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Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (4): 96–98.
Published: 01 June 2002
...R.B. Venables Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out . By Paul Elledge . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2000 . Pp. xiii + 221. hc. $41.95 . 0-080186-343-0. Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 96...
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On Coming Back as a Buzzard
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 135–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Lia Purpura Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 O n C o m in g Back as a B u z z a r d ' L ia P u r p u r a I know, coming back as a crow is a lot more attractive. If crows and buzzards do the same rough jo b picking, tearing, and cleaning u p w ho w o uld n't rather...
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Digging Down and Standing Back
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Rita Felski Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of Colorado 2013 D iggin g D o w n an d st a n d in g Back R ita F elski W hat are the spatial metaphors that shape and sustain a hermeneutics of suspi cion? In this essay I examine tw o m etaphor clusters that characterize com m on ways...
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Mohamed El-Adl stares back, 1917. Courtesy of Archive Centre, King’s Colleg...
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in Fashions and Wars: Negotiations of Liberal Humanism in E. M. Forster’s Writings, 1915–1925
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Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 2. Mohamed El-Adl stares back, 1917. Courtesy of Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge, The Papers of E. M. Forster, EMF/27/323.
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Figure 4. India shawl worn as a cloak, front and back. Harper’s Bazaar , April 1, 1882.
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Claude McKay’s Bad Nationalists: Colonial Passport Controls and Shipping Damages in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a generative tension between the imperial national forms the author encountered in North Africa and the Black nationalist vision of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa campaign. Reading the dialectics of bad nationalisms and Black internationalisms, the article explores how the utopian promise for Black liberation...
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Interview with Lia Purpura
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Lia Purpura; Julie Carr; John-Michael Rivera Abstract “I know, coming back as a crow is a lot more attractive.” Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 R e p o n s e s L ia P u r p u r a , O n C o m in g B a c k a s a B u z z a r d "/ know, coming back as a crow...
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Mysticism and the Politics of Theory
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 7–20.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Eleanor Craig; Amy Hollywood Abstract In this interview Amy Hollywood talks about her collection of essays Acute Melancholia and how medieval mystical texts might speak to persistent dilemmas in critical theory and philosophy of religion. The relationship between theory and practice is traced back...
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The Caretaker
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 109–122.
Published: 01 September 2009
... from me, it crossed at about three rows over, tw o up. At right angles, lips pulled back like a dog, I gave chase. Because he couldn't vault over the iron fence it's got decorative, no-nonsense finíais every other bar, some medieval thing to keep dogs out, probably he ran along it instead. Because he...
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Decolonial Futures: Diasporas, Occupied Homelands, and Struggles for Sovereignty
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 123–142.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the overthrow in 1893 or our history of resistance dating back to 1853, when the British tried to overtake our sovereign nation. I share these histories and bring them to the forefront so that people can also ethically view our culture and deconstruct those stereotypes that they’ve been taught through media...
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Stories, Language, and the Land
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 April 2020
... a man who traveled far and climbed a mountain to ask a wise man how to find enlightenment. “Attention,” he was told. So he left and traveled for a year with no luck, and finally climbed back up the mountain, and asked again. “Attention. Attention,” the master told him. Finally, after another year, he...
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Reassessing the Wrestling in Beowulf
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and Grendel takes the form of hryggspenning, a type of Norse com bat wrestling in which the assailant reached both arms around the waist of the opponent, [and] fastened his hands against the opponent s back . . . until the opponent surrendered. 1 While he is right to examine the Grendel fight through...
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Mrs. Dalloway here, there, everywhere
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 March 2014
... locating Clarissa in the streets o f London, in fact, was first presented to W oolf herself (fig. 1).7When w ritin g "M rs. Dalloway in Bond Street," she made a map on the back page o f one o f her reading notebooks.8 It's not much: a fe w hastily sketched lines de pict ing an abbreviated version o f...
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Marseille Exposed: Under Surveillance in Claude McKay’s Banjo and Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... be. They consistently try to force her into choices that would reveal enough to render her intelligible. Titin, for example, complains that after reuniting with Lafala she no longer “hustles on the side” ( RM , 59)—an attempt to force her back into a more easily surveillable form of prostitution. Lafala tracks...
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An Abiding Sense of Relationship
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 241–246.
Published: 01 March 2012
...). However, I w o u ld suggest that the d is cipline needs to acknowledge and w ork w ith actual human cognitive processes and thus Scott S lovic 243 facilitate our heightened responsiveness to sub-sensory inform ation, not sim ply re-conceptualize h u m a n s as o b je ctive robots. Back in 1989, n e u ro...
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The Journalist and the Exorcist: Perils of Writing from the Margins
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 167–180.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in the 1980s, and the fall o f the Soviet Union in the early 1990s were powered by the society's energy blasts. Earthquakes, famines, and tsunamis have been subdued by megavolts of prayer. Jones thought back to the society's proudest accom plishment. "Five hours before the Chernobyl reactor actually blew, we...
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A Post-9/11 Passion Play
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 247–252.
Published: 01 March 2006
... martyrdom and noble sacrifice of terrorists and firemen, insurgents and sol diers in the current news media? Gibson's The Passion o f the Christ has been criticized fo r its apparent anti-Semitism.That problem also goes back to many medieval dramas where Jews were the popular villains. Yet Gibson not only...
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Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts: A Conversation
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 167–179.
Published: 01 October 2020
... for Oxford, and I think he was already working toward Medievalism and Orientalism , had thought about some of these things, and that gave me a space to think about it. But yeah, it was years before I went back to him and approached him and said, “Hey, I really want to do this.” Instead of doing what I had...
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What the Archive Could Not Tell Me
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 57–66.
Published: 01 March 2007
....) Return, w ork until closing, head back to the hotel to exercise, eat, review the day's notes, and watch re runs o f Law and Order. In other words, w hat I w ould do in Ann A rbor if I didn 't have to teach. The rain had finally disappeared, and when I w ould walk to the restaurant each day at noon, I w...
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“No Enemy, No Betrayer, No bearded Torturer”: the Death of God, the Holocaust, and Existentialism in Wallant's The Human Season
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 September 2005
... the teeming masses of bathers. The scene is reminiscent of a long-gone m om ent of bliss he enjoyed with his still undim inished family at the beach in 1934. Back in the city, he gets caught in the middle of a little throng (182) that is watching a fistfight, while Berman stood among them, but mostly...
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