Modern Language Quarterly articles from September 2006

Modern Language Quarterly archives from September 2006

French tragedy and the civil wars.
September 1, 2006... Les moeurs d'une nation forment d'abord l'esprit de ses ouvrages dramatiques. Bientot ses ouvrages dramatiques forment son esprit. [At first a nation's mores shape the spirit of its dramatic works. Soon enough its dramatic works...

Sade and the Cynic tradition.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... In his dedication of Philosophy in the Bedroom, Sade urges the "gentle, debauched reader" to take the example of "the cynic Dolmance," the notorious libertine master of Sade's parodic bildungsroman. (1) What does Sade mean by giving us, his...

"The queen of the Waste Land": the endgames of modernism in Angela Carter's Magic Toyshop.
September 1, 2006... It is easy to forget that most of the great male geniuses of Western European culture have been either depraved egomaniacs or people who led the most distressing lives.--Angela Carter, "Notes from the Front Line" Since her...

The white Oriental.(The Manchurian Candidate, novel)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... Translated into nineteen languages and the basis of two major motion pictures, Richard Condon's novel The Manchurian Candidate (1959) describes an American GI captured by the Chinese during the Korean War and returned to the States with his...

Redefining Elizabethan Literature.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Redefining Elizabethan literature. By Georgia E. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 261 pp. Georgia E. Brown's take on the English literature of the 1590s offers a frisson of recognition for anyone still resisting...

The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. By Maurice Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Born of encounters with the fiction of Balzac and Stendhal, Maurice Samuels's...

Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels. By James Buzard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. vi + 320 pp. This wide-ranging and fertile book, both syncretic and original, brings...

To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xii + 225 pp. Since Leslie Fiedler's unavoidably influential essay "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!"...

Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Poetry after Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew. By Susan Gubar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xxi + 313 pp. In Poetry after Auschwitz Susan Gubar undertakes a survey of English-language poetry that responds to "the...

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater. By Benjamin Bennett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 241 pp. Benjamin Bennett, long recognized as one of the most thoughtful and insightful theorists of modern drama, extends his...