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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 194.
Published: 01 June 1982
... the
critics.
FLOYDC. WATKIN‘S
Emory Uniuersity
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. By GEOFFREYH. HAW--
MAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xi + 323 pp.
$18.00.
Sauing the Text...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 339–358.
Published: 01 December 1983
...Paul Rosenzweig Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE PATHFINDER
THE WILDERNESS INITIATION
OF MABEL DUNHAM
By PAUL ROSENZWEIG
Of Cooper’s five Leatherstocking Tales, The Pathfinder...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 269–270.
Published: 01 September 1957
... culture into the American wilderness was religious. Accord-
ingly Miller has investigated seventeenth-century English Protestant theology
but mainly in the writings of those leaders accepted by the Massachusetts Bay
Colony. He has worked at this theme systematically, energetically...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (1): 73–88.
Published: 01 March 1971
... it clear that such a description must be found
because “A man without existing conventions (beliefs, etc.) depends for
ideas of a new and noble order on ‘noble imagery.’ ”5 The task is some-
times quite difficult because of certain wilderness challenges, and Ste-
vens’s long attention...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 194–196.
Published: 01 June 1982
....
FLOYDC. WATKIN‘S
Emory Uniuersity
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today. By GEOFFREYH. HAW--
MAN. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xi + 323 pp.
$18.00.
Sauing the Text: LiteraturelDerridalPhiEosophy.By GEOFFREYH. H.4RThlAN. Bal-
timore...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (4): 421–422.
Published: 01 December 1978
... him in constantly extending his imaginative territory
at the expense of wilderness. Thoreau, as every one of his readers knows,
loves the wilderness and is beyond the simple wish to convert it into imagi-
native uses. Thoreau knows that poets as well as farmers are relentlessly
bent...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1980) 41 (2): 131–150.
Published: 01 June 1980
... of man is the Son of God? Milton in-
vents an elaborate dialogue between Christ and Satan in the wilderness,
a discourse so rich in rhetorical subtlety and incidental temptation that
the simple three-part structure of the Gospel account is all but lost. Why
does Milton choose to present...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 303–305.
Published: 01 September 1978
..., Una’s flight into the wilderness in
canto 3 is patterned upon that of the woman of Revelation clothed with the
sun who fled into the wilderness to escape persecution. O’Connell argues
that “Spenser is creating a typological ‘prophecy’ of Elizabeth’s figurative so-
journ in the wilderness” (p...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (3): 365–368.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and practice—up to and including the various defamiliarization techniques—are revealed as manifestations of the baroque impetus to create “astonishment” in spectators (136). Brief but significant sections on Thornton Wilder and a chapter on Gertrude Stein are nothing short of revelatory: when seen from...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (3): 263–273.
Published: 01 September 1968
... argument on an assertion that
ignores the nature of medieval romance technique:
The passage describes how, during Orfeo’s solitary and no doubt
for the most part silent sojourn in the wilderness, he would be on
occasion afflicted by the sudden bursting about him of the other...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (4): 331–336.
Published: 01 December 1958
...!’ shouted Goodman Brown, in a voice of
agony and desperation; and the echoes of the forest mocked him, cry-
ing, ‘Faith! Faith!’ as if bewildered wretches were seeking her all
through the wilderness” (p. 98). Then we are told, “The road grew
wilder and drearier and more faintly traced...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (2): 123–155.
Published: 01 June 2012
... by
migrant colonizers determined, as Cooper’s famous father put their
lofty purposes, “to cause the Wilderness to bloom and fructify” for the
11 See, e.g., James Franklin Beard’s comment on The Red- Skins: “By making his
narrators landlords, Cooper repeated unconsciously his strategic error...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 315–317.
Published: 01 September 1978
... of genuine
belief in the truths that originally produced it” (p. 252). Quite.
Carlyle was supposed to have led us into the wilderness and left us there.
It now looks as though he had a large number of followers who decided
that the wilderness was in fact the Promised Land, and we are all dining...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (3): 317–319.
Published: 01 September 1978
... produced it” (p. 252). Quite.
Carlyle was supposed to have led us into the wilderness and left us there.
It now looks as though he had a large number of followers who decided
that the wilderness was in fact the Promised Land, and we are all dining on
thistles as a result...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 215–217.
Published: 01 June 1973
... makes him, but
he is a good deal less gloomy. His purpose is not only to unfold tales of
human frailty and sorrow, but to explore the historical heritage, with all
its ambiguities of bigotry and nobility, and in the exploration to discover
what happens in the wilderness of New England to turn...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (3): 315–342.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Louis as the center of the
wholesale fur trade” (Poems, 269). Such materialism is “the savage’s
romance, / accreted where we need the space for commerce” (54).
Yet presumably “commerce” has made these commercial goods “accrete”
in the “space” of the city, rendering it a kind of wilderness. Moore’s...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 235–238.
Published: 01 September 1960
....
But such cavils aside, it seems curious that Perse’s antecedents
have not been more thoroughly explored. Amos Wilder, who devotes
a chapter to the work of Perse, says that “the poems are written in a
kind of Dionysiac free verse.”l He then gives a two-page quotation
from ExiZ (“Toujours il y...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1983) 44 (4): 425–429.
Published: 01 December 1983
... in the twinkling of an eye, doth rather
belong to a vision,” or whether rest is the end of temptation or ratherjust a
prologue “to newe conflicts.”J Calvin inspires a whole tradition of commen-
tary, a wilderness hermeneutic, that might be traced in the writings of John
Foxe, Augustine Marlorate, Lancelot...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 579–580.
Published: 01 December 1940
..., the influence of such men and works as
widely spread upon their contemporaries. Such pioneers appear
rather like prophets in the wilderness. To say then that Gide fore-
cast the evolution of drama in the next thirty-five years appears
somewhat exaggerated. For today, in the year of grace 1940, drama...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2005) 66 (4): 539–545.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in American Renaissance Literature:
Topographies of Skepticism. By Robert E. Abrams. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 168 pp.
This ambitious study starts with the idea that a clear division between “civi-
lization” and “the wilderness” is no longer taken for granted in much...
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