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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and dying in the j'ets fro m the s o ld ie rs' fla m e th ro w e rs , th e film has su d d e n ly sw itched registers, m o vin g from one affectively charged genre, horror, to a very different, but equally affectively charged one, m elodram a.1 M elod ra m a specializes in heightened scenarios o f pathos...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the h o rro r f ilm th a t o f characters on screen as m uch as that o f view ers, o u t there, alone to g eth e r in the darkened theater. M odern h o rro r film s depend on affect as m uch as th e ir lite rary predecessors, as Ellen M oers po in ts o u t in her discussion of the gothic romance...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2010
... fiction labeled as a "G o th ic S to ry " in its Second E dition (1765), th e affect on audiences sought by this "literature o f te rro r" has been a curious hybrid fo r those w h o have dared to discuss it at all. W a lp o le h im self, in his 1765 Preface, presents his "G o th ic " as a new c o m b...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Anna Toropova Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 Educating the E m o t io n s : AFFECT AND STYLISTIC EXCESS IN THE STALINIST MELODRAMA A nna Toropova A ttem pting to "educate the em o tio n s" o f Soviet citizens through the language of film m elodram a, the Stalin...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 March 2010
...John Claborn Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 W ho S et You F e e l i n ? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the G reat M igration N a r r a t iv e in Jam es Ba l d w in s So n n y s B l u e s John C laborn In one o f the m any flashback scenes in Jam es B aldw...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Philip Sandifer Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A mazing Fa n ta sies: T r a u m a , AFFECT, AND SUPERHEROES P h il ip S a n d if e r Comics scholarship, as a whole, has focused prim arily on graphic novels selfcontained narratives with distinct beginnings...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., through wages, and thus freedom from a male breadwinner; and second, as the cou n te r-he g e m o nic participation in affective fo rm s of kinship cut loose fro m the heterosexual fam ily model. This deregulation of service labor performed by a range of new ly sexualized individuals in the burgeoning...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 147–172.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Eva Sedgwick has so m em orably named "touching feeling," that meaningful redundancy in which "the same double meaning, tactile plus em otional" Inhabits both terms.5This conver­ gence of touching and feeling narrows the em otional frame, as we see in the slippage from "fee lin g" to "affect...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... In so doing, they also expose new ways to engage trauma: through the affect of what Lauren Berlant describes as “crisis ordinariness.” Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 Emily Raboteau Danzy Senna hospitality memoir race Performing what Michele Elam calls...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 92–102.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Alexandre Belmonte Abstract The Andean experience of the everyday is affected markedly by respect and reverence for tradition, for teachings of the past, and for myths that explain and simplify reality. This article reflects on the uses of ancient rituals in Bolivia today, in the context...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... hotspot as a site of sustained, unresolved transition, reading the affectivity of diaspora as a negative one in McKay’s work that places an unsustainable pressure on ritual and performative stylizations and renders them untenable as forms for cultivating a sovereign condition. Copyright © 2021 Regents...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The issue traces historical as well as contemporary relationships and attends to the linkages and disruptions at work in Black and Indigenous ecologies, especially in the midst of climate change, which continues to affect those who are least responsible for the planet’s degradation. The articles...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 114–130.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and their afterlives as writers and public figures. It also examines the ethically and affectively complicated dynamics of archival engagement with such fraught figures, reflecting on the author’s own relationship to Plath and the way it has shaped her training as a literary academic. Ultimately, she sees Plath...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 153–168.
Published: 01 April 2018
... supplied by springs and cisterns, and the second in a lush and stormy place with a sophisticated plumbing system. Composed in different milieus, they articulate different cosmologies to cultivate different experiences: the first confounds taxonomic categories to cultivate an affect of mystical unity, while...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
... by the will. He wrote that “the Philosophers made three chief principles and beginnings that affect men’s actions, namely, powers; habits, or qualities; & affections, or passions” ( TFA , 2.68; punctuation changed for clarity). Habits “are gotten by a long and continual custom of doing good or evil...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 99–107.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., exam ining his personal letters helps illu ­ minate the erotic fram ework in his conception of affection that m ight otherwise be obscured English Language Notes 48.2 Fall / W inter 2010 10 0 E n g lish La n g u a g e N o te s 4 8 .2 Fall / W inter 2 0 1 0 by reading "A M odell" alone. Closely exam...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 177–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of global violence? Cause and effect, however, rem ain unclear am id the w h irl o f m edia affects: the terrified laboratory technician w ho cautions the activists w ith skeleton details of the virus (its colo rfu l name; its transm ission thro u g h blood and saliva) com m ents that "in order to cure you...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 9–21.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., in Jankélévitch's words, "a mechanism's parts literally exhausts all of its re a lity."10 For active vitalists, on the other hand, vital forces come to dwell in the embodied. As a con­ sequence of this dwelling, the embodied is continuously moved by life, in such a way that each affected particle of it affects...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2015
... little but engage in "subversive" form s of "play." For this reason, Penney has little patience with the turn to various form s of negativity in contem porary queer discourse, whether the "ugly feelings" of affect theory or the "no future" manifesto of the anti-social thesis. While offering a "refreshing...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 283–301.
Published: 01 March 2006
... concept of the im aginative universal thus anticipates the later rom antic "sym b o l" in which signifier is united w ith the signified, and, still more astonishing, it has a pronounced affective dimension: "in its am bition to unite cognitive generalities w ith affective particularities it is the initial...