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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 April 2019
... seafaring literature and broaden our understandings of modernism generally. By way of illustration the essay examines the British author James Hanley’s 1938 novel Hollow Sea , which centers on a merchant ship turned troopship during World War I. In its staging of maritime technologies and infrastructures...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... challenges and expands existing research that suggests that McKay’s writings register the impulse for a nomadic wandering away from oppressive forms of identity control set up in the wake of World War I. The article contends that Claude McKay’s renegade cast of “bad nationalist” characters registers...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
... back from Alexandria, Egypt, to London after World War I, not only were shell shock and influenza in the air, but so was taupe. Hence Strachey’s ironically à la mode nickname resonates throughout the following investigation of Forster’s clothes. Wartime Alexandria represented a number of firsts...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 140–151.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the impact that the first round of U-boat warfare during World War I had had on him a quarter century before. 12 His concern found expression in “The Dry Salvages,” first published on February 27. The poem’s maritime descriptions repeatedly evoke what would shortly be termed “the Battle of the Atlantic...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 75–79.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the child s veins. In writing, Apparently a little blood from a m em ber of a warrior nation is an asset (296), this contradicts the aforem entioned fears of Harker. Miscegenation occurred between Dracula and Mina. Goetsch s book closes discussing literature during World War I. He notes...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 101–113.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., spiritualism, water law, birth control, eugenics, World War I—I inevitably came across competing accounts. I worried about who to believe. I worried about what to believe in. When I went to primary sources for the “facts,” these sources too were blurred by interpretation. Just because I could read what...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 52–67.
Published: 01 March 2005
... thorough-going critique of the attempts of upper-class authority figures such as Dr. Holmes and the psychia trist Sir William Bradshaw to suppress die emotional lives of mem- March 2005 53 bers of the lower class to ensure the smooth running of a publicly stoic English society in a post-World War I...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 166–169.
Published: 01 December 2005
... typical and influential models are Milton s Lycidas, Dryden s To the Memory of Mr. Oldham , Shelley s Adonais, Tennyson s In Memoriam, and A rnold s Thyrsis. In all of these elegies and even in Gray s death is on a scale that can be imagined, represented, and accepted. But death in World War...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 66–73.
Published: 01 March 2004
... one of Rich ard Connell s three hundred-plus stories that is still in print to day. The prolific author a Harvard graduate and a World War I veteran wasjust thirty years old when Dangerous Game was originally published. Eventually, though, he turned his con siderable creative energies away from...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Mark . “ ‘Oil Was Trumps’: John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. , World War I, and the Growth of the Petromodern State .” American Literary History 29 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 474 – 98 . Whitman Walt . Leaves of Grass and Other Writings , edited by Moon Michael . New York : Norton , 2002...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 177–179.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that attended both late nineteenth-century industrialization and World War I. The “formations of disability” in Benjamin are related to the ubiquity of disabled bodies following the carnage in Europe. 5 “These non-normative figures who have been swept away in the grand narratives of progress” are, through...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . “ The German Art Historians of World War I: Grautoff, Wiehert, Weisbach, and Brinckmann and the Activities of the Zentralstelle für Auslandsdienst .” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 74 , no. 3 ( 2011 ): 373 – 400 . Mâle Émile . German Art and French Art of the Middle Ages (in French). Paris...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-century nationalism exist in a symbiotic relationship with new construction referring to the utopian expressionist experiments that flourished in Germany in the wake of its defeat in World War I. The acknowledgment in these pairings of a past that some West Germans and West Berliners in the aftermath...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 37–48.
Published: 01 October 2022
... return to New York City in 1939. Panter-Downes, on the other hand, remained local, writing about wartime England from wartime England. 1 The idea that war influences fashion is not new. For example, Edwards explores the impact World War I had on clothing in Dressed for War . 3...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era .” Journal of Social History 19 , no. 2 ( 1985 ): 189 – 211 . Chauncey George . “ The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1980s .” In Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 170–179.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., we may ask, is this Conscious City ? From the schema produced by Mendelson,23 it seems clear that Auden has the Moscow created by the Russian Revolution in mind here. That revolution began initially with the start of World War I in August 1914 and climaxed in Russia in November 1917. However...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2011
... lack reference to war. Indeed, The Theory o f the Novel and Brief Encounter are not sim ply wartim e works; they are all around the tim e of war before, during, and after. Lukács begins to w rite The Theory o f the Novel at the start of World War I, serializes it during the war, and publishes...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
... individual and collective trauma. This history can be detected at least implicitly in Sigmund Freud’s work connected to the shell-shocked soldiers of World War I in Beyond the Pleasure Principle and more explicitly in Erikson, Everything in Its Path . 3 My own Shocking Representation...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 39–52.
Published: 01 March 2005
... was killed at Beaumont-Hamel in World War I). Said s short story The East Wing originally published in Lucas Annual in 1914 and only reprinted in a 1948 edition of The Bodley H ead collection of the author s stories is a fasci nating collision of the tensions, paradoxes, and preoccupations of Saki s...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 156–174.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by Zaha Hadid.” 27 My own research has revealed that Chanel may have been working for the German government as early as World War I. 28 It is likely that Winston Churchill intervened to protect Chanel from imprisonment, perhaps because she knew too much about the British royal family’s...
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