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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (4): 419–443.
Published: 01 December 1998
...Martin Bidney © 1998 University of Washington 1998 Martin Bidney is professor of English at Binghamton University. He is author, most recently, of Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning (1997) . Virtuoso Translations as Visions of Water...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 99–114.
Published: 01 June 1979
...Ann Thompson Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 DEATH BY WATER THE ORIGINALITY OF SALMACIS AND HERMAPHRODITUS By ANNTHOMPSON Those who have read the Ovidiari erotic poems...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 117–131.
Published: 01 March 2009
... edition of Critical Theory and Performance (2007). “Unpath’d waters, undream’d shores”: Herbert Blau, Performing Doubles, and the Makeup of Memory in The Winter’s Tale Joseph Roach n the penultimate movement that begins the restorative denouement Ito Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 377–391.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Timothy D. O'Brien Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TROUBLING WATERS: THE FEMININE AND THE WIFE OF BATH’S PERFORMANCE By TIMOTHYD. O’BRIEN Chaucer’s construction of the Wife of Bath’s performance depends...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 March 1942
...Edward Godfrey Cox Ralston Cawley Robert. Princeton University Press, 1940. Pp. vii + 285. $3.75. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 Edward Godfrey Cox 123 Unpathed Waters, Studies in the Influence of the Voyagers on Eliza...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 265–270.
Published: 01 June 2006
...William Waters Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition . By John T. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature, 2003. 348 pp. University of Washington 2006 William Waters is associate professor at Boston University...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 345–347.
Published: 01 June 1965
...Harold A. Waters Jeune Simon. Paris: Librairie Marcel Didier, 1963. xi + 522 pp. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 CHARLES FEIDELSON, JR. 345 imaginative factors were far from simple in themselves. The idea of mecha- nism...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 267–272.
Published: 01 September 1959
...Harold A. Waters © 1959 University of Washington 1959 PAUL CLAUDEL AND THE SENSORY PARADOX By HAROLDA. WATERS In the theater and poetry of Paul Claude1 there are so many state- ments and situations that seem to go against...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (1): 27–29.
Published: 01 March 1960
... cliffs, silvery trees with beautiful singing birds-these things provide a colorful background as he moves along through a woodland. Then he comes to “a water” (line 107) which is described as swirling along, glowing with light reflected from precious stones in the bottom of the stream. From...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 June 1964
... reward for inspirational greatness. The deficient, unfulfilled nature of Mrs. Moore is further signified by her relationship to the novel’s motifs of tributary waters, the rivers and streams and water-tanks of India with their offer of ablution through self-immersion in the mysterious sea...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (2): 122–130.
Published: 01 June 1960
... imagery is overt. When the Old Woman says that “10s hijos llegan conio el agua,” we are dealing with simile.) The most obvious char- acteristic of the images is that they are often repeated. The frequent recurrence of such images as water and flowers, for example, needs no proof. Less...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (3): 242–253.
Published: 01 September 1987
... 245 Though its repercussions are widespread, the problem of knowledge has a focal point in Tom Jones: Jenny Jones, alias Mrs. Waters, and alias, quite appropriately, Mrs. Supple (wife of the gormandizing Parson Supple). Though Jenny herself is a minor character, she nonetheless...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (1): 59–83.
Published: 01 March 1999
..., to dig a three-and-a-quarter-miletunnel from Gauley’sJunction to Hawk’s Nest, West Virginia. The tunnel, on which two thousand men worked, would direct water from the nearby New River to a hydroelectric plant at Gauley Bridge, and the plant would sell the power to the Electro-Metallurgical...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (2): 271–279.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of essays and books in tenure decisions; the broader horizon is the relative value of books and essays in the scholarly work that we do. Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the humanities at Harvard University Press, broached the topic with an op-ed piece in PMLA in 2000, quickly followed by two...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 226–231.
Published: 01 September 1955
..., And waters force, force helping Gods to faile, With thy white armes upon my shoulders seeze, So sweete a burthen I will beare with eaze. The youth oft swimming to his Hero kinde, Had then swum over, but the way was blinde.6 The god will have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 401–413.
Published: 01 September 1965
.... Of all Coleridge’s techniques, repetition is the easiest to perceive. On its simplest level it affects us like a chant. “Water, water, every- where,” “a weary time, a weary time,” “alone, alone, all, all alone”- the doubling and tripling of words, lines, and stanzas are characteristic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 142–148.
Published: 01 June 1955
... of past scandals and repeat familiar folklore, night gradually comes to the city. As they call to one another, the river widens; the sounds of evening are heard, and the women are transformed into a stone and a tree “beside the rivering waters of, hitherandthithering waters of. Night...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 121–123.
Published: 01 March 1967
... drama of salvation which unfolds throughout Georges Bernanos’ works.. . as a contest between two elements, water and earth” (p. xiii). This ingenious but arbitrary and limiting thesis dominates her book. Each of the book’s six chapters tends to concentrate on a single work and to find within...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 1973
...; And said that, gathering leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. 54 DOROTHY WORDSWORTH’S JOURNALS “Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (3): 284–297.
Published: 01 September 1953
..., and the productive? But it is indeed this latter reference to the procreative principle that forms the basis for the choice of this metaphor, for Brentano perceives springtime as causing destructive rapids to flow in his soul, just as reviving sunlight makes frozen bodies of water course again.Io That which...