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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to objects, netw orks, actants, vita l m aterialism , m atter, and thing theory, as well as ideas about m aterialism (including historical m aterialism ), and m aterial cultu re cannot be doubted. As any glance at conference panels and scho la rly journals w ill reveal, the orists such as Jane Bennett and T...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 103–117.
Published: 01 September 2015
... it contains per­ sonifications. Yet it makes significant use of a p liab ility between m ateriality and im m a te riality much as allegory does. Chaucer ties his poetical experim entation in w ith larger philosophical concerns of the tale, which gives serious attention to a pagan experience o f the world even...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 23–31.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Environm ent (ISLE), Rochelle Johnson examined "ineffable m ateriality," a term referencing those aspects of the new materialism tha t "suggest a desire on the part of scholars to move beyond emotional and ethical registers and toward the m ystica l."1 Focusing prim arily on Thoreau's journals, Johnson...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 9–44.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., a ho rrib le fra g m e n t o f a body, visibly, m aterially, palpably present, in the m id st o f the Mass. Figure 2: Detail of Mass o f Saint Gregory, 1181/1200 CE, single leaf from an illum inated manuscript, Southern Germany, Weingarten Abbey, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1944.704, The A rt...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 119–136.
Published: 01 September 2015
... on questions related specifically to theories of materiality, asking how this term m ight be historiclzed to reflect medieval attitudes toward the m aterial w o rld broadly defined.1 Matter, physical things and their properties, therefore, have become the subject pe r se o f a w ide array of studies, some...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., Hildebert of Lavardin, and Foulcoie of Beauvais during the eleventh and tw e lfth centuries, all use the rhetorical devices of the Late Antique literature of ekphrasis: namely, a description of m aterials and form s, direct address to the reader, and a poetics of colors, textures, visual sensations.4 S im...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 75–88.
Published: 01 September 2015
... striking that it is surprising that it has not received significant exam ination by scholars before now .1This essay offers an initial exploration of the gendered distribution o f birthm arks, from the perspective o f a study o f the ir differing m ateriality as signs. Focusing on the earliest ex­ amples...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 117–129.
Published: 01 September 2006
... f The R ings o f Saturn w h ich m akes th e ethical relation between the narrator and his m aterial such a pressing question. M any Holocaust scholars agree that the trope of w itnessing necessarily involves an ethical obligation of the w itn e ss to w a rd th e ob je ct o f his o r her te s tim o n...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 45–60.
Published: 01 September 2013
... "the material tu rn " does then is push us to theorize and attend to form s of materialism that exceed, resist, and set historically changing lim its on (as w ell as interm ix with) the spheres of language, culture, and subjectivity.5 For those of us whose w ork is inform ed by older traditions of m aterialism...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 61–74.
Published: 01 September 2015
... acute, a point highlighted by an allusion to how, crossing M ongolia's steppes, she could smell the sham poo on a tou rist's hair a m ile away.2 The editors' call for papers asked tw o questions. "W hat does medieval m ateriality consist of? W hat are the ram ifications of such a focus for medieval...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (3): 74–77.
Published: 01 March 2001
... ute. Strangely enough, in the poem the voice belongs n o t to hum an beings but rather to the inanimate world: this world tells, finds tongue, fling[s] o u t . . . its nam e, speaks, cries and spells. Hopkins describes the exist­ ence of m aterial objects as the unceasing process...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 247–251.
Published: 01 March 2012
... a historically particular m anifestation of m aterial objects in the sphere o f p ro d u ctio n fo r exchange w ith in ca p ita list societies, rather than M orton's d e lib e ra te ly u niversalized d e scrip tio n o f "a ll real e n titie s " w e m ig h t observe strikin g s im ­ ila ritie s in th e ir u n se...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 237–240.
Published: 01 March 2012
... odern conditions that the w eighty task to respond to an essay by the artist/author called Mark Am erika begins to take shape and becomes m aterial. In fact, it is th is m o d e rn ist legacy and lo g ic one that has rem a in e d in place, a u th o rita tive , and fu lly o p e ra tio n a l, even n o w...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 12–24.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., and concludes that h er work is n o t especially a p ro d u ct of the female im agination. 2 Sarasohn, on the oth er hand, as­ sociates Cavendish s organic m aterialism with seventeenthcentury conceptions of woman as creator and nurturer, while Stephen Clucas derives a similar description o f Cavendish s...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 87–100.
Published: 01 September 2006
... to a collection of Cameron's portraits, Victorian Photographs o f Famous M en and Fair Women, published by V irg in ia and Leonard W o o lf's H ogarth Press in 1926. In her essay, W o o lf praises C am eron fo r her inim itable talent and her com m itm ent to conscripting the form and m aterials of photog­ raphy...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 137–148.
Published: 01 September 2015
... devotional objects and an em bodim ent that participates in a larger fram ew ork o f m aterial co n tin u ity makes the association of the wound as a material object w ith measures (mensura vulneris) and thus concrete em bodim ent sensible in its m ost literal meaning. In the syncretic context o f late...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 61–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... are subordinated to the needs, lives, and energies of those identified w ith the liveliness of im m aterial form s. And yet, it is not only specific bodies, b u t the irreducible no n-iden tity o f bodies as well as the ir con stitutive and m ultiple dependencies w hich western cultures have often vio len tly...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and depth of value for me. Painting through staining, seepage, and absorption becomes a metaphor for the flu id ­ ity o f rem em bering, m im icking the geologic layers that constitute m em ories.The handmade element of craft makes the pieces human and imperfect. Using paper shapes as collage m aterial...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 89–101.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., theW andering Jew is, nevertheless, always firm ly m oored to the m aterial w o rld of sin and labor in which he is doom ed to wander.2 In this essay I focus on this m aterial aspect in tw o influential m edieval accounts o f the W andering Jew figure: St. Albans' chronicles dating from the thirteenth...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2014
... ls o f (ideological as w e ll as m aterial) pow er in civiliza tion s as ancient as those o f M esopotam ia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, these in cipien t e ffo rts to "ca pture ," in im age fo rm , Ireland as a po litica l as w ell as a physical space m ig h t thus be considered pa rad igm a tic...