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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 April 2020
... by Skanyatarí:yo John Arthur Gibson, build nuanced actors and articulate the negotiations of relationship through dialogue, imagery, and arcs of naming. Using close readings of these versions, I argue that the narrative arc of biome, as described through ethnobotanical detail, and of the story’s dynamic actors...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 21–36.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., presenting what Jessica Burstein describes as “cold modernism.” But these same publications also played on an imperialist sense of superiority, trafficking in racial slurs and cultural bigotry, a preponderant phenomenon described by Anne McClintock in her book Imperial Leather . Ultimately...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 183–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. Her use of fire as a metaphor to describe union with God foreshadows her death. Furthermore, The Mirror ’s emphasis on the insufficiency of language to describe the divine echoes Marguerite’s silence during her inquisitorial trial. However, these complaints against...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 132–144.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of the text from the perspective of ethnopoetics, focusing on structural and lexical metaphors developed for describing the pathway of the sun. It then offers reflections on the ethnogeography and worldview presented in the text, linking it to Penutian migrations from the western Great Basin into central...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., ocean, and further, that they are all alive, all persons. I am Alnôbak, an Abenaki woman—Aben-aki, Dawn Land. Our name describes us as the Land we are part of. Works Cited Brooks Lisa . The Common Pot . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2008 . Brooks Lisa . “ Ktsi...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
... conservatism in the American heartland. This article focuses on the novel’s sociopolitical critiques, which find expression in expensive fashions and the abusive labor practices of the American overseas apparel industry. Described by Duvergé as a “subversive fairytale,” the novel illuminates a transnational...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... In so doing, they also expose new ways to engage trauma: through the affect of what Lauren Berlant describes as “crisis ordinariness.” Copyright © 2019 Regents of the University of Colorado 2019 Emily Raboteau Danzy Senna hospitality memoir race Performing what Michele Elam calls...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Stephen Yeager Abstract This essay describes a plan for Indigenizing medieval studies that has two elements. The first is an area of research inquiry, “The Global Far North, 500–1500 CE,” which moves past the written records of the Vinland sagas to privilege alternative forms of evidence about...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 77–94.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Christina Katopodis Abstract This essay draws on the author’s experiences teaching in the fall of 2020 and serving as associate director of the City University of New York’s Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative to propose and describe an “environmental” or “habitable pedagogy...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 77–82.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Jennifer Pap Abstract Kent Puckett's essay describes a form of mediated and mediating subjectivity that runs through two unlikely wartime texts, Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel and David Lean's Brief Encounter . Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 R espo n ses...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the overall ambition of the issue as one of maintaining an engaged intellectual community during the isolation imposed by the pandemic. Foregrounding narrative as the issue’s major emphasis, it describes how the issue engages with pandemic storytelling in relation to literary history and literary production...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 36–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
...) and tā moko (face), for Māori “wearing ink” is about memory, as it “claims dominion and understanding across generations, across time, across space. Across lives.” As visual representations of life, life journey, kinship, and death, moko has been described as a “technology of memory” and taonga tuku iho...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... capitalism and elaborates an alluring alternative, located in a return to what Derrida describes as the scene of humanity’s second trauma: “the Darwinian.” In doing so, the article traces how the drive for self-annihilation emerges in Marebito not only as a terrifying prospect but also as an occasion...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 101–120.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to describe the works’ relation-based sovereign imaginaries, this essay first follows the King Horn narrator’s depiction of Godhild’s hermetic retreat into stone when Saracens conquer her husband’s realm. Then it turns to the nameless lady of “Yonec” and her implausible escape from her jealous husband’s tower...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Alexander Nemerov Abstract Kent Puckett's essay describes a form of mediated and mediating subjectivity that runs through two unlikely wartime texts, Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel and David Lean's Brief Encounter . Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 A lexander...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 87–92.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Sue Zemka Abstract Kent Puckett's essay describes a form of mediated and mediating subjectivity that runs through two unlikely wartime texts, Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel and David Lean's Brief Encounter . Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 S ue Z emka 87...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... vanishing into the air. ▪ ▪ ▪ Popular social media may exacerbate trauma, as in the case of the video-gamelike television coverage of the First Gulf War, but they also may forestall it by providing a means of critique. Stuart Lindsay’s article describes how vaporwave music and its subgenres...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... paintings. He describes landscape paintings as having the properties of "chorography": "the tracing or describing of particular regions."7 Landscape paintings render places through the fillin g in o f m aterial details to make a coher ent, even recognizable, appealing whole. Casey explains, "The painter...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the Lines As w ith much of the artist's work, the title gives a clue to the thought process behind the making of the work. The image draws from the shapes of m ultilaterally recognized, man-made boundaries, and places them in an atlas that seems to describe the after effects o f a centrifugal process...
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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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