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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEveline Hasler's historical novels Die Wachsflugelfrau: Geschichte der Emily Kempin-Spyri (1991) and Der Zeitreisende: Die Visionen des Henry Dunant (1994) portray the influential but vexed lives of two...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe complexities in Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque have previously been read as manifesting the contradictory nature of his relationship with native India. This article demonstrates that Kipling's writing could be...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis second part of a two-part essay on the theme of travel in the Orlando furioso reads Astolfo's journey to the moon as a means of gaining a critical perspective on the sixteenth-century court and an allegorical...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBoth Derrida, in 'Mes chances', and Christine de Pizan, in Le Chemin de long estude and La Mutacion de Fortune, reflect on the intimate relations between reading and Fortune. Christine both reads about Fortune (in...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe thirteenth-century Occitan Romance of Flamenca borrows conspicuously from troubadour lyric. However, it distances itself from that tradition in its use of time. This article focuses on the figure of the gilos, or...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on how contemporary Dutch literature uses and produces images of and for Brussels. The stock of images the authors draw on consists of 'universal' images linked to urban literature on the one hand...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJose Enrique Rodo (Uruguay, 1871-1917) is best known for his essay Ariel (1900), a work often criticized for its alleged aloofness and detachmentfrom the pressing material concerns of Latin America, and whose most...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIf we abandon the idea of the Clerk as yet another fallible pilgrim narrator (an idea now discredited through over-use), we must read the Clerk's Tale as suited to an eminent Aristotelian philosopher. Thus the Clerk of...