argue that
the characters in the novels are best understood as unconscious projections
of “Richardson’s central psychological division” (p. 16 l), a view similar to
that argued by Brian Downs in his study Richardson (London and New
York, 1928...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (3): 329–364.
Published: 01 September 2005
... informs his growth as a poet, and how it contributes to
the early twentieth century’s philosophical and artistic discourse on the
psyche and the unconscious. Though it frequently features them,
the recognition scene is actually not about ghosts at all; instead, Eliot
uses it both to explore...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (3): 231–247.
Published: 01 September 1980
... or unconscious association can penetrate beneath surfaces, reveal-
ing the underlying truth.
A brief recapitulation of the events that occur while Imogen is in dis-
guise will demonstrate how a changed mode of perception leads to a
restoration of family ties. First she meets her brothers, who...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 81–117.
Published: 01 March 2021
...? The style is Eliot’s.” Contemporary scholarship has not attributed this essay to Eliot. 14 Jarrell makes a similar formulation in his early essay on Auden, “Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden’s Poetry” (1941), asserting not only that poetry “represents the unconscious . . . as well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (3): 359–371.
Published: 01 September 1970
..., lies, it seems to me, in the unconscious sources of
A Passage to India. The sphere of the repressed, that absent reality
falsified by the mind’s anxieties, is present everywhere in this
reverberating work. It is the groundwork of its mythopoeic strength.
But Forster does not always handle...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 504–508.
Published: 01 December 1968
...” and not merely
an authorial personality. He roots his argument in Forster’s fine essay
“Anonymity,” where Forster talks about the author having two person-
alities, one on the surface that bears his name (his conscious self) and the
other,deep down, which is anonymous and general (his unconscious self...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (4): 485–488.
Published: 01 December 1966
... of the Cambridge years, both
of which are generously provided in Stone's book and are crucial to a com•
prehensive understanding of the quest.
Forster's problem-that of resolving the conflicts between seen and un•
seen, public and private, male and female, the conscious and unconscious
minds...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (3): 522–524.
Published: 01 September 1941
... (the
conservation of energy) and dissimilation (differentiation ; the need
for clarity) in the almost wholly unconscious striving of the lin-
guistic community toward linguistic efficiency, i.e., toward a seem-
ingly necessary state of balance between clarity and the conserva...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 360–361.
Published: 01 September 1945
... of
the physiological bases of esthetic psychology.
The author’s recognition of the important role of the unconscious
mind both in life generally and in the creation of literature is quite
in line not only with the findings of psychologists, but, one may note,
with the convictions of innumerable artists...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (3): 361–362.
Published: 01 September 1945
... not
exclude the possibility that much may yet be learned by a study of
the physiological bases of esthetic psychology.
The author’s recognition of the important role of the unconscious
mind both in life generally and in the creation of literature is quite
in line not only with the findings...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 264–267.
Published: 01 September 1952
..., and to observe the recurrence of
these unit ideas and their combination with other ideas. The method
also works to analyze the concepts of a generation or a period, to
break down the mass of unconscious assumptions, characteristic turns
of thought, etc., into their component (and often very complex...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (1): 77–89.
Published: 01 March 1993
... of prolonged clinical exchanges. Yet, since even in the clinic
there are no raw data except the analysand’s talk (no privileged infor-
mation about childhood or even about unconscious fantasies), applied
analysis of contemporary subjects is reasonable outside the clinic, too,
I want to thank Martin...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2000) 61 (1): 181–206.
Published: 01 March 2000
... access to the cultural terms
of literary production but its now strategic, now unconscious repro-
cessing of such idées reçues?
Seen in this way, formalism is an account of what makes things
work, or what makes out of language a work. For those interested...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 475–477.
Published: 01 December 1973
... poetry and modern symbology. The book consists of preface, intro-
duction, two main parts, bibliography, and index. Part I, called
“Ego-consciousness and the Unconscious,” is divided in to the following chap-
ters: “The Mythic Perspective of the Microcosm: Preciosa and the Wind...
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