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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (2): 113–139.
Published: 01 June 2019
... originality came about not as a radical break with the older ideal of authorial mediation but as a modification and rearrangement of its constitutive terms. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 authorship agency mediation premodern literature weaving The premodern author poses...
FIGURES
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 81–86.
Published: 01 March 2025
... the book Kramnick uses the imagery of weaving language in his core description of close reading. Close reading is “the long, elaborate moment when the medium of criticism brushes up against the medium of literature, when words weave with words,” and skill at close reading is the “know-how . . . of weaving...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 87–94.
Published: 01 March 2025
... as “further afield” from the scene of reading and writing, and from academe altogether: that of “weaving bags among the Telefol people of Papua New Guinea” via the scholarship of the anthropologist Tim Ingold (5). Kramnick, quoting Ingold, describes the skill of weaving, which includes feeling and selecting...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2025
... metaphors for craft. When he introduces the first of these, weaving, he draws on the scholarship of the anthropologist Tim Ingold to invoke the example of “weaving bags among the Telefol people of Papua New Guinea” (5). As Kelly Wisecup points out in this forum, these Telefol, having been recruited...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 63–70.
Published: 01 March 2025
... as the key method of our field. Kramnick’s account is focused less on how literary critics read than on how they write, and his vision of the critic’s use of quotation as a form of “weaving one’s own words with words that precede and shape them” is a compelling one (35). This metaphor of weaving leads...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 311–314.
Published: 01 September 1946
...
as a child of nine or ten years. It is this fact that Mr. Sencourt fails
to make clear.
Modern Love as a literary achievement does not stand or fall by a
criterion of biographical truth. Whether the poem is a strictly auto-
biographical venture or a weaving of half-truths and psychological...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 266–270.
Published: 01 June 1998
...” (letter, December
18 17). Isn’t Fry himself in a tug of war with subtleties of meaning in weaving
the sounds of his own prose poetry, his typically highly wrought sentences,
Wolfson I Review 269
such as the one about Keats’s “ToAutumn” being...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (4): 621.
Published: 01 December 1969
... that had so long fed upon
his livermains pas, il eat CtC moins dClectab1e”-was to help his re-
creator in dealing, over a lifetime, with his own lovingly nurtured contra-
dictions.
In nine chapters Stoltzfus takes us briskly and competently over Gide’s
writing career, weaving in and out...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 303–319.
Published: 01 December 1987
... an haunt / She passed hem of
Ypres and of Gaunt,” Chaucer says of her in the General Prologue
(447-48). Alison’s weaving and its thematic appropriateness to her
character have been much discussed.9 Edmund Reiss argues that
the detail (along with the prominence of clothing in her descrip...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (1): 90–96.
Published: 01 March 1990
... to gender” (p. 15). Earlier versions of much
of this material have appeared elsewhere, but the weaving together of
the revised pieces into a sustained argument about Chaucer’s gendered
language constitutes an effective whole. In her discussions of Troilus and
Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (2): 184–191.
Published: 01 June 1981
... of structure and form” (pp.
203-4), that Ovid’s poem, itself belonging to the epic genre, is an impor-
tant prototype for Paradise Lost. The entire narration by Ovid, says
Martz, “is suffused with the voice of the narrator, who weaves his stories
together by . . . contrived transitions, by constant...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 June 1943
...,
and allowed his imagination to weave about these verities that poetry
which he felt would relieve the facts of their powder dry appear-
ance.” The value of the study lies in its exposition of the variety and
richness of the poet’s intellectual resources.
It is to be hoped that Dr. Bird’s book...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2025) 86 (1): 105–115.
Published: 01 March 2025
... saying something that is true both to the text and to our own ways of thinking. Skill in weaving our words with the words of a source, or in crafting a summary that presents and reshapes the source, attests to a delicate epistemic activity. Much of this disappears in my data, and must disappear when we...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (2): 149–162.
Published: 01 June 1952
... a boat and the land, so that a
sentence like the one under consideration would be likely to stick in
the student’s mind.
PAGE192: “-As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our
bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to
and fro, so does the artist weave...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 September 1947
... in accordance with more exact scholarship, the book
is an unbroken delectation. The very sentences are a joy with their
twistings and weavings in and out between their modifications and
parentheses yet held true to their course until they arrive home in
port.
This classic-classic...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 319–320.
Published: 01 June 1941
... and accuracy of an
introduction devoted to the ra.velling out of weaved-up follies and
the painstaking work evident in the excellent reproduction of the
text insure the usefulness and desira.bility of the work for those
for whom it is intended-“students of Shakespeare, Thomas Hey-
wood, William...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 607–609.
Published: 01 December 2016
... tenor. Beginning with Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (a story of secularization in the oldest sense of the term, the seizure of church property by the state), he weaves through chapters on Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto , Jane Austen’s Emma , Coleridge’s Kubla Khan , Walter Scott’s Waverley...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (3): 275–276.
Published: 01 September 1962
... from the complex weave of the character a few
small threads of behavior, meaningless out of the pattern, and find in them the
design of the whole.. . .Here, in the play’s natural home, where meanings are
determined by what reaches the brain and emotions through the eye and ear,
where...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 215–217.
Published: 01 June 1994
... and historical allusion does produce
more compelling connections between the work and its literary and politi-
cal contexts. The most spectacular example is the chapter titled “Political
Allegory in the Gerusalemrne Liberata.” Weaving together Tasso’s rewriting of
Caesar as the hero of Lucan’s De belt0...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1953) 14 (2): 217–218.
Published: 01 June 1953
..., and 70, which refer
to the weaver’s craft. They show that the Anglo-Saxons knew the advanced
methods of weaving, something which scholars who have misinterpreted them
do not. N0rman.E. Eliason suggests “Christ walking on the sea” as the solution
of “Riddle 68 of the Exeter Book” (pp. 18...
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