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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (4): 406–416.
Published: 01 December 1973
...Robert W. Uphaus Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 SWIFT’S “WHOLE CHARACTER”
THE DELANY POEMS AND “VERSES ON THE
DEATH OF DR. SWIFT”
By ROBERTW. UPHAUS
Prompted by Patrick...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (3): 219–234.
Published: 01 September 1986
...William Bowman Piper Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THE WHOLE BOOK OF KING ARTHUR
AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS
By WILLIAMBOWMAN PIPER
The elaborate statue that Merlin cast at the command of King
Arthur...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (1): 79–106.
Published: 01 March 1994
... on “American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.” Parts Related to Wholes
and the Nature of Subaltern Opposition
Brook Thomas
The cultural critic is not happy with civilization, to which alone he
owes his discontent-Theodor W. Adorno, Aism
ince the late 1960s...
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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 3. A model trained only on volumes from 1845 to 1869 makes predictions about the whole century
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 315–345.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to generating revisionist readings of both Médée and the later Le Cid , the essay thus invites students of French literature to rethink the grounds of French literary culture as a whole. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Christopher Braider is professor of French and comparative literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... In the economy of justice, youth counteracts complacency. One of Guyon’s prototypes, the biblical king Josiah, is an example. Spenser pictures all his heroes as young, and growing up is part of his design for the epic as a whole. His attitude, though, is not condescending. The danger of sexual indulgence, which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (2): 151–176.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Fanny Price), the essay describes witness-protagonists as characters with an uncertain relation to the novel as a whole. Straddling the functions of narrator and character, witness and agent, they pose at once a formal problem (of where to place the character in relation to the story) and a political...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1967) 28 (1): 60–76.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Steven Foster Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 And obserLing is completing and we are contcnt,
In a world that shrinks to an immediate whole.. . .
(“Description Tl‘ithout Place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1969) 30 (2): 212–221.
Published: 01 June 1969
...
the romantic poet cannot avoid: somewhere the towering spiral must
stop, and the stop is apt to be abrupt, and the abrupt stop is apt to
turn into a sudden fall, and the sudden fall destroys the whole effect.
An excellent example is a famous speech in Part I of Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine, a speech...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 108–111.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that “refers both to the actual origin and order of the physical world as well as to the theories that we invent to comprehend the vastness of the whole” (9). (Giambattista Vico’s poetic vision is an acknowledged inspiration for this book.) Ramachandran analyzes atlases, epic poems, and natural philosophies...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (1): 50–59.
Published: 01 March 1956
... audience on the structure of A Letter to the Whole
People of Ireland. It will be necessary, incidentally, to examine a
question frequently ignored : Who were “the Whole People of
Ireland” ?
Largely discounting the Drupier’s Letters as outside Swift’s general
literary and rhetorical practice...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 95–124.
Published: 01 March 2020
... system, that should be grasped as such, as a whole.” 9 On the reciprocal influence of digital archives on digital literary studies, see Ortega 2018 ; on the silences created by these “digital canonicities,” including that of working-class voices, see Prescott 2014 . 8 The Helsinki...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (4): 407–408.
Published: 01 December 1961
... in the field will find that the
selective bibliography and the list of those Swedish literary works now available
in English translation are most helpful. On the whole, A History of Swedish
Literature is a well-balanced work, and critical idiosyncrasies are comparatively
few. Add to this a lucid...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 September 1949
..., the books will meet the needs of both scholars and gen-
eral readers, replacing the old Longmans edition, the whole stock of which was
destroyed in the London bombings.
Leo L. Ward 413
Some readers may be disappointed with Professor...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (3): 237–246.
Published: 01 September 1955
... repeated’’2-such phrases are altered in the
published Preface to bring their diffusely Johnsonian grandeur under
control. At times a whole clause will be compressed to a word. Thus
Pope first writes of Nestor and Odysseus that they differ in wisdom,
“the one prevailing still by hidden Art...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1979) 40 (1): 82–85.
Published: 01 March 1979
... approached The Dynasts primarily as a spectacle, and that
its meaning can be traced in its way of seeing. The play has always been no-
torious for its cinematic perspectives, which sometimes take in whole coun-
tries, as if they were being observed from a satellite, sometimes restrict their
range...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1955) 16 (2): 137–141.
Published: 01 June 1955
...,
Forth issuing on the last of May
Thelyphthora appear’d.6
The whole poem was obviously intended to please the Newtons; and
in a charming postscript to a poem about how the mating of doves
argues against the wisdom of men who argue for polygamy, Cowper
points out his former...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (3): 298–300.
Published: 01 September 1976
... that “critical precision concerning The Cantos as a whole can come only
from some greater precision of analysis of those key passages where the poet’s
power is most generally felt” (p. 3). However, Nassar goes on to say, “the
limits of this essay restrict discussion of the unity of the whole poem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 504–505.
Published: 01 December 1943
... volume before us is the fulfilment of that promise.
It contains, besides the text proper (148 pages), a Supplement to
Parts I-IV, a Subject-Index of Parts I-V, a Finding List of Plays
and a General Index of Parts I-V. Students who cannot afford to
purchase the whole set of volumes will thus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 321–344.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Figure 3. A model trained only on volumes from 1845 to 1869 makes predictions about the whole century ...
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