Modern Language Quarterly articles from June 1992

Modern Language Quarterly archives from June 1992

Feminine identity formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
June 1, 1992... been well described by Eichner (p. 188 n. 56). 20 Goethes Wilhelm Meister (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1953), p. 57. 21 "Goethes 'Wilhelm Meister' und Spinoza," in Wittkowski, pp. 57-69, esp. pp. 64-65. 22 This grouping of the women...

Hegel's self-conscious woman. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit')
June 1, 1992... necessity for sexual opposition. Marriage, which is coeval with the separation of brother and sister, is a union that sanctions difference; thus it is similar in content to the speculative dialectic of Spirit. Cf. Lacoue-Labarthe, pp. 68-70,...

Benjamin, Baudelaire, Rossetti, and the discovery of error. (literary critic Walter Benjamin; poets Charles Baudelaire and Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
June 1, 1992... Walter Benjamin wrote much that examined the situation of nineteenth-century culture under conditions of industrial capitalism and mercantile imperialism. In principle one should be able to carry his insights over to objects of study with which...

Dead poets' voices: Rilke's "Lost from the Outset" and the originality effect. (poet Rainer Maria Rilke)
June 1, 1992... Harold Bloom's model of intertextuality has rightly been described as "deeply psychological" and insistently "personalizing."(1) But there is one point in his Anxiety of Influence where he moves beyond his own schema of Oedipal rivalry between...

Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England.
June 1, 1992... The theme of Alexander Welsh's book is how evidence is presented in narrative. By "strong representations" he means "those of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that openly distrust testimony, insist on submitting witnesses to the...

Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture.
June 1, 1992... Learning to Curse brings together nine essays Stephen Greenblatt wrote between 1976 and 1990. Since eight have been published before, a few synopses should serve to remind readers about the kind of work this book contains. In the title essay,...

Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism.
June 1, 1992... Marianne DeKoven's Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism draws from a range of powerful critical traditions and engages the debates over modernism anew. It is a book both blessed and cursed by its inheritance, as it carefully maps a...

Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf.
June 1, 1992... At a time when critics take for granted the triumph of postmodernism and allude solemnly to subject positions rather than the self, to inquire after the fate of individuality in the modern novel seems like a surrender to nostalgia. To ask what...