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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 March 2012
... between first-person autobiography and third-person biography. Accordingly, their article takes a hybrid form, combining a definitional preface with the transcript of a three-way, improvisatory dialogue. Biographical interrogation yields to triographical narrative, a polyphonic form in which the presence...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 53–66.
Published: 01 April 2018
... sixteenth century to the present. Nevertheless, Teresa was far more than an enclosed contemplative totally separated from the world. Rather her biography reveals her as one of the most active and influential women of her time, especially because of her efforts to found seventeen houses of the reform...
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English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 84–87.
Published: 01 September 2001
...), Isobel Grundy remarks of h er subject in the introduction to this com prehensive biography This m ight well stand as a m otto for the book, or as its organizing principle. A very rem arkable woman, as is testified by all who knew her, and by all accounts a voluminous writer, Mary Wortley M ontagu...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 86–91.
Published: 01 March 2003
... f h u m an psyches in their interaction can be transform ed into use ful ways o f thinking about the relationships between texts, even when these texts belong to different genres or m edia (7). The book s opening chapter deals with recen t biographies o fJan e Austen D eirdre Le Faye sJane...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 87–90.
Published: 01 June 2000
... inary attem pts to think about ques tions related to the a u th o r s larger task of producing a literary biography o fjo n so n (5). As a result, the book s individual chap ters return on many occasions to issues related to the possibili ties and pitfalls o f literary biography as a critical genre...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 92–100.
Published: 01 March 2002
... people have read and enjoyed Boswell s Life than have gone on to re a d jo h n s o n s own works: a fact to make those who do read and value J o h n so n s own writings uneasy, to say the least. O ne effect o f P eter M artin s engaging new biography, A Life o f James Boswell, is th a t th e J o h n s...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 88–91.
Published: 01 June 2003
... too much on fashionable-but-vague (perhaps fashionable-becausevague) terminology and narrow ideological vision and with her recognition that many contemporary critics, while celebrating the principle of the death of the author, nevetheless take what they wish from an author s biography. At the same...
View articletitled, Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century Oscar Wilde in the 1990s: The Critic as Creator
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland .” In Dalit Literatures in India , edited by Abraham Joshil K. and Misrahi-Barak Judith , 320 – 38 . New Delhi : Routledge , 2016 . Nayar Pramod K. “ Radical Graphics: Martin Luther King, Jr., B. R. Ambedkar, and Comics Auto/biography...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 63–76.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of civil war, to w rite a biography of Jesus in the form o f a novel.The Anti-Christian movement of the 1920s is past its heyday, but Mr. Science and Mr. Democracy still hold sway in Chinese academia and among radical youth. He writes manically, and completes the manuscript, a 250-page biography that w...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 29–41.
Published: 01 March 2006
... scholars only concern themselves w ith recent scholarship, and in the present instance was doubtless exacerbated by Samuel Schoenbaum taking almost no interest in the making o f Catholic Shakespeare in his magisterial, much relied-on history of Shakespearean biography, Shakespeare's Lives.2 But whatever...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 9–19.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., 1800. It begins to read like an incantation. W hat sense o f tim e does the incantation produce? W hat meaning could the chanting of such tem poral markers possibly hold? It may be true that only when those numbers are filled w ith other material plum ped up by stories, by history and biography do...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (1): 48–55.
Published: 01 September 2004
... permission of the Bodleian Library, University o f Oxford. 5 Burns, Francis. William Shenstone: A Critical Biography and an Edition of His Poetical Works (University o f Sheffield Doctoral Dissertation, 1970). 6 Shenstone, William. Flattery. Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections, Yale University...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 61–73.
Published: 01 June 2003
... pson Low, 1796) 4:102. 28 Sm ith, The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer: Containing Narratives o f Various Description (1800; New York: W oodstock Books, 1995) 1:185-86. 29 Fry 105; L oraine Fletcher, Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography (H oundmills, Basingstoke, H am pshire: Macmillan Press, 1998) 280...
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English Language Notes (2001) 38 (4): 64–72.
Published: 01 June 2001
... perceived by the m en themselves and the society around them. Connolly and Blakiston are just one example from a world of same-sex rom antic friendships at O xford in the 1920s. As Selina Hastings observes in h er biography of Waugh, For most boys the years at public school were years of erotic and rom an...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 11–22.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., between first-person autobiography and thirdperson biography. In doing so, the triography explicitly subverts various structures of authorial/authoritarian power (sycophantic hero-worship, self-aggrandizing life study, pre emptive confessional). "Fifty-two Genres o f Life Narrative," Sidonie Smith...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 57–62.
Published: 01 June 2005
... relationship already of several years standing at the time of Cat s production with the Italian-American Frank Merlo, a relationship described in The Kindness of Strangers, Donald Spoto s June 2005 59 biography of Tennessee Williams, as the longest and deepest inti macy of [Williams s] life. 6 Similarly...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and the term reigning beauty , see Rogers, Political Biography , 72–76, 73 . 15 For a discussion of the imagery of rape in Windsor Forest , see Rogers, Political Biography , 59. 16 Wall, The Rape of the Lock , 51 . 17 For the best of those readings, see Deutsch, Resemblance...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 55–71.
Published: 01 November 2024
...-pressure-icp-headache (accessed August 7 , 2024 ). Jung Carl Gustav , Franz Marie-Louise von , et al . Man and His Symbols . New York : Dell , 1969 . Kopytoff Igor . “ The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process .” In The Social Life of Things...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 23–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of - the centennial of Bayard Rustin's birth. How has the experience of writing a biography of Rustin and reflecting on his legacy in these deeply conservative and reactionary political times made me rethink earlier mom ents of queer radicalism? Part I: Encountering Hay It is 1976. l a m i n t h e m i d s t o f try...
View articletitled, Do We Need Another Hero? Keynote Address at the Harry Hay Centennial Conference Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York September, 29 2012
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 41–54.
Published: 01 March 2002
... convincing, or some aspects of h e r biography less strikingly apropos. In profile the early lives o f p o et and of h ero in e provide a rem arkable m atch. Like Fanny, Finch at the age o f ten was adopted by the family o f an uncle on h e r m o th e r s side, and sent to live on an estate...
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