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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 322–325.
Published: 01 June 1941
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (2): 131–145.
Published: 01 June 1950
...Derek van Abbé Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 THE MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE
FACT OR FANCY?
By DEREKVAN ABBB
The basis of all philological research is the dialect, the language of
daily life (German...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1945) 6 (2): 231–234.
Published: 01 June 1945
... of Washington
The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of Poetry Written
before the Norman Conquest, .with Illustrative Translations. By
CHARLESW. KENNEDY.London, New York, and Toronto: Ox-
ford University Press, 1944. Pp. viii + 3M. $3.00.
After generations of intensive...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (4): 311–320.
Published: 01 December 1988
...Peggy Samuels Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 THE AUDIENCE WRITTEN INTO THE SCRIPT
OF WEDREAM OF WEROOD
By PEGGYSAMUELS
For many contemporary...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1992) 53 (4): 393–408.
Published: 01 December 1992
...Mark Booth Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 WRITTEN AND WRITING BARDS IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LYRIC
BJ MARK BOOTH
The ode-writing English lyric poets of the mideighteenth century made
considerable use...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
... by University of Washington 2017 twentieth-century American literature Hollywood cinema media studies F. Scott Fitzgerald institutions Have you noticed the trend of recent literature? . . . More and more plots are being written with the movies in mind . Authors are becoming canny. Why not kill...
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 1. Percentage of English-language fiction titles written by women in HathiTrust (diamonds) and in Publishers Weekly (error bars). Circles estimate percentages for HathiTrust based on rates of romance fiction recorded for Australian novels. (Results exclude reprints and juvenile titles.)
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 499–522.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in the previous generation. Their two most ambitious experiments of this type are The Ruined Cottage and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , written at the same time while the poets were in constant conversation. These poems have different fates: Wordsworth worries ever after about the abruptness of the original...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 399–418.
Published: 01 September 2011
...: the transformation of writing, that is, from rhetoric or belles lettres to art. However, while much has been written and said about the French, German, and Scottish Enlightenments, little is known about the Italian one. Engaged in a reevaluation of this lesser-known, peripheral Enlightenment, this essay discusses...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2011) 72 (3): 419–438.
Published: 01 September 2011
... writer Elizabeth Akers Allen against an unhinged upstart, Alexander M. W. Ball, who claimed to have written her poem “Rock Me to Sleep.” A close examination of their dispute raises broad questions about the value of poetry, both in the rapidly professionalizing world of later nineteenth-century America...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michael B. Prince This essay reopens the case of two identically titled works that appeared within twelve months of each other, a preface and poem by John Dryden (1682) and a philosophical treatise by Charles Blount (1683). It argues that the latter was written before the former and not by Blount...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (2): 217–237.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of human history, the written word has been the province of a privileged minority. This essay argues that current discussions of world literature have taken their shape from three print-based institutions — the mass literacy movements of the late nineteenth century, the publishing industry...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (3): 289–318.
Published: 01 September 2020
... question is that many poets have also rocked that foundation over those two centuries. The essay ends by interpreting an apostrophic ode written and published by George Moses Horton in 1828. Horton’s enslavement in North Carolina literalized the figurative situation of address that has come to define lyric...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 487–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in general. In a series of essays written in the 1930s, Kerényi theorized the media of ancient texts as central to cultural hermeneutics. His understanding of textual media as expressive of the essential characteristics of a culture was underpinned by a conservative-humanist critique of modernity. It shows...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 465–485.
Published: 01 December 2023
... agreement between Kracauer’s account, in essays written during the mid- to late 1920s, of how a modern urban public “consumed” movies and Auerbach’s description of the audiences of early modern French tragedy in the to all appearances highly academic book The French Public of the Seventeenth Century...
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in Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 2. Ulysses , episodes 1–4. A sample longest path (network diameter) runs along the four-sided nodes (beginning at H. B.-Price and ending at the constable). Dashed lines represent written communication; dotted lines represent past interactions; dash-dotted lines represent imagined
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in Population Thinking and Narrative Networks: Dickens, Joyce, and The Wire
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Installments 1–2 (chaps. 1–7) of Bleak House . The longest network diameter connects the four-sided nodes (beginning at Lady Dedlock and ending at Mr. Swallow). The dashed line represents written communication. Bracketed characters have had interactions but not yet been identified
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 448–454.
Published: 01 December 1947
... long, for he wrote:
“This Day was playd a reviv’d Comedy of Mr. Congreve’s calld the Double
Dealer . . . in the play bill was printed,-Written by Mr. Congreve; . . . but
the printin an Autkrs name, in a Play bill, is a new manner of proceeding,
at least in ?&gland See Letters of John Dvydcn...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (2): 194–210.
Published: 01 June 1947
... authorship of two of these poems. The
manuscript evidence for the three others, however, is too scanty to
establish their authenticity beyond doubt.6 In this same packet are
twelve manuscript poems which may be assigned to Lady Byron,
and also four manuscript poems written by various other...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (3): 281–297.
Published: 01 September 1950
... introduction to the
study of Old Icelandic literature. It is unfortunate for English-speak-
ing students that most of his work is written in modern Icelandic,
whereas many students of the sagas have tended to learn German and
Danish as the primary “tools” for advanced study in this field...
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