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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 147–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2013
... by pointing at language, foreign or domestic. Comparison through figurative language Is also rare. The text Insists on likeness at every turn "that slavery" and this one (55); "They were fighting the tyranny o f the patriarchal state as you are fighting the tyranny o f the Fascist state" (121); "the caus es...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 83–100.
Published: 01 October 2020
... time to consider the ethics of how scholars deploy comparisons between the medicine of early medieval England and other medicines, particularly those of American Indigenous peoples. This article argues for ethical comparative approaches between medieval medical corpora and the cultures and archives...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 48–64.
Published: 01 April 2024
... for these practices and their literary representation, the article draws a comparison between the novel’s poetics of land and Indigenous poetics across other Anglophone spheres. The comparison is based in the convergence of Black and Indigenous conceptions of the coconstitutionality of the human and nonhuman...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and slavery. As an example, this essay contrasts common comparisons between monolithic events and Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric with the 1937 Parsley Massacre, a lesser-known genocide motivated by populist discontent in the Dominican Republic, depicted in Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 116–128.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Harris Feinsod Abstract This essay is a narrowly drawn exercise in comparison at a narrow passage of marine transit—the Panama Canal Zone. It argues that the spatial typology of the “zone” might supply one of the figures for a tropological history of comparative modernism at sea. The essay follows...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 50–63.
Published: 01 October 2020
... ruling in Mabo and Others v. Queensland (2) (1992), a landmark case that challenged the legal doctrine of terra nullius , on which claims to British sovereignty were founded, and on comparisons of Anglo-Saxon and Indigenous law in the post- Mabo era. 28 Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Specifically, I argue tha t the W riters' Buildings in Calcutta, w hich inspired the "Tank School" of poetry named for the great water tank that stood adjacent, provided a fixed locus of cultural comparison th a t served to redirect claims of originality on the part of Anglo-Indian authors back toward...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 April 2018
... context that is so often occluded in studies of the mystical helps us understand the Sefer Bahir analytically and affectively, once again bringing the critical and the creative closer together. Regardless of their approach to comparison, however, what ties all of the essays in this section together...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and comparison, a period also defined by the commercial revolution. 1 The mystical experience, at least for most mystics, should have no price or comparison. It is an escape from the world of Mammon. Mystics, and especially ascetics, it would seem, boldly reject through their lifestyle the mundane acts...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 14–18.
Published: 01 December 2005
... profusion of late-medieval carved images of sows playing bagpipes, Scott suggests that C haucer s comparisons of the Miller s beard and wart-tuft to the bristles of a sow perhaps derives from the conventional iconography of the bagpipe-playing sow.8 Clearly, Chaucer s use of pig-like details...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... descriptions of comparisons building a house open to the elements, whatever i want so w hat is it i can look out thoreaux because saying things flying across tim e flying across water a leaf falls bird flies the way it starts up. ...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 74–76.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in Communist eastern Europe. Barbara Hodgdon shows how per formance and performance studies take on the work of re-con figuring Shakespeare. Several essays question the importance of language in per formance in comparison with visual or other aspects. Barbara March 2004 75 Hodgdon demonstrates how...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 149–150.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of Virginia and edi tor of New Literary History. She is author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics, The Gender o f Modernity, DoingTime, Literature after Feminism, and Uses o f Literature, editor of Rethinking Tragedy and co-editor of Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses. She is currently complet ing a book...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 63–76.
Published: 01 September 2012
... been refined in the furnace, even if it is not yet gold, has been ridded of much dross.This current book is pure academic research; it takes historical realities as its guide; I hope it is a historical volum e, and not a literary volume.8 Zhao's comparison of the tw o works draws attention...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 95–102.
Published: 01 June 2005
... his various pieces with bridging autobiographical essays. If I may be perm itted to demonstrate their pointlessness by comparison, when I was litde, I was m ore afraid of DEVO than I was of KISS. At four, I was madly in love with my next door neighbor Randy, a more m ature woman of five. To this day...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 57–60.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Anthony s funeral oration in Julius Ceasar, as is so cued by Jack Chase s directorial, purser s steward, you are Mark Antony over the body ofJulius Caesar [For ease of visual comparison, I have blocked the units in pairs.]3 WhiteJacket [L] ook, my noble tars, if you have tears, prepare to shed them...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (4): 1–10.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and political com mentary. Specifically, the au th o r uses several significant puns in the opening scenes of the play to establish a comparison be tween children and sheep, husbands and farmers, wives and fields, and more. These puns are an im portant foundation to 2 English Language Notes the later parody...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 139–152.
Published: 01 April 2018
... , 2013 . Leamy Katy . “ A Comparison of the Kenotic Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Sergei Bulgakov .” PhD diss., Marquette University , 2012 . epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/211 . Leamy Katy . The Holy Trinity: Hans Urs von Balthasar and His...
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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 81–83.
Published: 01 June 2000
...., rhetorician). The point may be correct, but Hooker vanishes in the stream of comparisons likening him to (among others) Calvin, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, and Machiavelli. D ebora Shuger is entirely m ore successful with Hooker. She traces to their origins in classical and post...
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