The Modern Language Review, Volume 8John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson Modern Humanities Research Association, 1913 - Languages, Modern The Modern Language Review (MLR) is an interdisciplinary journal encompassing the following fields: English (including United States and the Commonwealth), French (including Francophone Africa and Canada), Germanic (including Dutch and Scandinavian), Hispanic (including Latin-American, Portuguese, and Catalan), Italian, Slavonic and East European Studies, and General Studies (including linguistics, comparative literature, and critical theory). |
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... German Literature Lindelöf , Grundzüge der Geschichte der englischen Sprache Manzoni , A. , Carteggio di , a cura di G. Sforza e G. Gallavresi . Menaechmi , The , transl . by Warner , ed . by W. H. D. Rouse Morgan , C. E. , Rise of the ...
... German Literature Lindelöf , Grundzüge der Geschichte der englischen Sprache Manzoni , A. , Carteggio di , a cura di G. Sforza e G. Gallavresi . Menaechmi , The , transl . by Warner , ed . by W. H. D. Rouse Morgan , C. E. , Rise of the ...
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... Germans of the Sturm und Drang period and the French of the nineteenth century . In satire we have Boileau , Dryden , Pope , Johnson , Crabbe , Rabener and Liscow . But no conception of formal satire would be complete unless we compared ...
... Germans of the Sturm und Drang period and the French of the nineteenth century . In satire we have Boileau , Dryden , Pope , Johnson , Crabbe , Rabener and Liscow . But no conception of formal satire would be complete unless we compared ...
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... the sixteenth century Grecians , but always comparing their activity with the civilisation of Periclean Athens , the aims of the German ' Aufklärung ' and the later movements represented by 8 The Future of Comparative Literature.
... the sixteenth century Grecians , but always comparing their activity with the civilisation of Periclean Athens , the aims of the German ' Aufklärung ' and the later movements represented by 8 The Future of Comparative Literature.
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John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson. German ' Aufklärung ' and the later movements represented by such poets as Heine , Chénier and Shelley . After thus studying the scope and character of humanism , the enquirer passes on to ...
John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson. German ' Aufklärung ' and the later movements represented by such poets as Heine , Chénier and Shelley . After thus studying the scope and character of humanism , the enquirer passes on to ...
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... Germans and the Italians . He did not attempt to gather together all the instances where literature has conspicuously succeeded or con- spicuously failed to express the human mind and out of such data to create a philosophy . He aimed ...
... Germans and the Italians . He did not attempt to gather together all the instances where literature has conspicuously succeeded or con- spicuously failed to express the human mind and out of such data to create a philosophy . He aimed ...
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