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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 369–397.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Richard T. Gray Economics and aesthetics emerged in the mid-eighteenth century as scientific enterprises concerned fundamentally with questions of value. But whereas economics sought to jettison imaginary and subjective investments from its theory of value and to insist on principles...
View articletitled, Imaginary <span class="search-highlight">Value</span> and the <span class="search-highlight">Value</span> of the Imaginary: J. G. Schlosser, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and the Convergence of Aesthetics and Economics in German Romanticism
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (3): 390–394.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Kathleen Blake Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain . By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. University of Washington 2009 Kathleen Blake is professor of English at the University of Washington...
View articletitled, Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating <span class="search-highlight">Value</span> in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (3): 297–328.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Marius Hentea This essay explores the conceptions of the classic, and of literary value more generally, in T. S. Eliot's “What Is a Classic?” and Matthew Arnold's “Study of Poetry.” Eliot's address heavily depends on Arnold's study, but there are significant points of difference, especially when...
View articletitled, The Silence of the Last Poet: Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, and the <span class="search-highlight">Value</span> of the Classic
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Roberto M. Dainotto It is often assumed that a special function of imaginative and fictional writing and a special aesthetic value as a distinctive feature of literary prose are the fruits of what has been called the “invention of literature” between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 616–618.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., and the Ascription of Literary Value . By Mack Edward . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . x + 320 pp . © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Reviews
Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature.
By Bruce Thomas Boehrer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
View articletitled, Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary <span class="search-highlight">Value</span>
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 139–172.
Published: 01 June 2017
... is unavoidable: people differ, and so do aesthetic and moral preferences. So if subjectivity is inescapable, we should accept chaotic diversity in a spirit of courteous toleration. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 axiology literary value methods of reading revaluation aesthetic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 203–226.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Ben Parker Abstract The production of abstract value—not limited to the transformation of labor under the exigencies of capitalism but extending to modes of signification undermined by abstract equivalence—plays an unprecedented yet overlooked role in the major novels of Thomas Hardy: unprecedented...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 105–115.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth to value most highly is the persuasive case the book makes for attending to practices of quotation and summary in literary studies. Quotation and summary serve many purposes in academic life but are rarely remarked on, let alone celebrated, in scholarship. Quotation...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 297–319.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Sharon Marcus Abstract Through a reading of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis , which readers inside and outside the academy have valued for decades, this essay teases out how literary critical value is often aligned with scale: big claims, minutely close readings, and the ability to move gracefully between...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 March 1979
...JOHN M. HILL © 1979 University of Washington 1979 BE0 WULF, VALUE, AND THE FRAME OF TIME
By JOHN M. HILL
For .J. R. R. Tolkien the Beowulfpoet-that consistent voice that
narrates the story-surveys a doomed world from an enlightened pres...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 37–52.
Published: 01 March 1979
...CHARLES PALLISER © 1979 University of Washington 1979 “A CONSCIOUS PRIZE”
MORAL AND AESTHETIC VALUE IN
THE SPOILS OF POYNTON
By CHARLESPALLISER
The somewhat notorious critical controversy over...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 June 1989
...A. C. GOODSON J. Mcgann Jerome. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii + 279 pp. $27.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 A. C. GOODSON 197
Social Values and Poetic Acb: The Historical Judgment...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (3): 407–409.
Published: 01 September 1940
... Values. By A. CLOSS. London : George
Allen and Unwin, 1938. Pp. 478. 18 s.
An authoritative work of almost five hundred pages, in English,
on the genius of German lyric poetry in the nature of a historical
survey of its formal and metaphysical values, written during one...
View articletitled, The Genius of the German Lyric. an Historic Survey of Its Formal and Metaphysical <span class="search-highlight">Values</span>
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 372–383.
Published: 01 December 1973
...F. Xavier Baron LOVE IN CHRETIEN'S CHARRETY'E
REVERSED VALUES AND ISOLATION*
By F. XAVIERBARON
For all the attention which Chrktien's Chevalier de la...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 369–393.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Günter Leypoldt Abstract How can we relate the quantitative presence of literary artifacts to their ability to make a difference, and how does the problem of scale define public accounts of what can be considered relevant literary value? The idea of a singular space of reception (one literary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of historical narration. This recuperation of his persona intervenes in an ongoing dispute in the field of historical poetics about the value of formalism and cognitivism. The essay aims to show that the concept of thinking in verse is valuable where it has been least applied: in reclaiming the value...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Amit S. Yahav Abstract This essay examines the theory of leisure that Samuel Johnson presents in his Idler series and that Jane Austen engages in her novel Mansfield Park . Just as productivity and vigilance are becoming unassailable values, Johnson and Austen publish popular works designed...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 319–339.
Published: 01 September 2011
... surplus (within which information has no a priori value). Three examples are analyzed in depth: the heroscopía from book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid , in which Roman history is portrayed as a triumphal procession; Astolfo's voyage to the moon in canto 34 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso , with its inventory...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 419–438.
Published: 01 September 2011
... writer Elizabeth Akers Allen against an unhinged upstart, Alexander M. W. Ball, who claimed to have written her poem “Rock Me to Sleep.” A close examination of their dispute raises broad questions about the value of poetry, both in the rapidly professionalizing world of later nineteenth-century America...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 June 2012
... journeys. Uneasily yoking together the past and the present in the same physical space, the date line served as a flashpoint for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates over whether time was productively rooted in local and regional values and experiences or was universally abstract and placeless...
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