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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 139–167.
Published: 01 June 2020
... into poetry, Lowth—with much ambivalence—also ushered more passion, enthusiasm, and subjectivity into neoclassical English poetry. Despite his attempts to minimize the formal and theological weaknesses he found in the prophetic text, his scholarly project also transmitted them into English literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 546–549.
Published: 01 December 2021
...John Whittier Treat john.treat@yale.edu Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival . By Wai Chee Dimock . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 228 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The roller-coaster ride that is Weak Planet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 521–537.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as a way of conceptualizing faith through shared humility and weakness. This approach to the self, the world, and God is an important one to identify in Christian texts, but it also exemplifies a Christian way of thinking more broadly attuned to the depiction of vulnerability and introspection...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (2): 123–144.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of the tradition, but rather than move toward hope, in the manner of most earlier texts, it ends with Seward’s melancholy recognition of her own weakness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 “Fears in Solitude,” which also retains some features of the tradition, is a sustained reflection on the individual’s limited...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 5–8.
Published: 01 March 1942
... may be present or want-
ing in a weak syllable; hence, the liquids and nasals of weak syl-
lables may be consonantal or sonantal. Thus, [n] is a consonant in
the strong syllable man; it is likewise a consonant in the weak
syllable of woman, but a sonant in the weak syllable of beuten...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 448–461.
Published: 01 September 1965
... believed, but the subject is
not appropriate to this essay. For the best presentation of Warren’s weakness as a “philo-
sophic novelist,” see Madison Jones, “The Novels of Robert Penn Warren,” South Atlantic
Quarterly, LXII (1963), 488-98.
450 WARREN’S...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 315–343.
Published: 01 September 2021
... . Gilbert Stuart . 1955 . James Joyce’s “Ulysses”: A Study . New York : Vintage . Granovetter Mark S. 1973 . “ The Strength of Weak Ties .” American Journal of Sociology 78 , no. 6 : 1360 – 80 . Grener Adam , and Parker Isabel . 2019 . “ Dickens’s Anonymous Margins...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (1): 61–84.
Published: 01 March 1984
..., persistence, and determination. The commit-
ment to pessimism coexists with belief in will power.
This belief is frequently implied by a scathing depiction of its
opposite. Gissing’s work is packed with warnings against weakness
of will. The sketches and stories, in particular, are draped...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (2): 243–261.
Published: 01 June 1942
... admit that the use of the infinitive as a
modifier, if this is the correct interpretation, is a puzzle. Can we find
a clue in the OE gerund (to flitanne) ?
leasan. The strong form is called for. Probably the weak ending
-an is thought of as a plural ending.
comon. See note on woldon don...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (4): 500–501.
Published: 01 December 1967
... by the
natural appearance and reappearance of a vast array of characters worthy
of a roman-fleuve. One feels assured of the author’s mastery of the period.
His detached critical assessment of its currents and of their historical
ties is weak only in literary emphasis. The effects of external difficulties...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (4): 443–444.
Published: 01 December 1975
... the strengths and
the weaknesses of his study as a whole.
By avoiding any overarching critical approach, Fleishman gives free rein to
his obviously many-sided interests. He can make use of Northrop Frye’s ac-
count of the structure of romance or Mircea Eliade’s research into initiatory
rituals...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 107–112.
Published: 01 June 1957
... with
psychological validity. He offers only her extraordinary physical
attraction to account for the mysterious power of the Polish countess,
her aura of fatal fascination. This weakness in Sophie’s portrait is
compensated for by the originality of her presentation as a woman
tragically incapable...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 March 1982
... as Queen of Hungary. But the plans
could not be worked out in time, and Grillparzer’s reading of Hun-
garian histories and chronicles led him away from national pageantry
to the choice of an unexpected theme: the story of Bancbanus, an old
man with many human weaknesses, who as “loyal servant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (4): 471–500.
Published: 01 December 2002
... needs to take a close look at the
mental, moral, and bodily strengths and weaknesses of Collins’s heroes
1 Wilkie Collins, Man and Wife, ed. Norman Page (London: Oxford University
Press, 1995), 69, 68.
2 On account of the slippage of terminology, I use sentiment and sensibility syn...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (1): 85–86.
Published: 01 March 1955
... not ignore the fact that Satan actually accomplishes his purpose. It may
also be observed that the skeptical reader may find it difficult to understand
Allen’s attribution of “weaknesses of mind and heart” to this rather successful
adversary of the Almighty.
The study of Samson Agonistes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 539–547.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she links this mode of receptivity and vulnerability to current speculations about how “weak theory” might reshape critique (see also Saint-Amour 2018 ). Winter Jade Werner and Mimi Winick propose here that decolonizing Victorian studies will depend on jettisoning...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 1971
... weaknesses as well as his strengths. Cohen men-
tions the blurring effect of some of the verse catalogues, the limitation of
‘I’homson’s knowledge of man and understanding of human behavior, his
use of “techniques formalistically to conceal his inadequate grasp of a situa-
tion or to cajole...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 237.
Published: 01 June 1950
....
As to the much debated question of Toller’s Marxist leanings, Mr. Willibraiid
proves ably that Toller never was a true Marxist because of his abhorrence oi
violence and human sacrifice, his awareness of the weaknesses of the proletariat,
his doubts that economy can cure all ills. “The old simple...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 273–297.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of Philoclea) and later through rhetorical imitation of his female lover. It is a central tension in Sidney’s romance that this feminized performance of weakness is nevertheless put to the traditionally masculine ends of overpowering, violent sex. The role of tyrannical masochist, I argue, amounts to a form...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (2): 257–263.
Published: 01 June 1965
... is “fearless and
resolute enough,” Bradley concludes that Albany’s words to Kent and
Edgar after Lear’s death-“Friends of my soul, you twain / Rule in this
realm, and the gor’d state sustain”-probably “mark the feebleness of
a well-meaning but weak man. But possibly he means by ‘this realm’
only...
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