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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (4): 575–578.
Published: 01 December 2007
...- and eighteenth-century France and Britain. University of Washington 2007 Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture . By Thomas M. Kavanagh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Reviews
Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 247–257.
Published: 01 September 1955
....
PARADISELOST, Book VI
. . . forth rush’d with whirl-wind sound
The Chariot of Paternal Deitie,
Flashing thick flames, Wheele within Wheele undrawn,
It self instinct with Spirit. but convoyd
By four Cherubic shapes, four Faces...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (1): 77–83.
Published: 01 March 1968
.... There are an impressive
number of duplicate copies of The Wheel of Fire or The Imperial
Theme in most collegiate libraries, and even small public libraries
manage to have a work of Knight’s, acquired long before, say, Revalua-
tion or Permanence and Change. Knight has an audience of which no
* New York...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (3): 297–299.
Published: 01 September 1982
..., pride, envy,
Fortune (and her wheel), disease and corruption, infidelity, and revenge” (p.
9), but instead of trying to fit all the plays into one interlocking pattern, he
approaches each play “on its own terms” (p. 9).
What this turns out to mean is that one of these themes, or some variant...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1977) 38 (4): 390–395.
Published: 01 December 1977
... of the wheel and its numerous symbolic meanings.3 It is
a matter which has received considerable attention of recent years, and since
the publication of Howard’s book an article has appeared maintaining that
Chaucer dramatized the design in the character of Criseyde as both rose and
wheel...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 400.
Published: 01 September 1949
... the 1933 Bohn
and the new version: “The coursers of time, lashed, as it were, by invisible
spirits, hurry on the light car of our destiny, and all that we can do is with calm
courage to hold the reins firmly, and to guide the wheels, now to the left, now to
the right, avoiding a stone here...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (4): 513–534.
Published: 01 December 1990
... in the Belfry”:
Twenty years ago, at the door of every cottage sat the good
woman with her spinning-wheel: the children, if not more
profitably employed than in gathering heath and sticks, at
least laid in a stock of health and strength to sustain the
labours...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 332–333.
Published: 01 June 1941
... the “cyclical method” more concretely, the author
offers a diagram of wheels within wheels to illustrate her chief ar- ...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 333–334.
Published: 01 June 1941
... epigram, the proh-
lems presented by it are revolved in the subsidiary stories, the per-
sonal experiment of Reinhart is discreetly held in the background
until it returns in fulfillment at the end.
To visualize the “cyclical method” more concretely, the author
offers a diagram of wheels...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 1988
... Vzrorum Illustriurn26 But this antic-
ipation of events does not necessarily mean that, as the Monk claims,
there is “no remedie” for the dreamer’s predicament. The Monk
overlooks the possibility of a further turn of Fortune’s wheel.
25 On the Priest’s ironic references to free...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 400–401.
Published: 01 September 1949
... the 1933 Bohn
and the new version: “The coursers of time, lashed, as it were, by invisible
spirits, hurry on the light car of our destiny, and all that we can do is with calm
courage to hold the reins firmly, and to guide the wheels, now to the left, now to
the right, avoiding a stone here...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (2): 99–114.
Published: 01 June 1979
... 405, the poet relates how Bacchus falls in love
with Salmacis and is prevented from raping her only by the inter-
vention of Phoebus. To get his revenge on Phoebus for this, Bac-
chus enlists Mercury’s help in stealing the wheels of the sun god’s
chariot, but Phoebus promises Salinacis...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (4): 323–336.
Published: 01 December 1962
... and
whirlpool, o’er bog and quagmire. . . .” A bog and a ford are part
of Browning’s scene. Lear’s “thou art a boil, / a Plague-sore or
embossed carbuncle” may well have been remembered in Stanza 26
(“broke into moss or substances like boils while the wheel in
Stanza 24 (“that wheel, / Or brake...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (3): 269–297.
Published: 01 September 1997
... of sand that runs,
And every span of shade that steals,
And every kiss of toothed wheels,
And all the courses of the suns.
(117.9-12)
Not the “sun,” the “suns”: by analogy to the timekeeping devices
named in the preceding lines, Tennyson reads...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (1): 7–16.
Published: 01 March 1950
... of
farces.
The actors in the great English religious cycles of York, Chester,
and Coventry stood on stages or movable scaffolds, termed “pageants,”
wheeled from station to station. A spectator standing at the first sta-
tion would see the Creation acted on the first craft, followed...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (1): 95–100.
Published: 01 March 1940
... wheel which runs all the machinery in the mill.
In the rag-room are “rude, manger-like receptacles running
round all its sides; and up to these mangers, like so many mares
haltered to the rack, stood rows of girls.”17 Fixed upright before
each girl was a sharp, sword-like...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (2): 167–196.
Published: 01 June 2002
...:
/ The river glides”; or “how swiftly have they flown, / Succeeding—still
succeeding!” or “they wheel away / Yet vanish not. . . . / still they roll”;
or “the secret cup / Of still and serious thought went round”; or
“moved by choice; or, if constrained in part / Yet still with Nature’s
freedom”; or “airs...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (4): 315–320.
Published: 01 December 1960
...
turne her wheele no more,
As long as life maintaines his mighty arme,
That fights for honor to adorne your head.
(2156-58)
This line of argument, as Voegelin has pointed involves a
denial of the possibility of tragedy. Marlowe...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (3): 244–254.
Published: 01 September 1958
... of ‘The Secret Agent’
concrete existence. In Chapter I, the fireworks of Stevie’s escapade,
“rockets, catherine wheels, detonating squibs,” are revised to “fierce
rockets, angry catherine wheels, loudly exploding squibs.” In the
same section Winnie receives a “sort of explanation” from Stevie...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 March 1987
... or in Latin or Continental writ-
ings, find their English expression almost exclusively in alliterative
verse. Allusions to Fortune’s Wheel are ubiquitous in Middle Eng-
lish, but the only full-fledged portrayals of riders upon the wheel
occur in the alliterative Morte Arthure and Soma- Soneday...