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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Catherine Belling Abstract The ambivalent attraction of feeling horror might explain some paradoxes regarding the consumption of representations of atrocities committed in the real world, in the past, on actual other people. How do horror fictions work in the transmission or exploitation...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
... drunkards were also perceived by moralists as economic beings—what contemporaries were learning to describe as “consumptioners” and “consumers”—whose excessive and superfluous consumption had obvious economic consequences in much the same way that the behavior of “covetous misers” broke salient codes...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 49–68.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and consumption of one particularly fashionable nineteenth-century garment. 56 Adrienne Saint-Pierre, email with Daneen Wardrop, quoted in Wardrop, Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing , 32–33 . 55 The boycott of products associated with slave labor was a central component of Quaker abolitionist...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 149–159.
Published: 01 March 2007
... untreated by scholars of slavery: no grand metatheories, no mas sive collating of quantitative evidence, no introspection into the nature and meaning of the slaves' reported hunger or their social consumption. Take, for example, the accusations o f human consum ption that swirled around the execu tion...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 106–120.
Published: 01 October 2022
... suggests, “Encourage shopping malls to showcase sustainable textiles and brands” (local economic civil servant, 2019). A third participant confirms that the mall is beyond that of transactional value: “Consumption has both behavioral and economic components in Bahrain, and malls are currently on the rise...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
... as the conspicuous consumption practices of American upper-class society. 10 Largely consisting of luxury items, fashions in Loréna’s Ohio life take on different but interrelated meanings for men and women, as exemplified by the central couple. Andrew’s preferred wardrobe, which includes costly tailored shirts...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... While haunted technologies represent a cornerstone of J-horror, however, the uncanny quality of many such narratives is equally indebted to a more primitive source of anxiety: the fear that via emergent modes of representation, communication, and consumption, the repressed of culture might make...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of addiction and artistry, posing the kinds of questions that might arise in looking at the portrait: Is Picasso participating in this scene he paints, chronicling de Soto’s consumption of absinthe as he drains his own glass? Is he, to pose a question familiar from Bronislaw Malinowski forward, a witness...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and gender shaped the insurgent and counterinsurgent logic of cannabis use under empire. 22 Statham, Indian Recollections , 118 . Notably, Statham had recorded bhang consumption as a constitutive part of widow femicide in India. For an earlier account, via Richard Blechynden, see Robb, “Children...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the literary object and supply and demand, production and consumption. These early quartos are not so much books as textual com ponent parts. Indeed, there is lit tle evidence that Caxton or the printers im m ediately follow ing him marketed such quarto editions as individually bound objects. Instead...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 90–103.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., Casal characterizes these contributing readers as a crowd. The vision he offers is not the one of refined consumption conducted within the confines of a privileged interior space (such as a library or personal study) that is typically associated with modernismo . Nor does the article describe the kind...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., or weakness, the perfection or imperfection thereof, common custom, . . . time and place” ( TFA , 2.29). While there were an almost unlimited number of variables that could affect disposition and inclination, I want to discuss three in this article: consumption, age, and morality. One striking example...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 April 2019
... change and the Arctic. The global trade interests of early modernity, when the first Northwest Passage expeditions were launched in search of faster routes to Asia, inaugurated, in turn, industrialization’s appetite for fossil fuels (and increase in human energy consumption). The oil and gas deposits now...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
... democracies, we see a different picture. 19 Gilles Lipovetsky, in The Empire of Fashion , asserts that fashion is not a frivolous outlet of conspicuous consumption for the rich (as Thorsten Veblen argued) but is in fact constitutive of modern democracies. 20 Bevza’s embrace of Ukrainian motifs in her...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
... place or time, to the suffering of Southeast Asian masses, in passages that evoke the misery of life on the lower rungs of capital. De Quincey gestured toward but could not fully describe the range of possibilities and limits on human agency and affect that opium production and consumption generated...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of alcohol have been addressed in historical and literary writings for thousands of years. Alcohol consumption is mentioned in recorded history beginning approximately twelve thousand years ago in China. 27 Problematic use of alcohol has likely occurred as long as alcohol has been imbibed. Writings from...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the Elizabethan theaters. Vincent Woodard is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published articles and poetry in Callaloo and Obsidian II. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Delectable Negro: Homoeroticism and Human Consumption w ith in U.S. Slave...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2017
... reconfiguring the debate surrounding the consumption of animals from a prim arily ethical traje cto ry to one grounded in the aesthetic. This proposed (re)turn to the aesthetic dimension could initially face objections from some environmental humanities scholars, who have critiqued the aestheticization...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
Published: 01 October 2021
... economies of extraction, consumption, and disposability. As with Jensen’s and the Invisible Committee’s calls to overthrow that way of being human along with the institutions that promote and protect it, Area X impacts the “idea of man” in “Western Civilization” traumatically, but it also ultimately points...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2011
... o kinds of cultural objects can be distinguished: the ones that R are good for consumption (consumer goods), and the ones that are good for pro ducing consumer goods (tools).The tw o have in com m on that they are "g o o d " for som ething: they are "valuable," they are as they should be, i.e...
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