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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Carmelite Order that she initiated in 1562. To understand how Teresa was able to combine contemplation and action it is necessary to investigate her main mystical writings in light of the major stages of her career as a reformer. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 action...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
... to monastic discourses on the life of contemplation and the life of action. While critique is widely understood to indicate that something is undone or swept away, there is recurring difficulty determining what constitutes a truly new or transformative turn. This is a political as well as theoretical matter...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 74–77.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of the material world; drawing this picture, Hopkins stresses that each thing is created to p erform one characteristic action: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies drawflam e;/As tum bled over rim in round wells/Stones ring. These are actions, in which the selves o f things are expressed. In the second...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 187–196.
Published: 01 March 2014
... translated as Journeys out o f the City, or Trips to the Countryside, can be understood as designed responses to the claustrophobic spaces o f Soviet M oscow.The trips to parks in the M oscow Region, conducted by the Collec tive Actions group (CA) between the m id 1970s and the late 1980s, were not m erely...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by scripture; La Primaudaye’s 159 references to Aristotle pale in comparison to his mentions of Saint Paul (216), and Jesus (447). In other words, the concept of addiction depicted within the Academie françoise —and its relationship to mind, body, and action—does not represent the work of any single school...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 241–245.
Published: 01 March 2006
... audiences w ithin the idiom o f the action film , to name three consequences o f this decision to film in unfam iliar tongues. First, Gibson demonstrates a shrewd grasp of the global nature o f today's film market. That the film is not in English, w hile it sim ultaneously adapts the idiom s of the American...
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (2): 13–28.
Published: 01 December 2001
... s interpreters as if it nam ed some hypothetical or imag ined site or preconditions of psychological, moral, and political action. A random sam pling from am ong H obbes s com m enta tors finds them complacently remarking, for example, that the state o f n atu re, th en , is a th eo retical co n...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 235–240.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to iconographically sim ilar Hollywood film s may yield a richer understanding o f both the politics of Gibson's film as w ell as the religious underpinnings o f certain popular generic tropes. In this essay, I w ill compare Gibson's film w ith the male-hero action genre to offer a reading of the codes of m...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 57–66.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of the main characters so well that it should be considered one of the most important sections of the novel, despite its length. The scenes at Sotherton show the connection between the charac ters private feelings and their public actions. It is the type of situation where people mean more than they say...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 22–29.
Published: 01 April 2023
... that “America saves the day.” The game also resolves “actions” only around major international cities. We have come to realize that the rural and poorer communities of the world cannot be ignored. As one would expect, the game does not deal with racial issues. The varied quality of health care...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 March 2015
... all these film s, but m o st p a rticu la rly in Season o f T error and Sex Jack, there is little camera m ovem ent, W akamatsu opting instead for a static camera, long takes, and n o n -d y n a m ic fram ings. This lethargy is sim ila rly repeated in the lack o f onscreen action as characters do very...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 49–61.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., the beginning of the w orld, happens when transcendent purusa, w ho is sentience and the power to see and know gets too close to prakrti, Nature, which is the power to do. Action, the capacity to do, is the hallmark o f the w orld, o f matter. The idea of action is inevitablyrencum bered w ith the w orld and w...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 137–139.
Published: 01 October 2021
...A. J. Yumi Lee Works Cited Aguayo Angela J. , Patton Danette Pugh , and Bandonis Molly . “ Black Lives and Justice with the Archive: A Call to Action .” Black Camera 9 , no. 2 ( 2018 ): 161 – 68 . Combahee River Collective . “ The Combahee River Collective...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 100–102.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., only secondarily with those of his characters (91), so detailed is the analysis of the words, thoughts, and actions o f the charac ters and thus of their intentions that what is said of Shake speare s purposes seems tangential. After some ten pages of analysis of the scene in which H am let s...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 139–160.
Published: 01 September 2011
... otivation (or w ill, or w ill-pow er), and our intentionality (our capacity to plan, to have an action and its result in our m ind before materializing it as an entity out there in the world) . . . these and very im portantly our language faculty are all biological adaptations, are all biological products...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 75–87.
Published: 01 March 2008
... they had the power to overthrow the existing social order."1And, indeed, from its first nationally organ ized action the publication in 1838 o f "the People's Charter," dem anding universal m an hood suffrage and other constitutional reform s to its collapse as a mass m ovem ent in 1848, Chartism...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 143–151.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Language N otes 48.2 Fall /W in te r 2010 14 4 E ng lish La n g u a g e N otes 4 8 .2 Fa ll / W inter 2 0 1 0 sent as a justification for violent actions. Read in this context, the novel encourages us to ask questions about the law's boundaries, not only in the traditional sense of jurisdiction over...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 173–181.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of knowledge. I propose, however, that there is still som ething to be done w ith emancipation, a potential energy of political and artistic contradiction that remains to be converted into action. When we look further back into the history of emancipation as slavery, we learn that the apparent ly irresolvable...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the action amid the confusion: gray and white signify the shark; the whale carcass is black with white flesh. Both are swirled together with the blue of the water, white reflections from the surface, and a cloud of red blood. Figure 8. Shark carnage in The Silent World . Figure 8. Shark carnage...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2001
... in the context ofjourneys and exiles eleven times out of thirteen, during ten reunions or m om ents of rec ognition. Nine times the contact includes a father-figure or kins m an, ten if one includes A ndrew s reu n io n with Matthew in Andreas. Six times the verb pair describes action between or am ong...
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