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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (3): 339–341.
Published: 01 September 1994
...Dana D. Nelson Sundquist Eric. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1993. ix + 705 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Nelson I Review 339 To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. By Eric Sund- quist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 525–529.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Eric Lindstrom Art’s Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism . By Pyle Forest . New York : Fordham University Press , 2014 . 328 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 This ambitious, intellectually captivating book gives appropriate conceptual form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2021
...René Johannes Kooiker [email protected] Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . ix + 320 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 West Indian literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (4): 327–337.
Published: 01 December 1984
... THE FIELD ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA IN THE WAKE OF KING LEAR* By WILLIAMH. MATCHETT There are a few literary works so successful-so thorough-that they have exhausted the possibilities in the areas they have ex- plored. Each...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 142–148.
Published: 01 June 1955
...Theodore B. Dolmatch Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 NOTES AND QUERIES CONCERNING THE REVISIONS IN FINNEGANS WAKE By THEODOREB. DOLMATCH “Anna Livia Plurabelle,” where, according to Padraic Coluni, “James Joyce’s...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (4): 541–575.
Published: 01 December 2014
...José María Rodríguez García It is generally assumed that Marxist revolutionary platforms were, in the wake of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, fatally eroded by government decentralization, a burgeoning civil society, and a medium-level welfare state. These phenomena made...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 319–347.
Published: 01 September 2020
... follow Marlowe and Nashe’s model in Dido, Queen of Carthage by looking to Chaucer as the poetic authority for classical myth. Like Chaucer, both playwrights foreground the destruction left in empire’s wake. A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines a retelling of Dido’s story that privileges her authority over...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (1): 54–72.
Published: 01 March 1980
... When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red strown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.’ The silent projections of the magic lantern must have recalled to Hardy his own...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (4): 397–419.
Published: 01 December 2018
... suggests, or is derived from a history of reading practices in the wake of John Stuart Mill’s ( 1859 ) famous preferences for overhearing personal meditative poems, or (following Käte Hamburger’s [ 1993 ] suggestion, taken up by Jonathan Culler [2015: 105–9]) stems from an idea of lyric based on its place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 72–85.
Published: 01 March 1951
...- syncrasies, presents a rich study in the influence of the dream in its various forms, waking and sleeping. Grillparzer, who was so singu- larly free from superstition and whose very religion was moderate and rationalistic, presents his dreams, both in his autobiographical and in his...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 204–207.
Published: 01 June 1981
...”! What has to be imagined in this event is not, however, an unspeakable word but an unimaginable use of words such as we find in Finne- 206 KEVIEU’S gam Wake. Korg engages this matter in a chapter devoted to the language of‘ the Wake...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (4): 275–281.
Published: 01 December 1957
... on this point: neither Ulysses nor Finnegans Wake follows an exclusively imitative form. Joyce not only interrupts the flow of minds with remarks in the third person, but employs sym- bolic devices that give order and meaning to this flow. James R. Bakcr 277...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 1998
... Marxism of Althusser) and the “wake of theory” (the years of post- structuralism, of fascination first with China and then with New York, and of the dissolution of the totalizing gestures of theory proper), as well as between Tel @el and Injini. He argues that the early literary @*se deposition...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 68–79.
Published: 01 March 1966
... visits at the end of the chapter. This fall (or “phall,” as Joyce was to call it in Finnegans Wake) leads directly to the themes of mortal sin and 1 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Compass Books (New York, 1964), p. 208. 70...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 285–291.
Published: 01 September 1988
... truth. After Cicero (and Macrobius), a strict distinction is established between somatic experience and waking visions like that of Boethius. In a disturbingly distorted account of the poem, Russell identifies the Dream ofthe Rood as the first English dream vision, but then asserts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (2): 215–217.
Published: 01 June 1991
... is oxymoronic (a word made for Finne- gans Wake if there ever was one); its “meaning”is to be found in the antic joy with which it celebrates contradiction and paradox. “If we regard UZysses as a book in praise of folly, an encyclopedia of comedy, as intent on humorous perfor- mance as on conventional...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (1): 81–84.
Published: 01 March 1947
... the death-moth be Your mournful Piyche nor the downy owl A ‘partner in your sor;owss mysteries- For shade to shade will come too drowsily And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul’(l1. 5-10). Melancholy in its simple state is invisible...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (3): 277–285.
Published: 01 September 1948
...-revelations delivered through the agency of sleep in a dream or through a waking vision. It is my present purpose to show the back- ground of this divine revelation in rabbinical and Neo-Platonic theory. Jewish commentators, in particular, built up an elaborate theory of such revelations, because...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (3): 363–379.
Published: 01 September 1995
..., books are less like buildings than like bodies, and build- ings are like bodies too. Bloomer’s book takes off from, and to some extent imitates, the form of Finnegans Wake. Her Wake may be more familiar to artists (one of Cage’s last collaborations with Cunningham was his performance of the Wake...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 March 1940
... drowning Lethe be. 14. Wake but to kindle lust, and boldly think Heaven has no Eyes, but the departed Sun; May thy new marri’d at Adult’ries wink, Both soon seek Strangers, and each other shun. 15. Sleep you who Ruin States by Trades Encrease, Rich Traffickers...