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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 June 1941
...G. F. Sensabaugh By John Banks. Edited by Thomas Marshall Howe Blair. Columbia University Press, 1939. Pp. vii + 143. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 G. F. Sen~abaugh 325 The Unhappy Favourite or The Earl of Essex. By JOHN BANKS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 412–415.
Published: 01 December 1982
... condition. And not only did most of Gissing’s unhappiness result from acts of seemingly perverse folly, but he remained restless and discontented even when from time to time he escaped from the unhappy consequences of his own errors. One dimension of John Halperin’s success is that his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 315–330.
Published: 01 December 1981
... he tells the damsel who upbraids him for being “a knyght wyveles” that “to take my pleasaunce with peramours, that woll I refuse: in prencipall for drede of God. . . . [for] who that usyth peramours shall be unhappy, and all thynge unhappy that is aboute them” (pp. 270-71). Lancelot...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 410–412.
Published: 01 December 1982
... and become dissatisfied, as dissatisfied per- haps as he was with his own socioeconomic condition. And not only did most of Gissing’s unhappiness result from acts of seemingly perverse folly, but he remained restless and discontented even when from time to time he escaped from the unhappy...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 368–371.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the book to its larger question: what was sincerity’s cost? As Schwartz explains, “Sincerity’s success was, indeed, costly” (4). Many Puritans, for example, “found the prospect of self-disclosure grueling” (46). In Unmoored the Puritans quickly become a “sensitive, often unhappy people,” exhibiting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 June 1997
... works mainly to the advantage of the overall argu- ment. It may confuse the inattentive reader, but it adds texture and breadth. Gray’s notion of the divided subject is indebted to Hegel’s analysis of “unhappy consciousness” in the Phenomenology, and it is supplemented, to great benefit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (4): 507–508.
Published: 01 December 1945
... Stehr’s views ; their significance is brought out by analytical and critical judgments. Moreover, an at- tenipt, though somewhat limited, has been made to point out change anti progression in Stehr’s thinking. The author is at his best in deal- ing with Stehr’s portrayal of unhappy, tragic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (2): 184–185.
Published: 01 June 1958
... picture of my own heart in those moments when I feel desolate and severed from the world. I took up the book with pleasure, till the shadow grew deeper and deeper. While he [Werther] was unhappy I could sympathize with him, but that a man should yield to and cherish such a morbid state...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 123–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
...,” to the British public, rather than to her sister nations. Focusing on an immediate, political argument—the desirability of war, for instance, or of greater vigor in war—the texts tend to show increasing public agreement about it. They do not engage in much of Thomson’s unhappy reflection on the weakness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (2): 185–187.
Published: 01 June 1958
.... It was a true picture of my own heart in those moments when I feel desolate and severed from the world. I took up the book with pleasure, till the shadow grew deeper and deeper. While he [Werther] was unhappy I could sympathize with him, but that a man should yield to and cherish such a morbid state...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (2): 189–203.
Published: 01 June 1946
... Court of King Bantam 1685 Unfortunate Ha#y Lady 1686- Unfortunate Bride Unfortunute Bride 1688 Dumb Virgin Unhappy Mistake Wandering Beauty Unhappy Mistake 1688 Agnes de Cartro Fair jilt...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 161–164.
Published: 01 March 1942
... by the unhappy experience in the blacking warehouse which he recorded as fiction in Dazid Copperfield. The parallel with Philoctetes cannot be made to go on all fours in connection with any one of these writers. Philoctetes had his bow before he acquired his wound, and he was never able...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 187–197.
Published: 01 June 1964
... no better than himself? Would you seriously, of malice prepense, cultivate in that unconscious man the power to think? Then he would become conscious,-and much smaller,- and very unhappy. Now he is simple and great like an elemental force. Nothing can touch him but the curse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 227–235.
Published: 01 September 1961
... the worse because a man of feeble eyes cannot look upon it, so love is none the worse because wretches complain of it. A moment of thought is required to connect this with the next line, “No wele is worth, that may no sowe dryen.” If we think of a “wrecche” as an unhappy person, however, we can...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the highest joke, in a word the laugh that laughs—silence please—at that which is unhappy.” Although the ethical laugh, aimed bitterly at injustice, may seem the most immediately relevant to a tragicomic ethics, the risus purus, as the highest order, reveals the purpose that laughter serves in Beckett’s work...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (1): 27–32.
Published: 01 March 1944
... the unhappy situation of the Duke of Osuna between 1621 and his death in 1624: Chinchilla (to Don Rodrigo) Todos te echan maldiciones, Porque siendo espafiol hayas Afrentado a tu naci6n Y con ella la...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (2): 146–151.
Published: 01 June 1948
... on the part of theater-goers to offer congratulations and thanks to Hauptmann on his approaching seventieth birthday, and also to the masterly production by Max Reinhardt. Both dramatist and pro- ducer seem to have been unhappy about the end. In the printed text Clausen commits suicide...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (4): 367.
Published: 01 December 1955
... reveals his innermost soul or thoughts without disguise or concealment. So it is possible for us to detect three distinct, char- acteristic phases in the evolution of this disguise. In his unhappy, poverty- stricken youth his bitter feelings sought refuge in satire or irony, during his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (2): 173–199.
Published: 01 June 1992
... culminates. With the appearance of Revealed Religion, woman and self-consciousness explicitly meet. This transition between the anguished cry of the Unhappy (Ironic) Consciousness, “God is dead,” (PG, p. 547; PS, par. 752), and the yearned-for revelation of the “emergence . . . of Spirit...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 March 1961
... convincingly argues some of the main points I was trying to make-namely, that Dante feels a deep compassion for the two unhappy Ravenna lovers but does not absolve them, that consequently the episode is “truly infernal” instead of ec- centric to the total design of the Inferno, and that Francesca’s...