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Modern Language Quarterly archives from September 2002
The Scots songs of Allan Ramsay: "lyrick" transformation, popular culture, and the boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment.
September 1, 2002... What was the Scottish Enlightenment? In a pair of influential texts Alasdair MacIntyre presents it as the tragic demise of a Scottish tradition of moral philosophy grounded in Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. (1) The decline began with...
Republicanism and leisure in Marianne Moore's Depression.
September 1, 2002... While most writers and intellectuals in the early years of the Depression felt, as Kenneth Burke put it in 1935, "that our traditional ways were headed for a tremendous change, maybe even a permanent collapse," there is little to suggest that...
The end of technology: memory in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2002... Today the mind is not part of the weather.
--Wallace Stevens, "A Clear Day and No Memories"
Contemporary memory's greatest difficulty lies not in its weakness but in its strength: rather than an amnesiac disappearance of memory,...
Cities of words: recent studies on urbanism and literature. (Review Essay).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. By Richard Lehan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi + 330 pp.
October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. By Carlo Rotella. Berkeley: University...
How milton Works. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. vii + 616 pp.
Reprinting ten essays and integrating them with five new chapters and an introduction and epilogue, this book is broader in its coverage of...
From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 293 pp.
Douglas A. Brooks sets out to explore the publishing history of dramatic texts in early modern London, especially "the manifold materializing processes...
The Song of the Earth. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp.
"Ecology," Ariel Salleh observes, "reframes history." (1) As Jonathan Bate demonstrates in The Song of the Earth, this is no less true in literary studies...
En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Sangeeta Ray. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. viii + 198 pp.
Over the last decade various disciplines have explored the idea that colonial oppression, nationalisms, and postcolonial societies are profoundly gendered and...
The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture. By Paul Julian Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 206 pp.
"Contemporary Spanish culture is a uniquely rich and varied field. Yet Spanish...
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. (Reviews).(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... By Hayden White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii + 205 pp.
Ever since the publication of Metahistory in 1973, Hayden White's important analysis and categorization of the rhetorical styles of historical writing have...
