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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Jose Cree Abstract This article explores the formation and characterization of early modern addiction through the interactions of mind, body, and will, focusing particularly on the work of the sixteenth-century Christian philosopher Pierre de La Primaudaye. In La Primaudaye’s writings addiction...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Benjamin Breen Abstract An impostor who claimed to be a refugee from Formosa (present-day Taiwan) named George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763) embodied two key aspects of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe: its connections to globalization and imperialism, and the complex interplay between the concept...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Steve Sussman; Erika Wright Abstract This essay seeks to illuminate the shifting definitions of addiction over time by providing a brief, anecdotal history of addiction as well as a review of how it has been conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classification system. While...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 150–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Anthony Cunningham Abstract This essay considers devotional addiction in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day . The novel tells the story of Mr. Stevens, a constant English butler in a rapidly changing world. Having spent his best years in service to Lord Darlington, he must adjust...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Rebecca Lemon [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Like so many accounts of addiction, this special issue begins...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay argues that opium’s pivotal role in nineteenth-century political economy and aesthetics constructed addiction as a relationship between labor and capital that has persisted throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Nineteenth-century discourses...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Utathya Chattopadhyaya Abstract This essay explores how the British imperial archive of cannabis addiction in the mid-nineteenth century was shaped by ideas of religious devotion, ordinary leisure, and anxieties arising from revolt and rebellion. It asks how cannabis was discursively constituted...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
....” 96 Withington, “Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body.” 97 Johnson, Dictionary of the English language , s.v. “drunkard.” 98 Slack, “Politics of Consumption,” 611–16 . 99 Wrightson, Earthly Necessities , sec. 3. 100 Mather, Wo [ sic ] to Drunkards...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 March 2010
... rator's brother, Sonny), establishes a direct, patrilineal link between the blues and bebop, the rural and the urban, alcoholism and heroin addiction, and im plies that bebop's heritage m ore d ire c tly d erives fro m blues singers like Robert Jo h n son th a n the N ew O rleans jazz o f the 1920s...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... an addiction that creates a chasm between the public image and the private struggle. In Gregory Doran’s 2008 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Penny Downie “harrowingly charts Gertrude’s decline from high society lady to abject terror and exhausted, alcoholic remorse.” 103 In Nicholas Hytner’s...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., Joseph Addison embodied those dangers in the person of one o f his first sustained fictional creations, the Political Upholsterer. Though the man's occupation is upholstery, his preoccupation is politics, and in him the habit o f inhabiting open-ended periodical narratives has grow n to an addiction; he...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 173.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of wine w ill help. Being 47. Being 90. Being 27. Miss USA gone w ild, place the w ord hom e to the left o f home, now be hom e he's addicted and it's not working. He can't get what he needs, Jack said. Make me a puppet. And men do n't get wom en, and wom en try but men are so full o f shit, Jack said. I...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 April 2022
... liked it, and I read it probably three more times after that class, and I put it on my booklist in my doctoral program at the University of Minnesota. Brett and Jake seemed like people I knew. I had the same sort of relationship with other books by or about alcoholics or drug addicts: I adored...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in g to Reims, trans, M ichael Lucey (Los Angeles: Sem io te xt(e ), 2013) For those of us addicted to stories of scholarship boys, the appearance of Didier Eribon's R eturning to R eim s is a m ajor event. A searching trea tm e nt o f his provincial, w orking-class origins by one of France's most prom...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 April 2024
... susceptible to the excitement and overstimulation of what we believe to be the newest information; the balloon hoax, Fash writes, is a metaphor for the news itself, exploiting as it does readers’ addiction to velocity (the speed at which the balloon traveled was a crucial element of the story). 8 Long...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
...: needles, vials, razor blades. When he locks himself in the train’s public bathroom and prepares a needle for injection, we are already beginning to form a profile of him: a drug addict, probably a Vietnam veteran who never quite made it back from the war, likely dangerous. This impression is solidified...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 67–80.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of this trajectory brings the narrator's generalized prejudice into sharper, and more obviously racist, relief. Over the course o f the journey, the narrator reflects on the Hutt Valley In pejora tive terms: For some reason the notion that the couple were drug addicts crossed his mind. There was a lot o f addiction...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... n sensation novel, fo r instance, w ild ly p o p u la r in the 1860s, was "seen as a co lle c tive cultural nervous disorder, a m orbid addiction . . . that worked directly on the body of the reader," and was in particular liable to o verstim ulate and corrupt the susceptible body o f th e m iddle...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., Typewriter, Film'1 Susan Sontag touts the pictoral shot or the photograph to be a part of w hat she calls the intrinsic violence embedded w ith in the "predatory w eapon" or the "addictive" "fantasy machine" that is the camera. This technology shoots; for Sontag the "camera is a sublim ation of the gun...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 2012
... agent w h o told him it w o u ld sell m ore copies if he called it a m e m o ir? W h o ever th o u g h t he'd m ake it to O pra h ? T h e book helped a lot o f addicts, d id n 't it? Suggested listening:The Backstreet Boys, m anufactured by '90s Boy Band im presario and Ponzi schem er Lou Pearlman. CARD...
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